Newly Registered Domains Live: A 15 to 20 Minute Index for Brand Protection

Newly registered domain data is usually published on a daily cycle. A domain registered Monday morning generally appears in a list on Tuesday. For most work that is fine. For brand protection it is the gap worth closing, because every action you might take starts only once you know the domain exists.

Update, September 6, 2026: the live stream described here used to have its own page at /search/nrds-live. It has since merged into the new domain search, and the old address redirects there. Update, October 2026: signed-in members now see the live data by default, with no switch to set, and the coverage has grown to include ccTLDs.

The live stream refreshes its index every 15 to 20 minutes, and in most cases a registration becomes searchable the same day it happens. For a brand team that is the difference between opening a case during today's business hours and opening it during tomorrow's.

The stream trades breadth for timing. It does not hold more domains than the daily-list approach and it does not reach further back. It is narrower and earlier, and the sections below cover both halves of that.

Why daily lists of newly registered domains arrive late

Most newly registered domain data is distributed as a daily file. The underlying comparison runs on a fixed schedule, and the resulting list of new names goes out as a download once that cycle completes. The approach works and the coverage is thorough, but it carries a structural delay: a domain registered at 09:00 on Monday appears in a list published sometime Tuesday.

For most use cases that delay does not matter. Domain investors reviewing registration patterns do not need hourly resolution. Researchers studying naming trends do not either.

Brand protection is where it matters, and the reason is structural rather than dramatic. Noticing a lookalike registration is not the response, it is the trigger for one. What follows takes time of its own: confirming the domain is actually a concern, checking where it resolves, filing with the registrar or a takedown service, getting it into internal blocklists, telling the people who need to know. Every one of those steps has a queue and a business-day rhythm.

Detection time sits in front of all of it. Shortening it does not just save those hours, it moves the entire chain a day earlier. A domain surfaced at 10 AM can be assessed and filed the same afternoon. The same domain surfaced in tomorrow's list is assessed tomorrow, filed tomorrow, and in front of the registrar a day later.

That is the case for a live index, and it is specific to this use case. It does not make the data more complete, and it does not help if nobody is watching the results.

What the live index is

The live stream does not wait for a daily cycle. It refreshes every 15 to 20 minutes and holds a rolling 3-day window of recent registrations.

Worth being precise about that number: it is the refresh cadence of the index, not a promise about how quickly any individual registration shows up. Some names appear soon after they are registered. Others take longer.

The method favors timing over exhaustiveness. It covers the active portion of newly registered domains, and names that stay dormant may surface later or not at all. For coverage that does not depend on activity, the new domain search is the better tool.

Coverage: gTLDs and a growing list of ccTLDs

The live stream covers active generic top-level domains, and we are gradually adding country-code extensions. As of 25 October 2026, the new domain search covers 148 ccTLDs, including .ai, .io, .co, .me, .uk, .fr, .nl, .it, .in, .ca, .jp, .kr, .br, .mx, .ar, .za, .sg, .id and .my, with second-level registrations such as .com.br and .com.mx.

Which of them appear in your results depends on your plan:

• Member: .ai, .io, .si and .ad
• Lite: Member plus .co, .tv, .ly, .do and more, 44 ccTLDs in total
• Advanced and above: all 148, including .uk, .fr, .nl, .it, .br, .mx, .ca, .jp and .kr

For signed-in members, the gTLD and ccTLD buttons next to the TLD box narrow a search to one side or the other, so a brand team can check its name across generic extensions first and then across the country markets it covers.

The product principle stays the same: DomainKits tracks what happens to domains, not who owns them, and we do not collect or share registrant data.

Three ways to search

The new domain search offers three modes, selected by the toggle under the search box.

Keyword

Enter a brand, a product term, or any string, and the search returns newly registered domains containing it. This is the mode most brand protection work uses. Search your brand name and check the results each morning; anything unexpected is worth a look.

Keyword mode adds two filters the other modes do not have:

• TLD: restrict to .com, .net, .org, or type any extension into the find box.
• Position: where the keyword sits in the name. Start catches yourbrand-login.com, End catches secure-yourbrand.com, Middle catches the rest.

Browse by TLD

Enter an extension and see every recent registration under it. Useful for watching a specific namespace: a new gTLD you are tracking, or .ai during a period of heavy activity. Once inside a TLD you can still filter down with a keyword search.

Browse All

Open the full index with no keyword and no extension filter. This is the mode for pattern watching rather than targeted lookup. Sort by newest and scroll, or apply length and type filters to isolate a shape of name.

Filters

All three modes share a common filter set. The ones that matter most for brand work:

• Registered: narrows to how recently a name was registered.
• Type: Pure Alpha, Pure Number, No Number, No Hyphen. Hyphens and digits are common in bulk and throwaway registrations, so excluding them sharpens a list quickly.
• Length: under 5, 5 to 10, 11 to 15, over 15 characters.
• Exclude: a comma-separated list of substrings to drop. Filtering out test, demo, and tmp removes a lot of noise.
• Sort: Newest, Oldest, Shortest, Longest.

Each result row shows the domain, how long ago it was registered, the name components, creation date, registration period, and a cross-TLD count. The Check button opens inline actions: safety check, DNS details, cross-TLD lookup, and jumps into the new and active domain searches for the same keyword.

Live data and the daily index

Two things feed the new domain search. The daily update carries broad gTLD coverage across a rolling 60-day window. The live stream carries the past three days, refreshed every 15 to 20 minutes. Signed-in members see both in the same results; guests see the daily index.

	Live stream	Daily index
Refresh	Every 15 to 20 minutes	Daily
Window	Rolling 3 days	Rolling 60 days
Coverage	Active gTLDs, ccTLDs by plan	Broad gTLD coverage
Dormant names	May take longer to surface	Not dependent on activity
Best for	Early warning	Depth and history

For a signed-in member, one search covers both: the newest registrations arrive through the live stream, and the same results reach back across the 60-day index. The two used to be separate pages, which meant re-running the search on the other one to widen the window.

A practical brand protection routine

The setup takes about five minutes and costs a couple of minutes a day after that.

1. Search your brand name in keyword mode on the new domain search, signed in so the live data is included. Set Position to All so you catch prefixes and suffixes.
2. Add your common misspellings as separate searches. If your brand is acme, also run acrne, acmee, and akme.
3. Set Registered to Today and sort by Newest.
4. Exclude the substrings that generate noise for you.
5. On anything suspicious, hit Check and run a safety check and DNS lookup without leaving the page.

For systematic permutation coverage rather than manual guessing, the typosquat scanner generates and checks the full permutation set in one pass. And for anything you already own, Domain Monitor watches for registrar, nameserver, DNS, and status changes on an hourly cycle.

What the data is, and is not

Two limits worth being explicit about.

It is not exhaustive. Coverage is strongest for names that go live soon after registration and weakest for names registered and left dormant.

It is a snapshot, not a status check. Each entry records what was observed at observation time. A domain listed here may since have changed configuration, changed hands, or been dropped. For the current state of a specific name, run a WHOIS lookup.

Get started

Newly registered domains live, searchable now. No download, no list to process, no waiting until tomorrow.

• Open the new domain search, live data included when signed in
• Typosquat scanner
• Plans and filter access

Scope note: the live stream does not represent all newly registered domains. It covers the active portion of them, the names that go live soon after they are registered. Names that stay dormant may surface later, or not at all. For coverage that does not depend on activity, the same search also draws on the full 60-day daily index.