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Nordic Domain Days 2026 wrapped May 26 in Stockholm with around 450 attendees. The 2026 gTLD round, NIS2 Article 28 enforcement, and AI-as-infrastructure were the three threads hosting providers should take home from the event.

Founded in 2006 as TwooIT GmbH, hosting.de marks its 20th anniversary with a refreshed brand identity. The Aachen-based provider unveils a new logo and visual design system across its product interfaces, reinforcing its commitment to German-hosted services.

Verisign's 7% .com wholesale price increase from November 2026 is the opening move of a four-year pricing cycle. If exercised in full, wholesale .com pricing would reach $13.45 by 2029, with cost pressure flowing through every registrar and hosting provider in the chain.

On May 5, a defect in DENIC's newly deployed signing infrastructure made Amazon.de, DHL, Bahn.de, and hundreds of thousands of other .de domains unreachable for three hours. Servers were running. Monitoring showed green. The fix came from Cloudflare, not DENIC.

GoDaddy's Q1 2026 results show 13,000 net customer additions on a base of 20.4 million, with ARPU growing 9% to $246, Applications and Commerce expanding 12%, and free cash flow up 15% to $473.6 million. The numbers describe a platform that has stepped back from subscriber growth and is monetizing its existing base through AI upsells, raising a pointed question for every hosting provider watching: when the dominant SMB platform stops competing for new customers, who fills the gap and at what cost.

NameSilo Technologies reported its best financial year on record in 2025: revenue up 18.5% to $65.5M, EBITDA up 84%, zero debt, 6.26 million domains under management. The parent company is deploying cash flows into industrial robotics, not hosting adjacencies. That tells you something about where this business is headed.

The Cloudflare Registrar API formalizes a shift that is already underway: AI agents checking availability, registering names, and configuring DNS without human sign-off. The API uses at-cost pricing, default WHOIS privacy, and account payment credentials. A registrar-as-a-service platform for hosting providers is planned for later in 2026. The governance questions around agent spend control and credential scope are not solved by default.

The blockchain domain company that hit a $1 billion valuation in 2022 has quietly become a traditional ICANN registrar, and its 10 new shell accreditations are a competitive move in the domain expiry market rather than preparation for the new gTLD round opening April 30. In parallel, Unstoppable Domains is sponsoring more than 19 organizations through the gTLD process, including .agent with Sentient Foundation and .blockchain with Blockchain.com, establishing a role as the bridge between the Web3 domain ecosystem and the traditional DNS system.

Full-year 2025 .com domain data shows GoDaddy registering 7.9 million new domains but finishing with roughly 1 million fewer under management than it started with. Namecheap gained approximately 1.9 million, the largest gain of any registrar.

The Sedo sale process asks a buyer to separate two assets bundled under one roof: a durable domain aftermarket platform with 650-plus registrar partners worldwide, and a parking and monetization operation that lost its primary revenue source when Google removed parked domains from its Search Partner Network in February 2026. How a buyer values those two things, and what their priorities imply for the SedoMLS partner network, is the question registrars and hosting companies with domain aftermarket exposure are now watching.

New gTLDs now represent 12.4% of all registrations after 29.9% year-over-year growth, .ai median resale prices have doubled since 2021, and a new gTLD application window opens in April. The 2026 report gives hosting resellers three concrete things to act on.

The .org domain registry will increase its wholesale price starting June 1, 2026, a move that will likely ripple through registrar and hosting pricing in the coming weeks. Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates the .org extension, is raising the wholesale price from $9.93 to $11 per domain per year.

The application window for new generic top-level domains opens April 30, 2026 — the first opportunity since 2012. With a $227,000 application fee, new rules banning closed generics and private contention deals, and .com prices rising again, the domain landscape is about to shift. Hosting businesses should be paying attention.

TL;DR - the .ai country-code domain needed roughly five years to scale from ~40,000 registrations in early 2020 to over 1M in early 2026.This TLD, managed by Identity Digital, has a huge fiscal impact on the Anguilla (&70M revenue in 2025), as well on aftermarket, with multiple six-figure domain sales. The milestone reflects continued demand

We’re excited to launch the first-ever Monthly Security Update on WebHosting.Today, we couldn’t be more pleased to do it alongside three of the most respected names in hosting and WordPress security, Blackwall as a returning Diamond sponsor, with Monarx and Patchstack, now joining WebHosting.Today, as Gold Sponsors. This is more than a new content series.

Your.Online has completed another acquisition with the addition of Shellrent, an Italian provider of domains, hosting, cloud VPS, and server solutions. The deal was signed in February, making this the third acquisition of the year — and it is only February. Shellrent was founded in 2006 and is based in Vicenza. The company serves businesses

TL;DR - in the newest Namecheap Domain Insights & Trends Report included registrations comparison of 2024 vs 2025, with trends and signals for 2026. The dataset is based on Namecheap’s proprietary registration data and reflects activity across more than 22 million domains under management. .com is still the largest TLD, but keeps shrinking YoY In

TL;DR - The Government of Monaco lost an attempt to seize Monaco.com from a private owner using UDRP. This was proof that governments do not automatically control matching names in .com, even when the name is a country. Unlike ccTLDs, gTLDs still operate under trademark and bad-faith rules, not state sovereignty. What happened The Government

TL;DR - EuroDNS updated retail prices for 29 domains, including .ai and .health, following registry changes. The new prices take effect between 1 March and 1 April 2026, depending on the domain. New domain prices published  by EuroDNS  According to the announcement, new EuroDNS retail prices take effect on three dates: 1 March 2026, 5

TL;DR - Gandi reported crossing €70M in revenue in 2025 and growth at roughly 20% CAGR. That alone isn’t unique. What is worth noting is how it’s growing: slowly, internationally, and by moving away from cheap domains toward corporate-grade infrastructure services.  What happened Gandi is part of the former Total Webhosting Solutions group, now operating