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Will Verisign’s $171.4 million bet on .web pay off?  58
Verisign paid a lot for .web. We’re about to see what kind of return it will get. In an SEC filing yesterday, Verisign (NASDAQ: V...
Domain Name Wire - 3 hr 45 min ago
Verisign sets another registration record, .web sunrise in December  142
13.1 million new .com/.net registrations set another record. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported third-quarter earnings this afternoon. Th...
Domain Name Wire - 21 hr 57 min ago
Afternic released its Portfolio API. Here’s how to use it  137
New API makes it possible to integrate with other tools and manage your portfolio. Afternic’s Portfolio API is now open to all se...
Domain Name Wire - 23 hr 2 min ago
Green energy company tries UDRP after three failed purchase attempts  130
DLA Piper represents green energy firm in bad cybersquatting claim. A Danish green energy company has been found guilty (pdf) of revers...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 11:30
.Qa domains get new restrictions: change your nameservers now  119
People outside Qatar and domain investors should take note. Qatar is adding new restrictions to second level .qa domain registrations, ...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 11:43
auDA plans to grandfather existing .com.au and .net.au registrants  105
Move could save millions of domain registrations from the chopping block. auDA, the organization that manages Australia’s .au cou...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 10:45
Eighteen end user domain sales including .si  130
A couple of companies bought .si domains for defensive purposes. Looking at some of this week’s sales at Sedo, it’s clear t...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 9:19
Man tries to reverse hijack lotto domain name  113
Complaint filed against the generic name of a lotto-style game. An Indian man tried to reverse-hijack the domain name sattamatkajico .c...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - 12:46
Report: cheap domains, bulk registrations, subdomains favored among cybercriminals  104
Latest Interisle report continues on themes from previous years. Security firm Interisle released its annual Cybercrime Supply Chain 20...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - 11:58
Geo TLD applications plummet in 2026 round  92
The number of geo domain name applications was down significantly from the previous new TLD round. In 2012, new top level domain applic...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - 11:1
Escrow.com sees summer slowdown for domain sales  77
Company expects a bounceback in Q4. Escrow.com’s parent company, Freelancer Limited (ASX: FLN; OTCQX: FRLCY), released a Q3 busin...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - 9:11
Meta (Facebook) needs Colombian department’s permission to get .meta TLD  129
Meta is a geographic name under ICANN’s new top level domain rules. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) applied for the .meta top level...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, October 19, 2026 - 13:27
I went to Japan to relax, but ICANN had other plans  139
A 3 a.m. wake-up call, 1,616 TLD applications, and Japan’s weird web. One thing I love about what I do for a living is that I can...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, October 19, 2026 - 12:1
Behind the scenes at the .si registry – DNW Podcast #608  126
How Donald Trump’s proclamation led to an overnight transformation for Slovenia’s .si country code domain. For Barbara Povše and her te...

Domain Name Wire - Monday, October 19, 2026 - 11:30
Woman faces changing 211 accounts after .name domain termination  126
Woman says termination of third-level .name domains has created a full-time job. Earlier this week, I wrote that I think ICANN and Veri...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, October 16, 2026 - 14:23

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