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.name: ICANN's Personal Namespace That Never Scaled—and Verisign Is Ending the firstname.lastname.name Era
~96K names under Verisign management (2026), down from 232K in 2012; $6.60 wholesale; third-level registrations and legacy tiered WHOIS slated for discontinuation. Verified roofs: cavin.name, lemire.name, jarekq.name. Delete the old guide's about.me fiction, unverified NameBio sales, and AIO boilerplate.
.com Is Verisign's Monopoly Rent on the Internet's Default — 166.6M Names, a 7% Cap, and $10.97 Incoming
166.6M names per DNIB Q2 2026—not "160M+." Wholesale $10.26 today, $10.97 from November 2026. Verisign's $1.66B revenue, 600B DNS queries/day, ICANN's price-cap debate, verified aftermarket ceilings—and why the old guide's 37% share, 70% survey, and AIO boilerplate failed audit.
.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.
.cc: Verisign's "Next .com" That China Read as 商业公司—Not Cocos Islands Commerce
eNIC/Verisign stack, Google gccTLD status, ~2.8M passive-DNS census vs the old guide's 600–800K fiction, May 2016 $8 wholesale cut (not a 2018 hike), 2015 China 17-yuan promos—and why co.cc spam, unverified SOE Mad Libs, and AIO boilerplate failed audit.
Domain Market Mid-2026: Verisign Q2 Data, NameBio Sales, and Where Capital Flows
401.6M domains registered globally at Q2 2026; NameBio logged $135.8M in $100+ sales YTD. Here is what moved—.com base growth, .ai premiums, and aftermarket liquidity—not generic 'prices going up' boilerplate.
Popular Domain Extensions in Mid-2026: What the Numbers Actually Say
Registration volume, brand signal, and aftermarket hype are three different questions. Here is a mid-2026 map of the TLD landscape using Verisign, registry, and ICANN data—without the inflated figures.