From Sam Altman's olive oil "scandal" to Soham Parekh's viral moment, a lot of silly stuff has gone down in tech this year.

College filed case against a man whose last name is Davidson. Davidson College, a prestigious school in North Carolina, has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against the domain name davidson.one. Dominic Davidson, a New Zealand man, registered the domain name and others with his surname in them for his personal and business use. The [...]

Google’s decision to effectively sunset AdSense for Domains is having a significant impact on the domain industry. Perhaps the writing was on the wall. In 2023 and 2024, Google made several changes to AdSense for Domains (AFD) that curtailed revenue. First, it implemented new consent requirements for visitors from the EU before they’d be presented [...]

.Com registry says data shows short sellers were way out of line about impact of AdSense for Domains. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) published a blog post this week stating that data shows short sellers were wrong about the impact AdSense for Domains (AFD) would have on .com registrations. Google effectively shut down its AdSense for Domains [...]

A seven-year malware campaign, orchestrated through seemingly trusted browser extensions, exposed millions of users to DNS abuse. ShadyPanda's infrastructure reveals how trust, subtlety and DNS manipulation sustained an enduring threat.

The UN's move to grant permanence to the Internet Governance Forum reframes legitimacy in digital policy. As states accelerate action, multistakeholder processes risk becoming ceremonial, with speed replacing consent as the arbiter of influence.

According to Dealroom’s European Spinout Report 2025, 76 European deep tech and life sciences spinouts have either reached $1 billion valuations, $100 million in revenue, or both.

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Group hopes to raise €80,000 through Kickstarter to help fund .meow top level domain. In what I believe is a first for top level domain names, a potential applicant in the next round has turned to Kickstarter to raise funds for its application. dotMeow Foundation is a Belgian nonprofit that wants to promote social inclusion, [...]

Panel: “Sloppy, Incomplete” Complaint “Overstates” Complainant’s Case We are clearly at the point where Panels will not tolerate sloppy and incomplete pleadings. As noted by the Panel, “the Factual Background section of the Complaint comprises two paragraphs” [and] the Bad Faith section does not address the obvious difficulty that the disputed Domain Name was registered [...]