Daily zone census

143,944 domains were born on Sunday, September 27, 2026

143,944
domains appeared
157,755
domains left the zone
12.1%
had a live website by day's end
699
flagged high or critical

On Sunday, September 27, 2026 the census compared 1,063 zone files holding 77,187,927 domains against the day before. 143,944 names were new (0.186% of the universe), 157,755 were gone, net -13,811. Every new name was probed once over HTTP, honouring robots.txt, to see what was behind it. See the newest day.

New domains per day

Aug 26Oct 13

Each bar is a day; click one to open it. The census covers the gTLD zones ICANN's zone-data service publishes plus a sample of .com and .net.

What was behind the new names

  • Active website17,420 12.1%
  • Parked or for sale1,570 1.1%
  • Registered, no site yet18,356 12.8%
  • Nothing there at all26,135 18.2%
  • Couldn't tell80,463 55.9%

What the 17,420 live sites are about

Unclassified5,342 · 30.7%
E-commerce & retail2,228 · 12.8%
Hosting & domains2,184 · 12.5%
SaaS & tech777 · 4.5%
Gambling & casino648 · 3.7%
AI software527 · 3.0%
Corporate services470 · 2.7%
Streaming Piracy436 · 2.5%
Blogs & personal431 · 2.5%
Adult412 · 2.4%
Crypto Web3381 · 2.2%
Education337 · 1.9%

Where the new names landed

TLDBornGoneFlagged /1k
.xyz54,97546,5491.2
.top14,40818,3001.0
.shop7,47710,9974.1
.online7,22010,5303.3
.org6,0757,2642.6
.store4,0564,6244.2
.app4,0161,2800.5
.site3,8504,9983.9
.info2,8096,9453.2
.vip2,2312,2461.3
.world1,7668184.5
.click1,5882,1928.8
.cloud1,3236610.8
.space1,3037863.8
.sbs1,2972,57516.2
.cyou1,2851,1213.1
.dev1,2693871.6
.fun1,1481,05213.9
.lol1,1439692.6
.tech1,0987583.6
.pro1,0772,5561.9
.live1,0421,1334.8
.cfd1,0112,05610.9
.website7793830.0
.biz7296572.7

Top 25 of 516 TLDs with a birth or death that day. Full table: /api/zone/census/tlds?day=2026-09-27.

Who is parking them

Dan535
Atom84
Sav82
Sedo80
NameBright47
Afternic44
Domeneshop19
Epik9
Fabulous1

What the live sites are built with

Vercel1,845
WordPress1,328
Shopify284
Wix73
Next.js64
Squarespace42
GitHub Pages9
Webflow4
Linktree3
Framer1

Writing system of the live sites

latin14,775
han1,150
cyrillic788
arabic269
hangul211
thai139
bengali28
hiragana27

How old the departed names were

1–2 years1,380
2–5 years73
6–30 days7
1–3 months12
over 5 years22
3–12 months64
0–5 days (add-grace return)5
~1 year (first renewal lapse)67

Risk signals

Every one of the 276,244 births was scored on its name, its nameservers and registrar, and the page it served. 9,281 scored at all; 28 critical, 671 high, 1,317 medium, 7,265 low. The top 600 were screenshotted and shown to a model, which called 159 of them phishing, scam or abuse and 172 benign.

TLDs with the most flagged births per 1,000

.ink152.5 · 59 of 387
.wiki34.4 · 10 of 262
.quest22.4 · 3 of 134
.rest18.3 · 4 of 218
.cam17 · 3 of 176
.sbs16.2 · 21 of 1,297
.fyi16.1 · 3 of 186
.autos15.4 · 3 of 195
.fun13.9 · 18 of 1,148
.hair11.1 · 2 of 180

Signals that fired most

brand in page title, not in the name1,005
TLD with a high abuse rate850
brand in the name595
brand name at a retail registrar571
form on a brand-styled page478
brand name behind Cloudflare223
brand name at a watch-list registrar216
punycode name188
lure words (login, verify, secure…)175
brand plus digits138
one-letter brand typo131
identical page on many newborns105

Brands most often echoed in new names

commerzbank59
costco44
whatsapp44
amazon43
icloud39
gmail30
tiktok27
vanguard25
tmobile22
google19
shopify19
binance18

Registrars of flagged names

NameCheap, Inc.189
Spaceship, Inc.181
HOSTINGER operations, UAB130
Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş.114
GoDaddy.com, LLC101
Cloudflare, Inc.65
NameSilo, LLC64
Dynadot Inc63
Name.com, Inc.52
Tucows Domains Inc.44

Worth a second look

Signals, not verdicts. A domain appears here because heuristics matched its name, its infrastructure or the page it served on its first day. Where a model has looked at it, that is shown as an opinion with a confidence, not as a finding. Nothing on this page says a site is malicious. Read the evidence and decide for yourself.

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No high or critical rows to show for this day.

About this data

The census diffs the zone files ICANN's Centralized Zone Data Service publishes for about a thousand gTLDs, plus a sample of .com and .net, against the previous day. A birth is a name present today and absent yesterday; a death is the reverse. Births are probed once over HTTP with an identified user agent, robots.txt honoured, and classified by what came back. Subjects are assigned by a language model reading the page text. The risk scorer is deterministic and additive; its weights and word lists are public in the API's reasons field.

Aggregates and named rows are free as JSON: API docs. Per-domain answers are also on every domain report. Names in .com and .net are counted in every aggregate but not listed by name until the redistribution terms of that zone's access agreement are confirmed.