Websites born today
Fri, Nov 6: 198,690 new domains
were registered across roughly 1,054 TLD zones on Friday, November 6, 2026 — counted straight from ICANN zone files.
Data from 2026-11-06 (UTC)· 1 day ago
198,690
New domains
132,274
Domains that dropped
+66,416
Net change
14%
Already have a live site
Last 21 days
New domain registrations per day, across every TLD the census watches.
View the numbers as a table
| Day | New domains |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | 198,690 |
| 2026-11-05 | 161,539 |
| 2026-11-04 | 155,589 |
| 2026-11-03 | 139,201 |
| 2026-11-02 | 114,907 |
| 2026-11-01 | 94,696 |
| 2026-10-31 | 116,100 |
| 2026-10-30 | 139,844 |
| 2026-10-29 | 135,158 |
| 2026-10-28 | 149,997 |
| 2026-10-27 | 156,486 |
| 2026-10-26 | 108,490 |
| 2026-10-25 | 105,261 |
| 2026-10-24 | 164,945 |
| 2026-10-23 | 271,350 |
| 2026-10-22 | 268,725 |
| 2026-10-21 | 304,728 |
| 2026-10-20 | 224,145 |
| 2026-10-19 | 111,344 |
| 2026-10-18 | 151,395 |
| 2026-10-17 | 321,053 |
Top TLDs today
Where the day's new domains landed, by top-level domain.
| TLD | New | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .xyz | 43,394 | 22% |
| .top | 17,968 | 9% |
| .lol | 13,041 | 7% |
| .org | 11,179 | 6% |
| .shop | 10,778 | 5% |
| .online | 10,625 | 5% |
| .site | 7,501 | 4% |
| .info | 6,505 | 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.
- 14%Already has a live site
- 1%Parked (for-sale or ad page)
- 17%Registered, nothing built yet
- 24%No working site at all
- 43%Unreachable / could not tell
Worth a second look
On 2026-11-06 — the most recent day dns.pizza's risk scanner has finished checking — 6% of the 12,207 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 2026-11-06 (UTC), refreshed roughly hourly. Signals, not verdicts. API docs →