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The Domaintile Weekly · Week 43 · 13–19 Oct 2026

943,525 new .com names in the week to 19 Oct.

That’s 134,789 a day, ▼ 13% on the week before. .com ended the week with 167,775,399 names.

The week in numbers

13–19 Oct 2026
ExtensionNewA dayNetvs week before
.com▲ 943,525134,789+327,841▼ 13%
.net▲ 45,7307,622+12,042▲ 10%
.org▲ 56,4808,069+13,690▲ 1%
.xyz▲ 585,37983,626+498,455▲ 37%
Word of the weekshepherd

+111 new .com names this week, ▲ 200% on the week before. 9,309 .com names held it on 19 Oct.

Find open “shepherd” 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 shepherd+111 ▲ 200%
02 cellar+122 ▲ 149%
03 funding+805 ▲ 99%
04 stays+363 ▲ 78%
05 brasil+604 ▲ 70%
06 capital+3,175 ▲ 54%
07 lantern+277 ▲ 46%
08 crest+701 ▲ 34%
09 portfolio+550 ▲ 31%
10 pros+932 ▲ 27%

412 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 5, by the string their names share:
1,000 new .com names start with “mrvvinner4…”.Wednesday 14 Oct · one registrar, all within 1 minute

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This is the issue of Monday 19 Oct. Counts cover 13 Oct 2026 to 19 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, 13–19 Oct 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-10-19.

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