New registrations this month
323 domains/month
Generic extension · Broad
.pay
.pay is a generic top-level domain listed in the authoritative IANA Root Zone Database. Its listed manager is Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
- RegistryAmazon Registry Services, Inc.
- Metrics held27
- With history0
Signal profile
- Brevity 94
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 100
- Registration scale 32
- Domains
- 411 domains
- Active registrars
- 15 registrar accounts
- DNS queries
- 398.72M queries/month
Everything on record
27 reported metrics for .pay
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
583 attempts/month
Deletions this month
0 domains/month
Multi-year registration share
13.93% ratio
Registered nameservers
292 nameservers
Renewals this month
1 domains/month
Restores this month
0 domains/month
Successful inbound transfers
0 transfers/month
Registered domains
411 domains
ICANN application ID
1-1317-64413
Registry contract signed
27 Aug 2015 date
Registry contract terminated
No
Delegated to the root
10 Aug 2016 date
Contracted registry operator
Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
Specification 13 brand TLD
No
Third-level registration
No
Registrar accounts with domains
15 registrar accounts
Registrar concentration
17.79% index
Reporting registrar accounts
26 registrar accounts
Top five registrar share
83.45% ratio
Largest registrar share
30.41% ratio
DNS queries received
398.72M queries/month
DNS response ratio
94.45% ratio
Operational registrars
25 registrars
Registration-data queries
576.1K queries/month
Registry availability checks
13K commands/month
Registry create commands
583 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
- Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
- Registry operator
- Amazon Registry Services, Inc.
- Delegated to the root
- 10 August 2016
- Registry contract signed
- 27 August 2015
- Authoritative nameservers
- 8
- 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 .pay
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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