Tag: tld

Wix's report has .store doubling and .ai in its top ten. Zone-level, they rank 24th and 39th, and .com still carries 45.6% of 347.2M resolving domains.

In some cheap new gTLDs nearly the whole zone turns over in months, and Spamhaus has the data on which extensions carry the heaviest hidden abuse cost.

Namecheap halted Handshake TLD registrations on June 10. HNS is down 99% from its 2021 peak. Unstoppable Domains pivoted to traditional DNS.

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.

After years of handling the .CO domain, GoDaddy has lost its role as the official registry. A new partnership, called Consórcio Equipo PuntoCo, made up of Germany’s Team Internet and Colombia’s Central Comercializadora de Internet (CCI), has won the contract to operate Colombia’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD), .CO, for the next ten years.

Google Registry is set to launch a new top-level domain (TLD), .channel, aimed specifically at content creators. The rollout begins in February, offering creators a new…

The long-awaited public launch of the .MUSIC domain was officially announced through the registry’s social media channels. Earlier this year, in May, the registry had already…

Identity Digital announced on their LinkedIn profile that they have entered into a significant partnership with the Government of Anguilla (GOA) to manage the .AI domain.…

The .ai domain, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Anguilla, has been experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity. Since our last update in April, the number of registered .ai domains has surged, reflecting the growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications. This trend underscores the significance of the .ai domain.

Porkbun, the domain registrar known for its affordability and customer-centric approach, has achieved a significant milestone by surpassing 2 million domains under management. This achievement marks a notable acceleration in the company's growth, having taken seven years to reach its first million domains and just two years to double that number.