The Domaintile Weekly · Week 2 · 30 Dec – 5 Jan 2026

609,317 new .com names in the week to 5 Jan.

That’s 87,045 a day, ▲ 8% on the week before. .com ended the week with 158,713,981 names.

The week in numbers

30 Dec – 5 Jan 2026

Extension	New	A day	Net	vs week before
.com	▲ 609,317	87,045	+12,203	▲ 8%
.net	▲ 37,021	5,289	−10,168	▲ 15%
.org	▲ 43,904	6,272	+8,378	▲ 15%
.xyz	▲ 33,256	4,751	−13,015	▼ 32%

Word of the weekwedding

+550 new .com names this week, ▲ 63% on the week before. 113,922 .com names held it on 5 Jan.

Find open “wedding” names

The 10 words trending fastest this week

New .com names this week against the week before. Only words that trend day after day: no single day makes the whole count, and bulk buys are left out.

01 wedding+550 ▲ 63%

02 collective+955 ▲ 59%

03 therapy+573 ▲ 57%

04 rentals+463 ▲ 54%

05 growth+941 ▲ 52%

06 photography+635 ▲ 52%

07 wealth+654 ▲ 49%

08 meta+461 ▲ 48%

09 homes+868 ▲ 47%

10 photo+550 ▲ 46%

162 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 5, by the string their names share:

662 new .com names end in “…ollector”.Thursday 1 Jan

627 new .com names end in “…-kysports” or “…-starsports”.Friday 2 Jan

310 new .com names end in “…aiyunsports”.Friday 2 Jan

296 new .com names start with “localnewsin…”.Thursday 1 Jan

255 new .org names start with “kormikota…” or “kormipemkab…”.Sunday 4 Jan

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This issue was rebuilt for the archive from the daily counts of 30 Dec 2025 to 5 Jan 2026, in the same way as a sent one. Every issue here shows the same parts: the open names and each reader’s own words go to subscribers only. Methodology.

Cite this issue: Domaintile, “The Domaintile Weekly, 30 Dec – 5 Jan 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-01-05.

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