# Domain name statistics across 953 extensions > Explore monthly registration counts back to 2016 and the fastest-growing and shrinking domain extensions across 953 TLDs with public zone files. - **URL:** https://instantdomainsearch.com/changelog/domain-name-statistics - **Category:** updates - **Published:** 2026-10-22 --- How fast is **.app** growing? Which domain extensions added the most names over the last month, and which ones are losing registrations? The new [Domain name statistics](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-extensions/statistics) page answers those questions directly from daily registry zone files. As of October 19, 2026, it tracks **257.3M registered domains** across **953 extensions**, including **10.9M new registrations** in the last 30 days, and pairs an interactive historical chart with 30-day growth and contraction leaderboards. ## Monthly registration history back to 2016 At the top of the page, the chart plots monthly zone-file totals for **58 domain extensions** with multi-year history, most of them back to 2016. It opens on **.app**, which grew **+88.6%** over the last 12 months to **1,758,810 registered domains** (+826,456 net names). A dropdown lists those 58 extensions, largest first. **.com** has 167.8M domains (+6.4% in 12 months), **.net** 12.4M, **.org** 12.2M, **.xyz** 11.2M (+65.1%), **.shop** 4.3M, **.online** 3.6M, **.store** 2.1M, and **.tech** 598K. When a registry archive has a missing month, the chart bridges the gap with a dashed line rather than inventing an estimate. ## 30-day growing and shrinking leaderboards Percentage growth and raw registration volume tell very different stories, so the 30-day leaderboards split them into side-by-side tables. - **Fastest growing** ranks extensions with at least 10,000 registered domains by 30-day percentage increase, led by **.baby** (+72.6%), **.study** (+59.0%), and **.cam** (+25.4%). - **Most new domains** ranks extensions by net domains added over the last 30 days, led by **.com** (+1,088,472), **.xyz** (+967,274), and **.app** (+105,507). - **Shrinking fastest** and **Most domains lost** show the other side of the zone files: extensions where deletions outnumbered new registrations over the last 30 days, such as **.skin** (-32.0%) and **.shop** (-65,747 domains). ## Live zone-file totals on the Domain Extensions directory We also connected the main [Domain Extensions](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-extensions) directory to the same daily zone-file dataset. A new **Most registered domain extensions** table ranks the top 15 extensions that publish a public zone file by active domain count, alongside their 30-day net change and percentage growth. The twelve featured extension cards show a registration count too. **.ai**, **.io**, **.co**, and **.me** use a hand-entered total, because those registries do not publish a zone file. Other cards, including **.shop**, do not show a count. ## Try it Explore the charts and leaderboards on [Domain name statistics](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-extensions/statistics), or browse the full directory on [Domain Extensions](https://instantdomainsearch.com/domain-extensions). Both pages are free and require no account. ## Frequently asked questions ### Where do these registration numbers come from? Every count on the statistics page comes from daily registry zone files for the 953 extensions we track. A domain is counted when it appears in the zone file with active nameservers. ### Why are some country-code extensions missing from the tables? Most country-code registries, such as **.ai**, **.de**, **.uk**, and **.ca**, do not publish public daily zone files. Rather than guessing their size from incomplete scans, the statistics page only includes the 953 extensions where we can count zone records directly. ### Why does the historical chart show a dashed line on some months? A dashed segment marks a month where a registry snapshot is missing from our archive. We draw a dashed line across the gap so you can tell real monthly observations apart from missing data.