New registrations this month
27K domains/month
Generic extension · Technology
.cloud
A natural fit for infrastructure, hosting, software services and cloud-focused education.
- RegistryARUBA PEC S.p.A.
- Metrics held27
- With history0
Signal profile
- Brevity 81
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 50
- Registration scale 69
- Domains
- 528.2K domains
- Active registrars
- 155 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 15.51B queries/month
Everything on record
27 reported metrics for .cloud
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
26.6K attempts/month
Deletions this month
15.9K domains/month
Multi-year registration share
1.87% ratio
Registered nameservers
96.8K nameservers
Renewals this month
20K domains/month
Restores this month
0 domains/month
Successful inbound transfers
659 transfers/month
Registered domains
528.2K domains
ICANN application ID
1-1669-75338
Registry contract signed
16 Apr 2015 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
26 Jun 2015 date
Contracted registry operator
Aruba PEC S.p.A.
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
No
Registrar accounts with domains
155 registrar accounts
Registrar concentration
7.35% index
Reporting registrar accounts
243 registrar accounts
Top five registrar share
52.84% ratio
Largest registrar share
18.62% ratio
DNS queries received
15.51B queries/month
DNS response ratio
100% ratio
Operational registrars
236 registrars
Registration-data queries
92.41M queries/month
Registry availability checks
0 commands/month
Registry create commands
26.6K 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
- ARUBA PEC S.p.A.
- Registry operator
- Aruba PEC S.p.A.
- Delegated to the root
- 26 June 2015
- Registry contract signed
- 16 April 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 .cloud
1 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.
105 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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