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	14507	96009
2024	9395	81502
2023	7868	72107
2022	6479	64239
2021	6420	57760
2020	5958	51340
2019	4836	45382
2018	3870	40546
2017	3710	36676
2016	3303	32966
2015	3199	29663
2014	3016	26464
2013	2880	23448
2012	2488	20568
2011	2205	18080
2010	2243	15875
2009	2072	13632
2008	1735	11560
2007	1485	9825
2006	1244	8340
2005	1248	7096
2004	969	5848
2003	882	4879
2002	875	3997
2001	843	3122

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

	registered	total
February	637	32557
2026 January	663	31920
December	489	31257
November	513	30768
October	571	30255
September	516	29684
August	445	29168
July	415	28723
June	424	28308
May	461	27884
April	480	27423
March	504	26943
February	457	26439
2025 January	377	25982
December	260	25605
November	333	25345
October	339	25012
September	350	24673
August	310	24323
July	282	24013
June	317	23731
May	313	23414
April	428	23101
March	348	22673

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

month	this year	last year	older
01	1696	969	7066
02	1656	1191	7045
03	0	1310	7718
04	0	1214	7048
05	0	1102	6892
06	0	1131	6064
07	0	1177	5578
08	0	1247	6249
09	0	1287	7269
10	0	1400	7464
11	0	1301	7206
12	0	1178	5909

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

age (years)	number
30-31	61
29-30	96
28-29	293
27-28	445
26-27	628
25-26	939
24-25	821
23-24	855
22-23	895
21-22	1007
20-21	1262
19-20	1311
18-19	1492
17-18	1802
16-17	2057
15-16	2284
14-15	2273
13-14	2526
12-13	2897
11-12	3109
10-11	3235
9-10	3405
8-9	3692
7-8	3911
6-7	4908
5-6	6217
4-5	6497
3-4	6474
2-3	8343
1-2	9889
0-1	15698
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]
10. Mar	59	[34/25]	35	[22/13 ]	24	[12/12]
09. Mar	63	[39/24]	46	[27/19 ]	17	[12/5]
08. Mar	54	[30/24]	31	[11/20 ]	23	[19/4]
07. Mar	53	[21/32]	43	[26/17 ]	10	[-5/15]
06. Mar	98	[47/51]	33	[23/10 ]	65	[24/41]
05. Mar	66	[39/27]	33	[15/18 ]	33	[24/9]
04. Mar	70	[49/21]	44	[28/16 ]	26	[21/5]
03. Mar	60	[39/21]	36	[26/10 ]	24	[13/11]
02. Mar	90	[47/43]	44	[24/20 ]	46	[23/23]
01. Mar	46	[25/21]	43	[30/13 ]	3	[-5/8]
28. Feb	41	[25/16]	25	[14/11 ]	16	[11/5]
27. Feb	53	[30/23]	28	[13/15 ]	25	[17/8]
26. Feb	61	[39/22]	43	[29/14 ]	18	[10/8]
25. Feb	80	[34/46]	37	[25/12 ]	43	[9/34]
24. Feb	78	[43/35]	37	[24/13 ]	41	[19/22]
23. Feb	46	[21/25]	41	[23/18 ]	5	[-2/7]
22. Feb	21	[12/9]	43	[28/15 ]	-22	[-16/-6]
21. Feb	55	[23/32]	24	[14/10 ]	31	[9/22]
20. Feb	75	[44/31]	31	[17/14 ]	44	[27/17]
19. Feb	80	[50/30]	35	[13/22 ]	45	[37/8]
18. Feb	56	[32/24]	36	[20/16 ]	20	[12/8]
17. Feb	57	[31/26]	25	[12/13 ]	32	[19/13]
16. Feb	48	[36/12]	32	[23/9 ]	16	[13/3]
15. Feb	59	[27/32]	38	[13/25 ]	21	[14/7]
14. Feb	30	[19/11]	36	[19/17 ]	-6	[0/-6]
13. Feb	72	[44/28]	51	[26/25 ]	21	[18/3]
12. Feb	50	[34/16]	43	[16/27 ]	7	[18/-11]
11. Feb	51	[30/21]	35	[24/11 ]	16	[6/10]
10. Feb	71	[44/27]	42	[25/17 ]	29	[19/10]
09. Feb	65	[43/22]	65	[26/39 ]	0	[17/-17]
08. Feb	39	[19/20]	30	[20/10 ]	9	[-1/10]
Total	1847	[1050/797]	1165	[656/509]	682	[394/288]

