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Monthly analysis of website launch activity from 1,220,963 sites across 450 countries and 14 industries.
April 2026 saw 1,220,963 new website launches tracked in our database. This represents a -2.6% change compared to March.
E Commerce & Online Stores continues to lead launch activity, followed by Local Businesses.
Within top-level industries, Gambling leads with 108,145 sites.
| # | Subcategory (L2) | Launches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gambling | 108,145 |
| 2 | SaaS Products | 94,436 |
| 3 | Venues & Event Services | 81,832 |
| 4 | Financial & Business Services | 78,629 |
| 5 | Home & Trade Services | 66,019 |
| 6 | News & Blogs | 65,546 |
| 7 | Portfolios | 58,751 |
| 8 | Apparel & Accessories | 56,104 |
| 9 | Home & Garden | 53,676 |
| 10 | Publishing & Magazines | 50,531 |
| # | Subcategory (L2) | Launches |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Legal Services | 36,104 |
| 12 | Health & Beauty | 32,067 |
| 13 | Software | 31,432 |
| 14 | Charities & NGOs | 26,767 |
| 15 | Residential Real Estate | 25,974 |
| 16 | Creative & Digital Services | 20,987 |
| 17 | Politics & Elections | 17,576 |
| 18 | Media | 16,850 |
| 19 | Food & Drink | 16,839 |
| 20 | Video & Streaming | 16,421 |
At the most granular level, Online Casinos leads specific niches with 104,364 sites.
| # | Niche (L3) | Launches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Online Casinos | 104,364 |
| 2 | Niche SaaS Tools Contractors / Farms / Creators | 75,048 |
| 3 | Online Magazines | 50,501 |
| 4 | Clothing | 48,053 |
| 5 | Event Planners | 43,571 |
| 6 | News & Journalism | 39,376 |
| 7 | Decor | 38,426 |
| 8 | Accounting & Bookkeeping | 38,301 |
| 9 | General Contractor / Remodeling | 37,748 |
| 10 | Lawyers & Law Firms | 35,581 |
| # | Niche (L3) | Launches |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Wedding Venues | 29,827 |
| 12 | Digital Goods & Currency | 28,348 |
| 13 | Developers / Engineers | 26,130 |
| 14 | Designers & Artists | 23,658 |
| 15 | Personal Blogs | 21,019 |
| 16 | Web Design / Development | 18,083 |
| 17 | Campaigns & Candidates | 17,528 |
| 18 | Business Productivity CRM / HR / Accounting | 15,371 |
| 19 | Property Listings | 13,597 |
| 20 | Nonprofit Organizations | 13,547 |
Among the 878,955 sites (72.0%) with registrar data, NameCheap, Inc. leads with 167,857 domains.
| # | Registrar | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NameCheap, Inc. | 167,857 | 19.1% |
| 2 | GoDaddy.com, LLC | 114,727 | 13.1% |
| 3 | HOSTINGER operations, UAB | 112,319 | 12.8% |
| 4 | Dynadot Inc | 61,136 | 7.0% |
| 5 | Cloudflare, Inc. | 56,398 | 6.4% |
| 6 | Tucows Domains Inc. | 51,217 | 5.8% |
| 7 | Spaceship, Inc. | 48,788 | 5.6% |
| 8 | Name.com, Inc. | 46,713 | 5.3% |
| 9 | Squarespace Domains LLC | 32,275 | 3.7% |
| 10 | Wix.com Ltd. | 27,553 | 3.1% |
| 11 | Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu | 26,355 | 3.0% |
| 12 | IONOS SE | 23,535 | 2.7% |
| 13 | NameSilo, LLC | 19,987 | 2.3% |
| 14 | TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown | 16,245 | 1.8% |
| 15 | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com | 13,804 | 1.6% |
Namecheap continues to dominate as the preferred registrar for new website launches, followed closely by Hostinger and GoDaddy.
Notable trend: Cloudflare Registrar has grown significantly, reflecting the trend of developers choosing integrated DNS and domain management solutions.
