Category: Industry reports

Porkbun crossed 4 million domains under management. Its customer count grew twice as fast, which says more than the milestone does.

DENIC runs .de for about €1 per domain. PIR's backend costs 88 cents. Verisign's costs run $1.13. Wholesale prices: up to $11. The league table.

CRA reporting, the licensing season, the Sedo window, the .com increase and the end of egress fees: the deadlines ahead, and what to do before each.

Montenegro is nationalizing .me: a state company will take over the million-domain ccTLD now run by GoDaddy and Identity Digital.

A new standard, RFC 10023, lets a domain owner flag a name as for sale straight from its DNS, brokers optional.

The first chance in 14 years to apply for a new domain ending closes August 12. The fee: $227,000. Country names need not apply.

GoDaddy added 22,000 customers in Q2 2026 and still grew revenue 6.6%. The growth comes from the base paying more, not from new accounts.

Google switched off AdSense for Domains, and the quiet ad business behind millions of parked domains ended with it. The traffic moved somewhere riskier.

Verisign spent a decade and $135 million to win .web. Unlike its government-capped .com, it can price the new domain however it wants.

The omnibus delayed the AI Act's high-risk regime, not August 2. GPAI fines and transparency duties still arrive on schedule. Hosting's map of who owes what.