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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.

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.

.dot, die neue offene Domainendung von Dish DBS, erreicht am 2. Dezember 2026 die allgemeine Verfügbarkeit. Dieser Leitfaden behandelt die Termine für Sunrise, Early Access und die allgemeine Verfügbarkeit, welche Route für Markeninhaber, Entwickler und alle anderen passt, die Registry-Regeln, die Registrare nicht veröffentlichen, und den Unterschied zu den .dot-Namen von Polkadot.

Wann eine .wtf-Domain eine Marke einprägsamer macht, wann sie Vertrauen schadet und was Sie prüfen sollten, bevor Sie sie statt .com, .fun oder .lol wählen.

There is no single best domain extension - there is a best one for what you do. This guide matches ten types of business to the extensions that fit them, flags the ones that verify credentials before letting you register, and answers the three questions that decide the choice in practice.