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The Domaintile Weekly · Week 20 · 5–11 May 2026

844,922 new .com names in the week to 11 May.

That’s 120,703 a day, ▲ 2% on the week before. .com ended the week with 162,258,745 names.

The week in numbers

5–11 May 2026
ExtensionNewA dayNetvs week before
.com▲ 844,922120,703+254,092▲ 2%
.net▲ 48,2146,888+4,685▲ 10%
.org▲ 60,1748,596+18,417▲ 8%
.xyz▲ 55,3437,906−48,417▲ 27%
Word of the weekchina

+755 new .com names this week, ▲ 84% on the week before. 177,700 .com names held it on 11 May.

Find open “china” 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 china+755 ▲ 84%
02 mall+714 ▲ 53%
03 room+781 ▲ 39%
04 tour+774 ▲ 37%
05 games+1,315 ▲ 30%
06 long+617 ▲ 29%
07 code+1,178 ▲ 27%
08 news+1,174 ▲ 24%
09 iron+660 ▲ 23%
10 cash+663 ▲ 19%

249 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 5, by the string their names share:
299 new .com names start with “zzzbvip4…”, “zzzbvip5…” or “zzzbvip3…”.Sunday 10 May
235 new .org names end in “…eighborhood”.Wednesday 6 May
200 new .com names start with “serpentini…”.Tuesday 5 May
196 new .org names end in “…eighborhood”.Saturday 9 May
186 new .com names end in “…-worldcup2026”.Saturday 9 May

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This issue was rebuilt for the archive from the daily counts of 5 May 2026 to 11 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, 5–11 May 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-05-11.

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