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4,500,668 .com names use “the”.

3,197 new ones were added on 5 Nov, 2,821 dropped and 594 came back. That’s 7% fewer than the day before. Check the trend, see what buyers pair it with, then register an open name below.

Keyword · #1 of 244,418 by active names▼ 7% · 1 day
steady · 30 daysabout as many new names as the 30 days before. What the stages mean

About average 58% of the 112,210 .com names with “the” added 22 Jun to 1 Aug 2025 were still with their owner a year later. All new names: 48%.

Of 81,062 new .com names since 12 Oct: 1% for sale, 27% getting a website

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New · 1d+3,197
Dropped · 1d−2,821
Net · 1d+970Includes 594 names that came back
Active .com names4,500,6682.67% of all .com names
Position in new names · last 7 daysPrefix 76%Suffix 0%Middle / alone 23%

New and dropped “the” names per day

New, upDropped, down23 Oct – 5 Nov · tap a bar

Most paired with

the + co300Names
the + club240Names
the + group233Names
the + shop207Names
the + house202Names
the + studio197Names
the + ai185Names

Open names with “the” · .com · open today · tap a name to break it down, to save it

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Search demand for “the”

Google Ads, via DataForSEO, Aug 2026
2,240,000Google searches a month
$0.06What advertisers pay per click
▼ Searches for “the” fell 18% from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026. Peak: Dec 2025, 2,740,000 searches.

Exact match

Every extension anyone can register, like .shop and .app · 5 Nov 2026
352of 574 extensions have the.* taken
Which ones? Break down the.com →

The names with “the”

.com names · 5 Nov 2026
15characters, the median length of the .com names with “the”
4,252,941of them have the .net open
4,215,211of them have the .org open
4,468,544of them have the .xyz open

Of 94,660 new .com names in 30 days: 3% have digits, 4% have hyphens and 18% have 20 or more characters.

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Active names · new / dropped in 7 days

Words buyers pair with “the”

Active .com names · ▲ adding faster than dropping this week, ▼ dropping faster · Google searches a month and cost per click: Google Ads, via DataForSEO, Aug 2026
world394,326▼ 5%550K/mo$0.82red238,919▲ 8%2.2M/mo$1.12land229,846▲ 17%90.5K/mo$0.76good213,715▲ 9%450K/mo$1.81way199,509▲ 21%135K/mo$2.20west200,310▲ 16%110K/mo$0.51time180,318▲ 13%1.5M/mo$3.63first170,920▲ 28%246K/mo$3.58island126,731▲ 19%201K/mo$1.75road123,558▼ 1%201K/mo$3.39wild116,269▲ 21%201K/mo$0.61state95,799▲ 17%368K/mo$0.73future95,194▼ 33%368K/mo$8.13story89,331▲ 29%246K/mo$2.83field89,057▲ 65%135K/mo$2.78old88,407▼ 5%201K/mo$1.10war82,533▲ 44%301K/mo$7.52united82,135▲ 12%1M/mo$0.22will72,138▲ 8%246K/mo$6.94end69,262▲ 11%74K/mo$0.54wind51,889▲ 20%110K/mo$0.11word45,889▲ 20%1.8M/mo$2.71need35,931▼ 6%110K/mo$1.09second34,000▲ 35%110K/mo$0.72

How many .com domains contain “the”?

As of 5 Nov 2026, 4,500,668 .com names contain the word “the”, 2.67% of all 168,656,927 .com names. That puts it at #1 of the 244,418 words we track.

People search Google for “the” 2,240,000 times a month, and advertisers pay $0.06 for each click. Google Ads, via DataForSEO, Aug 2026.

Over the last 7 days, 21,109 new “the” names were added, 3,913 came back and 18,958 were dropped, for a net +6,064. Its biggest day on record: 4 Mar 2026, with 8,017 new names.

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