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Study · 71 extensions · October 19, 2026

How many common words are taken in each domain extension

We asked 71 registries about the same 1,000 most common English words. 999 are taken in .com. Half the extensions have 781 or more taken, and in the most open, .mu, 143. Two-word names are a different story: outside .com, almost all of them are still free.

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Archived on Zenodo: doi:10.5281/zenodo.23462029

What we found

  • Common words are nearly gone in the big extensions. 7 of the 71 extensions have at least 990 of the 1,000 words taken: .com, .de, .net, .org, .ai, .it and .si. In .com the one word without nameservers could not be registered either, and our earlier study confirmed all 1,000 as registered.
  • The most open extensions are mostly the newer ones. Fewest words taken: .mu, .blog, .store, .website and .site (143, 175, 183, 187, 202 of 1,000).
  • Free is not the same as cheap. In the 11 extensions with fewer than 400 words taken, we checked 220 of the free words at Name.com: 135 were sold only as premium names and 62 at the standard price. In .store, .online, .shop and .fun, none of the 20 was available at the standard price.
  • Where free words still sell at the standard price: .at, .sc, .gs, .re, .am, .li, .es and .mn, where at least 18 of the 20 free words we checked could be registered at the extension’s normal price.
  • Two words reopen almost everything. 387 of the 1,000 random two-word names are taken in .com, 123 in .xyz, the next highest, and 5 in the median extension.
  • A quarter of the taken words are parked for sale. 26% of the taken common words, across all 71 extensions, point only at a domain marketplace’s nameservers. The share is highest in .la, .life, .group and .world (63%, 54%, 53%, 52%).

All 71 extensions

Counts are out of 1,000 in every extension, most open first. Each extension links to its guide, with prices and what the extension is for.

Common words and two-word names registered in 71 domain extensions, October 19, 2026
ExtensionCommon words takenOf those, for saleTwo-word names takenFree words at standard price
.mu1430113 of 20
.blog1751907 of 20
.store18321220 of 20
.website1871931 of 20
.site20231142 of 20
.sc20739019 of 20
.online26465180 of 20
.shop27555240 of 20
.gs28796019 of 20
.space3073691 of 20
.fun3603450 of 20
.link4057710 of 20
.tech4279570 of 20
.my4382111 of 20
.mn47820018 of 20
.re497151019 of 20
.fm51928010 of 20
.name52513010 of 20
.cloud52616780 of 20
.news5379308 of 20
.club60612040 of 20
.design6127847 of 20
.am631106119 of 20
.li680112019 of 20
.solutions689204114 of 20
.la691433011 of 20
.works71115918 of 20
.team720303012 of 20
.email736142013 of 20
.company743286116 of 20
.live74422643 of 20
.dev7563270 of 20
.tv76430164 of 20
.studio77610557 of 20
.agency781278110 of 20
.biz781246100 of 20
.network783306111 of 20
.so7852150Not checked
.media788300112 of 20
.sh794202115 of 20
.to80222801 of 20
.today803358212 of 20
.group819430213 of 20
.gg821362016 of 20
.digital83526617 of 20
.pro84823577 of 20
.fr870191189 of 20
.me87621280 of 20
.es8882421019 of 20
.world89646445 of 20
.life91149556 of 20
.at917162820 of 20
.app917193191 of 20
.xyz9193701230 of 20
.info928368309 of 20
.ca931193310 of 20
.be9442251114 of 20
.us947372241 of 20
.co952263290 of 20
.uk960171172 of 20
.eu96512434Not checked
.cc971291615 of 20
.io977271152 of 20
.nl989164267 of 11
.si99036860 of 10
.it99286211 of 8
.ai995144130 of 5
.org996139690 of 4
.net997159780 of 3
.de99860550 of 2
.com999873870 of 1

“For sale” counts taken words whose every nameserver belongs to a domain marketplace (Afternic, Sedo, Atom, Dan and others). The last column is a live Name.com check of up to 20 common words without nameservers per extension; the rest were premium-priced or could not be registered there. Not checked: Name.com confirmed no name in that extension, not even a made-up one (.so and .eu). Premium prices for the free words are on each extension’s guide.

How it was measured

The names are the samples of our taken-domain study: the 1,000 most frequent English words of three to ten letters, and 1,000 random pairs of a common adjective and a common noun. On October 19, 2026 each name was looked up in each extension with one non-recursive query to that extension’s own authoritative nameservers: a name the registry delegates is taken. A random 16-letter control name per extension made sure no registry answers for names that do not exist; .ws does, so it has no figures here.

Limits

A registered name without nameservers counts as free, so the true counts can be a little higher: in .io, 18 of the 20 free-looking words we checked could not be registered. This is a snapshot of one day, and registrations change daily. For any single name, the registry’s own record is the final word.

Reuse and credit

The data is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: share and adapt it for any purpose, with credit and a link to this page. Suggested citation:

Findadomain.name (2026). Common words and two-word names registered in 71 domain extensions (October 2026) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23462029

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