Category: Industry reports

Verisign has ICANN's permission to delete every third-level .name domain in existence, the john.smith.name form the registry launched with, along with the email forwarding service that let a registrant receive mail at [email protected].

AWS cannot restore access to data hosted exclusively in its Bahrain region, or in one of three UAE zones. Most customers had already moved out.

Our hosting count records whose address space a site is served from. We sampled GoDaddy's domains and most of them resolve into Amazon's.

Half of the non-developers surveyed had little or no coding experience before AI, and only a quarter of their employers have a formal policy.

In 35 of 115 national markets, at least one of the eight largest providers by our count is a parking service or a corporate registrar, not a hosting company.

Wix's report has .store doubling and .ai in its top ten. Zone-level, they rank 24th and 39th, and .com still carries 45.6% of 347.2M resolving domains.

We compared AI billing at 17 providers. One publishes examples of what a credit buys; another defines no unit and reserves charges for excessive use.

Five registrars sold half of every blocklisted gTLD domain created in 2025, and blocklist rates across the industry run from 3% to 88%.

GoDaddy added Node.js hosting to its Web Hosting plans, and published a deploy contract stating what an app must do to run.

Namecheap applied for 40 top-level domains through Starlight Registry. We checked the contention flags against the rivals' own lists.