The IPv6 Divide: How Slow Adoption Creates Digital Vulnerabilities and Economic Inequality

The shift to IPv6 has escalated into a matter of national security, as nations lagging in adoption are increasingly exposed to cyber threats and diminished control over their digital infrastructure due to the limited availability of IPv4. With IPv6-only environments becoming more common, reliance on IPv4 may lead to slower connectivity, deepening the digital divide [...]

How the Four Domain Industry Visionaries Who Founded Nicky.me Aim to Make Cryptocurrency Commonplace on Main Street

PayPal just announced a new service that will allow merchants to accept over 100 cryptocurrencies.The mainstreaming of cryptocurrency is something well-known domain industry entrepreneurs Lars Jensen, Stevan Lieberman, Thomas Medard and Matheus Leite started working on over a year before PayPal's announcement when they teamed up to launch Nicky.me.- and they are doing things Paypal [...]

ICANN sends breach notice to domain registrar Webnic

Domain industry overseer says domain registrar is lax when investigating and responding to DNS abuse complaints. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc, a fairly large domain name registrar in Asia. WebNic has about 500,000 .com domain names under management in addition to domains in other extensions. ICANN [...]