- Despite a recent announcement by one domain registrar, .io domains prices aren’t jumping. Earlier today, domain name registrar Hexonet sent a notice to customers about a .io price increase. The message stated: We have recently been...
- This site helps you find recently-expired domains that you can hand register. A new expired domain name site offers an interesting twist on finding expired domains. The free site could be helpful to brandable domain investors looking to...
- The flawed report doesn’t adequately address the lock-in of existing domain registrants. ICANN has published an economic analysis (pdf) about price controls in .org and .info. While it has some good points, the analysis is flawed....
- Snoop Dogg’s daughter, an international trading company, and a clothing designer bought domain names. Domain broker Mark Ghoriafi has a lot of hustle and energy, which paid off this month with his biggest sale since joining Sedo:...
- Howard Neu didn't want a traditional funeral when he passed last month. Domain industry pioneers helped give him the send off he wanted.
- Domain aftermarkets need to clean up their inventory. Let me start this rant with some good news. This month, I sold a domain name for $6,500 that I found through Domain Academy’s Afternic advanced search tool. I bought the domain...
- Domain aftermarket action has been limited mostly to the low to middle range recently but high end sales are returning to the spotlight.
- An innovative format makes the 80-page report the most easily digestible document of this size that we've seen to date.
- Mark Ghoriafi's latest sale for Sedo will supplant Peace.com as 2024's top public sale to date. This is how he got it done.
- Imagine Domain King Rick Schwartz, Mike Mann, Ari Goldberger, Larry Fischer and Chad Folkening, all at local bar for one night only!
- No one knows how long the artificial intelligence fueled .ai boom will last, but it is certainly making big waves now.
- Saying goodbye (for now) to one my dearest friends is a hard thing to do but what an amazing life he had!
- In a first. there are more .ai domains on DNJ's Top 20 Chart than .com domains.
- Total domain registration worldwide rose in 2023 but the results varied from one category to another,
- The second month of the 2024 domain sales system is off to strong start.
- If you want to save money on a 2024 NamesCon Global ticket act fast...GoDaddy has cut a blockchain domain deal with ENS and GGRG has some new sales data for you.
- With the 2024 domain sales season is underway and it looks like buyers made a quick return to the marketplace after the holiday break.
- Exclusive Photos & Highlights from the 2024 ICA Annual Meeting in Las Vegas,
- It;s here! DNJournal's 20th annual State of the Industry Cover Story - our biggest ever featuring three dozen experts from all corners of the industry.
- Another domain sales season is in the books with the release of DNJ's latest report covering the final weeks of 2023.
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- At the time of writing this, there are more than 1.8 billion live websites in the world. Back in 1985, when the world's first .com domain was registered, there were merely six . Such an exponential increase in just 36 years doesn't quite...
- Pride month is celebrated worldwide. While it's meant to be a time of celebration for members of the LGBTQ community and their families and supporters, its popularity has also made it a possible target of cyber threats. In this post, we...
- Ranking Digital City Brands / 2021 DOTZON GmbH DOTZON presents the fifth edition of the Digital City Brands study. After introducing the study in early 2017, DOTZON expanded further and enhanced the data to display how cities...
- While Office 365 is one of the most prevalent office suites out in the market today, its users can't rest easy. Cybercriminals and threat actors will always find ways to abuse the most popular brands in various ways. Office 365 has...
- It has been months after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office as president and vice president of the U.S., respectively. And since that time, they were naturally featured in most news outlets. What we wanted to know, though, is how...
- Ramiro Valdés Menéndez "The Internet could and should be controlled and used to serve peace and development." — Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Cuban Minister of Informatics and Communications, 1997 As a result of Internet service...
- On Sunday, July 11, thousands of Cubans, took to the streets in anti-government protests triggered by COVID, the faltering economy, and an overwhelmed healthcare system. In three days, 110 protests took place across the island. The...
- DENIC (the registry of .DE and the top-level domain name extension of Germany) has just recently announced that it has cracked the mark of 17 million domain names registered. As one of the most successful ccTLD's (country-code top-level...
- During ICANN71, the Brand Registry Group (BRG) openly asked potential future applicants what ICANN can do to help prepare them for the next gTLD round (Recording here) . The answer was very clear — commit to opening the next round...
- The U.S. government released the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity in May 2021, highlighting the rationale of a zero-trust security approach. While the order only covers the government's digital infrastructure, this...
- Download the best practice guide here . Over the past few months, the Western world has begun to slowly recover from the economic disaster COVID caused. Many countries have been able to speed up their vaccination program and abandon...
- The release of a new application or operating system (OS) is typically greeted by enthusiasm, diverse opinions, and potential threats. Windows 11's case is no different as we identified various assets that could be misused on the...
- A recent study carried out by Governance Primer on behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) identified trends in the acceptance of all domain names in software hosted at Github, the largest open-source repository...
- Web categorization engines and related tools are built to help organizations classify websites they do business or generally interact with. WhoisXML API's Website Categorization API and Website Categorization Lookup used to classify...
- A recent report " Domain Security: A Critical Component of Enterprise Risk Management ” published by the Interisle Consulting Group highlights why domain security should be a critical component of enterprise risk management, a...
- Co-authored by David Barnett, subject matter expert, Brand Monitoring and Pascal Rodax, manager, Business Development Following our previous article on the Euro 2020 football tournament that looked retrospectively at domain name...
- Liberty Front Press is a fake news network that has been operating since Trump's administration and was said to be designed to leverage liberal resentment against the former U.S. president while promoting pro-Iranian foreign policy...
- During last week's ICANN71 Virtual Policy Forum, the Brand Registry Group (BRG) held a very informative session about how ICANN can help potential applicants prepare for the next new gTLD round. Speakers during the session provided...
- Afnic, the French Network Information Centre and manager of the .fr TLD, Has just published its Afnic's Global Domain Name Market in 2020 Report on the global domain market in 2020. The study is based on ICANN statistics, information...
- This article expands on observations of a botnet traffic group at various levels of the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, presented at DNS-OARC 35 . Addressing DNS abuse and maintaining a healthy DNS ecosystem are important components...
- On May 26, 2021, I submitted a complaint to ICANN's Complaints Officer, Krista Papac. In a nutshell, my complaint centers on ICANN's blatant violation of its Bylaws, specifically Section 2.2, named Restrictions, which expressly prohibits...
- Beginning on 14 June 2021, representatives from government, the private sector, civil society, academia and the technical community will gather remotely for one week at the 71st International Policy Forum of the Internet Corporation for...
- We're halfway into ICANN71, and early interactions are posing questions about ICANN Org's capability to carry out its mission to maintain an orderly domain name system (DNS). Or, if that's not the case, ICANN leadership seems bent on a...
- In January Jörg Schweiger, DENIC's CTO from 2007 to 2014 and CEO since 2014, announced he was stepping down from his position in December. It's been quite a ride, and the domain name industry has evolved quite a lot. So we asked Jörg a...
- DNS Abuse Forum 2: Exploring the Edges to Reach Consensus – Discussions around the prevalence and mitigation of DNS Abuse frequently return to differences in its definition. Rather than avoid the issue, the DNS Abuse Institute...
- The ways in which the Internet is embedded in our daily lives are too varied and numerous to catalogue. The Internet delivers information, access to goods, services, education, banking, social interaction and, increasingly, work space....
- Co-authored by Klaus Stoll and Sam Lanfranco Stakeholder Confusion Using the lingo of Internet Governance, the "stakeholders" of digital technologies currently live in a state of confusion about their rights and responsibilities in the...