.cards zone file and domain statistics

webXtrend knows 14,774 .cards domains as of 6 October 2026. That puts it at rank 357 of the 1,439 top-level domains in our data. It is a generic TLD, operated by Binky Moon, LLC and in the root zone since 2014. Over the past twelve months it grew by 39.8 % (+4,209 domains). 566 new .cards domains appeared in the last 30 days. 62.2 % of them serve a website, against 64.8 % across all TLDs.

Top-level domain.cards
TypeGeneric top-level domain (gTLD)
Registry operatorBinky Moon, LLC
In the root zoneYes, delegated on 6 February 2014
DNSSECSigned
Registry websitewww.identity.digital
Domains known to webXtrend14,774 (6 October 2026)
New domains, last 30 days566
Change over 12 months+39.8 %

How many .cards domains does webXtrend know?

.cards domains known to webXtrend at the start of each month, from January 2023 to October 2026.

.cards domains known to webXtrend at the start of each month8K10K12K14K16K202320242025202614,774
Lowest 9,763 (1 August 2023), highest 14,774 (6 October 2026).
DateKnown to webXtrendChange
1 January 202310,192
1 January 20249,864−3.2 %
1 January 20259,810−0.5 %
1 January 202610,912+11.2 %
6 October 202614,774+35.4 %

The count follows what webXtrend knows, not the registry's own books. Figures before 2023 are left out because our coverage was still being built up then, and a step in the curve can come from a change in coverage rather than in the zone.

New .cards domains per month

MonthNew domainsKnown at month start
October 2026 (so far)12614,724
September 202654014,318
August 202651613,882
July 202648413,443
June 202641713,159
May 202643812,817
April 202654512,420
March 202646312,112
February 202689911,179
January 202642310,912
December 202543310,923
November 202524310,818

Daily figures, last two weeks

DateKnown to webXtrendNew domains
6 October 202614,77420
5 October 202614,77118
4 October 202614,76420
3 October 202614,75121
2 October 202614,73717
1 October 202614,72430
30 September 202614,71718
29 September 202614,70618
28 September 202614,69716
27 September 202614,68325
26 September 202614,67621
25 September 202614,66523
24 September 202614,63920
23 September 202614,64221

How .cards domains are used

Share of the .cards domains known to webXtrend with each property, next to the share across all top-level domains.

Property.cardsAll TLDs
Serve a website62.2 %64.8 %
Have an MX record (receive mail)36.0 %53.7 %
Redirect to HTTPS30.2 %25.9 %
Have a valid TLS certificate27.1 %24.4 %
Redirect to another domain14.6 %11.1 %
Reachable over IPv619.4 %20.2 %
No IP address (no A or AAAA record)9.7 %7.6 %
DNS error (SERVFAIL)4.7 %5.2 %

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Download the .cards zone file

The domain list export contains every .cards domain webXtrend knows, 14,774 today, one name per line, together with all other TLDs. To keep only .cards: zgrep '\.cards$' domains.txt.gz > cards.txt. New .cards domains come every day with the daily new-domain file, and the API answers for any single domain: DNS history, redirects, reverse IP and the start page. The list is compiled by webXtrend from its own web crawl. Zone files for all TLDs

Counts are the domains webXtrend knows, from its own measurement of the public domain name space. They are not the registry's figures: where a registry does not publish its zone, our count can be lower than its own. Registry facts come from the IANA root zone database.