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The Domaintile Weekly · Week 21 · 12–18 May 2026

864,255 new .com names in the week to 18 May.

That’s 123,465 a day, ▲ 2% on the week before. .com ended the week with 162,562,292 names.

The week in numbers

12–18 May 2026
ExtensionNewA dayNetvs week before
.com▲ 864,255123,465+303,547▲ 2%
.net▲ 49,0817,012+10,159▲ 2%
.org▲ 61,0018,714+21,809▲ 1%
.xyz▲ 40,2575,751−15,568▼ 27%
Word of the weekying

+683 new .com names this week, ▲ 131% on the week before. 54,508 .com names held it on 18 May.

Find open “ying” 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 ying+683 ▲ 131%
02 asia+843 ▲ 67%
03 live+2,741 ▲ 51%
04 mega+736 ▲ 48%
05 sale+712 ▲ 48%
06 beach+846 ▲ 44%
07 zone+1,294 ▲ 43%
08 apex+1,077 ▲ 37%
09 luxury+845 ▲ 34%
10 homes+1,445 ▲ 33%

198 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 4, by the string their names share:
195 new .com names start with “betkanyon1…”.Saturday 16 May
177 new .com names start with “kohlerhealth…”.Sunday 17 May
146 new .net names start with “piyomaru…”.Saturday 16 May
119 new .com names end in “…restorationpro”.Saturday 16 May

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This issue was rebuilt for the archive from the daily counts of 12 May 2026 to 18 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, 12–18 May 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-05-18.

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