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How many registered domains are dead?
As of June 29, 2026 · census snapshot 2026-06-29
As of June 29, 2026, 1.6% of the 333 million registered domains in the Defaults.Exposed census are dead (5,455,696 domains), and a further 15.7% (52,469,564 domains) were unreachable at scan time.
Dead = registered but no longer resolving at all; unreachable = resolving DNS but no service responded during the census window.
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Statistic current as of June 29, 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 registered domains are dead?" (as of June 29, 2026). https://defaults.exposed/stats/how-many-registered-domains-are-dead
Permalink:https://defaults.exposed/stats/how-many-registered-domains-are-dead · Machine-readable:dead-domains.json · Licence:open data
Methodology: how we grade the internet · Source data: defaults.exposed/data. Updated with each census edition.