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Identity Digital
18 articles
.capital Names Financial Positioning—Not Dictionary Premium Theater
Delta Mill→Binky Moon→Identity Digital, ~35.6k zone (Jul 2026), ambition.capital at $9,888—and mid-2026 HTTP checks that split live GP roofs from venture.capital iframes and shriram.capital fiction.
.money Is Colloquial Cash English—Not Banking Trust Theater
Outer McCook→Binky Moon→Identity Digital, ~21.5k zone (Jul 2026), open.money at $25,000—and mid-2026 HTTP checks that split live fintech roofs from bank.money Atom landers and save.money fiction.
.finance Names Financial Services—Not a Banking Charter
Cotton Cypress→Binky Moon→Identity Digital, ~33.6k zone (Jul 2026), spark.finance at $70,000—and mid-2026 HTTP checks that split live DeFi roofs from finance-magazin.de fiction and invest.finance parking.
.network Is Not .net: Identity Digital's ~111k Names, Web3 Infra Roofs—and a 1985 History That Never Happened
~111k names on Identity Digital's Nomulus stack—not 1985, not millions. Trixy Manor/Donuts delegated Aug 2014; GA day 3,055. Oct 2025 wholesale +12.39%. Verified roofs from pocket.network to contour.network—and why the old guide's speedtest.network, fake NameBio comps, and AIO boilerplate failed audit.
.world Sells Global Scope You Still Have to Prove: ~677k Names, world.org Skipped the Suffix, and hello.world Is a Lander
Identity Digital's Binky Moon runs ~677k .world names—not Donuts without dates. Fix delegation (Sept 2014), GA (Jan 14 2015), poker.world $75k, oec.world & genki.world as live roofs, and trash the old guide's April 2015 timeline, estimated sales, and AIO semantic-TLD fluff.
.studio: Identity Digital's Workshop Label—~194k in Zone, Seven Verified Roofs, Broker Mad Libs Dead
Dog Beach/Identity Digital since June 2021—not Registry Services or Rightside as operator—~194k zone names (bgp.he.net Jul 2026) vs the old guide's wrong registry stack, verified roofs from design.studio/Further to cube.studio, model.studio at $24k (Nov 2025 NameBio), and why lumen.studio plus Network Solutions Mad Libs failed audit.
.media: Fortune Media Skipped the Industry Noun—airport.media Proves Mid-Market Agency Roofs
~130k names, Grand Glen/Donuts sole applicant after Tucows buyout, verified roofs from airport.media to maya.media—and why the old guide's fabricated NameBio sales, Mad Lib notables, and AIO semantic-TLD boilerplate failed audit.
.digital Puts Transformation in the Hostname: Identity Digital Canonicalized It, ~539k Names, and tech.digital Is a Broker Lander
~539k names, Binky Moon/Identity Digital on its own Nomulus stack, sole Donuts applicant with no auction, verified roofs from identity.digital to business.digital—and why the old guide's 60B-query ISO fluff, xtrategy-only notables, and AIO semantic-TLD boilerplate failed audit.
.agency: Identity Digital's Service-Firm Label—~120k in Zone, Five Verified Roofs, Six Brochure Names Dead
Binky Moon/Identity Digital since 2018, ~120k zone names (bgp.he.net Jul 2026) vs passive-DNS ~192k, Porkbun $3.60→$25.23 renew after Oct 2025 wholesale hikes. Verified: oliver.agency, brandon.agency, gale.agency, bakery.agency, raindrop.agency. Delete barkley/olivine Mad Libs, invented NameBio tiers, and AIO entity-classification boilerplate.
.mobi: The Mobile TLD Tim Berners-Lee Warned About — 964K Peak, Identity Digital, and a Namespace Responsive Design Killed
ICANN's 2005 mobile-only gTLD peaked at 964,115 (Sep 2008), sits near ~322K resolving (Jul 2026), and lost its sponsored mobile standards in 2017. mTLD → Afilias → Identity Digital; Tim Berners-Lee called it harmful; responsive design made it redundant. Verified roofs: ferrari.mobi, amazon.mobi redirects. Delete the old guide's unverified Fortune-500 list, "mobile-first TLD" pitch, and AIO boilerplate.
.ai: Anguilla Owns the Letters, Identity Digital Runs the Register — and ai.com Is Not the Same Thing
1.28M names, ~$85M in 2025 registry revenue (~47% of Anguilla government income), Identity Digital migration January 2025, $140/year wholesale with a mandatory two-year term — plus why the old guide's $70 pricing, 500K volume, OIS-as-operator line, and SEO/AIO boilerplate failed audit.
.fund Names the Vehicle—Not the Campaign
John Castle→Binky Moon→Identity Digital, ~21.9k mid-2026 names, abc.fund and adventure.fund as live roofs—and why give.fund-style fundraising Mad Libs are landers, not proof.
.info Promised Information, Delivered Spam: 7.6M Peak, Identity Digital, and a Reputation That Never Recovered
ICANN's 2001 "informational" gTLD peaked at 7.63M (Oct 2012), troughed near 3.96M (Dec 2024), rebounded to ~5.56M on promo churn—and Interisle lists .INFO in the top phishing cohort five years running. Afilias → Donuts → Identity Digital; wholesale $21 → $23.50 Jan 2027—and why the old guide's Mad Lib notables and AIO boilerplate failed audit.
.io Rents Silicon Valley From a Sovereignty Dispute: Chagos, Identity Digital, and the Sunset Clock
1.72M names, ~$42M/year registry revenue, the May 2025 Chagos treaty shelved in 2026 after US opposition, ISO/ICANN five-year sunset mechanics—and why the old guide's "no UDRP" line and formulaic startup checklist failed audit.
.live Is Present-Tense English That Expires
Rightside’s 2015 launch, Donuts→Identity Digital handoffs, go.live’s $75k lander arc, immerss.live and live-commerce roofs, ~1.11M mid-2026 names—and why urgency English dies when the stream ends.
.pro: Licensed Professionals Only Until 2015 — Identity Digital, ~1M Names, and Few Real Roofs
ICANN's 2002 credential gTLD peaked near ~1.02M zone names (Feb 2026), opened unrestricted 16 Nov 2015 after a decade of verification theater, and shares Identity Digital's $21 wholesale (→ $23.50 Jan 2027). Verified roofs: dorian.pro, poker.pro, video.pro. Delete the old guide's 300–500k fiction, European-freelancer Mad Libs, E-E-A-T AIO boilerplate, and invented premium tiers.
.sh: Four Thousand Islanders, Three Thousand DNS Names—and a Shell Extension the World Borrowed
~3K delegated names (not 11K brochure), ICB/Identity Digital registry stack, Google does NOT treat .sh as a gccTLD, $30–70 shelf renewals, verified roofs from brew.sh to nah.sh—and why the old guide's generic-ccTLD line, Railway.sh/Warp.sh/curl.sh brochure, and formulaic shell-script checklist failed audit.
.vc Rents Venture Capital From a Caribbean Registry — Saint Vincent, Identity Digital, and the gccTLD Gap
~76k names, Tucows→Afilias→Identity Digital lineage, WIPO lists no UDRP—and mid-2026 HTTP checks show `tiny.vc`, `hack.vc`, and `cherry.vc` as live fund roofs while `accel.vc`, `greylock.vc`, and the old guide's `a16z.vc` proof points collapse.