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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.