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	14887	97045
2024	9543	82158
2023	7974	72615
2022	6590	64641
2021	6491	58051
2020	6010	51560
2019	4865	45550
2018	3886	40685
2017	3727	36799
2016	3327	33072
2015	3213	29745
2014	3022	26532
2013	2888	23510
2012	2503	20622
2011	2209	18119
2010	2250	15910
2009	2073	13660
2008	1740	11587
2007	1491	9847
2006	1247	8356
2005	1249	7109
2004	970	5860
2003	884	4890
2002	878	4006
2001	845	3128

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

	registered	total
2026 January	666	32341
December	491	31675
November	513	31184
October	575	30671
September	518	30096
August	447	29578
July	415	29131
June	426	28716
May	461	28290
April	484	27829
March	523	27345
February	474	26822
2025 January	453	26348
December	261	25895
November	334	25634
October	341	25300
September	352	24959
August	311	24607
July	283	24296
June	317	24013
May	313	23696
April	430	23383
March	354	22953
February	381	22599

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

month	this year	last year	older
01	1699	1305	7598
02	0	1198	7077
03	0	1328	7762
04	0	1218	7053
05	0	1103	6898
06	0	1131	6066
07	0	1177	5580
08	0	1247	6251
09	0	1288	7270
10	0	1401	7469
11	0	1303	7208
12	0	1188	5932

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

age (years)	number
30-31	59
29-30	84
28-29	275
27-28	439
26-27	605
25-26	914
24-25	844
23-24	839
22-23	909
21-22	984
20-21	1249
19-20	1314
18-19	1473
17-18	1745
16-17	2106
15-16	2261
14-15	2244
13-14	2521
12-13	2868
11-12	3125
10-11	3222
9-10	3394
8-9	3706
7-8	3921
6-7	4891
5-6	6153
4-5	6624
3-4	6518
2-3	8232
1-2	9909
0-1	15279
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]
08. Feb	39	[19/20]	30	[20/10 ]	9	[-1/10]
07. Feb	56	[24/32]	46	[31/15 ]	10	[-7/17]
06. Feb	55	[34/21]	47	[37/10 ]	8	[-3/11]
05. Feb	62	[37/25]	54	[25/29 ]	8	[12/-4]
04. Feb	94	[60/34]	32	[21/11 ]	62	[39/23]
03. Feb	63	[30/33]	36	[19/17 ]	27	[11/16]
02. Feb	98	[46/52]	26	[23/3 ]	72	[23/49]
01. Feb	46	[22/24]	27	[10/17 ]	19	[12/7]
31. Jan	37	[15/22]	27	[13/14 ]	10	[2/8]
30. Jan	107	[32/75]	35	[19/16 ]	72	[13/59]
29. Jan	54	[27/27]	43	[15/28 ]	11	[12/-1]
28. Jan	55	[36/19]	16	[9/7 ]	39	[27/12]
27. Jan	47	[31/16]	23	[14/9 ]	24	[17/7]
26. Jan	47	[34/13]	26	[9/17 ]	21	[25/-4]
25. Jan	32	[18/14]	22	[7/15 ]	10	[11/-1]
24. Jan	20	[13/7]	28	[8/20 ]	-8	[5/-13]
23. Jan	66	[37/29]	19	[8/11 ]	47	[29/18]
22. Jan	47	[25/22]	35	[22/13 ]	12	[3/9]
21. Jan	64	[43/21]	33	[22/11 ]	31	[21/10]
20. Jan	63	[39/24]	27	[19/8 ]	36	[20/16]
19. Jan	52	[30/22]	22	[14/8 ]	30	[16/14]
18. Jan	28	[14/14]	50	[29/21 ]	-22	[-15/-7]
17. Jan	51	[35/16]	25	[14/11 ]	26	[21/5]
16. Jan	61	[39/22]	29	[12/17 ]	32	[27/5]
15. Jan	46	[34/12]	51	[21/30 ]	-5	[13/-18]
14. Jan	90	[45/45]	32	[24/8 ]	58	[21/37]
13. Jan	72	[50/22]	33	[20/13 ]	39	[30/9]
12. Jan	50	[28/22]	80	[34/46 ]	-30	[-6/-24]
11. Jan	103	[17/86]	26	[11/15 ]	77	[6/71]
10. Jan	36	[19/17]	66	[24/42 ]	-30	[-5/-25]
09. Jan	56	[41/15]	32	[19/13 ]	24	[22/2]
Total	1797	[974/823]	1078	[573/505]	719	[401/318]

