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GoDaddy Averages 24 Million Domains Per Brand. team.blue Averages 163,000.
Natalia Nowak · 11 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
#acquisitions#consolidation#domains
Consolidation is not one strategy. Some groups buy scale and run three brands, others buy presence and run forty-one, and the gap between them is about 150 to 1. Meanwhile six in ten tracked domains still sit outside every group we track.
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ICANN Banned the Private Deals That Ended Most 2012 gTLD Contests
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
More than 1,600 applications arrived before ICANN's window closed, but the bigger change is the rulebook. Private resolution of contention sets is now prohibited, and unlike its 2012 predecessor the Guidebook says nothing about where the auction money goes.
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Running a Domain Costs About a Dollar a Year. Here Is What Eight Registries Charge for It.
by Natalia Nowak · 6 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
We compiled the published accounts of eight domain registries. Three independent data points put the cost of operating a domain-year at about a dollar; wholesale prices run from €1 for .de to $11 for .org after its first increase since 2016. Governance, not technology, sets the price.
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Montenegro Is Taking .me Back: A State Company Will Run the Million-Domain ccTLD
by Natalia Nowak · 4 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
.me earned 114 million euros since 2008 and the state kept about a third. Montenegro has now started building a state company to take over its ccTLD from GoDaddy and Identity Digital, in the name of digital sovereignty and a bigger share of the money.