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GoDaddy Registry
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.biz: The Business gTLD Nobody Picked — 2M Peak, GoDaddy Registry, and a Zone Still Shrinking
ICANN's 2001 "business-only" gTLD peaked above 2M (June 2008), sits near ~1.2–1.5M in 2026, and Harvard's six-month audit found 74%+ empty and ~25% defensive. NeuLevel → Neustar → GoDaddy Registry (not Identity Digital—that's .info). Verified roofs: gamesindustry.biz. Delete the old guide's unverified $35k sales, AlexMakeup.biz filler, and AIO boilerplate.
.club Is Membership English That Platforms Borrow
Walmart bought .samsclub, not sam.club. Celebrity launch landers died, Clubhouse briefly rented the suffix, GoDaddy paid ~$80M with .design—and mid-2026 ~878k names still sell belonging as a word.
.design Is Not Identity Digital: GoDaddy Runs the Registry, Ant Design Sets the Ceiling
Registry Services (GoDaddy) since August 2021—not Identity Digital, not Porkbun as registry—~114k zone names vs the old guide's unsourced 180–240k bracket, verified roofs from ant.design to spline.design, canva.design debunked, and why AIO entity-classification boilerplate failed audit.
.tv: Tuvalu Rents Two Letters to the Streaming Era—After Verisign Walked Away
~386k names, A$12.6M projected in Tuvalu's 2025–26 budget, Verisign's $25M/year registry line vs ~$5M to Tuvalu—and why the old guide's 600–800K volume, broadcaster Mad Libs, and VideoObject/AIO boilerplate failed audit.
.us Drops Below 1.9M: NTIA's Nexus-Gated ccTLD With Mandatory Public WHOIS
Registry Services' 1,899,773 May 2026 DUM (−34.1% YoY), renewal rates collapsing to 32.35%, NTIA nexus codes C11–C32, the WHOIS privacy ban—and why census.us, unverified shorteners, and unsourced aftermarket tiers failed audit.