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How many domains sit on parking nameservers?
As of July 28, 2026 · census snapshot 2026-07-28
As of July 28, 2026, 21,730,187 domains — 7.82% of the 277.7 million domains with nameservers in the Defaults.Exposed census — sit on dedicated parking nameservers (Afternic and Sedo), registered but pointed at a for-sale page rather than a real service.
Counts only the two dominant dedicated parking NS constellations; domains parked at general-purpose registrar nameservers are not included, so this is a floor.
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Statistic current as of July 28, 2026. Recomputed from the live census each edition; the number on this page and the machine-readable twin always match. Please cite Defaults.Exposed and link this page.
Defaults.Exposed, "How many domains sit on parking nameservers?" (as of July 28, 2026). https://defaults.exposed/stats/how-many-domains-sit-on-parking-nameservers
Permalink:https://defaults.exposed/stats/how-many-domains-sit-on-parking-nameservers · Machine-readable:parked-domains.json · Licence:open data
Methodology: how we grade the internet · Source data: defaults.exposed/data. Updated with each census edition.