The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has postponed plans to change the cryptographic key — a critical step in updating protection measures for the Domain Name System (DNS). In its report issued Thursday evening, ICANN said an "an estimated one-in-four global Internet users, or 750 million people, could be affected by the [...] Continue reading →

A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on September 27, 2017.  If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve.  I’m only showing where [...] Continue reading →

Q3 has been an exciting time to be at DomainTools. This quarter we announced quite a few product improvements including Iris Collaboration Features, and the promise of Threat Profile. Additionally,... [...] Continue reading →

New gTLDs may not be the best choice of domain for a primary email address, judging by new research. Over 20% of the most-popular web sites do not fully understand email addresses containing long TLDs, and Arabic email addresses are supported by fewer than one in 10 sites, a study by the Universal Acceptance Steering [...] Continue reading →

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Amazon announced a bunch of products, which means it registered a bunch of domains controlled by Verisign. New Amazon Alexa devices like the Echo Spot lead to defensive domain registrations.Every time Amazon announces a new product its domain name team goes to work defensively registering domain names. So when the company announces six products on [...] Continue reading →

Google announced that they want the internet more secure and because of that they have added another tool in their toolbox, the HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS) preload list. The HSTS preload list is built in to all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer/Edge, and Opera). It consists of a list of hostnames for [...] Continue reading →