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Domain Summit Africa 2026 in Nairobi was the first major domain conference on the African continent, featuring African ccTLD registries, fractional domain ownership, and signals of major domain market growth across the continent.
We analyzed domain extensions used by trending Hacker News projects in March 2026 and found developers are increasingly choosing alternative TLDs like .ai, .dev, .tv, .sh, and .io over .com — here is what the data shows and what it means.
ICANN confirmed at its Mumbai meeting that new gTLD applications open April 30, 2026 with a 104-day window. Here is the complete timeline, the new replacement strings feature, and what it means for domain buyers.
WIPO slashed withdrawn UDRP fees from $500 to $100, creating a cheap backdoor to unmask domain owners behind Whois privacy services. Here is what this means for your domains and how to protect yourself.
The wholesale price of .org domains is rising from $9.93 to $11.00 on June 1, 2026 — the first increase in a decade. But thanks to a blocked $1.135 billion private equity buyout in 2019, .org registrants dodged a bullet that could have pushed prices to $20/year by now.
China's .cn domain registrations dropped by 50,000 in 2026 while its IDN counterpart .中国 has lost 25% of domains since 2021. Here's what the decline of the world's second-largest ccTLD means for global domain trends and your domain strategy.
Workspace.com just sold for $1.45 million, making it the largest publicly disclosed domain sale of 2026. Combined with AI.com's record $70 million sale in February, these deals reveal how businesses value premium domains in an AI-disrupted world.
Google's $32B acquisition of Wiz — built on wiz.io — challenges the '.com or nothing' dogma. We break down when alternative TLDs win, when .com still matters, and how to choose the right extension for your business using real 2026 data.
Bot.ai sold for a record $1.2 million — the largest public .ai sale ever. Combined with PrivateLLM.com at $250K and the $70M AI.com sale, Q1 2026 data reveals an AI domain gold rush while China's .cn market declines.
WIPO slashed its withdrawn UDRP case fee from $500 to $100 for up to 5 domains, creating a de facto $20-per-domain service to unmask registrants behind Whois privacy — here's what domain owners need to know and how to protect themselves.