Author: sHq_LoGiNz
WHAT:
Rachel Hodgdon, President and CEO of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), will join leading experts in public health, architecture and healthy buildings – including healthy buildings expert and author Dr. Joseph G. Allen, Director of Harvard University’s Healthy Buildings Program – for a discussion during 2026 Aspen Ideas – Health on how the design and operation of buildings can improve human health, resilience and quality of life.
The session, “Healthy Buildings for Healthy Lives,” will explore the growing body of evidence showing how healthier indoor environments—from cleaner air and better ventilation to healthier materials, daylight and biophilic design—can help reduce disease transmission, support mental health and strengthen resilience in the face of climate change.
As people spend approximately 90% of their time indoors, the conversation will examine why healthy buildings have become an increasingly important public health strategy and what building owners, employers and policymakers can do to create healthier places where people live, learn, work and heal.
WHO:
- Rachel Hodgdon, President and CEO, International WELL Building Institute
- Joseph Allen, Director, Healthy Buildings Program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Diana Araoz-Fraser, Vice President and Studio Design Leader, HKS Architects
- Moderator: Céline Gounder, CBS News Medical Contributor and Editor-at-Large, KFF Health News
WHEN:
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
1:40 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
WHERE:
Aspen Ideas: Health
East Lawn Tent
MEDIA OPPORTUNITY:
Rachel Hodgdon is available for interviews before and after the session to discuss:
- Why investing in healthy buildings is an investment in public health and a C-suite mission
- The business case for healthier workplaces and communities
- Healthy buildings as a strategy for climate resilience and disease prevention
- How evidence-based building design can improve health, well-being and organizational performance
- The growing global movement to advance health through the built environment
For interview requests, please contact: media@wellcertified.com
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 22, 2026, /3BL/ — The Howard University & PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship will host its 2026 HBCU Empower Conference June 24–26 at the Westin DC Downtown in Washington, D.C.
This national convening brings together founders, investors and ecosystem leaders to explore how entrepreneurs can plant seeds for prosperity and ownership that extend far beyond a single generation.
For centuries, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have served as engines of ingenuity, resilience and leadership, producing entrepreneurs and institution builders. Today, that legacy enters a new chapter as artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the global economy, reshapes industries, and redefines how businesses are built.
Now in its fourth year, the summit has grown into one of the nation’s premier convenings dedicated to HBCU entrepreneurship and innovation. With a theme of “Securing Our Place in the Future,” HBCU Empower will bring together professionals and students from across the country to explore how AI can drive entrepreneurial wealth and generational prosperity. Participants will examine how tradition and technology intersect to create pathways of ownership and opportunity.
“This summit reflects our continuing commitment to supporting entrepreneurs with the tools, insights, and connections they need to thrive,” said Johnny Graham, Ph.D., national executive director of the Howard University & PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship. “For students, faculty, and experienced and new founders, this conference will provide the connections, capital, and conversations needed to ensure that entrepreneurs are not just participants in the innovation economy but are leading it.”
The PNC Foundation supports the Howard University & PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship’s mission to build resources and support for entrepreneurs across the country. Since its founding, the National Center has awarded more than $800,000 in funding to students, faculty, staff, and community entrepreneurs; engaged 83 HBCUs and built a program community of more than 7,500 participants and attendees.
“Helping to expand access and opportunity is part of what community impact means to us at PNC,” said Stacy Juchno, PNC chief corporate responsibility officer. “When we help entrepreneurs succeed, we make positive impact in our communities, through job creation and small business expansion. We’re proud to support this work.”
This year’s conference highlights include the Mecca Marketplace and the HBCU Empower Pitch Competition, along with mainstage panels, expert-led workshops, and networking receptions. The conference closes with the HBCU Empower Awards, celebrating student, faculty and alumni innovators.
Attendees will hear from business experts and entrepreneurs, including: Cornell McBride Jr., president of Design Essentials; Donald Cravins Jr., president and CEO of the National Minority Supplier Development Council; Shaina Rainford, founder and CEO of Bask and Lather Co.; Nasir Qadree, founder & managing partner of Zeal Capital Partners; and Natalie Madeira Cofield, president and CEO of Association for Enterprise Opportunity.
