Data

The drop lists as CSV files, and an RSS feed

The lists on this site are yours to take away: every name the registry has marked pending delete, as CSV files for a spreadsheet or a script, and an RSS feed with one item per release day. No account, no key, no limit for normal use. If you publish something built on them, a link to PendingDelete.net is appreciated.

The files

Address	What it holds
/drop-list.csv	Every name with a release ahead, nearest first — the whole drop list. Add `?tld=com` for one extension; `?syllables=words` for the names made of real words, or `?syllables=2` for one count (see One, Two, and Three Syllable Names).
/dropping-today.csv	One day's names — today's unless you add `?d=2026-10-09` (any day within two months either way). `?tld=com` narrows it to one extension, `?syllables=` works here too; all of them together work. The same names as Dropping today, all of them, not only the first 3,000.
/feed.xml	RSS. One item per upcoming release day — today and the week after — with the number of names, the biggest extensions, and links to the day's page and its CSV file. Subscribe in any feed reader.

The columns

Column	Meaning
domain	The name, lower case, as the registry has it (an internationalised name as `xn--…`).
tld	The extension, without the dot.
length	Characters before the dot.
drop_utc	The release time in UTC, `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS`.
drop_local	The same moment in EDT (America/New_York), the time the pages show.
confidence	`high`: the final pending-delete window, the time being the registry's usual release moment for the extension. `low`: the registry timestamp the date rests on looks stale; treat the time as approximate. (`medium` belongs to names still in redemption, which these files don't list.)
registrar	The registrar of record at the last check, as the registry names it. Empty when the registry doesn't say.
checked_utc	When the name was last confirmed with the registry, UTC.
syllables	For a name made of real English words, how many syllables it has (from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary); empty otherwise.
words	The words a multi-word name splits into, space-separated (`blue cat`); empty for a single word or a name that isn't words.
linking_domains	How many other domains link to the name, from Common Crawl's web graph. `0`: Common Crawl knows the name and found nobody linking to it. Empty: it has never met the name.
rank	The name's position among all the domains in that graph (133,241,980 of them at the moment), 1 being the best connected. The pages show it as a score from 0 to 10 (how to read it). Only for a name with at least one linking domain; empty otherwise.

Good to know

Each file is rebuilt at most every ten minutes, as the registry checks come in. A day's list grows during the five days before it, as the registry marks names for deletion.
UTF-8, comma-separated, one header line, lines ending in CR LF. A field holding a comma or a quote is quoted, as spreadsheets expect.
New columns are added at the end, so a script that reads the first ones by position keeps working. linking_domains and rank are the newest (October 2026).
A registrar name that starts with =, +, - or @ is given a leading apostrophe, so a spreadsheet doesn't run it as a formula.
The files travel compressed (gzip) when your tool accepts it, which every browser and curl does — about a fifth of the size.
Where the names come from, and what the dates mean: How it works and release times by registry.

Examples

Today's .com names, as a file:

curl -o today-com.csv "https://pendingdelete.net/dropping-today.csv?tld=com"

The whole drop list, straight into a spreadsheet: open https://pendingdelete.net/drop-list.csv and it downloads; Excel, Numbers and Google Sheets open it as a table.