What I learned reading GoDaddy’s 2017 10-K. Last night I sat down with a glass of Hibiki whiskey and read through GoDaddy’s (GDDY) annual report. I didn’t uncover any bombshells but here are five things that I found interesting. 1. The company has one million customers who spend $500 or more per year. This is [...] Continue reading →

Today [28 Feb], the GSMA and ICANN signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Mobile World Congress being held this week in Barcelona. The MoU aims to enhance collaboration and raise awareness about Internet governance issues that are of common interest to both organizations and their communities. The agreement was signed by GSMA Director [...] Continue reading →

You follow all kinds of domain names and then there are some that are on topics you have a great interest in. One of those just came on to GoDaddy auctions Monday for me, BinaryOption.com. The plural would be better but still a great name. For those who don’t know what binary options are: A [...] Continue reading →

In a submission to the Joint Committee on Law Enforcement's inquiry into Impact of new and emerging information and communications technology, the Department of Home Affairs and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) warn law enforcement will be degraded by a number of new technologies. In particular, emerging technologies such as 5G, IPv6, and mesh networking, [...] Continue reading →

Our team receives a few monthly industry newsletters. One arrived today in an email. Well, kind of. The email arrived, announcing the newsletter. But the content of the email wasn’t the newsletter. The content of the email didn’t even contain teasers or highlights of the newsletter’s content. Just a link to click. So [...] Continue reading →

Possibly the first documented native IPv6 DDoS attack reported today suggests a DNS dictionary attack which originated from around 1,900 different native IPv6 hosts, on more than 650 different networks. Mark Mayne reporting in SC Media: "The distributed attack demonstrates that hackers are deploying new methods for IPv6 attacks, as widely predicted, not simply replicating [...] Continue reading →

I was moving 115 domains out of Uniregistry today and while doing so I found a bug in their system. I used the export to CSV tool to get the auth codes for all my domains so I could start the transfers to my new registrar. At first I noticed that some of the auth [...] Continue reading →