New registrations this month
4,559 domains/month
Generic extension · Broad
.best
.best is a generic top-level domain listed in the authoritative IANA Root Zone Database. Its listed manager is BestTLD Pty Ltd.
- RegistryBestTLD Pty Ltd
- Metrics held27
- With history0
Signal profile
- Brevity 88
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 50
- Registration scale 56
- Domains
- 46.8K domains
- Active registrars
- 157 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 4.14B queries/month
Everything on record
27 reported metrics for .best
Grouped as the registry reports them. Each figure carries its source, when it was observed and a quality grade, and any metric with a trend can be opened for its full history.
Attempted registrations
5.88M attempts/month
Deletions this month
1,796 domains/month
Multi-year registration share
0.57% ratio
Registered nameservers
13.7K nameservers
Renewals this month
1,196 domains/month
Restores this month
0 domains/month
Successful inbound transfers
18 transfers/month
Registered domains
46.8K domains
ICANN application ID
1-1705-80521
Registry contract signed
19 Dec 2013 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
27 Feb 2014 date
Contracted registry operator
BestTLD Pty Ltd
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
No
Registrar accounts with domains
157 registrar accounts
Registrar concentration
14.63% index
Reporting registrar accounts
345 registrar accounts
Top five registrar share
76.52% ratio
Largest registrar share
28.47% ratio
DNS queries received
4.14B queries/month
DNS response ratio
100% ratio
Operational registrars
345 registrars
Registration-data queries
5.61M queries/month
Registry availability checks
9.28M commands/month
Registry create commands
4,678 commands/month
Root zone and registry agreement
The facts that do not change monthly
Delegation, operator and protocol support, taken from the IANA root zone and the ICANN registry agreement data.
- Registry manager
- BestTLD Pty Ltd
- Registry operator
- BestTLD Pty Ltd
- Delegated to the root
- 27 February 2014
- Registry contract signed
- 19 December 2013
- Authoritative nameservers
- 4
- DNSSEC signed
- Yes
- RDAP available
- Yes
- Internationalised label
- No
- Third-level registration
- No
- Specification 13 brand TLD
- No
IANA Root Zone Database
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN gTLD contract data
ICANN gTLD contract data
IANA root zone
Root delegation DS record
IANA RDAP bootstrap registry
IANA root zone
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN registry agreement
Namespace beneath .best
1 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.
0 Private boundary rules Privately operated suffixes, such as hosting subdomains.
Where this comes from
Every figure is traceable
Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled. Each metric names the source it came from and the month it was observed, and a metric with no observation is shown as unknown rather than filled with a zero.
- ICANN gTLD Registry Agreement Data View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Activity Reports View source
- ICANN Monthly Registry Reports View source
- TLD registry-published statistics View source
Enrichment snapshot generated . Registry reporting runs a month or two behind, so the newest observation is rarely this month.
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