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.net Is Verisign's Shrinking Sidecar: 12.5M Names Stalled While .com Grows — and Wholesale Now Costs More
DNIB Q2 2026: 12.5M .net flat for three quarters while .com hit 166.6M. Peak was 15.0M (Dec 2014), not "~16M in 2015." Wholesale $11.66 since Feb 2024—above .com's $10.26. Same Verisign DNS stack, opposite momentum—and why the old guide's AIO boilerplate and "Plan B" brochure failed audit.
