ICANN is debating a rule that would require registrars to investigate every domain from a customer when one is flagged for abuse. Seville (June 8-11) is where that debate begins in earnest. The gTLD window closes August 12.

Nordic Domain Days 2026 wrapped in Stockholm. Three signals matter for hosting providers: gTLD round, NIS2 Article 28, and AI infrastructure.

Aachen-based hosting.de GmbH celebrates 20 years with a new logo and visual identity, from TwooIT in 2006 to a German hosting leader today.

The November 2026 .com price hike is the first of four annual increases Verisign can take through 2029. Wholesale could reach $13.45.

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 added 13,000 net customers in Q1 2026 on a base of 20.4 million. ARPU grew 9% to $246, free cash flow expanded 15%, and the company is no longer competing hard for new subscribers.

NameSilo posted $65.5M revenue in 2025, up 18.5%, EBITDA up 84%, swung to profit, and its parent is now acquiring robotics firms with domain cash flows.

Cloudflare's Registrar API, in beta since April 15, lets AI agents register domains without human approval. Domain registration is becoming an automated infrastructure step.

Unstoppable Domains' 10 new ICANN registrar entities are for drop-catching advantages, not the new gTLD round, while the company that built its name on blockchain domains now runs a traditional registrar business and brokers gTLD applications for Web3 organizations including .agent, .blockchain, and .agi.

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.