webXtrend knows 2 .hughes domains as of 7 October 2026. That puts it at rank 1,213 of the 1,441 top-level domains in our data. It is a generic TLD, operated by Hughes Satellite Systems Corporation and in the root zone since 2016. The count is almost unchanged against twelve months ago. 0.0 % of them serve a website, against 64.7 % across all TLDs.

Top-level domain.hughes
TypeGeneric top-level domain (gTLD)
Registry operatorHughes Satellite Systems Corporation
In the root zoneYes, delegated on 4 August 2016
DNSSECSigned
Registry websitewww.hughes.com
Domains known to webXtrend2 (7 October 2026)
New domains, last 30 days0
Change over 12 months+0.0 %

How many .hughes domains does webXtrend know?

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

.hughes domains known to webXtrend at the start of each month1220232024202520262
Lowest 1 (1 January 2023), highest 2 (1 October 2025).
DateKnown to webXtrendChange
1 January 20231
1 January 20241+0.0 %
1 January 20251+0.0 %
1 January 20262+100.0 %
7 October 20262+0.0 %

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 .hughes domains per month

MonthNew domainsKnown at month start
October 2026 (so far)02
September 202602
August 202602
July 202602
June 202602
May 202602
April 202602
March 202602
February 202602
January 202602
December 202502
November 202502

Daily figures, last two weeks

DateKnown to webXtrendNew domains
7 October 202620
6 October 202620
5 October 202620
4 October 202620
3 October 202620
2 October 202620
1 October 202620
30 September 202620
29 September 202620
28 September 202620
27 September 202620
26 September 202620
25 September 202620
24 September 202620

How .hughes domains are used

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

Property.hughesAll TLDs
Serve a website0.0 %64.7 %
Have an MX record (receive mail)0.0 %53.7 %
Redirect to HTTPS0.0 %25.7 %
Have a valid TLS certificate0.0 %24.4 %
Redirect to another domain0.0 %11.1 %
Reachable over IPv60.0 %20.2 %
No IP address (no A or AAAA record)50.0 %7.6 %
DNS error (SERVFAIL)0.0 %5.2 %

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Download the .hughes zone file

The domain list export contains every .hughes domain webXtrend knows, 2 today, one name per line, together with all other TLDs. To keep only .hughes: zgrep '\.hughes$' domains.txt.gz > hughes.txt. New .hughes 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.