Infoblox researchers uncovered two operations exploiting government and educational DNS infrastructure across three countries to promote illegal gambling, exposing security weaknesses that conventional website monitoring may overlook.
"It's causing a lot of people to run who I don't want to be running," native Californian Palmer Luckey said. "But I'm planning on staying in California. I'm going to keep fighting it."
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today.
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
13.1 million new .com/.net registrations set another record. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported third-quarter earnings this afternoon. The company reported $443 million in Q3 revenue, up 5.7% year over year. Operating income increased from $284 million to $296 million. Net income was flat after deducting a $7.5 million loss related to assets held for sale. Its [...]
New API makes it possible to integrate with other tools and manage your portfolio. Afternic’s Portfolio API is now open to all sellers. The API lets sellers automate tasks and optimize their portfolio. I’ve used it in two ways: Add listings – When I have bulk listings to add, the API can be easier to [...]
A new wave of applicants is betting on dot-brands despite limited adoption. Today, ICANN posted another termination notice from a dot-brand owner seeking to cancel a TLD it acquired in the 2012 expansion round. Nippon Life Insurance Company said it no longer wants to operate .nissay. (Its domain name is nissay.co.jp.) That brings the total [...]
Josh Reason shares an update on his hand registration experiment. The numbers don’t lie: people are hand registering more domains now than ever before. In the third quarter, people registered 13.1 million new .com and .net domains. That was a record for Verisign, beating the previous record set just three months earlier. Sure, some were [...]
Verisign paid a lot for .web. We’re about to see what kind of return it will get. In an SEC filing yesterday, Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) disclosed the total cost of acquiring the .web top level domain: $171.4 million. Most of that was already known. In 2016, Nu Dot Co won an ICANN auction for the [...]
Only 21 internationalized domain name applications were submitted in ICANN's 2026 new gTLD round, raising government concerns about linguistic diversity and the accessibility of the domain expansion program.