Registration details and the program agenda are available at hbcuempower.com. Members of the media can request press credentials by contacting the Howard University Office of University Communications at mediarelations@howard.edu.
Media Contacts:
Carol Wilkerson, mediarelations@howard.edu
Angie Carducci, angela.carducci@pnc.com
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About The PNC Foundation
The PNC Foundation, which receives its principal funding from The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), actively supports organizations that provide services for the benefit of communities in which it has a significant presence. The Foundation focuses its philanthropic mission on early childhood education and community and economic development, which includes the arts and culture. Through PNC Grow Up Great®, its signature cause that began in 2004, PNC has created a bilingual $500 million, multi-year initiative to help prepare children from birth to age 5 for success in school and life.
About The Howard University & PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship
The Howard University & PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship is a national consortium & hub focused on enhancing entrepreneurship education at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) and empowering entrepreneurs around the country. The National Center for Entrepreneurship enhances the success and growth of businesses through providing programming, capital, curriculum, research, and other resources in collaboration with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their surrounding communities.
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–2025 Corporate Responsibility Report
LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 22, 2026 /3BL/ – Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) published its annual Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report, spotlighting how the company is integrating sustainability into its growth strategy to manage long-term risk, improve operational resilience and support franchisee success.
“In 2025, we made continued progress on our global citizenship and sustainability priorities while navigating meaningful change, both in our business and in the external environment,” said Yum! Brands CEO Chris Turner. “Across markets, evolving regulations and disclosure expectations are reshaping how companies approach issues like packaging and responsible sourcing. At the same time, our teams remain focused on building capabilities and systems that support our franchisees and strengthen our brands for the long term.”
2025 was a year of progress across the company’s People, Food and Planet pillars as it introduced its new growth plan. Sustainability efforts at Yum! support the company’s business strategy by building and managing long-term risks. Highlights from the report include:
- Invested over $74 million to fight hunger worldwide, reaching 6.5 million people and delivering 46.8 million meal equivalents through food, product and cash donations
- Strengthened global food safety systems through Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-recognized certifications, with approximately 93% of required suppliers being GFSI-certified
- Established Raised Responsibly framework, a unified, science-based approach focused on improving how chickens are raised through measurable, outcome-based indicators that builds on a strong foundation of KFC’s supply chain efforts including monitoring the welfare of more than 13 billion chickens since 2018
- Decreased Scope 1 & 2 emissions 18% from 2019 baseline while improving corporate-owned restaurant emissions intensity by 40% since 2019
- Continued investments in climate-focused supply chain pilots across beef, dairy, soy and chicken including KFC France chicken farm emissions reduction pilots, a new KFC and Conservation International project that supports more sustainable production of palm oil and soy, and the Taco Bell U.S. beef partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- Elevated packaging with focus on circularity, including the Pizza Hut U.S. recyclable wing bowl, Habit’s shift from select plastic packaging to fiber-based formats and the company’s overall strategic management of compliance efforts such as extended producer responsibility
- Assessed corporate risks related to sustainability through multiple reports including an initial Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures Report and an updated Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Report
“We continue to integrate citizenship and sustainability at Yum! and within our brands, driving business resilience through efforts like strategic supply chain partnerships and operating more efficient restaurants,” said Jon Hixson, Yum! Brands Chief Sustainability Officer & Vice President, Government Affairs. “I’m proud of the work we’ve done to drive value creation and support our franchisees in growing our iconic restaurant brands globally.”
For further details, view the Yum! Brands’ 2025 Global Citizenship & Sustainability Report at www.yum.com/impact.
About Yum! Brands, Inc.
Yum! Brands, Inc., and its subsidiaries franchise or operate more than 63,000 restaurants across over 155 countries and territories under its iconic brands — KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Habit Burger & Grill. KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are global leaders in the chicken, Mexican-inspired food and pizza categories, respectively. Habit Burger & Grill is a fast-casual concept known for made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more.
Fueled by Yum!’s Recipe for Good Growth, KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut led Entrepreneur’s 2026 Franchise 500 rankings and its Top Global Franchises 2025 list. In 2026, Yum!’s unrivaled culture and talent led it to be named one of TIME magazine’s list of Best Companies for Future Leaders for the third consecutive year.
