.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…
Two former ICANN directors want back in
Gluttons for punishment? ICANN’s At-Large Community has named the first four candidates standing to join the Org’s board of directors, and two of them have form. Sébastien Bachollet, Justine Chew,…
Former ICANN director could lose control of ccTLD
The government of Ghana has announced plans to nationalize the .gh ccTLD, taking control from a former ICANN director who has run the registry for over thirty years. The Minister…
UK launches “police.ai”, but does it own the domain?
The UK’s increasingly authoritarian government this afternoon announced extensive policing reforms, including what it called “Police.ai”. Home secretary Shabana Mahmood, speaking in Parliament in the last couple of hours, announced…
Team Internet still in talks to sell off domains unit
Team Internet says negotiations to spin off its domains business are “progressing well” after a difficult 2025. The company yesterday issued a trading update, saying that its 2025 revenue and…
NamesCon returning to Miami in November
NameCon Global will be held again in Miami, Florida, for its 2026 conference, organizers said over the weekend. The annual two-day conference will return November 11 with the Ice Palace…