A word in new domain names
metaverse
1,267 new names contained “metaverse” on October 23, 2026 — 10.7× its usual rate (about 114 expected).
New names containing “metaverse”, per day
Last 30 days, counting every birth, concentrated nameserver sets included; yesterday is the solid bar. Hover a bar for its rate per 100,000 births.
Yesterday’s examples
- kabukimetaverse.xyz
- magnetmetaverse.xyz
- medianmetaverse.xyz
- memorymetaverse.xyz
- metaversecauses.xyz
- museummetaverse.xyz
Spread across 2 zones (.xyz 1,265, .com 2) and 3 distinct nameserver sets. The most common set, at afternic.com, carries 100% of them. 1,265 of its 1,267 births came from a single afternic.com nameserver set that carried 10% or more of all births — 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.