Daily zone census

136,603 domains were born on Tuesday, September 29, 2026

136,603
domains appeared
104,922
domains left the zone
16.3%
had a live website by day's end
—
risk pass not run yet

On Tuesday, September 29, 2026 the census compared 1,063 zone files holding 77,192,032 domains against the day before. 136,603 names were new (0.177% of the universe), 104,922 were gone, net +31,681. 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 28Oct 15

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 website22,252 16.3%
  • Parked or for sale1,550 1.1%
  • Registered, no site yet22,216 16.3%
  • Nothing there at all43,787 32.1%
  • Couldn't tell46,798 34.3%

What the 22,252 live sites are about

Unclassified7,141 · 32.1%
Hosting & domains2,717 · 12.2%
Gambling & casino1,806 · 8.1%
E-commerce & retail1,533 · 6.9%
SaaS & tech740 · 3.3%
Real estate729 · 3.3%
Adult597 · 2.7%
Gaming550 · 2.5%
Blogs & personal536 · 2.4%
Crypto Web3510 · 2.3%
Corporate services487 · 2.2%
AI software472 · 2.1%

Where the new names landed

TLDBornGoneFlagged /1k
.top17,37220,862—
.online10,6806,013—
.org9,8306,289—
.shop9,3847,413—
.info9,1557,677—
.xyz8,8024,422—
.store5,2834,256—
.site5,2423,127—
.vip4,1482,299—
.cyou3,6061,994—
.pro3,0702,409—
.click2,6741,043—
.sbs2,2792,098—
.asia2,0801,061—
.cfd1,9482,064—
.buzz1,769768—
.space1,510681—
.live1,494882—
.tech1,403566—
.fun1,334671—
.lol1,1857,500—
.dev1,182417—
.digital1,171291—
.world1,069357—
.wiki97991—

Top 25 of 510 TLDs with a birth or death that day. Full table: /api/zone/census/tlds?day=2026-09-29.

Who is parking them

Dan507
Sav134
Atom99
Afternic59
NameBright51
Sedo29
Domeneshop27
Epik5

What the live sites are built with

WordPress2,059
Vercel1,773
Wix108
Squarespace83
Next.js52
Shopify39
Webflow14
Joomla9
GitHub Pages9
Linktree6

Writing system of the live sites

latin18,640
han1,385
cyrillic1,057
thai433
arabic286
hangul249
bengali73
hiragana52

How old the departed names were

1–2 years906
2–5 years21
6–30 days3
1–3 months8
over 5 years5
3–12 months68
0–5 days (add-grace return)13
~1 year (first renewal lapse)38

Risk signals

The risk pass for this day has not run yet. It follows the census by a few hours.

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.