The .wales top-level domain has 12,863 domains live in the DNS root zone as of 2026-07-28 · 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

12,863

Registered domains (official)

13,472

as of 2026-02· +609 vs live

Domain growth · last 38 days

2026-06-11 → 2026-07-28

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

-1/ day

30-day avg

+2/ day

Momentum

▼decelerating

-3/day vs 30-day

7-day avg 30-day avg

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

Sunrise· End Date Sunrise
Sep 01, 2014 → Oct 31, 2014
closed
Trademark Claims
Feb 26, 2015 → May 30, 2015
closed
Limited Registration· Welsh Business Priority
Nov 03, 2014 → Dec 24, 2014
closed
Limited Registration· Landrush & Premium Names
Dec 29, 2014 → Feb 25, 2015
closed
General Availability(estimated)
Feb 26, 2015 → onwards
live

#	Date	Domains live	Creates	Expiry	DNSSEC
1	2026-07-28	12,863	+32	−39	300
2	2026-07-23	12,870	+7	−11	298
3	2026-07-22	12,874	+3	−5	298
4	2026-07-21	12,876	+3	−2	299
5	2026-07-20	12,875	+4	−5	298
6	2026-07-19	12,876	+3	−5	298
7	2026-07-18	12,878	+9	−4	298
8	2026-07-17	12,873	+12	−5	296
9	2026-07-16	12,866	+9	−5	295
10	2026-07-15	12,862	+13	−6	295
11	2026-07-14	12,855	+0	—	295
12	2026-07-13	12,855	+8	−8	295
13	2026-07-12	12,855	+5	−2	294
14	2026-07-11	12,852	+9	−8	293
15	2026-07-09	12,851	+9	−4	294
16	2026-07-08	12,846	+21	−5	295
17	2026-07-07	12,830	+3	−4	296
18	2026-07-06	12,831	+4	−5	295
19	2026-07-05	12,832	+5	−6	295
20	2026-07-04	12,833	+6	−2	295
21	2026-07-03	12,829	+3	−11	295
22	2026-07-02	12,837	+3	−9	302
23	2026-07-01	12,843	+12	−2	302
24	2026-06-30	12,833	+11	−2	300
25	2026-06-29	12,824	+0	—	298
26	2026-06-28	12,825	+4	−7	298
27	2026-06-27	12,828	+8	−5	298
28	2026-06-26	12,825	+4	−1	298
29	2026-06-25	12,822	+9	−5	298
30	2026-06-24	12,818	+14	−4	298
31	2026-06-23	12,808	+18	−7	297
32	2026-06-22	12,797	+4	−7	292
33	2026-06-21	12,800	+8	−7	290
34	2026-06-20	12,799	+7	−4	290
35	2026-06-19	12,796	+4	−34	291
36	2026-06-18	12,796	+11,796	—	291
37	2026-06-12	12,791	+12,791	—	286
38	2026-06-11	12,773	+12,773	—	288