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A top level domain is the final part of a domain name that appears after the dot. Common examples include .com, .org, .net, and .io. TLDs help classify websites and indicate their purpose or region.

Generic TLDs are available to anyone and include extensions like .com and .net. Country code TLDs are linked to specific countries, though many are used globally due to branding appeal.

Choose a domain extension based on your audience, brand goals, availability, and market focus. Technology brands often use modern extensions, while traditional businesses may prefer well known options.

Most domain extensions are open for public registration, but some are restricted. For example, educational and government extensions require eligibility verification.

Domain extensions do not directly impact rankings, but some are treated as generic and can rank globally. Content quality and authority remain the most important SEO factors.

Domain prices vary by extension. Standard domains are usually affordable, while premium or niche extensions may have higher registration and renewal costs.

About 7.9M a month across the 700 extensions we see in active use. That is new registrations rather than the total number of domains in existence, which is far larger. Most domains registered in any month were already registered the month before.

.com, and not narrowly: it takes 40% of every new domain registered, against 4.5% for .xyz in second place. Four decades after it launched, roughly two in five new registrations anywhere still end in .com.

.lol, up 840% against the same months of last year, at around 130k new registrations a month. Growth at that rate is usually a registry promotion rather than a shift in demand, so it is worth checking what an extension renews at before reading a spike as adoption.

We see 700 extensions with real registration activity this year. The root zone holds more than that, but a large share of them are brand extensions that only their owner can register, or strings that were delegated and never meaningfully launched.

Because they are being registered in bulk rather than chosen. 75.5% of new .top names contain a digit, against 3.5% of .ai names. Names generated in quantity reach for numbers once the words run out, so the digit share is the quickest way to tell whether an extension is mostly businesses or mostly volume.

.icu leads at 34.5% of new names. Hyphens come from two very different places: bulk registration joining words together mechanically, and languages like German where compound names are normal. High hyphen and high digit shares together point at the first.

Rarely. Even at the top of the range, .com sees only 9% of new registrations taken for two years or more, and everywhere else it is a rounding error. The exception is .ai, where the registry requires a two-year minimum, so a one-year .ai registration does not exist.

.top averages 7.5 characters before the dot, against around twelve and a half for .com. A short average means one of two things: an extension where good short names are still available, or one where names are generated rather than written.

Fewer than are registered. On .site, around 24.5% of domains point at a parking page or a for-sale lander rather than a working site, the highest share we measure. This comes from the nameservers a domain uses and reflects 2025, the last period for which that data is complete.

It depends entirely on the extension, and the concentration varies enormously. On .lol, Onamae.com handles 83.5% of new registrations on its own. On .com, the largest registrar accounts for roughly a sixth, the most competitive market of any large extension.

May 2027 is the busiest month ahead, with about 16M domains reaching their renewal date. Renewal peaks trail registration peaks by exactly a year, so a promotion that fills one month fills the same month twelve months later, and whatever is not renewed then becomes available again.

Yes. .sbs is registering 30% fewer new domains than in the same months of last year. Decline in new registrations usually follows the end of a promotional cycle rather than a collapse in an extension's usefulness.