.watch zone file and domain statistics

webXtrend knows 14,627 .watch domains as of 6 October 2026. That puts it at rank 362 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 shrank by 25.2 % (−4,922 domains). 675 new .watch domains appeared in the last 30 days. 63.1 % of them serve a website, against 64.8 % across all TLDs.

Top-level domain.watch
TypeGeneric top-level domain (gTLD)
Registry operatorBinky Moon, LLC
In the root zoneYes, delegated on 16 January 2014
DNSSECSigned
Registry websitewww.identity.digital
Domains known to webXtrend14,627 (6 October 2026)
New domains, last 30 days675
Change over 12 months−25.2 %

How many .watch domains does webXtrend know?

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

.watch domains known to webXtrend at the start of each month5K10K15K20K25K202320242025202614,627
Lowest 9,266 (1 January 2025), highest 20,969 (1 July 2026).
DateKnown to webXtrendChange
1 January 20239,368
1 January 20249,741+4.0 %
1 January 20259,266−4.9 %
1 January 202619,968+115.5 %
6 October 202614,627−26.7 %

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 .watch domains per month

MonthNew domainsKnown at month start
October 2026 (so far)14214,539
September 202664914,045
August 202670419,080
July 202654920,969
June 202652520,746
May 202666320,676
April 202653620,670
March 202646320,444
February 202631120,253
January 202640519,968
December 202527519,883
November 202529319,714

Daily figures, last two weeks

DateKnown to webXtrendNew domains
6 October 202614,62720
5 October 202614,61518
4 October 202614,57545
3 October 202614,56723
2 October 202614,55716
1 October 202614,53920
30 September 202614,53813
29 September 202614,52819
28 September 202614,52318
27 September 202614,52913
26 September 202614,52315
25 September 202614,49733
24 September 202614,46323
23 September 202614,46820

How .watch domains are used

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

Property.watchAll TLDs
Serve a website63.1 %64.8 %
Have an MX record (receive mail)39.9 %53.7 %
Redirect to HTTPS30.0 %25.9 %
Have a valid TLS certificate25.7 %24.4 %
Redirect to another domain12.6 %11.1 %
Reachable over IPv625.5 %20.2 %
No IP address (no A or AAAA record)9.8 %7.6 %
DNS error (SERVFAIL)4.5 %5.2 %

Top-level domains of similar size

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Download the .watch zone file

The domain list export contains every .watch domain webXtrend knows, 14,627 today, one name per line, together with all other TLDs. To keep only .watch: zgrep '\.watch$' domains.txt.gz > watch.txt. New .watch 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.