Peter Sunde, co-creator of Njalla, created a Twitter thread explaining how the domain dark.fail (@DarkDotFail) got hijacked from Tucows and then moved to Namecheap. Njalla revealed yesterday that Tucows was the victim of a phishing …

Njalla revealed today that Tucows was the victim of a phishing attack that affected some domains registered with Njalla and other resellers and registrants. Tucows received a (fake) court order (including a gag order) to …

Last November Google announced that the page experience ranking signal will go live on Google Search this year, in what they’re calling the “page experience update”. To help publishers and site owners improve their page …

Escrow.com released the Domain Investment Index for Q1 2021. The Q1 2021 trading volume of $110m was led by sales of a record number of large domain name portfolios as well as sales of high …

The 2nd edition of NamesCon Online is coming on September 22-24, 2021. Registration is now open and the cost is $79 until July 4. (Standard price is $99) Newcomers can complete a quick survey and …

The .gr registry announced that .gr reached a new milestone on April 21, 2021. There are now more than 500.000 .gr domain names registered. In the past 10 years .gr domain registrations almost doubled. The …

Afternic announced today that it now offers a new Buy-Now landing page with GoDaddy branding. The new landing pages also include 24/7 sales and support from GoDaddy. To use the new BIN landing pages you …

Namecheap After years of being #1 in this Top 20, Namecheap (US) continues to be the preferred domain registrar for miscreants registering botnet C&C domains. Spamhaus believes that given the long history of abuse at …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2021. VeriSign, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $324 million for the first quarter of 2021, up 3.6 percent from …

This has happened to me many times but I have never written about it before. Whenever I sell a domain name through GoDaddy or Afternic when the wire arrives in Greece it gets stuck at …

Nominet has appointed independent research company Savanta to carry out a “major piece of research to understand the perspectives of members and stakeholders on the future of Nominet”. “The outputs from the listening process will …

For Q1 2021, the gTLD .com remains at the top of the Spamhaus rankings. A large majority of botnet C&C domains that Spamhaus Malware Labs identified were hosted on this TLD. However, we have seen …

Beginning in July, 2021, FeedBurner will go into maintenance mode. Existing feeds will continue to serve indefinitely, and existing users can download past usage statistics and email subscriptions. Users will still be able to create …

Squarespace, Inc. announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a proposed direct listing of its Class A common stock. …