WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Earlier today, I found myself browsing the MediaOptions website after being referred there by a YouTube video that mentioned the company and spotlighted one of their domain names. That particular name immediately caught my attention because its an exact match – or a very close variation – of one of […] ...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – A massive trove of approximately 16billion username-password combinationsalong with session tokens and cookies – has surfaced on unsecured servers, cybersecurity researchers confirmed. The cache appears to be an aggregate of around 30 previously known data sets, sourced from malware-based credential thefts and olde...

PALM BEACH, FL – The public face of domain ownership is disappearing – and GoDaddy's latest announcement is just the latest proof. In an email sent to resellers today, GoDaddy announced it will no longer collect or display Administrative, Billing, or Technical contact details for most domains. The move, effective August 21, 2025, is par...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL I recently tested a domain name valuation tool powered by artificial intelligence, and I was struck by how inflated the appraisals were. The estimated values seemed wildly generousfar beyond what the current market would realistically support. It reminded me of a time, 10 to 15 years ago, when domains were […] The post Hy...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – For over two decades, Ive been deeply entrenched in the domain name industryan ecosystem where names arent just words, but digital real estate with the power to shape ideas, brands, and sometimes, even entire industries. Thats why Im excited to announce the release of my latest book: Murder.net, a cyber […] The pos...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – The emergence of artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the landscape of journalism and news production, creating both unprecedented opportunities and existential threats for traditional media organizations. Recent research and industry surveys reveal a profession in crisis, with over 57% of journalists fearin...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – A significant data breach has compromised over 184 million login credentials, affecting users of major platforms including Google, Apple, Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Microsoft, Snapchat, and others. The exposed information includes email addresses, usernames, plaintext passwords, and login URLs, posing a substantial risk...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Ive been in this industry for nearly 25 years. When I first started, most people hadnt even heard of Google. Today, Google is the single most influential factor in whether a business thrives or dies. Thats been true for over a decadeand its becoming even more critical. Years ago, Google […] The post The Evolving La...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – The domain industry is experiencing a surge in high-value transactions, as highlighted in DN Journal's latest report titled "Sizzling Domain Sales Continue to Light Up The Charts With 8-Figure Blockbuster Leading the Way." April 2025 has proven to be a landmark month, with several significant sales reshaping the domain l...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Nearly two decades ago, my local newspaper at the time, Newsday, ran a front-page story in its Money & Careers section titled A Domain Name Is Born. The article spotlighted a fascinating emerging trend: forward-thinking parents reserving web addresses for their newborns – sometimes before the child was even bor...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL   The domain name industry is experiencing a surge in high-value sales this year, likely driven by renewed corporate spending confidence and increased demand for premium digital assets. Industry data and market activity suggest that 2025 could be one of the most active and lucrative years ever recorded in the secondary...

PALM BEACH, FL – The growth ofnew generic top-level domains (gTLDs) isreshaping thedomain name industry, introducing awave of innovation and diversification thatchallenges thelong-standing dominance of traditional gTLDs like.COM and .NET. Thistransformation isnot just technical but represents a fundamental shift inhow businesses andindividual...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – In the age of AI, social media, and voice search, you might think domain names have taken a back seat. But GoDaddys latest Consumer Pulse survey proves otherwise – and its a wake-up call for any business that wants to be taken seriously online. To celebrate the 40th birthday of […] The post GoDaddy Consumer S...

WASHINGTON, D.C. According to the Bureau of Internet Accessibility, tax credits may be available for small businesses that take steps to improve their websites accessibility. These credits can help offset the costs of making digital content and online services accessible to individuals with disabilities, aligning with the Americans with Disabiliti...

AUSTRALIA – A South Australian woman narrowly avoided a complete financial disaster after falling victim to a sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) scam that led to the loss of over $800,000. Authorities have since managed to recover a significant portion of the stolen funds, shedding light on the growing threat of cyber fraud in real...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – In a significant shift for the internet's infrastructure, the decades-old Whois system is being phased out, making way for its modern successor: the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP). This transition marks the end of an era for one of the internet's most recognizable tools and ushers in a new chapter […] The...

