The Domaintile Weekly · Week 41 · 29 Sep – 5 Oct 2026

920,819 new .com names in the week to 5 Oct.

That’s 131,546 a day, ▲ 5% on the week before. .com ended the week with 167,164,684 names.

The week in numbers

29 Sep – 5 Oct 2026

Extension	New	A day	Net	vs week before
.com	▲ 920,819	131,546	+265,848	▲ 5%
.net	▲ 48,249	6,893	+7,722	▲ 1%
.org	▲ 54,710	7,816	+14,809	▲ 4%
.xyz	▲ 151,677	21,668	+149,340	▼ 41%

Word of the weekintelligence

+2,313 new .com names this week, ▲ 61% on the week before. 53,190 .com names held it on 5 Oct.

Find open “intelligence” 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 intelligence+2,313 ▲ 61%

02 super+3,470 ▲ 55%

03 online+4,063 ▲ 49%

04 link+1,879 ▲ 27%

05 style+688 ▲ 26%

06 cloud+1,410 ▲ 26%

07 story+706 ▲ 24%

08 research+690 ▲ 23%

09 game+2,670 ▲ 23%

10 sales+981 ▲ 23%

267 one-buyer batches this week

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

1,165 new .xyz names start with “assistan…”.Monday 5 Oct

964 new .com names start with “listingsong…”.Friday 2 Oct · one registrar, all within 10 hours

713 new .xyz names start with “generato…”.Monday 5 Oct

330 new .com names start with “casipop2…”, “casipop3…” or “casipop4…”.Friday 2 Oct · one registrar, all within 1 minute

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This issue was rebuilt for the archive from the daily counts of 29 Sep 2026 to 5 Oct 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, 29 Sep – 5 Oct 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-10-05.

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