Designer’s former fashion house tried to reverse hijack the domain name from her. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found (pdf) a fashion company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after it tried to take a domain name matching its founder’s personal name. Temperley Holdings Limited filed a cybersquatting complaint against fashion designer Alice [...]

Company behind .bank and .insurance is looking for a new leader. A longtime fixture in the domain name business is retiring, opening up an interesting job opportunity. Craig Schwartz, president of fTLD, announced that he is retiring in Q2 2027. He’s led the company since 2011, after spending five years at ICANN. fTLD manages the [...]

How AI is changing all businesses. AI changes everything, and that includes domain names and the web presence business. As Wall Street tries to figure out the winners and losers, many incumbent large tech companies, including GoDaddy, have seen their share prices fall. This week, I chat with Vinod Suresh, VP of Product Management at [...]

Take a look at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month. A potential GoDaddy takeover, layoffs, and a .com pricing lawsuit made headlines last month. 1. Norton antivirus software maker in talks to acquire GoDaddy – The Financial Times wrote about early-stage talks. At least one analyst thinks it’s unlikely to happen. Perhaps [...]

New security product to provide current certificate status information. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced its long-awaited new security product today, along with its application for the .pki top level domain. Verisign Informed addresses what the company calls stale trust, where decisions are based on out-of-date certificate information. Systems can rely on old or cached information about [...]

ICANN researchers identified associated domains for 56.4% of malicious registrations studied, introducing a public-data detection method that could inform DNS abuse investigations and proposed registrar obligations.

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Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.

The startup crossed over $1 million in anualized revenue within two months of its post-pivot launch.