RESTON, VA – According to the latest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report from DNIB.com, the fourth quarter of 2024 concluded with 364.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs). This represents an increase of 2.0 million registrations, or 0.5%, compared to the third quarter of 2024, and a year-ove...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL   Have you recently noticed your lead forms being filled out with fake information, phone numbers that don't work and/or email addresses that bounce back? Google's Display Network (GDN) and Microsoft's Audience Network (MSAN) both serve ads across a vast number of websites, apps, and video content. While both companies...

WASHINGTON, D.C. A multi-jurisdictional operation involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and several other law enforcement agencies has resulted inseveral well-known internet domains being seizedthat were a part of a major cybercrime ring responsible for hacking and stealing credentials from digital marketplaces. As of Wednesday, the ...

MENLO PARK, CA – DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has rapidly ascended to the top of Apple's App Store charts in the UK, US, and China following its launch on President Donald Trump's inauguration day. This swift rise has raised concerns among tech experts and free-speech advocates, with some labeling it as AI's "Sputnik moment." […] The...

BELLEVUE, WA. – Domain name registrar and registry services provider Identity Digitalofficially took over the management and marketinglast week of the internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .AI for the Government of Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean whose ccTLD has gained considerable popularity in recent years w...

SACRAMENTO, CA – On December 28, 2024, PowerSchool, a prominent provider of educational technology services to over 60 million K-12 students worldwide, identified a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to its Student Information System (SIS) through the PowerSource customer support portal. The breach, which occurred between De...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google's global search engine market share fell below 90% in the final quarter of 2024, marking the first time since 2015 that it has dipped under this threshold. Regional Variations: Competitor Gains: During this period, competitors such as Microsoft Bing, Yandex, and Yahoo experienced slight increases in their market sha...

OTTAWA, CA – Shopify Inc., Canada's leading technology company, has acquired the domain names Shop.ca and Shop.us from Toronto-based EMERGE Commerce Ltd. for approximately $500,000. These domains now redirect to Shopify's Shop App website, a marketplace designed as a "digital shopping assistant" that allows users to search for products and br...

BATH, UK – More than 4,000 web backdoorsthat had been abandoned but were still active with live malware were hijacked and their communication infrastructure sinkholed a term used to describe the process of redirecting malicious traffic to a DNS sinkhole after web security researchers registered numerous expired domains, preventing them from...

LOS ANGELES, CA – According to end-of-the-year roundups, the number of domain name registrations that took place during the course of 2024 remained essentially flat when compared to the year prior, indicating that growth within the industry has stagnated to a degree following the increased demand brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. T...

REDMOND, WA – Cybersecurity experts have noted a large increase in the number of phishing attacks recently as hackers have been altering their attack avenues in order to work their way around increasingly complex email security systems designed to circumvent their efforts. Both thevolume and complexity of malicious emails have been on the ris...

PHOENIX, AZ – One of the most well-known domain registrars in the world, Namecheap, has released the results of a study outlining the highest number ofdomains registered through its servicein the Top-Level Domain (TLD) as well as National Domain categories for the year 2024. Namecheaps report notes that the most popular TLD registered with th...

BOSTON, MA – A new report is pointing to new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) launched within the past few years, such as .Top, and .Shop as contributing to an increase in use by scammers and cybercriminalsdue to the fact that given their relatively new status on the market they are cheaper to register […] The post Scammers & Cybercr...

