The .ton network this week

275 websites answer on .ton (+176 since the previous scan). 5,479 names answered in all; 83% of them are parked on 5 shared servers.

From the weekly scan of Oct 7, 2026. See the websites

From names to websites

1 in 20names that answer is a real website

Only about 1 in 13 .ton names points to a website at all, and most of those do not answer.

198,095.ton names scanned
15,181point to a website
7.7%
5,479answered the scan
36%
275are real websites
5.0%

Percent of the step above. Bars are on a log scale.

What answers

83%of answering names are parked

Parking and for-sale pages on 5 shared servers. Counted, not listed as websites.

275 websites 5.0%79 more names of those websites 1.4%4,568 parked on 5 shared servers 83%342 redirect elsewhere 6.2%215 no title 3.9%

Week by week

5,479names answered the latest scan

Each point is one weekly scan. Scans known to be broken are left out rather than drawn as a fall. Point at a week to read it.

0200400600 Sep 27: 304 websitesSep 28: 276 websitesSep 29: 277 websitesOct 4: 281 websitesOct 7: 457 websites 457 Sep 27Sep 29Oct 7

02,0004,0006,000 Jul 17: 304 names answeringJul 20: 112 names answeringJul 26: 521 names answeringAug 2: 408 names answeringAug 9: 620 names answeringAug 16: 653 names answeringAug 23: 689 names answeringAug 30: 668 names answeringSep 6: 652 names answeringSep 20: 1,030 names answeringSep 27: 5,090 names answeringSep 28: 5,128 names answeringSep 29: 5,203 names answeringOct 4: 1,042 names answeringOct 7: 5,479 names answering 5,479 Jul 17Aug 30Oct 7

05,00010,00015,00020,000 Jul 17: 1,215 names with a site recordJul 20: 2,418 names with a site recordJul 26: 2,442 names with a site recordAug 2: 2,479 names with a site recordAug 9: 2,501 names with a site recordAug 16: 2,504 names with a site recordAug 23: 2,577 names with a site recordAug 30: 2,858 names with a site recordSep 6: 3,011 names with a site recordSep 20: 3,745 names with a site recordSep 27: 14,429 names with a site recordSep 28: 14,524 names with a site recordSep 29: 14,530 names with a site recordOct 4: 14,911 names with a site recordOct 7: 15,181 names with a site record 15,181 Jul 17Aug 30Oct 7

The dashed line marks the first scan that read every .ton name; before it the scan stopped near 80,000.

What the websites are about

267websites in 5 topics

The largest topic is Community & media, with 65 sites. Topics come from each site's title and description.

Crypto & finance43 · 16%
Browse 43 →
People & blogs57 · 21%
Browse 57 →
Tools & services42 · 16%
Browse 42 →
Community & media65 · 24%
Browse 65 →
Games & fun15 · 5.6%
Browse 15 →
Other45 · 17%

How they are served

307independent servers carry the directory

A TON site runs on a server (ADNL) or from TON Storage.

Served over

98% ADNL

5,382 names answer from a server of their own over ADNL; 97 come from TON Storage, a shared file network.

Whose servers

492 names

on 307 independent servers; the other 4,987 names sit on 5 shared parking servers.

Also take payments

56%

3,063 of the answering names also publish a wallet address in their DNS record.

Subdomains

71subdomains like blog.alice.ton answer today

Names under a .ton name. They open on ton.website only. The directory lists 20 as websites.

363,608subdomain names on chain
294point to a website
0.1%
71answer today
24%
44different pages
62%

1,328 .ton names hand their subdomains to another contract; those of 147 hold names. Read on Oct 4; asked on Oct 8. Several names often show one page; each page counts once. Names that could not be read are left out. 69 subdomains have a certificate.

The names themselves

198,238.ton names, held by 99,009 wallets

1 in 5 has lapsed. 1 in 8 was won at auction and never claimed. Auctions and lapsed names

129,205 held 65.2%43,906 lapsed 22.1%24,912 won, never claimed 12.6%215 in auction 0.11%

By length

4 characters8,013 139 lapsed
5 characters5,184 347 lapsed
6 characters5,582 532 lapsed
7 characters6,265 727 lapsed
8 characters7,680 1,085 lapsed
9 characters10,045 1,673 lapsed
10 characters15,230 2,921 lapsed
11 or more140,239 36,482 lapsed

What they point at

A wallet78,124
A website15,069
Subdomains1,346
TON Storage232

81,864 names have at least one record.

Counted on 2026-10-08 by reading every name's contract.

This week

+4 / −3websites appeared / stopped answering

New websites

No longer answering

How reliable is this?

100.0%of requests to TON sites got through

The directory was last checked on Oct 7, 2026 (43h ago). The pipeline watchdog reported 2h ago: 13 of 13 checks pass. Every check.

Opening a .ton site right now

Of 51,677 requests from the gateway to the TON network over the last 9.6 hours, 0 (0.0%) timed out or could not connect. The watchdog alerts when more than 15% fail.

  • Status API reachablereachable
  • Directory checked this week1.7d (scan time)
  • Sites being served275
  • Names read per scan198095 (100.0% of 198095)
  • Last full walk of the .ton collection4.3d
  • Two-level candidates refreshed294 names, 4.2d old
  • Subdomain job ran10.0h ago
  • Subdomain sites serving63
  • Sitemap lists pages that ask to be indexed130 URLs, 14 checked
  • Sites open in a real browser (daily synthetic visit)100% opened (45 of 45), 97.8% of those complete, page p50 5.3s / p90 12.4s
  • Search engines told of changed pages (IndexNow)15 URL(s) accepted 1.7d ago (HTTP 200), 125 known
  • TON DNS lookup time in the backend (median)p50 within 1000 ms, p90 within 1000 ms (5107 uncached lookups over 9.6h)
  • Backend error rate0.0% (0 of 51677 requests over 9.6h)