Originally published on GoDaddy Resource Library
Somewhere in the world, right now, someone is naming an idea.
It might be a bakery in Lisbon. An AI startup in San Francisco. A small business owner in Mumbai turning a weekend side hustle into something bigger. Before any of it becomes real, one thing has to happen first: they need a domain name.
That’s where we come in.
For more than 25 years, GoDaddy has had the pleasure of being there for that moment. Today, over 20 million customers in more than 100 countries trust us to help them claim their corner of the internet – which means that when we look at our proprietary data, we’re not just looking at GoDaddy. We’re looking at a meaningful slice of the open web itself.
So once a year, we step back and ask a simple question: what is the world actually building?
In this blog post, we’ll cover the full answer. It’s a story about domain names, geography, language, ambition, and taste. About the enduring power of .com, the breakout of .ai, and a handful of shifts we didn’t see coming. And more than anything, it’s a thank-you — genuinely — to every single person who decided 2025 was their year to start something new, and trusted GoDaddy to help them register a domain and bring it to life.
.com is still the anchor. But the story is getting richer.
Let’s start with the number that barely moved and the one that shifted the most.
In 2025, .com accounted for 50.25% of every domain registered on GoDaddy. More than the next fourteen extensions combined. Four decades in, three letters still carry remarkable trust.
Look across our major markets, though, and the picture gets more textured:
- United States – 64.98% .com
- Canada – 46.16%
- India – 45.96%
- United Kingdom – 36.68%
- China – 20.41%
In the U.S., customers who register a domain still reach for .com almost by reflex. In other markets, customers are thoughtfully building a mix, blending .com with local or specialty extensions that reflect where they are and what they do.
Five countries, most of our registrations
On GoDaddy, the domain market is more concentrated than you might expect. In 2025, nearly 70% of the new domains registered with us came from just five countries, with the U.S. leading at 41.77% of all GoDaddy registrations.
| Rank | Country | Share of GoDaddy 2025 registrations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 41.77% |
| 2 | India | 9.54% |
| 3 | China | 8.24% |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 6.40% |
| 5 | Canada | 3.73% |
A closer look at the U.S.
Since the United States drives over 40% of global registrations, it’s worth taking a closer look at what American business owners are actually choosing.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the top five domain extensions registered in the United States:
Two things stand out.
First, .com’s grip on the U.S. is unmatched. Nearly two out of every three American customers who register a domain on GoDaddy still reach for .com.
Second, .ai has cracked the top five. An extension that wasn’t on anyone’s radar three years ago now outranks .us in the U.S.
Outside the U.S., local extensions shine
If you’re building a business beyond American borders, here’s a pattern worth planning around: one .com is often not the full picture.
In the UK, .co.uk nearly matches .com among GoDaddy customers at 35.89%. Add .uk, and more than four in ten UK registrations are local extensions.
In India, .in alone accounts for 24.91% of GoDaddy registrations. Include .co.in, and close to one in three Indian domains on GoDaddy is a local ccTLD.
In Canada, .ca sits at 34.78% of Canadian registrations, about a third of the market. The takeaway is practical. Customers in these markets often want to see a local extension, and search engines reward the signal. If you’re expanding internationally, pairing your .com with a local ccTLD when you buy a domain is one of the simplest ways to build trust with local audiences.
The breakout story of 2025: .ai
Every year has an extension that defines it. In our 2025 data, that extension was .ai.
On GoDaddy, .ai registrations grew 62.6% year-over-year. In our rankings, it climbed from #18 to #14 in a single year.
And the growth wasn’t powered by a handful of large buyers. Total registrations and daily averages grew at nearly identical rates, which tells us this demand came from thousands of individual founders and teams, each making the same choice independently.
The U.S. led the way. More than 60% of .ai domains registered on GoDaddy came from American customers. Nearly 2% of every U.S. domain registered on GoDaddy in 2025 was a .ai, a meaningful share for an extension that most people didn’t really use three years ago. The signal is simple: if you’re building something in AI, .ai proves credibility. You can find your .ai domain on GoDaddy in seconds.
Ecommerce has its own lane
A few years ago, telling someone your domain ended in .shop might have sounded experimental. Not in 2025.
