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The week in new domains
Aug 3, 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.

• 1ondemand+42%
• 2connect+6%
• 3ciscosecureaccess-3%
• 4haplorrhini-61%
• 5crm-4%
• 6falcon-34%
• 7arconazure-54%
• 8service-32%

Fastest-growing platforms

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

• 1workers.dev9,281,579 sites
• 2pages.dev10,617,840 sites
• 3quickconnect.to3,607,652 sites
• 4crm.dev479,069 sites
• 5azure-api.net674,213 sites
• 6amplifyapp.com3,209,972 sites
• 7amazonaws.com626,815 sites
• 8synology.me766,897 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.com1,914,419,590
• 2.dev468,432,194
• 3.net244,914,133
• 4.io128,017,833
• 5.org108,632,525
• 6.de94,127,266
• 7.xyz52,879,213
• 8.to43,673,729

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.