Posts tagged "gtld"

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March 25, 2026 19 min read

The Rise of .xyz: From $25,000 Gamble to 50 Million Hostnames and the New gTLD's Only Success Story

We parsed 50.6 million hostnames in the .xyz namespace and found 13.3 million direct registrations generating 37.6 million subdomains. .xyz is the largest new gTLD on Earth and the 4th-largest gTLD overall — ahead of the UK's .uk and level with Brazil's .br. But a fresh DNS pass complicates the 'live infrastructure' story: only 42% of .xyz roots still resolve. The real .xyz is a barbell — a genuine developer and crypto core wrapped in a vast promotional-churn tail. Refreshed June 2026 with first-party resolution data.

analysis xyz gtld tld-trends domain-economics
March 23, 2026 19 min read

.NET: 400 Million Hostnames, 13 Million Registrations, and the TLD That Became the Internet's Plumbing

We observed 400.8 million hostnames under .net — the #2 namespace on the Internet behind only .com — against roughly 13 million registry registrations, a ~30x gap. .net's hostname mass comes overwhelmingly from provider infrastructure: CDN edge nodes, dynamic-DNS, ISP reverse-DNS, and mail/hosting back-ends that mint subdomains by the thousand. And 72.6% of those names return a live A record, well above the 58.9% whole-namespace rate. The TLD created in 1985 for 'network' organizations became literally the Internet's network layer. Refreshed June 2026 with first-party resolution data.

analysis gtld infrastructure verisign domain-economics