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The Domaintile Weekly · Week 35 · 18–24 Aug 2026

833,472 new .com names in the week to 24 Aug.

That’s 119,067 a day, ▼ 1% on the week before. .com ended the week with 165,645,368 names.

The week in numbers

18–24 Aug 2026
ExtensionNewA dayNetvs week before
.com▲ 833,472119,067+225,540▼ 1%
.net▲ 58,7418,392+9,640▲ 7%
.org▲ 54,0137,716+17,534▼ 3%
.xyz▲ 322,24646,035+269,427▼ 22%
Word of the weekbrain

+617 new .com names this week, ▲ 79% on the week before. 75,979 .com names held it on 24 Aug.

Find open “brain” 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 brain+617 ▲ 79%
02 ventures+1,349 ▲ 75%
03 holdings+1,290 ▲ 38%
04 bank+818 ▲ 36%
05 room+889 ▲ 36%
06 wealth+1,377 ▲ 34%
07 south+625 ▲ 28%
08 vision+787 ▲ 28%
09 ridge+729 ▲ 26%
10 plumbing+685 ▲ 25%

233 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 5, by the string their names share:
302 new .com names end in “…onsultant”.Friday 21 Aug
160 new .com names end in “…portapottyrentals”, “…portapotty” or “…portapotties”.Wednesday 19 Aug
156 new .org names end in “…eighborhood”.Thursday 20 Aug
147 new .com names start with “slotenmake…”.Monday 24 Aug
139 new .xyz names start with “handoffs…”.Saturday 22 Aug

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This issue was rebuilt for the archive from the daily counts of 18 Aug 2026 to 24 Aug 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, 18–24 Aug 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-08-24.

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