The registry crossed a thousand claimed names. At the time of writing, 1,183
*.runs-on.dev names belong to 1,182 people, and more than half of every
claim ever made arrived in the last week alone.
Every name here is a JSON file in a public repo. Nothing about this milestone is estimated or tracked; the curve above is just that repository, counted.
Congratulations
Congratulations to the 1,182 of you. You claimed the name, got a working subdomain over HTTPS in seconds, and most of you went further: you pointed it at something you built.
Some of you shipped a portfolio on Vercel the same evening. Some of you put up a GitHub Pages site, a Netlify project, a Cloudflare Pages deploy, a Render service, or a plain URL redirect. A few of you wrote custom DNS records by hand, which is the kind of stubbornness this registry respects.
And to everyone keeping the profile card as-is: that card is the registry's front porch. It looks good on you.
Where you are
Claims have come from six continents. Asia leads by a wide margin, Europe and North America follow, and there are claims scattered across Africa, Oceania, and South America. The map on the stats page is drawn from claim-time countries and public GitHub profiles, so it is approximate by design, but the spread is real.
The part you fixed
A registry that runs on pull requests gets better the same way. The DNS verification guides, the two-label subdomain fix, the sync reconciliation that makes a failed write unable to take a name offline, the spam filters, the stats page itself: much of that came from outside the core team, sent as ordinary pull requests that CI validated like any other change.
Thank you. Keep them coming.
What is next
The pipeline ahead is already visible: hosted sites that serve real files from your name, a status page, and deeper tooling for the one DNS step that trips people up. If you want a name, the claim form is one field and one click. One per GitHub account, free forever.
See you at two thousand.