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Cloudflare’s Cache Response Rules Give Site Owners a Way Around the Header Tyranny at Origin

The new rules let Cloudflare customers adjust cache behaviour when awkward origin headers drag otherwise cacheable responses back to the server.

Cloudflare Says Nearly 70 Percent of BGP Paths See ORIGIN Attribute Rewrites — Routing’s Etiquette Problem Becomes a Measurement Problem

Cloudflare’s testing found widespread BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation by transit providers, sharpening the case for deprecating a field many operators quietly stopped treating as sacred.

Team Internet’s First-Half Revenue Fell Across Most Segments — The Roll-Up Story Gets a Less Decorative Spreadsheet

Team Internet reported weaker first-half revenue in all but its Comparison segment, while investors still wait for clarity on acquisition chatter.

Cybersquatting Complaints Are Up 12 Percent — The Domain Market’s Legal Department Is Having a Growth Quarter

A GigaLaw report cited by Domain Name Wire says UDRP decisions rose 12% year over year in Q2, suggesting brand conflict is scaling nicely alongside domain registrations.

Afternic Finally Makes Its Request-Price Lander Behave More Like Commerce and Less Like a Waiting Room

GoDaddy’s domain marketplace has improved its Request Price lander so visitors can receive prices instantly, a small product change with large implications for domain liquidity.

The Internet Has Crossed 400 Million Domain Names — A Round Number With a Very Large Renewal Bill

Verisign’s latest industry brief puts the global domain base above 400 million, a reminder that the web’s land rush never really ended; it merely learned to auto-renew.