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.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.
.online Is the Loanword Radix Industrialized
Private-auction birth, ~3.84M mid-2026 names, $0.98 promos vs $400k betting.online—casino.online, course.online, radiate.online as live receipts, and why a connectivity adverb attracts both category killers and coupon burners.
.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.