When domain has been purged and is available for registration.

	deleted
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
February	855

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

	changed
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
February	1560

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
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
February	1261

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

	reactivated
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
February	476

Number of domains transferred from one registrant to another.

	transferred
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
February	316

Number of domains signed using DNSSEC.

	signed
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
February	3105

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

	parked	ISNIC DNS Hosting
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
Mars	19380	11710

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
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
February	6737	41	11	15	22

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	1243	3	6154	4	7094
5	8661	6	9786	7	9597	8	9889
9	9508	10	8402	11	7025	12	5370
13	4055	14	3284	15	2467	16	1887
17	1296	18	893	19	689	20	479
21	299	22	206	23	132	24	104
25	63	26	36	27	26	28	12
29	16	30	8	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	5917
101 Reykjavík	5854
110 Reykjavík	4461
108 Reykjavík	4241
210 Garðabæ	3886
200 Kópavogi	3568
104 Reykjavík	3330
220 Hafnarfirði	2826
201 Kópavogi	2779
112 Reykjavík	2340
270 Mosfellsbæ	2250
221 Hafnarfirði	2097
600 Akureyri	1724
203 Kópavogi	1707
800 Selfossi	1484
107 Reykjavík	1365
109 Reykjavík	1322
113 Reykjavík	1315
230 Reykjanesbæ	1219
170 Seltjarnarnesi	956

Towns

town/county	number of domains
Reykjavík	32693
Kópavogi	8063
Hafnarfirði	4949
Garðabæ	4413
Akureyri	2642
Mosfellsbæ	2355
Reykjanesbæ	2266
Selfossi	2089
Seltjarnarnesi	957
Akranesi	756
Hveragerði	453
Borgarnesi	442
Egilsstöðum	441
Vestmannaeyjum	365
Ísafirði	356
Grindavík	354
Húsavík	312
Hellu	306
Sauðárkróki	304
Höfn í Hornafirði	267

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	12.15	|	21	awsdns.net	0.44
2	1984.is	11.84	|	22	awsdns.com	0.44
3	registrar-servers.com	5.54	|	23	wordpress.com	0.44
4	wixdns.net	1.93	|	24	vercel-dns.com	0.42
5	hyp.net	1.38	|	25	okhysing.is	0.40
6	hysingar.is	1.31	|	26	awsdns.co.uk	0.40
7	vist.is	1.28	|	27	googledomains.com	0.39
8	netvistun.is	1.16	|	28	digitalocean.com	0.38
9	azure-dns.com	0.80	|	29	nsone.net	0.38
10	hysing.is	0.79	|	30	microsoftonline.com	0.37
11	xnet.is	0.71	|	31	101domain.com	0.37
12	c.is	0.65	|	32	eurodns.com	0.37
13	siteground.net	0.60	|	33	t.is	0.34
14	cscdns.net	0.59	|	34	x.is	0.34
15	dns-parking.com	0.54	|	35	dreamhost.com	0.32
16	markmonitor.com	0.53	|	36	vortex.is	0.30
17	stefna.is	0.51	|	37	midja.is	0.28
18	awsdns.org	0.50	|	38	snerpa.is	0.28
19	simnet.is	0.48	|	39	netim.net	0.27
20	thekking.is	0.44	|	40	reykjavik.is	0.27

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: