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
2024	10433	84242
2023	8281	73809
2022	6745	65528
2021	6662	58783
2020	6123	52121
2019	4950	45998
2018	3947	41048
2017	3774	37101
2016	3366	33327
2015	3248	29961
2014	3054	26713
2013	2918	23659
2012	2517	20741
2011	2218	18224
2010	2260	16006
2009	2082	13746
2008	1758	11664
2007	1503	9906
2006	1259	8403
2005	1263	7144
2004	975	5881
2003	892	4906
2002	881	4014
2001	848	3133
2000	892	2285

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

	registered	total
November	514	31943
October	582	31429
September	522	30847
August	448	30325
July	422	29877
June	429	29455
May	462	29026
April	487	28564
March	530	28077
February	503	27547
2025 January	516	27044
December	333	26528
November	427	26195
October	348	25768
September	351	25420
August	312	25069
July	282	24757
June	317	24475
May	314	24158
April	432	23844
March	357	23412
February	387	23055
2024 January	360	22668
December	288	22308

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

month	this year	last year	older
01	1362	930	6754
02	1225	885	6267
03	1333	828	6955
04	1223	942	6122
05	1106	733	6168
06	1134	750	5322
07	1181	704	4879
08	1252	700	5558
09	1298	830	6450
10	1415	880	6648
11	1326	1220	6933
12	0	1031	5759

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

age (years)	number
30-31	50
29-30	76
28-29	240
27-28	403
26-27	549
25-26	881
24-25	862
23-24	893
22-23	877
21-22	930
20-21	1278
19-20	1249
18-19	1496
17-18	1733
16-17	2068
15-16	2204
14-15	2226
13-14	2537
12-13	2889
11-12	3058
10-11	3221
9-10	3341
8-9	3722
7-8	3958
6-7	4892
5-6	5948
4-5	6677
3-4	6765
2-3	8061
1-2	10095
0-1	14884
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]
01. Dec	45	[29/16]	36	[22/14 ]	9	[7/2]
30. Nov	40	[23/17]	32	[18/14 ]	8	[5/3]
29. Nov	40	[20/20]	28	[16/12 ]	12	[4/8]
28. Nov	40	[20/20]	38	[24/14 ]	2	[-4/6]
27. Nov	45	[33/12]	34	[12/22 ]	11	[21/-10]
26. Nov	52	[26/26]	29	[16/13 ]	23	[10/13]
25. Nov	38	[23/15]	34	[22/12 ]	4	[1/3]
24. Nov	49	[27/22]	56	[42/14 ]	-7	[-15/8]
23. Nov	24	[7/17]	30	[21/9 ]	-6	[-14/8]
22. Nov	25	[11/14]	32	[15/17 ]	-7	[-4/-3]
21. Nov	39	[24/15]	38	[20/18 ]	1	[4/-3]
20. Nov	55	[36/19]	21	[15/6 ]	34	[21/13]
19. Nov	59	[34/25]	30	[14/16 ]	29	[20/9]
18. Nov	63	[35/28]	35	[23/12 ]	28	[12/16]
17. Nov	74	[40/34]	40	[22/18 ]	34	[18/16]
16. Nov	36	[17/19]	19	[9/10 ]	17	[8/9]
15. Nov	28	[13/15]	32	[11/21 ]	-4	[2/-6]
14. Nov	52	[33/19]	26	[11/15 ]	26	[22/4]
13. Nov	46	[28/18]	43	[26/17 ]	3	[2/1]
12. Nov	58	[28/30]	28	[17/11 ]	30	[11/19]
11. Nov	48	[27/21]	20	[13/7 ]	28	[14/14]
10. Nov	49	[24/25]	30	[22/8 ]	19	[2/17]
09. Nov	33	[19/14]	33	[18/15 ]	0	[1/-1]
08. Nov	21	[10/11]	22	[7/15 ]	-1	[3/-4]
07. Nov	28	[19/9]	54	[16/38 ]	-26	[3/-29]
06. Nov	40	[19/21]	27	[18/9 ]	13	[1/12]
05. Nov	48	[32/16]	38	[19/19 ]	10	[13/-3]
04. Nov	63	[50/13]	43	[28/15 ]	20	[22/-2]
03. Nov	67	[43/24]	42	[24/18 ]	25	[19/6]
02. Nov	36	[23/13]	29	[24/5 ]	7	[-1/8]
01. Nov	33	[20/13]	20	[13/7 ]	13	[7/6]
Total	1374	[793/581]	1019	[578/441]	355	[215/140]

