The Domaintile Weekly · Week 8 · 10–16 Feb 2026

820,268 new .com names in the week to 16 Feb.

That’s 117,181 a day, ▼ 13% on the week before. .com ended the week with 159,992,682 names.

The week in numbers

10–16 Feb 2026

Extension	New	A day	Net	vs week before
.com	▲ 820,268	117,181	+236,473	▼ 13%
.net	▲ 45,647	6,521	+14,855	▲ 2%
.org	▲ 53,365	7,624	+21,109	▼ 8%
.xyz	▲ 39,262	5,609	+6,180	▼ 11%

Word of the weekplumbing

+630 new .com names this week, ▲ 74% on the week before. 91,471 .com names held it on 16 Feb.

Find open “plumbing” 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 plumbing+630 ▲ 74%

02 moon+634 ▲ 72%

03 just+722 ▲ 66%

04 path+1,196 ▲ 47%

05 nova+1,312 ▲ 43%

06 trust+907 ▲ 43%

07 platform+653 ▲ 42%

08 flow+2,110 ▲ 42%

09 lead+748 ▲ 41%

10 help+665 ▲ 39%

162 one-buyer batches this week

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

263 new .org names start with “thaiphcmuban…” or “thaiphctambon…”.Thursday 12 Feb

238 new .com names start with “notreally…”.Saturday 14 Feb

199 new .com names start with “batumslot…”.Sunday 15 Feb

185 new .com names start with “reachout…”.Wednesday 11 Feb

154 new .com names start with “fastforward…”.Friday 13 Feb

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This issue was rebuilt for the archive from the daily counts of 10 Feb 2026 to 16 Feb 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, 10–16 Feb 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-02-16.

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