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iryndin

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I pulled the latest .com zone snapshot (updated Feb 22, 2026) and analyzed 160M active domains across 2,895 registrars, focusing on creation/expiration/update dates plus nameserver infrastructure. The report includes year-by-year growth, name-length saturation, registrar concentration, and NS-based classification, plus “new” cuts like an 18-month expiration forecast, DNS update recency, registrar portfolio vintage, and day-of-week registration patterns.

Did you have iOS development experience before ?

So, after building this app with Claude - what is your feedback on that? What can be improved/done differently? Could you please share any tips/hints on how to make development of iOS app with Claude easier/better?

I’m continuing to work on AllZonefiles.io — a domain-data hub that aggregates and serves large-scale zone files. Right now it covers ~354M domains across 1,575 zones, including ~114M domains from 317 ccTLDs, which turned out to be the hardest part operationally.

The next step is an extended dataset parsed from WHOIS: create/expire/update timestamps, NS records, and IANA registrar info. Stack is fairly boring on purpose: Go, bare-metal Linux, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap 5. The motivation is to make downloading and keeping the most complete domain lists possible automated and predictable, without manual registry workflows or fragmented sources.