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The week in new domains
Aug 10, 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.

• 1admin-76%
• 2df-73%
• 3haplorrhini-72%
• 4mcas-71%
• 5myftpupload-79%
• 6myvolumio-71%
• 7hstgr-52%
• 8arconazure-82%

Fastest-growing platforms

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

• 1workers.dev9,299,072 sites
• 2pages.dev10,627,585 sites
• 3quickconnect.to3,614,605 sites
• 4crm.dev479,254 sites
• 5azure-api.net678,812 sites
• 6amplifyapp.com3,239,702 sites
• 7amazonaws.com630,902 sites
• 8synology.me767,041 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.com1,936,739,041
• 2.dev472,161,033
• 3.net247,623,624
• 4.io129,346,452
• 5.org109,636,308
• 6.de94,918,050
• 7.xyz53,358,623
• 8.co.uk44,021,143

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.