When domain has been purged and is available for registration.

	deleted
February	1045
2026 January	1129
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

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

	changed
February	2258
2026 January	2256
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

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
February	1577
2026 January	1675
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

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

	reactivated
February	659
2026 January	580
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

Number of domains transferred from one registrant to another.

	transferred
February	293
2026 January	279
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

Number of domains signed using DNSSEC.

	signed
February	3529
2026 January	3532
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

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

	parked	ISNIC DNS Hosting
Mars	21222	13225
Febrúar	21112	13143
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

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
February	7052	43	9	11	9
2026 January	7961	59	13	11	11
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

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	1249	3	6198	4	7157
5	8706	6	9901	7	9666	8	9946
9	9531	10	8456	11	7055	12	5394
13	4078	14	3300	15	2473	16	1896
17	1300	18	900	19	695	20	484
21	302	22	210	23	133	24	105
25	62	26	36	27	28	28	12
29	16	30	9	31	11	32	4
33	1	34	3	36	1	37	1
38	1	40	1

Postal code

postal code	number of domains
105 Reykjavík	5957
101 Reykjavík	5896
110 Reykjavík	4401
108 Reykjavík	4320
210 Garðabæ	3912
200 Kópavogi	3591
104 Reykjavík	3356
220 Hafnarfirði	2860
201 Kópavogi	2796
112 Reykjavík	2360
270 Mosfellsbæ	2239
221 Hafnarfirði	2129
600 Akureyri	1733
203 Kópavogi	1700
800 Selfossi	1495
107 Reykjavík	1351
109 Reykjavík	1326
113 Reykjavík	1308
230 Reykjanesbæ	1214
170 Seltjarnarnesi	967

Towns

town/county	number of domains
Reykjavík	32835
Kópavogi	8096
Hafnarfirði	5015
Garðabæ	4440
Akureyri	2670
Mosfellsbæ	2346
Reykjanesbæ	2272
Selfossi	2106
Seltjarnarnesi	968
Akranesi	756
Hveragerði	445
Egilsstöðum	445
Borgarnesi	439
Vestmannaeyjum	374
Ísafirði	359
Grindavík	352
Húsavík	313
Sauðárkróki	310
Hellu	306
Hvolsvelli	272

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	12.39	|	21	awsdns.net	0.44
2	1984.is	11.74	|	22	thekking.is	0.44
3	registrar-servers.com	5.61	|	23	awsdns.com	0.44
4	wixdns.net	1.91	|	24	wordpress.com	0.43
5	hyp.net	1.37	|	25	okhysing.is	0.40
6	hysingar.is	1.29	|	26	googledomains.com	0.40
7	vist.is	1.26	|	27	awsdns.co.uk	0.39
8	netvistun.is	1.18	|	28	nsone.net	0.39
9	azure-dns.com	0.79	|	29	microsoftonline.com	0.37
10	hysing.is	0.78	|	30	digitalocean.com	0.37
11	xnet.is	0.70	|	31	101domain.com	0.36
12	c.is	0.64	|	32	eurodns.com	0.36
13	cscdns.net	0.59	|	33	t.is	0.34
14	siteground.net	0.57	|	34	x.is	0.32
15	dns-parking.com	0.54	|	35	dreamhost.com	0.31
16	markmonitor.com	0.52	|	36	vortex.is	0.30
17	stefna.is	0.52	|	37	midja.is	0.28
18	awsdns.org	0.50	|	38	snerpa.is	0.28
19	simnet.is	0.47	|	39	netim.net	0.27
20	vercel-dns.com	0.45	|	40	reykjavik.is	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: