List includes founder’s name, .matt. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, plans to expand its top level domain name portfolio by as many as 16 domains. The company already operates .blog, which has about 375,000 registrations. (For more about its thinking behind getting .blog in the 2012 expansion round, listen to Domain Name Wire’s podcast with [...]
Company will face competitors for some of the domains, including .agent. Google has applied for 39 top level domain names in ICANN’s 2026 expansion round. That’s far fewer than the 101 it applied for last time, in 2012. From the last batch, two of its most successful open top level domains are .app and .dev. [...]
Company applies for five “dot brands” plus generic strings, such as .agent, .skill. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has decided to get into the top level domain name business. The company applied for fifteen top level domain names: agent agi asi chatgpt codex daybreak deploy evals gpt mcp model oai openai skill voice The company is [...]
Company makes massive investment in new strings, including applications for .agent and .crypto. Identity Digital hopes to add hundreds of top level domain names to its already massive portfolio. The company, which is already the largest registry in terms of top level domain names, applied for 216 strings in the 2026 round. The applications span [...]
Digital signatures, introduced by Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman in 1976's "New Directions in Cryptography," have provided the cornerstone of the internet's cybersecurity apparatus for decades. Every moment of every day, behind the scenes of nearly every secure online interaction, these signatures enable critical trust decisions made across the globe.
The financing includes an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures.
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Parallel Systems raised $100 million to scale production of its autonomous electric rail vehicle, which can shuttle thousands of pounds of freight up to 500 miles.
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The Detroit startup has widened its scope beyond mobility to help drone and robotics companies find U.S.-based manufacturers, shippers, and more.