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Australia's .au registry ended September 2026 with 4,427,175 domain names under management, according to auDA's monthly report. That is 3.1% more than a year earlier. New registrations during September totaled 66,140, up 29% from September 2025, while the report's namespace breakdown shows where the names sit.

Google Registry’s .EAT, .FLY and .HERE extensions are in their trademark Sunrise phase. That phase runs through November 9, 2026, before an Early Access Period on November 10–16 and General Availability from November 17. The dates matter because eligibility and fees differ by phase.

Nominet’s September 2026 register table lists 10,723,942 domains across the .UK namespace, 66,218 more than at the end of August. Here is what the figures count and how to use them when choosing a domain.

EURid's Q3 2026 update puts the .eu domain base at 3,787,173 registrations, with 166,503 new registrations during the quarter. The figures describe a registry market, not how many websites are active or whether a particular name is available.

Let’s Encrypt said on October 7, 2026 that its default certificates will move from 90 to 64 days on February 10, 2027. A staging test starts October 14. Website owners should check how their certificates renew before the shorter lifetime reaches production.

Chrome 154, released September 22, 2026, enables a default prompt for insecure HTTP connections. Website owners should confirm that their public domains load over HTTPS, use valid certificates, and avoid insecure links that can interrupt a visitor’s journey.

Cloudflare said on September 29, 2026 that customers can now see which TLS key exchange groups are used by traffic to their proxied domains. The new view helps site owners measure adoption of hybrid post-quantum TLS 1.3 without treating a domain or certificate as automatically quantum-safe.

Identity Digital says .DIGITAL registrations increased 126% year over year, reflecting stronger interest in descriptive web addresses. The registry’s figure is useful market context, but it does not measure active websites, traffic or business results. Domain buyers should still compare the exact name, renewal cost and long-term fit.

Global domain registrations reached 401.6 million at the end of Q2 2026, up 2.3% from the previous quarter and 8.1% year over year. The data shows continued growth across .com, .net and country-code domains—but registration totals do not measure active websites or guarantee that one extension is right for every project.

Cloudflare has enabled ML-DSA-44 validation on its 1.1.1.1 public resolver, creating a large-scale test of post-quantum signatures in DNSSEC. The change is an early infrastructure step: domain owners do not need to change their DNS settings today.