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The Domaintile Weekly · Week 42 · 6–12 Oct 2026

932,002 new .com names in the week to 12 Oct.

That’s 155,334 a day, ▲ 18% on the week before. .com ended the week with 167,447,558 names.

The week in numbers

6–12 Oct 2026
ExtensionNewA dayNetvs week before
.com▲ 932,002155,334+282,874▲ 18%
.net▲ 43,8187,303+7,915▲ 6%
.org▲ 55,8717,982+12,167▲ 2%
.xyz▲ 427,14661,021+343,804▲ 182%
Word of the weekmatch

+726 new .com names this week, ▲ 64% on the week before. 54,438 .com names held it on 12 Oct.

Find open “match” 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 match+726 ▲ 64%
02 roofing+765 ▲ 49%
03 trip+708 ▲ 40%
04 base+922 ▲ 35%
05 post+817 ▲ 34%
06 training+731 ▲ 33%
07 mail+1,554 ▲ 32%
08 office+984 ▲ 29%
09 talent+686 ▲ 29%
10 edge+692 ▲ 28%

254 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 4, by the string their names share:
594 new .xyz names start with “scan”.Monday 12 Oct · one registrar, all within 27 minutes
487 new .com names end in “autonomy”.Tuesday 6 Oct · one registrar, all within 8 hours
370 new .xyz names start with “let”.Sunday 11 Oct · one registrar, all within 15 minutes
352 new .xyz names start with “royal”.Monday 12 Oct · one registrar, all within 3 minutes

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This is the issue of Monday 12 Oct. Counts cover 6 Oct 2026 to 12 Oct 2026. 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, 6–12 Oct 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-10-12.

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