277,724 .net names use “the”.
159 new ones were added on 4 Nov, 156 dropped and 20 came back. That’s 2% more than the day before. Check the trend, see what buyers pair it with, then register an open name below.
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 3,773 new .net names since 10 Oct: under 1% for sale, 25% getting a website
New and dropped “the” names per day
New, upDropped, down22 Oct – 4 Nov · tap a barMost paired with
Open names with “the” · .net · open today · tap a name to break it down, to save it
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Google Ads, via DataForSEO, Aug 2026Exact match
Every extension anyone can register, like .shop and .app · 5 Nov 2026The names with “the”
.com names · 5 Nov 2026Of 4,375 new .com names in 30 days: 3% have digits, 6% have hyphens and 14% have 20 or more characters.
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Active names · new / dropped in 7 daysHow many .net domains contain “the”?
As of 4 Nov 2026, 277,724 .net names contain the word “the”, 2.23% of all 12,453,257 .net names. That puts it at #1 of the 180,745 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, 1,026 new “the” names were added, 188 came back and 1,098 were dropped, for a net +116. Its biggest day on record: 28 Jul 2026, with 500 new names.
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We count “the” only where it stands as a whole word. theshop.net counts; a name that just happens to contain those letters inside another word doesn’t. Count every name with the letters “the”. How we count.
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