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The .wales top-level domain has 12,987 domains live in the DNS root zone as of 2026-09-12 · operated by Nominet UK on the Nominet backend · general availability began 2015-02-26.

.wales

New GenericIn GA
Registry
Nominet UK
Technical Operator
Nominet
Delegated
2014-08-07
General availability
2015-02-26
Domains live today
12,987
Registered domains (official)
13,540
as of 2026-05· +553 vs live

Domain growth · last 84 days

2026-06-11 → 2026-09-12

Hover any day for exact counts. Drag the timeline below the chart to scroll between dates.

Growth momentum

7-day vs 30-day average
7-day avg
+2/ day
30-day avg
+3/ day
Momentum
▼decelerating
-1/day vs 30-day

Daily net change (adds minus drops), smoothed into 7- and 30-day moving averages. When the 7-day line crosses above the 30-day, growth is accelerating; below, it's slowing. Zero line separates growth from contraction.

Apex label profile

Not yet computed for .wales. Profiles are built per TLD on the daily ingest runner.

Launch phases

Source: ICANN
  1. Sunrise· End Date Sunrise
    Sep 01, 2014 → Oct 31, 2014
    closed
  2. Trademark Claims
    Feb 26, 2015 → May 30, 2015
    closed
  3. Limited Registration· Welsh Business Priority
    Nov 03, 2014 → Dec 24, 2014
    closed
  4. Limited Registration· Landrush & Premium Names
    Dec 29, 2014 → Feb 25, 2015
    closed
  5. General Availability(estimated)
    Feb 26, 2015 → onwards
    live
#DateDomains liveCreatesExpiryDNSSEC
12026-09-1212,987+8−6308
22026-09-1112,985+13−6308
32026-09-1012,978+8−4308
42026-09-0912,974+7−2307
52026-09-0812,969+10−7306
62026-09-0712,966+3−6306
72026-09-0612,969+4−8307
82026-09-0512,973+8−1307
92026-09-0412,966+7−4306
102026-09-0312,963+12−5306
112026-09-0212,956+10−8306
122026-09-0112,954+4−8305
132026-08-3112,958+8−7304
142026-08-3012,957+9−2309
152026-08-2912,950+7−3308
162026-08-2812,946+13−6303
172026-08-2712,939+7−5303
182026-08-2612,937+10−11304
192026-08-2512,938+0—302
202026-08-2412,938+4−2302
212026-08-2312,936+7−2302
222026-08-2212,931+8−6302
232026-08-2112,929+4−7303
242026-08-2012,932+17−7314
252026-08-1912,922+10−8304
262026-08-1812,920+19−2314
272026-08-1712,903+4−5304
282026-08-1612,904+6−5303
292026-08-1512,903+5−9302
302026-08-1412,907+6−8303
312026-08-1312,909+12−4302
322026-08-1212,901+5−5301
332026-08-1112,901+3−4302
342026-08-1012,902+10−2302
352026-08-0912,894+10−2301
362026-08-0812,886+6−5301
372026-08-0712,885+7−8301
382026-08-0612,886+4−5303
392026-08-0512,887+10−4303
402026-08-0412,881+15−5302
412026-08-0312,871+11−5303
422026-08-0212,865+3−5299
432026-08-0112,867+13−9300
442026-07-3112,863+10−12300
452026-07-3012,865+5−8300
462026-07-2912,868+10−5301
472026-07-2812,863+32−39300
482026-07-2312,870+7−11298
492026-07-2212,874+3−5298
502026-07-2112,876+3−2299
512026-07-2012,875+4−5298
522026-07-1912,876+3−5298
532026-07-1812,878+9−4298
542026-07-1712,873+12−5296
552026-07-1612,866+9−5295
562026-07-1512,862+13−6295
572026-07-1412,855+0—295
582026-07-1312,855+8−8295
592026-07-1212,855+5−2294
602026-07-1112,852+9−8293