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The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that progression.

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 2nd quarter of 2026. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide passed the 400 million mark for the first time with 2Q-2026 closing at 401.6 million registrations.

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company. 

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder [...]

India's DNS abuse crisis exposes a registrar accountability gap: malicious domains remain online while vulnerable users bear the cost. Concentrated abuse patterns suggest stronger oversight and faster mitigation could significantly reduce predictable harms nationwide today.

Inactive cybersquatted domains may conceal active email infrastructure. MX records can corroborate bad faith in UDRP disputes when weighed with other evidence, helping panels address fraud risks before harm occurs without conflating capability with misconduct.

The second quarter of 2026 closed with 401.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 29.9 million domain name registrations compared to the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report released Thursday at DNIB.com.

As the New gTLD Program enters its final application stretch, ICANN's progress, stronger security expectations and clearer operational frameworks are giving applicants greater confidence ahead of ICANN87 in Bali and future expansion of domains worldwide.