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An event study of the .com wholesale price increases of 2021-2024 with ICANN's monthly registry reports: renewals rose 36.4% and 38.3% before the 2021 and 2022 increases, and TurnCommerce (NameBright) accounted for 90.5% and 93.8% of the extra renewals. Without it the market moved 0.5%-3.5%, within normal monthly variation. Includes the registrar's month-by-month renewals, Verisign's own filings on early renewals, the first data on the November 2026 increase and when the October report will show the answer.

Foreign individuals and companies can register .tr, .com.tr and the other open zones first-come, first-served with no Turkish company, address, trademark or documents. Zone-by-zone table with TRABIS registration counts, the data the registrar must collect, the restricted names that need documents, the expiry and reallocation timeline, the 60-day transfer lock, WHOIS rules for individuals and companies, the Turkish-language dispute service and Law 7590, which moved .tr regulation from the BTK to the Cybersecurity Presidency in 2026.

Foreign individuals and companies can register .co.il and .org.il with no Israeli address, company or trademark; .il has no open second level and six zones are reserved for Israeli institutions. Zone-by-zone table with the ISOC-IL rule sections, the holder data the registry checks, the names you cannot register (including any existing TLD string), the 3-month renewal window and how the Hebrew-language IL-DRP differs from the UDRP.

Anyone can register a plain .ae domain with no UAE address, licence or documents; .co.ae, .net.ae and the other third-level zones are restricted and sold only by UAE-based registrars. Zone-by-zone table with the .aeDA policy sections, the trademark route for .co.ae, the warranties .aeDA can enforce, the expiry timeline and why the UAE dispute policy is stricter than the UDRP.

Setup and usage documentation for the Register.Domains connector for Claude: how to add it on claude.ai, what its six read-only tools do, example questions, limitations, troubleshooting, privacy and support.

A Gmail alias is a second address that delivers to the same inbox. This guide compares dots, plus addressing, Send mail as and aliases on your own domain, with the official limits of Gmail, Workspace, Microsoft 365, iCloud+ and Proton, Google’s January 2027 change to Send as for third-party addresses, and which aliases survive a change of provider.

GMO Internet (Onamae.com) drove all of the net growth of .xyz in the year to June 2026, but renewed only 2.2% of the .xyz names that came up for renewal, against 22.0% for every other registrar. With 13 months of ICANN reports, a registrar comparison, why the 4.02 million one-year names added since July 2025 make late 2026 the real test, our method and a suggested citation.

Since 22 October 2026 a .qa domain requires a Qatari commercial registration, a trademark registered in Qatar, or Qatari citizenship or residency. Before-and-after table with the policy sections, who qualifies for each Qatar zone, the trademark route for foreign companies, the ban on selling or renting a .qa, and what changes for existing domains.

On 5 November 2026 Verisign told ICANN it will keep existing third-level .name names (john.smith.name) and registry email addresses (john@smith.name) for as long as at least one registrar offers them; only new registrations end. What changed, the timeline with sources, why the shared-surname question remains, the appeals, and what to ask your registrar.