Oracle DNS server query rate.ETECSA is offering a number of stopgap Internet services — navigation rooms, home DSL and WiFi hotspots, but the recently rolled out 3G mobile service is the most important. The plot to the right shows the normalized rate of Cuban domain name requests to Oracle servers during the first full month [...] Continue reading →

Google has privately (and quietly) acquired the Loon.com domain name. A current Whois record shows the domain name is now publicly registered to Google at MarkMonitor. The acquisition was reported by Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly, in a Twitter post earlier today: Google acquires ultra premium #domain name Loon(.)com from long time owners Loon Systems for [...] Continue reading →

Just about everything above-the-fold is ads. For all of Google’s talk about how website owners need to provide good content above the fold, not just ads, Google.com has become a bunch of ads. Today I was searching for “domain name” (no quotes) and this is what I saw above the fold: There are four [...] Continue reading →

Will you be at the ICANN 64 meeting in March 2019 in Kobe, Japan? If so (or if you can get to Kobe), would you be interested in speaking about any work you have done (or are doing) with DNSSEC, DANE or other DNS security and privacy technologies? If you are interested, please send a [...] Continue reading →

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DomainTools for Maltego Leveraged by our colleagues for digital intelligence gathering through data mining and correlation, DomainTools for Maltego is helping customers map attacker infrastructure with domains and IPs. One... [...] Continue reading →

NamesCon concludes its run in Las Vegas. NamesCon 2019 finishes today in Las Vegas with expert roundtables. This was the sixth and final installment of the conference at The Tropicana in Las Vegas. Next year the conference moves to Austin. If there’s one thing for sure, it’s that no one will miss the Tropicana. [...] Continue reading →