New registrations this month
14.6K domains/month
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.blog
A descriptive publishing extension for independent writers, company journals and specialist editorial projects.
- RegistryKnock Knock WHOIS There, LLC
- Metrics held27
- With history0
Signal profile
- Brevity 88
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 50
- Registration scale 67
- Domains
- 397.5K domains
- Active registrars
- 186 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 11.29B queries/month
Everything on record
27 reported metrics for .blog
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
14.7K attempts/month
Deletions this month
12.2K domains/month
Multi-year registration share
1.21% ratio
Registered nameservers
998.3K nameservers
Renewals this month
12K domains/month
Restores this month
9 domains/month
Successful inbound transfers
173 transfers/month
Registered domains
397.5K domains
ICANN application ID
1-917-1259
Registry contract signed
14 May 2015 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
18 May 2016 date
Contracted registry operator
Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
No
Registrar accounts with domains
186 registrar accounts
Registrar concentration
13.64% index
Reporting registrar accounts
332 registrar accounts
Top five registrar share
67.06% ratio
Largest registrar share
30.6% ratio
DNS queries received
11.29B queries/month
DNS response ratio
99.33% ratio
Operational registrars
332 registrars
Registration-data queries
57.98M queries/month
Registry availability checks
39.18M commands/month
Registry create commands
14.6K 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
- Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC
- Registry operator
- Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC
- Delegated to the root
- 18 May 2016
- Registry contract signed
- 14 May 2015
- 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 .blog
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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