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.
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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.
IONOS wants to sell Sedo by Q3 2026, but the business that made Sedo worth €312 million in revenue two years ago effectively ended when Google shut down AdSense for Domains, causing a 66% single-quarter revenue collapse in Q3 2025.
The Global Domain Report 2026 shows .ai past one million registrations and traces the demand rebound directly to AI-assisted development tools driving domain registration as an embedded step in the build process.
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.
.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...
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...
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...