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← Name trends

A word in new domain names

alternative

104 new names contained “alternative” on October 26, 2026 — 7.9× its usual rate (about 9 expected).

New names containing “alternative”, per day

Last 30 days, counting births outside concentrated nameserver sets; yesterday is the solid bar. Hover a bar for its rate per 100,000 births.

0100200Sep 27Oct 12Oct 26

Yesterday’s examples

Spread across 2 zones (.com 103, .estate 1) and 89 distinct nameserver sets. The most common set, at cloudflare.com, carries 2% of them. 95% of them also contain “end” — one naming pattern — likely bulk registration rather than many people, though shared infrastructure does not prove one owner.

At most 6 examples, printed as text and never linked. A name appearing here says nothing about its owner or its content.