Analysis of nameserver records reveals the infrastructure choices of website owners. Among 855,174 sites (70.0%) with DNS data, Other leads with 281,280 sites.
| # | Provider | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other | 281,280 | 32.9% |
| 2 | Cloudflare | 253,528 | 29.6% |
| 3 | GoDaddy | 94,156 | 11.0% |
| 4 | Google Domains | 63,761 | 7.5% |
| 5 | Namecheap | 56,377 | 6.6% |
| 6 | Wix | 29,116 | 3.4% |
| 7 | Vercel | 19,102 | 2.2% |
| 8 | IONOS | 14,540 | 1.7% |
| 9 | Name.com | 12,740 | 1.5% |
| 10 | AWS Route 53 | 7,630 | 0.9% |
| 11 | Porkbun | 4,406 | 0.5% |
| 12 | Bluehost | 3,569 | 0.4% |
| 13 | Squarespace | 3,333 | 0.4% |
| 14 | OVH | 3,090 | 0.4% |
| 15 | DreamHost | 1,829 | 0.2% |
Cloudflare dominates as the preferred DNS and CDN provider, offering free SSL, DDoS protection, and performance optimization that appeals to both small sites and enterprises.
AWS Route 53 shows strong adoption among more technical users and startups building on AWS infrastructure.
The "Other" category includes smaller providers, self-hosted DNS, and less common configurations.
Beyond DNS, we also fingerprint the actual hosting infrastructure each site is served from (the same data shown on each site's launch record page). Hosting was identified for 665,740 sites (54.5% of April launches). Hostinger leads with 117,891 sites (17.7% of identified hosts).
| # | Hosting Provider | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hostinger | 117,891 | 17.7% |
| 2 | Vercel | 116,131 | 17.4% |
| 3 | Shopify | 87,940 | 13.2% |
| 4 | Netlify | 42,332 | 6.4% |
| 5 | Namecheap | 38,992 | 5.9% |
| 6 | Wix | 38,186 | 5.7% |
| 7 | Squarespace | 31,835 | 4.8% |
| 8 | Lovable | 16,996 | 2.6% |
| 9 | GitHub Pages | 16,647 | 2.5% |
| 10 | GoDaddy | 15,773 | 2.4% |
| 11 | IONOS | 13,763 | 2.1% |
| 12 | Google App Engine | 10,414 | 1.6% |
| 13 | Render | 10,364 | 1.6% |
| 14 | WordPress.com | 7,855 | 1.2% |
| 15 | GoHighLevel | 7,477 | 1.1% |
The hosting field is a customer-facing brand fingerprint — not the underlying CDN or infrastructure provider. A site fronted by Cloudflare but actually hosted on Hostinger will be tagged with the latter.
Modern dev-oriented platforms (Vercel, Netlify, Render, Railway, GitHub Pages) collectively make up a sizable share, reflecting the growing population of indie developers and JAMstack/static deployments. Traditional shared hosts (Hostinger, GoDaddy, IONOS) and site builders (Shopify, Wix, Squarespace) still dominate raw volume.
Every site we discover gets an ongoing “launch record” — we keep checking whether it stays online after launch. Below is the snapshot across all sites in our database (not just April launches), grouped by how long each site has been live.
| Age since launch | Sites in cohort | Currently up | Down | Inactive | % Up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30+ days | 6,194,202 | 4,916,410 | 491,352 | 786,440 | 79.4% |
| 90+ days | 3,847,411 | 2,889,259 | 242,626 | 715,526 | 75.1% |
| 180+ days | 886,534 | 649,519 | 38,920 | 198,095 | 73.3% |
Roughly 4 out of 5 newly-launched sites are still online a month after launch. That number drifts down to about 3 in 4 by the 6-month mark — meaning a meaningful share of new domains never make it past their first quarter.
