Domain owners who register with GoDaddy gain a simpler verification path for Afternic listings Afternic has introduced a streamlined verification feature for domains registered at GoDaddy, eliminating a common technical hurdle for many domain sellers. This change reduces the need to manually add DNS TXT records to prove ownership when transferring a domain listing to … Read more

Virginia Department of Health sues to recover lapsed domain that now forwards to adult site Visitors to a Virginia Department of Health domain now see an adult site. The Virginia Department of Health has initiated legal action to recover a domain name it allowed to expire, after the domain began directing visitors to explicit adult … Read more

ICANN90 will take place in South Australia. ICANN has announced that its 2027 Annual General Meeting, ICANN90, will be held in Adelaide, South Australia. The meeting is scheduled for October 30–November 4, 2027, and will take place at the Adelaide Convention Centre. This announcement gives community members, industry stakeholders, and regional partners ample time to … Read more

The Financial Times reports that talks are in the early stages. Gen Digital, the parent company of Norton 360 and other well-known consumer cybersecurity brands, is reportedly in early discussions to acquire GoDaddy. The potential deal has attracted attention across technology, domain services, and cybersecurity sectors, and highlights growing consolidation as companies seek scale and … Read more

Company aims to determine demand for TLDs, and help connect early registrants with participating registries. Frontier’s leaderboard shows the TLDs that interest the platform’s users the most. Domain services company D3 has introduced Frontier, a new platform designed to measure demand for proposed top-level domains (TLDs) and to help interested registrants position themselves to acquire … Read more

Many expired domains are being purchased to funnel traffic to online casinos. Back with the July SnapNames sales list, and the dominant theme is clear: more domains are being repurposed for gambling sites. This pattern highlights how often expiring domains with existing traffic and backlinks end up in the iGaming sector. In the past you … Read more

Several businesses purchased domain names this week, including an iGaming company, a rental property business, and an English-learning platform. Sedo processed multiple end-user domain sales this week, with notable transactions including evolution.co.kr and evolution.kr at $30,000 and $20,000 respectively. While these sales completed through Sedo’s marketplace, the precise end users for some domains have not … Read more

Company’s Innovation Labs will become a separate company. Identity Digital, a company known for managing and operating domain name services, has separated its Innovation Labs initiative and launched it as a new, independent company called Known. The move formalizes work that began earlier this year within Identity Digital and is intended to accelerate development of … Read more

LFG seeks legal relief and asks ICANN to clarify whether the easyGroup conglomerate broke new TLD rules. EasyGroup, the company behind the well-known easyJet brand and a portfolio of other “easy” trademarks, has taken a confrontational stance toward competing applicants for the .easy top-level domain (TLD). After issuing a legal demand to another applicant, Link … Read more

ICANN collected over $350 million in application fees ICANN has confirmed the final tally of top-level domain name applications for the 2016 round at 1,616 submitted applications. While the organization recorded 1,663 applications initially, some of those were never paid for and therefore are not counted in the final total. At the standard application fee … Read more