The Domaintile Weekly · Week 9 · 17–23 Feb 2026

701,524 new .com names in the week to 23 Feb.

That’s 116,921 a day, 0% on the week before. .com ended the week with 160,066,540 names.

The week in numbers

17–23 Feb 2026

Extension	New	A day	Net	vs week before
.com	▲ 701,524	116,921	+73,858	0%
.net	▲ 42,387	6,055	+1,813	▼ 7%
.org	▲ 51,836	7,405	+11,856	▼ 3%
.xyz	▲ 32,241	4,606	−22,908	▼ 18%

Word of the weekdental

+791 new .com names this week, ▲ 24% on the week before. 223,220 .com names held it on 23 Feb.

Find open “dental” 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 dental+791 ▲ 24%

02 advisory+1,098 ▲ 16%

03 sports+1,790 ▲ 15%

04 medical+795 ▲ 14%

05 join+936 ▲ 14%

06 roofing+703 ▲ 13%

07 legacy+865 ▲ 12%

08 systems+1,629 ▲ 11%

09 solar+679 ▲ 10%

10 pros+807 ▲ 10%

161 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 4, by the string their names share:

889 new .com names end in “…lumbingco” or “…plumbingteam”.Tuesday 17 Feb

216 new .com names end in “…-2026worldcup”, “…-fifaworldcup” or “…-worldcupofficial”.Sunday 22 Feb

200 new .com names start with “sweetreels…”.Sunday 22 Feb

180 new .com names start with “acceldata…”.Monday 23 Feb

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This issue was rebuilt for the archive from the daily counts of 17 Feb 2026 to 23 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, 17–23 Feb 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-02-23.

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