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Researchers Ian Muscat and Leanne Briffa of Have I Been Squatted found that two uncommon characters, a Cyrillic barred o and a Latin K with hook, can bypass Chromium’s anti-spoofing checks, letting lookalike domains display as trusted brand names.
Source: theregister.com published on
ICANN has published 1,615 new top-level domain applications from 481 applicants, with strings like .agent, .agi and .asi drawing multiple bids from companies including Meta and OpenAI.
Source: theverge.com published on
The FGI France 2026 forum, co-organized by Internet Society France, will gather government, industry and civil society figures at Efrei in Villejuif on 3 November 2026 to discuss digital sovereignty, AI and internet governance ahead of 2027 elections.
Source: isoc.fr original in French published on
ICANN has urged operators of DNSSEC-validating resolvers to confirm that KSK-2024, identified by Key Tag 38696, is present in their trust anchor configuration before the root zone KSK rollover scheduled for 11 October 2026.
Source: icann.org published on
Searchlight Cyber disclosed a flaw in GoBalance, a load balancer used by dark-web sites, that lets attackers recover a site's private key from public data and hijack its .onion address, as seen in the Dread forum takeover.
Source: thehackernews.com published on
ICANN and UNESCO are accepting event proposals for Universal Acceptance Day 2027, running events between 25 March and 30 May 2027 to promote multilingual domain names and email addresses worldwide. The call for proposals is open from 8 October to 20 November 2026.
Source: icann.org published on
The US Justice Department and FBI seized seven domains linked to two alleged Chinese cyber espionage tools, Microscan and FishHub, which they say were used by actors tied to Integrity Technology Group to target critical infrastructure in the US, Asia and Europe.
Source: circleid.com published on
Swiss DNS resolver Quad9 has not blocked any of the 58 domains a Paris court ordered it to restrict for French users, prompting broadcaster beIN Sports to seek penalties of up to €580,000 per day.
Source: torrentfreak.com published on
Senator Thom Tillis and Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced the DEFEND IP Act, a bicameral bill letting copyright holders obtain court orders to block foreign pirate sites via large ISPs and public DNS resolvers like Cloudflare, while exempting VPN services.
Source: torrentfreak.com published on
A Paris court refused Canal+'s request for up to €50,000 a day in penalties against Cloudflare over piracy blocking of Formula 1 and MotoGP streams, ruling that Cloudflare's CDN-based blocking met its legal obligations even though its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver remained unblocked.
Source: TorrentFreak published on
CENTR released a Simplification Checklist outlining principles it wants applied to EU legislation affecting ccTLD registries. The document was presented at CENTR’s 2026 General Assembly Policy Session to Thibaut Kleiner, Director at the European Commission’s DG CNECT. It covers cybersecurity, consumer protection, data protection, business data access, electronic identification, registry roles and Better Regulation, urging legal clarity ahead of the EU’s Digital Fitness Check.
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Verisign's blog revisits the 1976 origins of digital signatures and 1978 digital certificates to explain the motivation behind Verisign Informed, its service for checking the current validity of digital certificates in real time.
Source: Verisign published on
ICANN revealed 1,615 new gTLD applications from 481 applicants on October 7, led by .agent with 13 applicants, including Google, OpenAI, Meta and Alibaba Cloud, mirroring how the internet has shifted since the 2012 round led by .app, Simone Catania writes on CircleID.
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Slovenia's .si registry logged 19,541 new domain registrations in one day on October 9, 2026, roughly five times its pre-rush pace. Hostinger data shows Indian buyers (3,174) narrowly outpaced US buyers (3,135) in registrations, with Morocco a distant third.
Source: techradar.com published on
Daily .si domain registrations peaked at 20,286 on October 5, 2026 after Donald Trump's comments linking Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence, but have since fallen 57.6% to 8,607, according to Registry.si data.
Source: DomainGang published on
Verisign will raise the wholesale price of .com domains by 7% to $10.97 plus ICANN’s 20-cent fee starting November 1. Registrars charging near-cost prices, including Cloudflare, NameBright, Porkbun, Unstoppable Domains, Spaceship and GoDaddy’s Domain Discount Club Pro, are expected to pass on the increase. Registrants can renew or transfer domains for up to 10 years before the deadline to lock in current pricing, and many registrars currently offer transfer specials below the upcoming renewal fee.
Source: Domain Name Wire published on
NameJet sold 36 domains for $172,097 in September 2026, led by gameone.com at $21,000, while SnapNames sold 57 domains for $248,832, topped by miju.com at $31,056.
Source: thedomains.com published on
Dot Kiwi Ltd general manager Hannah Duder described how a Christchurch-based team revived the .kiwi domain since 2023, using local marketing and a former All Black rugby player to rebuild trust after registrations fell from a 2016 peak to nearly 10,000.
Source: helloregistry.com published on
ICANN’s new gTLD round shows 263 contention groups after reveal day, with private settlements now banned. Portfolio applicants including Identity Digital, Namecheap, XYZ.com, GoDaddy and ShortDot face heavy overlap, while most brand applications stand uncontested.
Source: domainbrief.de original in German published on
The DNS root zone's signing key changes on October 11, 2026, switching from KSK-2017 to KSK-2024, CZ.NIC's Ondřej Filip explains, urging DNS resolver operators to verify support beforehand to avoid outages. Cloudflare offers a test tool to check resolvers.
Source: blog.nic.cz original in Czech published on