.xyz

Internet top-level domain

On August 29, 2026, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was Toxic (2026 film), with 466,227 views. It and #2, Dolly Parton, were both WikiPop's picks in the past 30 days, and we don't repeat an article that soon. So WikiPop's pick is #3, .xyz, with 251,462 views.

.xyz is a top-level domain name that was proposed in ICANN's new generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program for consisting of the last three letters of the Latin-script alphabet. XYZ.com and CentralNic are the registries for the domain, which was created by entrepreneur Daniel Negari. It became available to the general public on June 2, 2014, thereafter becoming widely used by tech startups, creators, and Web3 projects.

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251,462 views that day

The full top 10 of August 29, 2026

The most-viewed Wikipedia articles that day, by raw page views.

#1
Toxic (2026 film)
2026 Indian film by Geetu Mohandas

466,227
#2
Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter (1946–2026)

450,416
#3
.xyz WikiPop's pick
Internet top-level domain

251,462
#4
Killing of the Clancy children
2023 triple homicide in Massachusetts, U.S.

250,473
#5
Tim Curry
English actor and singer (1946–2026)

234,497
#6
Harald V
King of Norway from 1991 to 2026

188,507
#7
The Whisper Man
2026 American crime thriller film by James Ashcroft

156,733
#8
Haakon VIII
King of Norway since 2026

151,224
#9
Milo Yiannopoulos
British polemicist and political commentator (born 1984)

147,306
#10
Umar Nurmagomedov
Russian mixed martial artist (born 1996)

144,997

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