.design zone file and domain statistics

webXtrend knows 115,435 .design domains as of 10 October 2026. That puts it at rank 132 of the 1,441 top-level domains in our data. It is a generic TLD, operated by Registry Services, LLC and in the root zone since 2014. Over the past twelve months it grew by 2.4 % (+2,676 domains). 2,085 new .design domains appeared in the last 30 days. 71.1 % of them serve a website, against 64.4 % across all TLDs.

Top-level domain.design
TypeGeneric top-level domain (gTLD)
Registry operatorRegistry Services, LLC
In the root zoneYes, delegated on 18 December 2014
DNSSECSigned
Registry websitenic.design
Domains known to webXtrend115,435 (10 October 2026)
New domains, last 30 days2,085
Change over 12 months+2.4 %

How many .design domains does webXtrend know?

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

.design domains known to webXtrend at the start of each month108K110K112K114K116K2023202420252026115,435
Lowest 108,768 (1 January 2025), highest 115,814 (1 April 2023).
DateKnown to webXtrendChange
1 January 2023115,480
1 January 2024113,135−2.0 %
1 January 2025108,768−3.9 %
1 January 2026112,760+3.7 %
10 October 2026115,435+2.4 %

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 .design domains per month

MonthNew domainsKnown at month start
October 2026 (so far)662115,273
September 20262,055114,392
August 20261,694114,317
July 20261,729114,216
June 20261,659114,503
May 20261,891113,971
April 20262,038114,073
March 20262,215113,793
February 20261,588113,204
January 20261,583112,760
December 20251,604112,436
November 20251,718112,425

Daily figures, last two weeks

DateKnown to webXtrendNew domains
10 October 2026115,43579
9 October 2026115,38186
8 October 2026115,33689
7 October 2026115,30275
6 October 2026115,30457
5 October 2026115,30546
4 October 2026115,34426
3 October 2026115,31759
2 October 2026115,29572
1 October 2026115,27373
30 September 2026115,24362
29 September 2026115,20793
28 September 2026115,20149
27 September 2026115,19660

How .design domains are used

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

Property.designAll TLDs
Serve a website71.1 %64.4 %
Have an MX record (receive mail)53.1 %53.7 %
Redirect to HTTPS43.2 %25.5 %
Have a valid TLS certificate41.1 %24.4 %
Redirect to another domain9.8 %11.0 %
Reachable over IPv611.5 %20.2 %
No IP address (no A or AAAA record)6.8 %7.6 %
DNS error (SERVFAIL)3.0 %5.3 %

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Download the .design zone file

The domain list export contains every .design domain webXtrend knows, 115,435 today, one name per line, together with all other TLDs. To keep only .design: zgrep '\.design$' domains.txt.gz > design.txt. New .design 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.