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Current Statistics (Updated monthly)

Application Statistics: Overview (as of 31 January 2026)
Total Applications Submitted1930
Completed New gTLD Program
(gTLD Delegated** - introduced into Internet)		1241
Applications Withdrawn653
Applications that Will Not Proceed/Not Approved32
Currently Proceeding through New gTLD Program*4
Contention Resolution 
Total Contention Sets234
Resolved Contention Sets233
Contention Sets Resolved via ICANN Auction16
Unresolved Contention Sets1
Applications Pending Contention Resolution0
Contracting 
Executed Registry Agreements (completed contracting)1257
Registry Agreements with Specification 13494
Registry Agreements with Code of Conduct Exemption80
In Contracting2
Pre-Delegation Testing (PDT) 
Passed PDT1253
**Breakdown: Delegation Statistics
Delegated gTLDs (Introduced into Internet)1241

Select Subcategories of Delegated gTLDs

(NOTE: gTLDs may fall into more than one subcategory)

Community56
Geographic53
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)97
gTLD Startup Statistics (as of 1 February 2026)
Sunrise
Completed644
In Progress2
Not Started1
Claims
Completed823
In Progress177
Not Started3

Please note: Registry Agreement and Delegated gTLD totals are not adjusted for TLDs that subsequently terminated their Registry Agreements and/or were removed from the root zone. In addition, Specification 13 and Code of Conduct Exemption totals are not adjusted if subsequently removed.

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New gTLD Application Submission Statistics

The statistics in this section were calculated based on applications received by the 29 March 2012 deadline.

Application Breakdown by: Region | Type | String Similarity

Application Breakdown by Region

Statistics as of 13 June 2012

Diagram of New gTLD Application Submission Statistics Breakdown by Region

Application Breakdown by Type

Statistics as of 13 June 2012

Application Totals

  • Community: 84
  • Geographic: 66
  • Internationalized Domain Names: 116
    • Total Scripts Represented: 12
  • Other: 1846

Program Statistics Diagram

Application Breakdown by String Similarity

Statistics as of 26 February 2013

Approximate Number of Unique Applied-for Strings: 1,400

  • Contention Sets
    • Exact Match: 230
      (two or more applications for a string with same characters)
    • Confusingly Similar: 2
      • .hotels & .hoteis
      • .unicorn & .unicom
  • Applications in a Contention Set: 751