ICANN has appointed PwC to conduct mandatory background screening for the 2026 new gTLD round, raising questions about cross-border applicant data handling and procedures for challenging adverse findings.
The already high level of anticipation surrounding the 2026 NamesCon Global conference that is coming up in Miami November 11 & 12, hit a new peak this morning when it was announced that GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani will be joining the party to present a very timely keynote speech. Aman's talk, titled Building for the [...]
Tressfecta builds products for textured hair. Its first project is a tool called Plait Pilot that helps braiders with the initial process of separating hair from packs before braiding begins.
According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have [...]
IP protection company makes inroads in Australia and New Zealand with acquisition. Intellectual property and domain management company Abion has acquired Brandsec’s corporate domain management business. Abion, formerly Ports Group, said the acquisition will help the company expand in Australia and New Zealand. Abion is based in Sweden and has its largest presence in Europe. [...]
Domain industry aficionados have been awaiting Reveal Day when ICANN will publish the list of entities that applied and the strings they applied for. Wednesday, is the big day, ICANN will also include replacement strings, a list of contention sets, and public portions of each application.
Now that autumn is here, outdoor temperatures are starting to drop but it's still blazing hot in the domain aftermarket. A 7-figure sale set the pace on our latest Top 20 Sales Chart and is one of the five biggest publicly reported sales of the year to date. A half dozen 6-figure sales followed including [...]
ICANN's highly anticipated Reveal Day arrived Thursday (Oct. 7), when the non-profit organization that coordinates the Internet's domain name system announced that 1,615 applications to run new top level domains (TLDs) had been received. More importantly, ICANN revealed all of the new strings that had been applied and who applied to run them.
Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG domain, announced the winners of the 2026 .ORG Impact Awards at an annual celebration in Washington, D.C. Seven category winners were selected from over 4,200 applicants from 145 countries with the winner of the prestigious .Org of the Year Award - TECHO.org - selected from that elite [...]