Websites born today
143,944 new domains
were registered across roughly 1,063 TLD zones on Sunday, September 27, 2026 — counted straight from ICANN zone files.
Data from 2026-09-27 (UTC)· 1 day ago
143,944
New domains
157,755
Domains that dropped
-13,811
Net change
12%
Already have a live site
Last 21 days
New domain registrations per day, across every TLD the census watches.
Line breaks mark days missing from the census source — not zero registrations, just no count yet.
View the numbers as a table
| Day | New domains |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-27 | 143,944 |
| 2026-09-26 | 172,566 |
| 2026-09-25 | 140,350 |
| 2026-09-22 | 201,315 |
| 2026-09-21 | 203,610 |
| 2026-09-20 | 87,251 |
| 2026-09-19 | 173,589 |
| 2026-09-18 | 169,480 |
| 2026-09-17 | 240,681 |
| 2026-09-16 | 279,022 |
| 2026-09-15 | 117,711 |
| 2026-09-14 | 138,191 |
| 2026-09-13 | 172,610 |
| 2026-09-12 | 190,562 |
| 2026-09-11 | 203,902 |
| 2026-09-10 | 217,572 |
| 2026-09-09 | 184,142 |
| 2026-09-08 | 195,305 |
| 2026-09-07 | 151,466 |
| 2026-09-06 | 159,729 |
| 2026-09-05 | 179,684 |
Top TLDs today
Where the day's new domains landed, by top-level domain.
| TLD | New | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .xyz | 54,975 | 38% |
| .top | 14,408 | 10% |
| .shop | 7,477 | 5% |
| .online | 7,220 | 5% |
| .org | 6,075 | 4% |
| .store | 4,056 | 3% |
| .app | 4,016 | 3% |
| .site | 3,850 | 3% |
What's actually live?
Registering a domain doesn't mean a site goes up right away. Here's what the census found on day one for today's new names.
- 12%Already has a live site
- 1%Parked (for-sale or ad page)
- 13%Registered, nothing built yet
- 18%No working site at all
- 56%Unreachable / could not tell
Worth a second look
On 2026-09-27 — the most recent day dns.pizza's risk scanner has finished checking — 8% of the 9,281 newborn domains it examined came back high-risk or critical: a name close to a known brand, a login form on a brand-new page, and similar patterns. This is a signal, not a verdict — most flagged domains turn out fine, and this page never names any of them.
What this means for you
Brand-new domains aren't bad — most are ordinary businesses, blogs, and projects just getting started. But scammers also favor fresh domains, since a new name has no track record yet and old blocklists haven't caught up to it. If a site you're about to buy from or sign into is only days old, that's not proof of anything by itself — it just means the usual signals (reviews, history, reputation) aren't there yet, so it deserves a second look.
Counted from ICANN zone files by dnscensus.org / dns.pizza — data for 2026-09-27 (UTC), refreshed roughly hourly. Signals, not verdicts. API docs →