In 2025, .shop became the #4 extension on GoDaddy globally, at 2.82% of all registrations. .store landed at #11 with 1.93%. Together, they represent millions of merchants who decided the fastest way to tell a customer what they do is to put it right there in the URL. If you’re starting an online business and the .com you want is already taken, a .shop or .store isn’t a compromise. It’s a clear, confident signal of what you sell.
The internet has a favorite day
Wednesday is the busiest day for domain registrations on GoDaddy.
In 2025, 16.8% of every U.S. domain registration on GoDaddy happened on a Wednesday. Weekends run about 35% below the weekday average. The calendar has its own pattern too: February surges as entrepreneurs act on New Year plans, and mid-November picks up as businesses gear up for Q4.
So if you’re sitting on a name you love, don’t leave it for Saturday. Wednesday mornings are when the internet moves fastest, and the name you want today is likely the name someone else is searching for right now.
What 2025 is telling us about 2026
Here’s what the cumulative stats tell us about domain trends in 2026:
- .com is still the anchor. Trusted, instinctive, and still more than half of GoDaddy registrations.
- Local extensions matter more than ever. If you sell beyond the U.S., pairing your .com with a ccTLD is often a smart move.
- .ai has graduated. No longer a tech flex. If you’re building in AI, you need a .ai domain.
- Ecommerce extensions are credible. .shop and .store have earned their place.
- Timing is an advantage. The best moment to find a domain name and lock it in is midweek, before demand peaks.
The domain landscape heading into 2026 is more diverse, more global, and more thoughtful than it has ever been. That’s the good news for anyone starting something new: there have never been more ways to plant your flag online.
The hardest part is just deciding to begin.
Your name is out there
Much of the internet has been built by people willing to name something new.
Somewhere in our 2025 proprietary data is a founder who registered a domain on an ordinary Wednesday in February and changed the trajectory of their life. In 2026, that could be you.
If you have an idea, a business, or a brand still waiting on a name, this is the moment. Find and register your domain on GoDaddy in minutes, and join the 20+ million customers already building what’s next.
GoDaddy customers registered millions of domains in 2025. The only one that matters for you is the one you haven’t registered yet.
Originally published on GoDaddy Resource Library
Somewhere in the world, right now, someone is naming an idea.
It might be a bakery in Lisbon. An AI startup in San Francisco. A small business owner in Mumbai turning a weekend side hustle into something bigger. Before any of it becomes real, one thing has to happen first: they need a domain name.
That’s where we come in.
For more than 25 years, GoDaddy has had the pleasure of being there for that moment. Today, over 20 million customers in more than 100 countries trust us to help them claim their corner of the internet – which means that when we look at our proprietary data, we’re not just looking at GoDaddy. We’re looking at a meaningful slice of the open web itself.
So once a year, we step back and ask a simple question: what is the world actually building?
In this blog post, we’ll cover the full answer. It’s a story about domain names, geography, language, ambition, and taste. About the enduring power of .com, the breakout of .ai, and a handful of shifts we didn’t see coming. And more than anything, it’s a thank-you — genuinely — to every single person who decided 2025 was their year to start something new, and trusted GoDaddy to help them register a domain and bring it to life.
.com is still the anchor. But the story is getting richer.
Let’s start with the number that barely moved and the one that shifted the most.
In 2025, .com accounted for 50.25% of every domain registered on GoDaddy. More than the next fourteen extensions combined. Four decades in, three letters still carry remarkable trust.
Look across our major markets, though, and the picture gets more textured:
- United States – 64.98% .com
- Canada – 46.16%
- India – 45.96%
- United Kingdom – 36.68%
- China – 20.41%
In the U.S., customers who register a domain still reach for .com almost by reflex. In other markets, customers are thoughtfully building a mix, blending .com with local or specialty extensions that reflect where they are and what they do.
Five countries, most of our registrations
On GoDaddy, the domain market is more concentrated than you might expect. In 2025, nearly 70% of the new domains registered with us came from just five countries, with the U.S. leading at 41.77% of all GoDaddy registrations.
| Rank | Country | Share of GoDaddy 2025 registrations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 41.77% |
| 2 | India | 9.54% |
| 3 | China | 8.24% |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 6.40% |
| 5 | Canada | 3.73% |
A closer look at the U.S.
