The first domain was established in ccTLD IS in 1986, but formal domain registration began in 1989, as Iceland became officially part of the Internet.

year	registered	total
2025	15009	98168
2024	9952	83159
2023	8126	73207
2022	6651	65081
2021	6559	58430
2020	6071	51871
2019	4905	45800
2018	3919	40895
2017	3751	36976
2016	3348	33225
2015	3237	29877
2014	3036	26640
2013	2910	23604
2012	2512	20694
2011	2212	18182
2010	2256	15970
2009	2081	13714
2008	1752	11633
2007	1497	9881
2006	1256	8384
2005	1259	7128
2004	972	5869
2003	888	4897
2002	879	4009
2001	847	3130

In March 1999 individuals were allowed to register domains. Below is the number of currently active domains which were registered by individuals.

	registered	total
December	493	32052
November	514	31559
October	579	31045
September	518	30466
August	448	29948
July	419	29500
June	427	29081
May	461	28654
April	486	28193
March	526	27707
February	503	27181
2025 January	475	26678
December	322	26203
November	337	25881
October	340	25544
September	351	25204
August	311	24853
July	283	24542
June	317	24259
May	314	23942
April	431	23628
March	357	23197
February	387	22840
2024 January	353	22453

Number of active domains, registered in each month of the year.

month	this year	last year	older
01	0	1339	7639
02	0	1225	7128
03	0	1332	7778
04	0	1221	7062
05	0	1105	6900
06	0	1133	6068
07	0	1180	5583
08	0	1248	6256
09	0	1289	7277
10	0	1414	7471
11	0	1319	7241
12	0	1204	6762

Distribution of current .is domains in regard to how many years they were registered.

age (years)	number
30-31	55
29-30	79
28-29	252
27-28	415
26-27	574
25-26	889
24-25	840
23-24	873
22-23	889
21-22	980
20-21	1268
19-20	1263
18-19	1485
17-18	1740
16-17	2095
15-16	2258
14-15	2213
13-14	2507
12-13	2910
11-12	3041
10-11	3223
9-10	3353
8-9	3754
7-8	3924
6-7	4906
5-6	6066
4-5	6552
3-4	6652
2-3	8131
1-2	9939
0-1	15007
Mean age	7.6

Blue is total new registrations, red is the number of domains deleted on that date.

	registered	[dom/for]	deleted	[dom/for]	net change	[dom/for]
04. Jan	45	[33/12]	35	[12/23 ]	10	[21/-11]
03. Jan	44	[23/21]	32	[8/24 ]	12	[15/-3]
02. Jan	66	[45/21]	43	[26/17 ]	23	[19/4]
01. Jan	36	[18/18]	36	[20/16 ]	0	[-2/2]
31. Dec	28	[10/18]	37	[15/22 ]	-9	[-5/-4]
30. Dec	39	[24/15]	49	[31/18 ]	-10	[-7/-3]
29. Dec	44	[27/17]	51	[29/22 ]	-7	[-2/-5]
28. Dec	28	[17/11]	25	[16/9 ]	3	[1/2]
27. Dec	24	[16/8]	43	[10/33 ]	-19	[6/-25]
26. Dec	45	[4/41]	56	[9/47 ]	-11	[-5/-6]
25. Dec	19	[4/15]	26	[13/13 ]	-7	[-9/2]
24. Dec	22	[6/16]	20	[13/7 ]	2	[-7/9]
23. Dec	36	[14/22]	36	[14/22 ]	0	[0/0]
22. Dec	30	[13/17]	81	[37/44 ]	-51	[-24/-27]
21. Dec	15	[11/4]	32	[14/18 ]	-17	[-3/-14]
20. Dec	32	[20/12]	45	[16/29 ]	-13	[4/-17]
19. Dec	48	[27/21]	29	[21/8 ]	19	[6/13]
18. Dec	32	[20/12]	47	[16/31 ]	-15	[4/-19]
17. Dec	56	[35/21]	26	[14/12 ]	30	[21/9]
16. Dec	45	[29/16]	35	[21/14 ]	10	[8/2]
15. Dec	39	[27/12]	45	[31/14 ]	-6	[-4/-2]
14. Dec	29	[17/12]	35	[23/12 ]	-6	[-6/0]
13. Dec	31	[15/16]	37	[14/23 ]	-6	[1/-7]
12. Dec	63	[39/24]	27	[17/10 ]	36	[22/14]
11. Dec	45	[25/20]	33	[22/11 ]	12	[3/9]
10. Dec	50	[27/23]	31	[18/13 ]	19	[9/10]
09. Dec	36	[23/13]	33	[19/14 ]	3	[4/-1]
08. Dec	55	[40/15]	61	[45/16 ]	-6	[-5/-1]
07. Dec	45	[37/8]	26	[13/13 ]	19	[24/-5]
06. Dec	29	[9/20]	31	[11/20 ]	-2	[-2/0]
05. Dec	47	[24/23]	18	[9/9 ]	29	[15/14]
Total	1203	[679/524]	1161	[577/584]	42	[102/-60]

