Verisign has significantly bumped up its growth expectations for 2026, saying it expects to sell far more domains than previously thought. The company said it expects its domain name base — the combined domains under management for .com and .net
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More Verisign bitchiness as .com price rise revealed
Verisign is putting up the price of a .com domain again, and it clearly wishes it could raise it even more. The registry said that it will increase the base annual wholesale fee by 71 cents from $10.26 to $10.97…
Is a .tree gTLD very cool or very silly?
.tree is one of the first-ever publicly announced gTLD applications, predating even the 2012 application round, and it seems to have been proposed for a second time. A web site using dottree.org, registered a week ago, is saying there’s a…
The internet just got its first new TLD since 2022
There’s a new gTLD in the root, the first time ICANN has added a string in over four years. Don’t get too excited though: it’s a dot-brand, kinda. As of the weekend, .merck is live and resolving, though only the…
Kid-friendly domains could be reborn
With governments around the world increasingly looking at reducing the harmful effects on the internet on children, it seems child-friendly domain name projects may see a resurgence. The US government’s new hunt for a registry operator for .us, launched this…
Shrinking .us TLD is up for grabs
The .us ccTLD may change registry operators in the not too distant future, but the domain is currently on a fairly steep downward trajectory in terms of registrations. There’s also no guarantee that a new operator, should one be selected,…
Namecheap saw 116,000 phishing attacks last year
Bad guys used Namecheap to register domains associated with over 116,000 confirmed phishing attacks in 2025, according to data released by the company this week. Across Namecheap and sister registrar Spaceship there were 432,796 reports of phishing and 116,871 of…
.io safe for now as Trump puts Chagos deal on ice
The uncertainty surrounding the future of .io domains is set to continue after the UK government froze its plans to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands due to lack of US support. The UK has run out of time to…
Amazon sells three gTLDs to Identity Digital
Amazon appears to have offloaded three of its dormant gTLDs to Identity Digital, judging by ICANN records. While no formal notices of registry contract reassignment have yet been posted, elsewhere ICANN shows the official registry for .circle, .got, and .jot…
.radio’s new owners might have a fight on their hands
Should gTLD registries that avoid costly auctions by promising to serve special limited communities be allowed to later change their business models to improve sales? That’s the question being asked of .radio, which recently was taken over by a new…