Verisign’s plans to shut down a bunch of legacy services in the .name gTLD has been challenged by a registrant who believes he will lose his domains and email addresses if the registry goes ahead.

Google seems to have accelerated its launch plans for .fly, one of the 2012-round gTLDs it’s been sitting on for over a decade. The company’s registry division has notified ICANN that it plans to open ...

Team Internet expects to be able to announce the sale of its domains business in the next several weeks, coming at the end of a turbulent 2025 that saw revenue, and its share price, tumble. The ...

Blacknight Solutions, Ireland’s first ICANN-accredited registrar, has been bought by Your.Online for an undisclosed sum. The registrar joins dozens of brands, mainly but not exclusively in the hosting ...

ICANN’s Ombuds dealt with 50% more cases in its last-reported year, with most of the growth attributable to community members who just can’t seem to get along. In a recently published annual report ...

Panel: A “Textbook” Case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking This decision is noteworthy for two reasons. First, the Panel reaffirmed that neither the renewal of a domain name registration nor its ...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 34:07 mark) where they guess what certain domains were ...

As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains! And today we have a Sherpa Shorts segment hosted by JT and Drew, who are also joined by Matthew Gould of UnstoppableDomains.com. The Sherpas ...

ICANN has slapped an intensely privacy-focused registrar that compares its stance on takedowns to Elon Musks with a lengthy breach-of-contract notice, claiming that the company is disregarding ...

A Google Search Could Have Avoided This RDNH Finding The most noteworthy aspect of this decision is the Panel’s emphasis on a complainant’s obligation to conduct a reasonable pre-filing investigation.

San Francisco startup alleges terminated employee won’t give it access to its domain name. System Two Security, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that raised a $7 million seed round in 2024, ...

Another Asian registry has added a .ai option at the third level of its ccTLD, seeking to capitalize on the growth of the artificial intelligence industry. PANDI, the registry for Indonesia’s .id ...