WASHINGON, D.C. – Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is claiming thatinternet domain registrar Verisign is a monopolyand is subsequently demanding that an antitrust investigation be carried out against the company. Working in conjunction with Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Warren sent a letter last week to the National Telecommunications and Informat...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The 8.8 million users of Reddits r/cryptocurrency community have partnered up with internet registrar Unstoppable Domains to launch the first-everReddit community-based blockchain Top-Level Domain (TLD), .MOON. Built on the Polygon blockchain, .MOON will enable the crypto community members of Reddit to interact with more t...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – It was revealed this week that chat.com was purchased by San Francisco, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) research organization OpenAIfor over $15 million, marking the third time the domain has changed hands in just two years. HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah originally purchased Chat.com last year for $15.5 milli...

SEATTLE, WA – Online shopping retail giant Amazon this week seized multiple internet domains that have been utilized by Russian hackers to launch phishing attacks that targeted users of Microsofts Windows operating system. Chief Information Security Officer at Amazon, CJ Moses, announced in a blog post that Midnight Blizzard, otherw...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has issued a demand to several of the top American internet domain registrars to clamp down on the abuse of their services byRussian disinformation actorswho he alleged are attempting to interfere with and influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential...

WEST ASIA – Domain Days Dubai 2024 is set to take place at the Marriott Resort Palm Jumeirah on November 5-6, 2024. This will be the second edition of the event, aimed at professionals in the domain, hosting, and digital asset sectors across the Middle East and Africa. The conference will feature 40 speakers, attracting […] The post Dom...

PALM BEACH, FL -The rise in prominence of artificial intelligence in the tech industry has proven to be a significant boon for Anguilla, which has seen a huge spike and along with it, a lucrative revenue stream from companies and organizations seeking to register the small Caribbean island nations top-level domain (TLD) of […] The post Thes...

LOS ANGELES, CA – Following a brief period of time last year when the new .MUSIC Top-Level Domain (TLD) a domain for artists and those adjacent of the music community was made available for a limited number of select applicants, the domain is nowfreely available for public registration, first come, first served. .MUSIC […] The post Fo...

PHOENIX, AZ – With the boom of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution the talk of the technology industry both for good and bad the demand for the .AI domain has skyrocketed. Originally an obscure country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the small Caribbean island of Anguilla, it has spiked in popularity with tech […] The post G...

MENLO PARK, CA – Meta, the parent company of Facebook (which changed its corporate name in October 2021 to align with its vision for the "metaverse"), has acquired the domain "Threads.com" for its X (formerly Twitter) competitor, Threads. Originally, Meta launched the service using the domain "Threads.net" due to the prior ownership of Thread...

PALM BEACH, FL – In the modern business landscape, owning a premium domain name can be as valuable as holding a prime piece of physical real estate. Just as with prime properties in desirable locations, premium domain namesshort, memorable, and industry-specific web addressesare in limited supply, which drives up their value over time. These ...

PALM BEACH, FL – The internet landscape has undergone rapid transformation since the early days of the web (1990s), and one of the most valuable assets to emerge during this time is domain names. As businesses, organizations, and individuals rushed to stake their claims online, certain categories of domain names have become increasingly scarc...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – AI is incredible. It can help you with just about anything, including writing programming codes. I've been blown away several times by the power of Artificial Intelligence these days, and it keeps getting better and better. Recently I needed to write a specific redirect for a weebsite and I was […] The post How to ...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – At this point, the Internet has been around for a while, and there are countless number of domain names out there that have been snapped up for nearly every conceivable purpose. With that being said, an ever-growing number of legitimate brand name domains have been snapped up, giving rise to […] The post Sensationa...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – On Thursday, September 5, Google informed advertisers and users that they will be changing their Content Suitability policy, with new accounts being automaticallyopted out of serving ads on parked domains, beginning in October 2024. A parked domain is a domain name has been registered, but is not currently connected to an ...

TEMPE, AZ – A lawsuit filed by Sweden-based Crisby Studio AB alleges that the biggest Internet registrar in the world, GoDaddy, wrongfully took possession of a domain name, two months after it had been successfully purchased by the company earlier this year. Crisby Studio  AB, a Swedish limited liability company, and Niklas Thorin, a Swe...