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.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.
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WHOIS Privacy: What Every Domain Investor Should Know
ICANN Registration Data Policy effective Aug 21, 2025: public redaction is default, accurate data still mandatory, RDAP replaces WHOIS port 43.
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Building AI Agents for Domain Research: Architecture That Verifies Before It Recommends
Production domain agents combine LLM generation, RDAP/WHOIS cascades, and scoring layers—not chatbots that hallucinate availability. Here is the six-layer stack with real API patterns.