Cloudflare Registrar
What Cloudflare Registrar actually registers, measured.
Cloudflare Registrar by the numbers
Cloudflare Registrar registers about 280k domains a month, 3.5% of everything registered anywhere. Its share has grown by 2.2 percentage points against the same months last year. It sells across 379 extensions. It is strongest in .dev, where it handles 28% of everything registered, 8 times its share of the market overall. A name registered through Cloudflare Registrar averages 11 characters, 6% contain a digit, and 9.5% are registered for more than a year.
280k
Domains registered a month
Average across 2026
3.5%
Share of all new registrations
Every extension
+2.2pp
Share versus last year
Percentage points
379
Extensions sold
Registered at least one this year
Show the monthly figures
| Month | Registered | Market share |
|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | About 87k | 1.2% |
| February 2025 | About 81k | 1.3% |
| March 2025 | About 94k | 1.2% |
| April 2025 | About 98k | 1.3% |
| May 2025 | About 90k | 1.2% |
| June 2025 | About 85k | 1.3% |
| July 2025 | About 91k | 1.3% |
| August 2025 | About 120k | 1.5% |
| September 2025 | About 120k | 1.4% |
| October 2025 | About 120k | 1.4% |
| November 2025 | About 130k | 1.5% |
| December 2025 | About 140k | 2.1% |
| January 2026 | About 170k | 3.1% |
| February 2026 | About 210k | 3.1% |
| March 2026 | About 240k | 3.3% |
| April 2026 | About 300k | 3.5% |
| May 2026 | About 330k | 3.6% |
| June 2026 | About 330k | 3.6% |
| July 2026 | About 330k | 3.8% |
Where Cloudflare Registrar is strongest
- .dev8×
28% of all new .dev
- .ai6.2×
21.5% of all new .ai
- .app4.4×
15.5% of all new .app
- .io3.8×
13% of all new .io
- .uk3.2×
11% of all new .uk
- .org2.1×
7.5% of all new .org
Their share of an extension against their 3.5% share of the market overall. Above 1× means they are unusually strong there.
What Cloudflare Registrar sells most
Share of everything Cloudflare Registrar registered this year.
Who registers there
The typical name registered through Cloudflare Registrar is 11 characters long.
Where the domains point
The nameservers these domains actually use, measured across 2025. About 0% sit on a parking or for-sale page.
About 360k domains registered through Cloudflare Registrar come up for renewal in June 2027, the busiest month ahead. Registrations are up 210% on the same months of 2025.
Estimates rounded from our own WHOIS observations. Figures count domains registered, not domains held. Last measured September 2026.
The company
- IANA ID
- 1910
- Accreditation
- ICANN accredited
- Based in
- United States
Worth knowing
Sold at cost with no markup, but it needs a Cloudflare account and the domain runs on Cloudflare's DNS. Every Cloudflare domain in our records uses it, without exception.
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IONOSHow many domains does Cloudflare Registrar register?
About 280k a month, which is 3.5% of every domain registered anywhere. That counts new registrations rather than the domains it holds, which is a much larger number and one no public data source measures directly.
Is Cloudflare Registrar growing?
Its share of new registrations has risen by 2.2 percentage points against the same months of last year, to 3.5%. Share is the useful measure here: the whole market grew, so a registrar can register more domains than last year and still be losing ground.
How many domain extensions does Cloudflare Registrar sell?
It registered domains across 379 extensions this year. 64% of what it sells is .com.
What is Cloudflare Registrar strongest at?
.dev. It handles 28% of everything registered under that extension, 8 times its 3.5% share of the market overall. That ratio is the useful one: it shows where a registrar is unusually strong rather than simply where it sells the most.
What kind of names do people register at Cloudflare Registrar?
The average is 11 characters, 6% contain a digit and 10.5% contain a hyphen. A high digit share indicates bulk registration rather than names someone sat down and chose, so this is the closest thing to a read on who a registrar's customers actually are.
Do people register with Cloudflare Registrar for more than one year?
9.5% do, against 90.5% who take a single year. Multi-year registrations are a minority almost everywhere, so the differences between registrars are large in relative terms.
Where do Cloudflare Registrar domains point their DNS?
100% use cloudflare.com. About 0% of them sit on a parking or for-sale page rather than a working site. Measured across 2025, the last period for which nameserver data is complete.
When do Cloudflare Registrar domains come up for renewal?
June 2027 is the busiest month ahead, with about 360k reaching their renewal date. Renewal peaks trail registration peaks by exactly a year, so whatever is not renewed then becomes available again.
Can anyone register a domain with Cloudflare Registrar?
Sold at cost with no markup, but it needs a Cloudflare account and the domain runs on Cloudflare's DNS. Every Cloudflare domain in our records uses it, without exception.
Can I transfer a domain away from Cloudflare Registrar?
Yes. A domain can be transferred to another registrar sixty days after it is registered or last transferred, which is an ICANN rule rather than a registrar policy. You need the authorisation code from your current registrar and the domain must not be locked.