Methodology & caveats: This is a current-status snapshot, not a true longitudinal
cohort study. A site marked “down” today may have been online for the first 30 days and only
failed later, so the figures above are best read as a lower bound on true 30-day survival.
Sites are bucketed by their last automated HTTP/SSL check (up, down, or
inactive); the underlying check runs continuously across our 7M+ tracked domains.
Domain extension choices reveal entrepreneur preferences. The .com TLD dominates with 742,908 registrations, representing 60.8% of all launches.
| # | TLD | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | .com | 742,908 | 60.8% |
| 2 | .org | 50,512 | 4.1% |
| 3 | .shop | 50,448 | 4.1% |
| 4 | .net | 30,029 | 2.5% |
| 5 | .fr | 27,674 | 2.3% |
| 6 | .info | 27,285 | 2.2% |
| 7 | .in | 25,402 | 2.1% |
| 8 | .app | 22,604 | 1.9% |
| 9 | .xyz | 16,492 | 1.4% |
| 10 | .nl | 13,970 | 1.1% |
| 11 | .ca | 13,766 | 1.1% |
| 12 | .digital | 13,621 | 1.1% |
| 13 | .online | 12,639 | 1.0% |
| 14 | .ai | 12,504 | 1.0% |
| 15 | .pro | 11,767 | 1.0% |
While .com remains the dominant choice, country-code TLDs and newer gTLDs show increasing adoption. The second most popular TLD is .org with 50,512 sites.
Geographic data is available for 852,880 sites (69.9% of total). Among these, United States leads with 458,872 launches.
| # | Country | Launches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 458,872 |
| 2 | India | 56,032 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 31,566 |
| 4 | Canada | 27,665 |
| 5 | Brazil | 19,874 |
| 6 | France | 17,208 |
| 7 | Germany | 15,755 |
| 8 | Indonesia | 13,154 |
| 9 | Spain | 11,698 |
| 10 | Australia | 10,413 |
| 11 | Bangladesh | 9,315 |
| 12 | Turkey | 8,989 |
| 13 | Netherlands | 8,003 |
| # | Country | Launches |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | China | 7,855 |
| 15 | Italy | 7,301 |
| 16 | CZ | 6,936 |
| 17 | Pakistan | 5,588 |
| 18 | Poland | 5,291 |
| 19 | Mexico | 4,750 |
| 20 | UAE | 4,711 |
| 21 | Switzerland | 4,527 |
| 22 | Russia | 4,261 |
| 23 | Nigeria | 4,017 |
| 24 | Philippines | 3,912 |
| 25 | Malaysia | 3,653 |
Among the 379,156 sites (31.1%) where we detected the underlying platform, Wordpress leads with 163,885 sites.
| # | Platform/CMS | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wordpress | 163,885 | 43.2% |
| 2 | Shopify | 88,347 | 23.3% |
| 3 | Wordpress Woocommerce | 53,574 | 14.1% |
| 4 | Wix | 38,416 | 10.1% |
| 5 | Squarespace | 31,507 | 8.3% |
| 6 | Webflow | 3,190 | 0.8% |
| 7 | Bigcommerce | 235 | 0.1% |
| 8 | Godaddy Airo | 2 | 0.0% |
WordPress (including WooCommerce) maintains its dominance in the CMS market.
Shopify continues to show strong e-commerce platform adoption among new launches.
Note: 68.9% of sites use undetected platforms - likely custom builds, less common frameworks, or heavily customized installations.
When do entrepreneurs launch? Thursday leads with 226,842 launches.
This report analyzes 1,220,963 websites discovered and tracked between April 1 and April 30, 2026. Data is collected through automated discovery, domain registration monitoring, and continuous scanning.
Category Classification: Automated content analysis combined with domain naming patterns.
Geographic Data: Determined through domain registration information and IP geolocation. Available for 69.9% of sites.
Platform Detection: Automated scanning of HTTP headers, HTML meta tags, and JavaScript libraries.
Registrar Data: Retrieved via RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) lookups. Available for 72.0% of sites.