Network report

The .ton network this week

276 websites answer on .ton (−181 since the previous scan). 6,161 names answered in all; 89% of them are parked on 5 shared servers.

From the weekly scan of Oct 11, 2026. See the websites

From names to websites

1 in 22names 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.

198,470.ton names scanned
15,463point to a website
7.8%
6,161answered the scan
40%
276are real websites
4.5%

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

What answers

89%of answering names are parked

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

276 websites 4.5%87 more names of those websites 1.4%5,511 parked on 5 shared servers 89%251 redirect elsewhere 4.1%36 no title 0.6%

Week by week

6,161names 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 websitesOct 11: 276 websites 276 Sep 27Sep 29Oct 11

02,0004,0006,0008,000 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 answeringOct 11: 6,161 names answering 6,161 Jul 17Aug 30Oct 11

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 recordOct 11: 15,463 names with a site record 15,463 Jul 17Aug 30Oct 11

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

268websites in 5 topics

The largest topic is Community & media, with 64 sites. Topics come from each site's title and description.

Crypto & finance42 · 16%
Browse 42 →
People & blogs56 · 21%
Browse 56 →
Tools & services44 · 16%
Browse 44 →
Community & media64 · 24%
Browse 64 →
Games & fun14 · 5.2%
Browse 14 →
Other48 · 18%

How they are served

123independent servers carry the directory

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

Served over

99.9% ADNL

6,155 names answer from a server of their own over ADNL; 6 come from TON Storage, a shared file network.

Whose servers

221 names

on 123 independent servers; the other 5,940 names sit on 5 shared parking servers.

Also take payments

63%

3,853 of the answering names also publish a wallet address in their DNS record.

Subdomains

74subdomains like blog.alice.ton answer today

Names under a .ton name. They open on ton.website only. The directory lists 17 as websites.

364,514subdomain names on chain
297point to a website
0.1%
74answer today
25%
47different pages
64%

1,371 .ton names hand their subdomains to another contract; those of 151 hold names. Read on Oct 18; asked on Oct 20. Several names often show one page; each page counts once. Names that could not be read are left out. 74 subdomains have a certificate.

The names themselves

199,321.ton names, held by 100,088 wallets

1 in 4 has lapsed. 1 in 8 was won at auction and never claimed. Auctions and lapsed names

130,224 held 65.3%44,466 lapsed 22.3%24,525 won, never claimed 12.3%106 in auction 0.05%

By length

4 characters8,056 150 lapsed
5 characters5,213 361 lapsed
6 characters5,607 542 lapsed
7 characters6,289 745 lapsed
8 characters7,726 1,098 lapsed
9 characters10,105 1,691 lapsed
10 characters15,315 2,953 lapsed
11 or more141,010 36,926 lapsed

What they point at

A wallet79,151
A website15,517
Subdomains1,378
TON Storage234

83,007 names have at least one record.

Counted on 2026-10-20 by reading every name's contract.

This week

+8 / −6websites 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 11, 2026 (9d ago), older than the weekly scan should allow. 2 of 13 pipeline checks are failing: Directory scan freshness; Search engines told of changed pages (IndexNow). The watchdog reported 1h ago. Every check.

Opening a .ton site right now

Of 28,630 requests from the gateway to the TON network over the last 5.4 hours, 5 (0.0%) timed out or could not connect. The watchdog alerts when more than 15% fail.

  • Status API reachablereachable
  • Directory checked this week9.3d (scan time)
  • Sites being served276
  • Names read per scan198470 (100.0% of 198470)
  • Last full walk of the .ton collection16.1d
  • Two-level candidates refreshed297 names, 2.4d old
  • Subdomain job ran5.9h ago
  • Subdomain sites serving67
  • Sitemap lists pages that ask to be indexed133 URLs, 16 checked
  • Sites open in a real browser (daily synthetic visit)95.6% opened (43 of 45), 97.7% of those complete, page p50 5.5s / p90 23.9s
  • Search engines told of changed pages (IndexNow)15 URL(s) accepted 9.3d ago (HTTP 200), 133 known
  • TON DNS lookup time in the backend (median)p50 within 500 ms, p90 within 1000 ms (3960 uncached lookups over 5.4h)
  • Backend error rate0.0% (5 of 28630 requests over 5.4h)