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Namecheap abandons fight for .org price caps  108
Namecheap seems to have thrown in the towel in its long-running fight to get ICANN to cap the prices of .org and .info domain names. Th...
DomainIncite.com - Friday, February 20, 2026 - 10:12
Identity Digital acquires another gTLD  119
Identity Digital has bulked out its already substantial portfolio of gTLDs, taking over the ICANN registry contract for another 2012-ro...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 10:19
Seven dead registrars on the out  84
When a registrar stops paying its registry partners, they tend to be cut off relatively quickly. ICANN takes a bit longer. That seems t...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 7:38
Sav.com owner takes over .radio gTLD  85
The .radio gTLD appears to have changed hands, with a young registry affiliated with Sav.com taking over the reins. ICANN documentation...
DomainIncite.com - Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 1:46
.com zone tops 160 million domains  96
The .com zone file contained more than 160 million domains for the first time today. Registry operator Verisign is currently reporting ...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 16:49
ai.com, the most-expensive domain sale ever  96
The domain name story that has it all? A record-setting sales price. A launch commercial during the US Super Bowl broadcast. A category...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 10, 2026 - 3:15
.ai hits seven figures, raises prices  120
The .ai ccTLD recently crossed over the one million domain milestone and has raised its already substantial registration fee. According...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2026 - 16:36
Typosquatter gets two years in jail  107
A man who used a typosquatted domain to defraud a man out of $146,000 has been given a two-year jail sentence in Australia. According t...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2026 - 11:2
Epstein low-balled registrants to get his exact-match domain  125
Dead rapist Jeffrey Epstein tried to secure the .com and .net versions of his name by low-balling the existing registrants over relativ...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2026 - 10:1
Epstein bought “mother” domains for Fergie while serving time  117
Dead rapist Jeffrey Epstein registered several feminist-themed domain names for former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson while he was serv...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2026 - 5:21
Two former ICANN directors want back in  107
Gluttons for punishment? ICANN’s At-Large Community has named the first four candidates standing to join the Org’s board of...
DomainIncite.com - Tuesday, January 27, 2026 - 10:35
Former ICANN director could lose control of ccTLD  107
The government of Ghana has announced plans to nationalize the .gh ccTLD, taking control from a former ICANN director who has run the r...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, January 26, 2026 - 13:51
UK launches “police.ai”, but does it own the domain?  118
The UK’s increasingly authoritarian government this afternoon announced extensive policing reforms, including what it called R...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, January 26, 2026 - 12:49
Team Internet still in talks to sell off domains unit  99
Team Internet says negotiations to spin off its domains business are “progressing well” after a difficult 2025. The company...
DomainIncite.com - Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 8:26
NamesCon returning to Miami in November  134
NameCon Global will be held again in Miami, Florida, for its 2026 conference, organizers said over the weekend. The annual two-day conf...
DomainIncite.com - Monday, January 19, 2026 - 6:14

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