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Verisign is closing two .name services: third-level names (john.smith.name) and registry email addresses (john@smith.name). ICANN approved both on 7 May 2026; registrants report deletion on 15 February 2027. The timeline with sources, the one-year block on shared surnames, the appeals still open, and a checklist to move your email to a domain you own.

IANA lists 1,437 live top-level domains on 22 October 2026, not the “1,500+” many sites repeat. We break them down by type (generic, brand, country code, IDN, reserved), list the 22 legacy gTLDs with their eligibility rules, explain why 138 gTLDs have been removed since 2016, and show which 1,186 extensions you can register with us.

A naive count says 5% of new domain names are about AI because they contain “ai”. We sorted 139,357 matches from the week ending 21 October 2026 into explicit, likely, ambiguous and false: 0.41% of all new names are explicit AI references, 0.50% over the month. With extension densities, the AI vocabulary after cleaning, our method and a suggested citation.

A business outside Thailand can register a .co.th with a trademark or company name and a representative in Thailand. This guide, checked against the T.H.NIC registration guideline of March 2026, explains the three routes, the documents, what changed in 2026, the naming rules, .co.th vs .in.th vs second-level .th (round 3 of 2026 open until 30 November), the expiry timeline and why there is no UDRP for .th.

Google Registry's .eat, .fly and .here reach General Availability on 17 November 2026 at 16:00 UTC. This guide covers the Sunrise and Early Access dates, the HTTPS rule and which extensions browsers already enforce it on, the route that fits trademark owners and everyone else, and the outdated dates other sites still quote.

ICANN published the 1,615 applications of the 2026 new gTLD round on 7 October 2026. This guide summarises the numbers, the 263 contested strings led by .agent, who applied for the most, 30 notable applications, the key dates to March 2027, and why none of these extensions can be registered before 2028.

Most domains register in minutes, but a quarter of all extensions do not. This guide shows registration times across 1,187 extensions, the slow ones and what their registries check (.cn, .sa, .co.jp, .bg, .ie and more), the checks that come after registration, and how long a domain transfer takes.

Google Workspace needs one MX record: smtp.google.com with priority 1. This guide puts the five DNS records Workspace uses in one table, explains the legacy ASPMX set, gives the order and waiting times that avoid lost email, and covers the ccTLDs (.de, .it, .no) whose registries check your nameservers before accepting a DNS move.

Die .ai-Registry aktiviert internationalisierte Domainnamen (IDN) für .ai, com.ai, net.ai, off.ai und org.ai am 19. Oktober 2026, nach einer Testphase für Registrare ab dem 7. Oktober. Dieser Leitfaden listet alle 57 unterstützten Sprachen und Schriften mit ihren IDN-Tags auf, erklärt den Unterschied zwischen einem Sprach- und einem Schrifteintrag, zeigt, wie IDN-.ai-Namen in Punycode aussehen, und geht darauf ein, was bei Browsern und E-Mail zu prüfen ist.