When domain has been purged and is available for registration.

	deleted
December	1133
November	983
October	969
September	948
August	741
July	878
June	863
May	1072
April	950
March	930
February	880
2025 January	787
December	834
November	822
October	810
September	825
August	761
July	739
June	889
May	914
April	915
March	963
February	855
2024 January	915

Any change made to the domain registration, including delegation changes, but excluding transfers.

	changed
December	1504
November	1853
October	1872
September	1660
August	1675
July	1869
June	1509
May	1573
April	1714
March	1683
February	1665
2025 January	1746
December	1564
November	1978
October	1705
September	1704
August	1407
July	1242
June	1332
May	1535
April	1482
March	1499
February	1560
2024 January	1590

Number of domains put on hold. Domains are put on hold when renewal fee is unpaid past due date or if the domain is not hosted properly on its nameservers.

	on hold
December	1308
November	1476
October	1344
September	1305
August	1272
July	1020
June	1190
May	1258
April	1415
March	1460
February	1229
2025 January	1302
December	1011
November	1072
October	1133
September	1142
August	1158
July	1009
June	1008
May	1267
April	1168
March	1268
February	1261
2024 January	1238

Domains can be put on hold temporarily. This is the number of reactivated domains.

	reactivated
December	441
November	480
October	541
September	523
August	479
July	356
June	479
May	535
April	488
March	521
February	470
2025 January	515
December	356
November	372
October	437
September	478
August	394
July	364
June	419
May	475
April	462
March	491
February	476
2024 January	424

Number of domains transferred from one registrant to another.

	transferred
December	300
November	267
October	321
September	345
August	232
July	240
June	296
May	219
April	298
March	349
February	268
2025 January	368
December	278
November	262
October	376
September	285
August	205
July	203
June	197
May	242
April	314
March	476
February	316
2024 January	308

Number of domains signed using DNSSEC.

	signed
December	3517
November	3500
October	3479
September	3453
August	3438
July	3412
June	3395
May	3382
April	3360
March	3332
February	3312
2025 January	3302
December	3249
November	3244
October	3219
September	3196
August	3179
July	3167
June	3167
May	3125
April	3123
March	3101
February	3105
2024 January	2991

Number of domains per month using ISNIC's parking or ISNIC DNS Hosting.

	parked	ISNIC DNS Hosting
2026 Janúar	21053	13134
Desember	20968	13081
Nóvember	21089	13038
Október	21011	12975
September	20920	12965
Ágúst	20883	12980
Júlí	20835	12935
Júní	20767	12895
Maí	20658	12869
Apríl	20594	12821
Mars	20459	12767
Febrúar	20383	12674
2025 Janúar	20237	12551
Desember	20175	12506
Nóvember	20149	12406
Október	20064	12283
September	19987	12168
Ágúst	19955	12078
Júlí	19876	12015
Júní	19725	11943
Maí	19749	11897
Apríl	19549	11777
Mars	19380	11710
Febrúar	19252	11657

Number of domains renewed for two, three, four or five years in a given month.

