Category: Industry reports

ICANN's 2026 gTLD round bans the private settlements that ended many 2012 contests, so a losing bid now costs about $147,550.

A chiller failure in Phoenix took down Namecheap, Liquid Web and phoenixNAP, and the operator of the building explained it only on a tenant's status page.

cPanel's per-account pricing keeps rising, and a real field of alternatives has grown around it, from hosts running their own panel to free independents.

ICANN says Web3 naming can enter the DNS root, under a strict same-name, same-owner rule. ENS incorporated and is chasing .ens rather than .eth.

Google's field data, broken out by host: Wix customers pass Core Web Vitals at 80%, HostGator's at 39%. A measured speed ranking for the industry.

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.