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The Domaintile Weekly · Week 44 · 20–26 Oct 2026

983,166 new .com names in the week to 26 Oct.

That’s 140,452 a day, ▲ 4% on the week before. .com ended the week with 168,146,594 names.

The week in numbers

20–26 Oct 2026
ExtensionNewA dayNetvs week before
.com▲ 983,166140,452+371,195▲ 4%
.net▲ 42,4847,081+3,982▼ 2%
.org▲ 52,9837,569+12,832▼ 6%
.xyz▲ 542,53577,505+422,474▼ 7%
Word of the weekcliff

+395 new .com names this week, ▲ 193% on the week before. 12,181 .com names held it on 26 Oct.

Find open “cliff” 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 cliff+395 ▲ 193%
02 compute+503 ▲ 189%
03 holt+244 ▲ 110%
04 crane+290 ▲ 101%
05 shore+551 ▲ 96%
06 bend+388 ▲ 96%
07 copper+390 ▲ 92%
08 frost+296 ▲ 87%
09 birch+283 ▲ 86%
10 glen+441 ▲ 85%

504 one-buyer batches this week

One buyer, one plan, many names at once. The biggest 5, by the string their names share:
9,756 new .com names end in “id”.Thursday 22 Oct · one registrar, all within 22 minutes
1,014 new .com names end in “…capitalmarkets”.Sunday 25 Oct · one registrar, all within 29 minutes

About this issue

The Domaintile Weekly goes out free every Monday. This is the issue of Monday 26 Oct. Counts cover 20 Oct 2026 to 26 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, 20–26 Oct 2026”, https://domaintile.com/weekly/2026-10-26.

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