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The week in new domains
Jul 6, 2026

A digest of what the public certificate stream revealed this week — every figure is computed live from newly-issued TLS certificates, no editorialising.

Trending name-tokens

The words founders are reaching for, pulled cheaply from second-level-domain tokenisation across every new registration — no AI required.

• 1certsbridge-69%
• 2usgovcloudapi-56%
• 3bet-69%
• 4haplorrhini-70%
• 5dpdns-64%
• 6it-67%
• 7hubspot-62%
• 8myftpupload-72%

Fastest-growing platforms

Distinct new subdomains on hosting platforms — every *.pages.dev or *.vercel.app certificate is a site shipping.

• 1workers.dev7,832,211 sites
• 2pages.dev8,856,410 sites
• 3crm.dev327,932 sites
• 4quickconnect.to2,980,554 sites
• 5azure-api.net497,423 sites
• 6amplifyapp.com2,179,774 sites
• 7amazonaws.com420,421 sites
• 8synology.me644,080 sites

Which extensions actually get built

Of the domains we captured on each extension, the share that developed past a placeholder page — a hard quality signal per TLD (extensions with at least 25 captures).

• 1.gob.ec65 %
• 2.edu.gh61 %
• 3.ac.ug61 %
• 4.onl60 %
• 5.org.co60 %
• 6.hk59 %
• 7.ed.jp59 %
• 8.catholic.edu.au59 %

Busiest extensions

Raw new-domain sightings per TLD this period.

• 1.com1,039,157,252
• 2.dev302,593,233
• 3.net134,953,339
• 4.io76,591,882
• 5.org63,694,350
• 6.de54,768,504
• 7.xyz30,938,648
• 8.to26,115,646

Generated automatically from the domlapse certificate-stream pipeline. Explore the live data on the home dashboard, or watch domains develop in real time at grabs.in.