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NamesCon Global 2026 will be held in Miami on November 11 and 12, alongside CloudFest Americas at Ice Palace Studios. The program includes a live domain auction, a pickleball tournament, a luncheon and a server throwing competition.
Source: DomainGang published on
Swiss DNS resolver Quad9 will end its services for users in France from November 24 after a Paris court ordered it to block pirate streaming domains or pay daily penalties. The foundation says it refuses to block domains.
Source: torrentfreak.com published on
ASI, formerly Airspace Intelligence, has apparently acquired the ASI.com domain name, according to on-chain-free registration changes; a broker confirmed the sale. The company announced a $325 million Series C round at a $3 billion valuation this week.
Source: domaininvesting.com published on
ICANN's office of the Chief Technology Officer told its annual conference in Bali that some internet service providers send every DNS query to three resolvers, including Google and Cloudflare. The findings came from its Identifier Technology Health Indicators research program.
Source: theregister.com published on
Security firm Interisle’s 2026 Cybercrime Supply Chain report finds new top-level domains hold 15% of registrations but 52% of malicious ones, while ccTLDs hold 34% and 16%. Cheap pricing, bulk registration and free subdomains are linked to more crime.
Source: Domain Name Wire published on
Microsoft and cybersecurity group Health-ISAC won a US court order to seize and redirect domains used by YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, services that sold stolen accounts and phishing tools. Microsoft says the network was linked to more than one billion phishing messages.
Source: cryptoslate.com published on
A Paris court refused beIN Sports' request for daily penalties of €10,000 per domain against VPN providers and Cloudflare over blocking of pirate tennis streaming sites. The court said the intermediaries made reasonable efforts and need not guarantee results.
Source: torrentfreak.com published on
Spanish cultural publisher Jot Down says LaLiga demanded it stop a shared Cloudflare IP address from hosting piracy, threatening claims of complicity. The letter was unsigned and the IP belongs to Cloudflare, not Jot Down.
Source: JotDown original in Spanish 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