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Steven White

Domain & Hosting Industry Writer

Steve White is a seasoned writer with over 10 years of experience in domain registration and website hosting. He creates clear, informative content that helps readers understand the key aspects of managing domains and building an online presence.

Steven White
Steven White

Articles by Steven White

Who renews .xyz domains? ICANN’s data, by registrar
Who renews .xyz domains? ICANN’s data, by registrar register.domains ›

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.

.qa is no longer open to anyone: the new rules
.qa is no longer open to anyone: the new rules register.domains ›

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.

Domain extensions list: all 1,437 TLDs, by type
Domain extensions list: all 1,437 TLDs, by type register.domains ›

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.

The “AI domain boom” is smaller than it looks
The “AI domain boom” is smaller than it looks register.domains ›

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.

Domain registration time for 1,187 extensions
Domain registration time for 1,187 extensions register.domains ›

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 launch: dates, rules and the route that fits you
.dot launch: dates, rules and the route that fits you register.domains ›

.dot, the new open domain extension from Dish DBS, reaches General Availability on 2 December 2026. This guide covers the Sunrise, Early Access and GA dates, which route fits trademark owners, developers and everyone else, the registry rules registrars don't publish, and how it differs from Polkadot's .dot names.