Since the United States drives over 40% of global registrations, it’s worth taking a closer look at what American business owners are actually choosing.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the top five domain extensions registered in the United States:
Two things stand out.
First, .com’s grip on the U.S. is unmatched. Nearly two out of every three American customers who register a domain on GoDaddy still reach for .com.
Second, .ai has cracked the top five. An extension that wasn’t on anyone’s radar three years ago now outranks .us in the U.S.
Outside the U.S., local extensions shine
If you’re building a business beyond American borders, here’s a pattern worth planning around: one .com is often not the full picture.
In the UK, .co.uk nearly matches .com among GoDaddy customers at 35.89%. Add .uk, and more than four in ten UK registrations are local extensions.
In India, .in alone accounts for 24.91% of GoDaddy registrations. Include .co.in, and close to one in three Indian domains on GoDaddy is a local ccTLD.
In Canada, .ca sits at 34.78% of Canadian registrations, about a third of the market. The takeaway is practical. Customers in these markets often want to see a local extension, and search engines reward the signal. If you’re expanding internationally, pairing your .com with a local ccTLD when you buy a domain is one of the simplest ways to build trust with local audiences.
The breakout story of 2025: .ai
Every year has an extension that defines it. In our 2025 data, that extension was .ai.
On GoDaddy, .ai registrations grew 62.6% year-over-year. In our rankings, it climbed from #18 to #14 in a single year.
And the growth wasn’t powered by a handful of large buyers. Total registrations and daily averages grew at nearly identical rates, which tells us this demand came from thousands of individual founders and teams, each making the same choice independently.
The U.S. led the way. More than 60% of .ai domains registered on GoDaddy came from American customers. Nearly 2% of every U.S. domain registered on GoDaddy in 2025 was a .ai, a meaningful share for an extension that most people didn’t really use three years ago. The signal is simple: if you’re building something in AI, .ai proves credibility. You can find your .ai domain on GoDaddy in seconds.
Ecommerce has its own lane
A few years ago, telling someone your domain ended in .shop might have sounded experimental. Not in 2025.
In 2025, .shop became the #4 extension on GoDaddy globally, at 2.82% of all registrations. .store landed at #11 with 1.93%. Together, they represent millions of merchants who decided the fastest way to tell a customer what they do is to put it right there in the URL. If you’re starting an online business and the .com you want is already taken, a .shop or .store isn’t a compromise. It’s a clear, confident signal of what you sell.
The internet has a favorite day
Wednesday is the busiest day for domain registrations on GoDaddy.
In 2025, 16.8% of every U.S. domain registration on GoDaddy happened on a Wednesday. Weekends run about 35% below the weekday average. The calendar has its own pattern too: February surges as entrepreneurs act on New Year plans, and mid-November picks up as businesses gear up for Q4.
So if you’re sitting on a name you love, don’t leave it for Saturday. Wednesday mornings are when the internet moves fastest, and the name you want today is likely the name someone else is searching for right now.
What 2025 is telling us about 2026
Here’s what the cumulative stats tell us about domain trends in 2026:
- .com is still the anchor. Trusted, instinctive, and still more than half of GoDaddy registrations.
- Local extensions matter more than ever. If you sell beyond the U.S., pairing your .com with a ccTLD is often a smart move.
- .ai has graduated. No longer a tech flex. If you’re building in AI, you need a .ai domain.
- Ecommerce extensions are credible. .shop and .store have earned their place.
- Timing is an advantage. The best moment to find a domain name and lock it in is midweek, before demand peaks.
The domain landscape heading into 2026 is more diverse, more global, and more thoughtful than it has ever been. That’s the good news for anyone starting something new: there have never been more ways to plant your flag online.
The hardest part is just deciding to begin.
Your name is out there
Much of the internet has been built by people willing to name something new.
Somewhere in our 2025 proprietary data is a founder who registered a domain on an ordinary Wednesday in February and changed the trajectory of their life. In 2026, that could be you.
If you have an idea, a business, or a brand still waiting on a name, this is the moment. Find and register your domain on GoDaddy in minutes, and join the 20+ million customers already building what’s next.
GoDaddy customers registered millions of domains in 2025. The only one that matters for you is the one you haven’t registered yet.