Domain industry intelligence

The domain industry, in data

Three things nobody else keeps as structured data: the 2026 round of new top-level domains, the price rises registries have already scheduled, and what registrars actually charge day to day.

9 days until the Reveal Day ceiling 14 October 2026 — when ICANN has committed to publishing every 2026 gTLD application. ICANN has not named the actual date. It expects to announce it in mid-September 2026; nine weeks after the window closed is the deadline it set itself. How we know →

New gTLD round 2026 full tracker →

1,600+applications filed

1,100+named a backup string

1,930filed in 2012

The application window closed on 12 August after fifteen weeks — the first chance to apply for a new top-level domain in fourteen years. What was applied for stays secret until Reveal Day, and no public tracker of the applications exists, because the data does not exist publicly yet.

Next milestone: ICANN names Reveal Day, mid-September 2026.

Steepest rises ahead all 267 →

Registries must warn registrars 180 days before raising a renewal price, but those notices are never published centrally — so a rise is usually invisible until it lands. Measured against the cheapest renewal we currently track.

Next batch: 224 TLDs go up on 2026-10-06 — in 1 days.

2027-04-01 .vip ~~$5.15~~ → $18.00 +250%
2026-10-06 .navy ~~$33.47~~ → $84.00 +151%
2026-10-06 .memorial ~~$41.71~~ → $104.00 +149%
2026-10-06 .viajes ~~$36.56~~ → $79.00 +116%
2026-10-06 .events ~~$36.56~~ → $53.00 +45%
2026-10-06 .ltd ~~$25.23~~ → $36.00 +43%
2026-10-06 .domains ~~$34.50~~ → $48.00 +39%

Have they done this before? the archive →

371 increases have already landed since we began collecting notices. A registry that raised prices in each of the last two years is worth watching for a third.

Industry feed more →

2026-10-05 Junk drop hits .my domains hard Domain Incite
2026-10-05 As GoDaddy loses .us to Identity Digital, some domains may be at risk Domain Incite
2026-10-04 Paul Graham: Don’t own the .com? Think of another one DomainGang
2026-10-03 Swetha adds .Si to her repertoire selling Caspian.si TLDInvestors
2026-10-03 Atom.com launches its domain seller app for Android users DomainGang
2026-10-02 DropCatch auctions: Select domain results—October 2, 2026 | NowGoal.com sold for $36,000 DomainGang
2026-10-02 Craig Schwartz retiring, search begins for fTLD’s next president Domain Name Wire
2026-10-02 AliceTemperley.com UDRP: Designer keeps her own name; Complainant hit with RDNH DomainGang
2026-10-02 Fashion company’s cybersquatting case falls apart at the seams, panel finds RDNH Domain Name Wire
2026-10-02 Trayde.ai UDRP: Competing “trade” brands should meet in court DomainGang

Price observatory open →

What 858 TLDs cost right now at each tracked registrar, with 17284 dated price records behind them. Supporting data for the pages above rather than a price-comparison site — those exist already.