Identity Digital acquires another gTLD
Identity Digital has bulked out its already substantial portfolio of gTLDs, taking over the ICANN registry contract for another 2012-round string earlier this month. The company is now running .onl…
Seven dead registrars on the out
When a registrar stops paying its registry partners, they tend to be cut off relatively quickly. ICANN takes a bit longer. That seems to be what’s happening to a collection…
Sav.com owner takes over .radio gTLD
The .radio gTLD appears to have changed hands, with a young registry affiliated with Sav.com taking over the reins. ICANN documentation shows that Digity, a company led by Sav CEO…
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.com zone tops 160 million domains
The .com zone file contained more than 160 million domains for the first time today. Registry operator Verisign is currently reporting 160,009,277 in the zone, with 162,479,075 .com names registered…
.ai hits seven figures, raises prices
The .ai ccTLD recently crossed over the one million domain milestone and has raised its already substantial registration fee. According to a social media post from the Government of Anguilla,…
Typosquatter gets two years in jail
A man who used a typosquatted domain to defraud a man out of $146,000 has been given a two-year jail sentence in Australia. According to a Sydney Morning Herald report,…
Epstein low-balled registrants to get his exact-match domain
Dead rapist Jeffrey Epstein tried to secure the .com and .net versions of his name by low-balling the existing registrants over relatively trivial amounts, the latest batch of “Epstein files”…
Epstein bought “mother” domains for Fergie while serving time
Dead rapist Jeffrey Epstein registered several feminist-themed domain names for former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson while he was serving time for sex trafficking a minor girl, the latest batch…