← Lab notebook

The week in new domains
Aug 17, 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.

• 1crm+48%
• 2xn+16%
• 3mcas+25%
• 4admin+32%
• 5df+19%
• 6synology+0%
• 7hstgr-11%
• 8plesk-14%

Fastest-growing platforms

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

• 1workers.dev9,525,707 sites
• 2pages.dev10,863,464 sites
• 3crm.dev537,572 sites
• 4quickconnect.to3,638,072 sites
• 5azure-api.net725,499 sites
• 6amplifyapp.com3,390,630 sites
• 7amazonaws.com674,507 sites
• 8synology.me771,880 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.com2,134,027,495
• 2.dev563,083,747
• 3.net281,523,223
• 4.io139,147,601
• 5.org120,062,647
• 6.de101,818,640
• 7.xyz61,237,415
• 8.co.uk48,485,060

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.