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Renew or transfer this month to postpone the price hike. .Com domain name registrants have just a few more weeks to renew at today’s prices. Verisign, the registry for .com domains, will raise prices by 7% on November 1. The new wholesale price will be $10.97, plus ICANN’s 20-cent fee. If your registrar is charging […]
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Nearly 20% of new TLD applications are for dot-brands. Here are some interesting ones. ICANN published the full list of 1,616 top level domain applications on Wednesday. Just over 20% of applications (345) are so-called “dot-brand” domains. There are a lot of interesting applications. Here are some things that stand out to me. Vibe coding […]
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The seller can see the buyer’s address when the domain is transferred. There has been a flood of .si domain sales lately, and domain investors should be aware of a major privacy issue. After selling a domain, the seller can see the buyer’s address when the buyer transfers the domain to another registrar. I’m not […]
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Music.taylorswift is coming to a browser near you. Pop star Taylor Swift is getting a new home on the web. The singer has applied for her own top level domain name, .taylorswift, as part of ICANN’s 2026 expansion round of top level domains. Interestingly, had the artist applied for .swift, she would have run into […]
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See the top domain registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest registrar-by-registrar data for the .com namespace using official data from Verisign. The data is always three months in arrears; the newest data provided is for June 2026. I added a new column this month that shows where the registrar ranked the prior […]
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