When domain has been purged and is available for registration.

	deleted
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
December	999

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

	changed
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
December	1299

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
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
December	1088

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

	reactivated
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
December	376

Number of domains transferred from one registrant to another.

	transferred
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
December	283

Number of domains signed using DNSSEC.

	signed
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
December	2965

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

	parked	ISNIC DNS Hosting
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
2024 Janúar	19178	11614

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
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
December	5881	43	13	2	12

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	1259	3	6106	4	7005
5	8620	6	9728	7	9553	8	9827
9	9446	10	8367	11	6991	12	5323
13	3990	14	3244	15	2463	16	1873
17	1292	18	896	19	680	20	476
21	295	22	201	23	129	24	106
25	65	26	37	27	26	28	11
29	15	30	8	31	10	32	6
33	1	34	3	35	1	36	1
37	1	38	1	40	1

Postal code

postal code	number of domains
105 Reykjavík	5874
101 Reykjavík	5827
110 Reykjavík	4418
108 Reykjavík	4295
210 Garðabæ	3785
200 Kópavogi	3528
104 Reykjavík	3359
220 Hafnarfirði	2765
201 Kópavogi	2732
112 Reykjavík	2330
270 Mosfellsbæ	2186
221 Hafnarfirði	2024
600 Akureyri	1715
203 Kópavogi	1715
800 Selfossi	1457
107 Reykjavík	1351
113 Reykjavík	1320
109 Reykjavík	1304
230 Reykjanesbæ	1222
170 Seltjarnarnesi	958

Towns

town/county	number of domains
Reykjavík	32573
Kópavogi	7984
Hafnarfirði	4816
Garðabæ	4312
Akureyri	2634
Mosfellsbæ	2292
Reykjanesbæ	2249
Selfossi	2056
Seltjarnarnesi	959
Akranesi	765
Hveragerði	444
Borgarnesi	444
Egilsstöðum	440
Vestmannaeyjum	366
Grindavík	355
Ísafirði	343
Sauðárkróki	314
Húsavík	312
Hellu	301
Höfn í Hornafirði	269

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

Rank	Hosting Company	share (%)	|	Rank	Hosting Company	share (%)
1	1984.is	11.92	|	21	wordpress.com	0.44
2	cloudflare.com	11.80	|	22	awsdns.net	0.43
3	registrar-servers.com	5.66	|	23	vercel-dns.com	0.42
4	wixdns.net	1.93	|	24	midja.is	0.41
5	hyp.net	1.39	|	25	thekking.is	0.41
6	hysingar.is	1.33	|	26	googledomains.com	0.40
7	vist.is	1.29	|	27	awsdns.co.uk	0.40
8	netvistun.is	1.17	|	28	digitalocean.com	0.39
9	azure-dns.com	0.80	|	29	microsoftonline.com	0.38
10	hysing.is	0.80	|	30	eurodns.com	0.38
11	xnet.is	0.71	|	31	101domain.com	0.38
12	c.is	0.68	|	32	nsone.net	0.37
13	cscdns.net	0.60	|	33	x.is	0.35
14	siteground.net	0.59	|	34	t.is	0.34
15	markmonitor.com	0.53	|	35	dreamhost.com	0.32
16	dns-parking.com	0.52	|	36	vortex.is	0.31
17	stefna.is	0.51	|	37	okhysing.is	0.29
18	awsdns.org	0.50	|	38	snerpa.is	0.28
19	simnet.is	0.49	|	39	reykjavik.is	0.27
20	awsdns.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: