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Digital Identity and Domain Names in 2026: DNS, ENS, and What Actually Converges
401.6M DNS names still anchor commerce; ENS has 3.38M lifetime regs but 72% churn. Here is the hybrid identity stack—RDAP, passkeys, verifiable credentials—not "blockchain replaces DNS" hype.
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Web3 Domains: ENS, Unstoppable, and Beyond
ENS has ~925K active .eth names with $5–640/yr renewals—not free NFTs. DNS integration via ICANN's 2026 gTLD round is the real story; Unstoppable's one-time .crypto model sits on a parallel stack businesses can't replace .com with.
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.xyz Splits the Room: Alphabet's abc.xyz vs the $1 Churn-and-Burn Economy
10M registrations, XYZ.COM LLC / Daniel Negari, CentralNic backend, abc.xyz and block.xyz on one side — Interisle cybercrime share, Spamhaus abuse rates, and $0.99 1.111B Class promos on the other — plus why the old guide's ai.xyz $8M claim and AIO boilerplate failed audit.