Category: Industry reports

Telegram has applied for .gram, five weeks after a sanctions listing took t.me offline. Another applicant wants the same string.

my.host is expanding beyond the Netherlands, out of a home market where the largest provider holds just 12.6 percent.

Cloudflare is in the top eight in all 115 markets we track, yet leads only 46, and a narrow-footprint provider comes first in 43.

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.