The Domaintile Weekly · Week 19 · 28 Apr – 4 May 2026

827,067 new .com names in the week to 4 May.

That’s 118,152 a day, ▼ 1% on the week before. .com ended the week with 162,004,653 names.

The week in numbers

28 Apr – 4 May 2026

Extension	New	A day	Net	vs week before
.com	▲ 827,067	118,152	+195,712	▼ 1%
.net	▲ 44,007	6,287	+2,022	▼ 3%
.org	▲ 55,769	7,967	+13,619	▼ 3%
.xyz	▲ 43,497	6,214	−16,650	▲ 24%

Word of the weekpulse

+974 new .com names this week, ▲ 44% on the week before. 54,008 .com names held it on 4 May.

Find open “pulse” 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 pulse+974 ▲ 44%

02 connect+1,432 ▲ 37%

03 security+744 ▲ 36%

04 link+3,171 ▲ 34%

05 atlas+663 ▲ 25%

06 logistics+1,132 ▲ 22%

07 mark+625 ▲ 20%

08 king+1,366 ▲ 19%

09 plumbing+596 ▲ 18%

10 event+689 ▲ 17%

227 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 0, by the string their names share:

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This issue was rebuilt for the archive from the daily counts of 28 Apr 2026 to 4 May 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, 28 Apr – 4 May 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-05-04.

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