New registrations this month
547 domains/month
Restricted generic extension · Broad
.name
.name is a restricted generic top-level domain listed in the authoritative IANA Root Zone Database. Its listed manager is VeriSign Information Services, Inc.
- RegistryVeriSign Information Services, Inc.
- Metrics held26
- With history0
Signal profile
- Brevity 88
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 50
- Registration scale 60
- Domains
- 95.5K domains
- Active registrars
- 160 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 14.38B queries/month
Everything on record
26 reported metrics for .name
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
738 attempts/month
Deletions this month
844 domains/month
Multi-year registration share
7.13% ratio
Registered nameservers
22.4K nameservers
Renewals this month
6,398 domains/month
Restores this month
3 domains/month
Successful inbound transfers
166 transfers/month
Registered domains
95.5K domains
Registry contract signed
1 Dec 2012 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
4 Jan 2002 date
Contracted registry operator
VeriSign, Inc.
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
Yes
Registrar accounts with domains
160 registrar accounts
Registrar concentration
6.26% index
Reporting registrar accounts
194 registrar accounts
Top five registrar share
48.38% ratio
Largest registrar share
16.85% ratio
DNS queries received
14.38B queries/month
DNS response ratio
99.96% ratio
Operational registrars
191 registrars
Registration-data queries
1.24B queries/month
Registry availability checks
11.41M commands/month
Registry create commands
738 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
- VeriSign Information Services, Inc.
- Registry operator
- VeriSign, Inc.
- Delegated to the root
- 4 January 2002
- Registry contract signed
- 1 December 2012
- Authoritative nameservers
- 4
- DNSSEC signed
- Yes
- RDAP available
- Yes
- Internationalised label
- No
- Third-level registration
- Yes
- 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 .name
1 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.
4 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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