Sharp briefings on web hosting, internet domains, cloud infrastructure and the fragile plumbing of being online.
ICANN’s next round of generic top-level domains has moved from abstract policy work to an infrastructure-sized queue. Domain Name Wire reported Wednesday that ICANN confirmed 1,616 paid applications […]
Cloudflare is using its 1.1.1.1 resolver to test ML-DSA-44 DNSSEC validation at Internet scale, surfacing size and downgrade issues DNS operators will need to solve before a wider post-quantum migration.
Verisign is moving the daily drop window for expired .com and .net domains, a small operational change that matters to registrars, drop-catching services and domain investors competing for […]
A new complaint alleges .com agreements let Verisign charge excessive domain prices, a case registrars, hosts and site owners should watch.
GoDaddy is pointing site operators toward HTTPS and SVCB DNS records as the standards-based replacement for older CNAME-flattening workarounds at the root of a domain. The company’s new […]
ICANN’s termination of TrustName’s registrar accreditation turns abuse handling into a practical domain-risk reminder for hosts, agencies, and site operators.
Verisign’s planned .net wholesale increase gives hosts, agencies, and domain portfolio managers time to audit renewals before the March 2027 price change.
Cloudflare has made its Certificate Transparency Monitoring generally available, with a practical change for hosting teams: alerts should now exclude the certificates Cloudflare itself issues for a customer’s […]
GoDaddy has opened updated Auctions API capabilities to all Auctions members, expanding the automation available to expired-domain buyers and portfolio operators. The company says the first phase includes […]
Ethereum Name Service has moved another step from Web3 naming project toward conventional domain-policy territory. ENS Labs said on Aug. 11 that tokenholders approved and executed the “Next […]