Who is buying .si domain names?

Domain investors are responsible for nearly every transaction this year, and one is responsible for over 40% of transactions. Slovenia’s .si country code domain has suddenly become popular with domain investors. Some think the ccTLD could be used as short for “superintelligence”, an artificial intelligence term. While there has been talk about this for some [...]

Andrew Yang on Noble Mobile, UBI, and why he’s done waiting for policy to catch up

Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing.  An entrepreneur at heart, [...]

ICANN sends breach notice to TrustName

Registrar for “sensitive niches” has not been handling DNS abuse properly, ICANN says. ICANN sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Fewmoretaps OU, d/b/a TrustName.com, today. TrustName’s website bills itself as the “most trusted independent domain registrar for privacy-conscious individuals and businesses in sensitive niches. Count on us to be your “bulletproof” domain [...]