The hardware world had a brutal week, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes all filing for bankruptcy. Each company faces its own mix of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and shifting markets, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and cheap overseas competition. From [...]
The gaming startup will allow Netflix subscribers to create avatars that can extend across gaming titles.
merch.org Estimated end time: 2025-12-21 23:31 ESTCurrent Bid: 3,000 USD Reserve met Bids: 4 Domain Language: --
Called the Unicorn Growth Fund, the investment vehicle is a collaboration between Krafton and South Korean internet conglomerate Naver, and investor Mirae Asset. It aims to deploy around $669.3 million over four years.
Large finance company seeks to recover 49 domain names. Financial services company BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against 49 domain names that it alleges infringe its trademarks. The company filed the in rem lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia, where both the .com registry, Verisign, and the .org registry, Public [...]
merch.org Estimated end time: 2025-12-21 23:31 ESTCurrent Bid: 1,500 USD Reserve not met Bids: 1 Domain Language: --
A domain expiration at my podcast platform hit while I was recording. ICANN has several policies in place to prevent people from accidentally letting their domain names expire. One of these is that registrars must “interrupt” the site by changing nameservers; this alerts the domain owner to the expiration during the time they can still renew the [...]
A bitcoin forum, a private equity company, and Delaware North bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this week was a private equity company buying the .com to match its .co.uk domain. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that were completed at Sedo over the past week. You can view previous lists [...]
Move comes ahead of more top level domain expansion. Ethos Capital, the private equity firm that acquired a majority stake in Identity Digital in 2021, announced a new funding round for the company today. Ethos completed a continuation vehicle (CV) transaction for Identity Digital, bringing in institutional investors including TPG GP Solutions, funds managed by Neuberger, Accel-KKR, Coller [...]
The ICC's new cyber policy reframes Internet infrastructure as crucial to prosecuting atrocities, prompting DNS operators and network providers to grapple with emerging obligations around evidence, neutrality, and cooperation in international justice.