	1 year	2 years	3 years	4 years	5 years
December	6309	52	15	9	12
November	6185	53	17	5	12
October	6739	50	16	5	21
September	7093	55	13	8	17
August	6668	52	15	1	20
July	5674	36	9	7	12
June	5537	40	9	9	15
May	6367	40	11	8	11
April	6613	44	8	10	18
March	7338	38	10	7	15
February	6712	48	15	6	18
2025 January	7680	62	14	5	20
December	6242	47	12	4	6
November	6295	26	13	2	15
October	7048	52	7	13	10
September	6817	52	3	9	20
August	6617	39	17	5	24
July	5669	36	11	3	8
June	5280	53	11	5	8
May	6176	41	13	6	15
April	6529	51	23	5	17
March	7125	60	7	7	17
February	6737	41	11	15	22
2024 January	7213	59	20	13	34

Number of characters in a domain. It can between 1 up to 63 characters.

length	number	length	number	length	number	length	number
1	46	2	1252	3	6122	4	7025
5	8599	6	9744	7	9529	8	9841
9	9469	10	8375	11	6989	12	5348
13	3989	14	3249	15	2463	16	1872
17	1290	18	893	19	682	20	479
21	297	22	203	23	129	24	105
25	64	26	38	27	26	28	11
29	15	30	8	31	10	32	4
33	1	34	3	36	1	37	1
38	1	40	1

Postal code

postal code	number of domains
105 Reykjavík	5909
101 Reykjavík	5794
110 Reykjavík	4414
108 Reykjavík	4274
210 Garðabæ	3799
200 Kópavogi	3540
104 Reykjavík	3340
220 Hafnarfirði	2783
201 Kópavogi	2778
112 Reykjavík	2314
270 Mosfellsbæ	2211
221 Hafnarfirði	2072
600 Akureyri	1720
203 Kópavogi	1692
800 Selfossi	1459
107 Reykjavík	1360
109 Reykjavík	1332
113 Reykjavík	1314
230 Reykjanesbæ	1228
170 Seltjarnarnesi	940

Towns

town/county	number of domains
Reykjavík	32550
Kópavogi	8019
Hafnarfirði	4881
Garðabæ	4326
Akureyri	2646
Mosfellsbæ	2317
Reykjanesbæ	2249
Selfossi	2065
Seltjarnarnesi	941
Akranesi	752
Hveragerði	447
Borgarnesi	443
Egilsstöðum	435
Vestmannaeyjum	365
Grindavík	350
Ísafirði	349
Húsavík	312
Sauðárkróki	307
Hellu	303
Höfn í Hornafirði	262

Percentage of .IS domains with primary nameserver in domain of the largest hosting companies.

Rank	Hosting Company	share (%)	|	Rank	Hosting Company	share (%)
1	cloudflare.com	11.97	|	21	awsdns.com	0.44
2	1984.is	11.91	|	22	awsdns.net	0.43
3	registrar-servers.com	5.54	|	23	vercel-dns.com	0.42
4	wixdns.net	1.92	|	24	thekking.is	0.42
5	hyp.net	1.38	|	25	awsdns.co.uk	0.40
6	hysingar.is	1.32	|	26	googledomains.com	0.40
7	vist.is	1.28	|	27	digitalocean.com	0.38
8	netvistun.is	1.17	|	28	nsone.net	0.38
9	azure-dns.com	0.80	|	29	microsoftonline.com	0.38
10	hysing.is	0.80	|	30	101domain.com	0.38
11	xnet.is	0.72	|	31	eurodns.com	0.37
12	c.is	0.67	|	32	midja.is	0.36
13	cscdns.net	0.60	|	33	x.is	0.34
14	siteground.net	0.59	|	34	t.is	0.34
15	markmonitor.com	0.53	|	35	okhysing.is	0.34
16	dns-parking.com	0.52	|	36	dreamhost.com	0.32
17	stefna.is	0.51	|	37	vortex.is	0.31
18	awsdns.org	0.50	|	38	snerpa.is	0.28
19	simnet.is	0.48	|	39	reykjavik.is	0.27
20	wordpress.com	0.44	|	40	netim.net	0.26

See past years.

Number of domains since 1990 and a updated forcast for the next few years.

The following is a attempt to predict the number of .is domains by the year 2030. The prediction was made in july 2010, based on the data available then: