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January 15, 2021 / Last updated : January 15, 2021 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

TechCrunch: A security researcher commandeered a country’s expired top-level domain to save it from hackers

TechCrunch: A security researcher commandeered a country’s expired top-level domain to save it from hackers . “The domain — scpt-network.com — was one of two nameservers for the .cd country code top-level domain, assigned to the Democratic Republic of Congo. If it fell into the wrong hands, an attacker could redirect millions of unknowing internet […]

August 2, 2020 / Last updated : August 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

CNET: Adobe online PDF tools tap into Google’s .new internet addresses

CNET: Adobe online PDF tools tap into Google’s .new internet addresses. “Since 2018, Google has let you type doc.new, slide.new and sheet.new into your browser address bar to fire up a blank document for G Suite’s Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. Now there’s a new option using the same approach from Adobe: PDF.new.”

March 14, 2020 / Last updated : March 14, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Google Blog: Highlights from the first year of . dev

Google Blog: Highlights from the first year of . dev. “A year ago, our Google Registry team launched .dev—a top-level domain (TLD) for developers, designers, technical writers, and technology enthusiasts. This new TLD gave people the chance to register memorable domain names that can be hard to find on older domains, with a descriptive ending […]

March 10, 2020 / Last updated : March 10, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

The Register: Four months, $1bn… and ICANN still hasn’t decided whether to approve .org sale with just 11 days left to go

The Register: Four months, $1bn… and ICANN still hasn’t decided whether to approve .org sale with just 11 days left to go. “In 11 days, DNS overseer ICANN is supposed to rule on the $1.13bn purchase of a critical piece of the internet – the .org registry with its 10 million domain names. But ICANN […]

March 9, 2020 / Last updated : March 9, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Krebs on Security: U.S. Govt. Makes it Harder to Get . Gov Domains

Krebs on Security: U.S. Govt. Makes it Harder to Get .Gov Domains. “The federal agency in charge of issuing .gov domain names is enacting new requirements for validating the identity of people requesting them. The additional measures come less than four months after KrebsOnSecurity published research suggesting it was relatively easy for just about anyone […]

March 1, 2020 / Last updated : March 1, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

ZDNet: The for-profit takeover of the non-profit ‘.org’ top-level domain

ZDNet: The for-profit takeover of the non-profit ‘.org’ top-level domain. “At first glance, the proposed deal makes little sense. The Internet Society is trying to sell the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for the ‘.org’ top-level domain (TLD), to the new private-equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion. There are about 10.5 million […]

February 21, 2020 / Last updated : February 21, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

BusinessWire: New .gay Top-Level Domain Champions LGBTQ Nonprofits and Online Safety (PRESS RELEASE)

BusinessWire: New .gay Top-Level Domain Champions LGBTQ Nonprofits and Online Safety (PRESS RELEASE). “Domain registry Top Level Design proudly announces the launch of generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) ‘.gay’ after a near decade-long application process. The .gay domain extension represents a historic step forward that signals support of LGBTQ people, causes, and businesses.”

February 15, 2020 / Last updated : February 15, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Search Engine Journal: Domains Ending in .Com to Reportedly Get More Expensive

Search Engine Journal: Domains Ending in .Com to Reportedly Get More Expensive. “The new contract allows Verisign to charge domain registrars 7% more for .com domains per year for the next 4 years (2020-2023). Prices will then be frozen for 2 years, followed by more increases between 2026 and 2029.”

February 11, 2020 / Last updated : February 11, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Wired: The Digital Colonialism Behind . tv and . ly

Wired: The Digital Colonialism Behind .tv and .ly. “As companies increasingly turn to quirky extensions in place of .com, these questions about ownership and national resources are all the more pressing. The nation of Tuvalu (pop: 10,000), for example, has seen a rapid rise in the popularity of its .tv domain—it’s now up to 512,000 […]

January 9, 2020 / Last updated : January 9, 2020 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

The Verge: ICANN’s founding chairman joins the battle to keep .org out of private hands

The Verge: ICANN’s founding chairman joins the battle to keep .org out of private hands. “The new non-profit cooperative corporation, officially called the Cooperative Corporation of .ORG Registrants, is led by many people who currently have or have had influence over the inner workings of the Internet, including Esther Dyson, the founding chairman of ICANN […]

December 8, 2019 / Last updated : December 8, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

BoingBoing: We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out

BoingBoing: We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out . “The .ORG top-level domain and all of the nonprofit organizations that depend on it are at risk if a private equity firm is allowed to buy control of it. EFF has joined with over 250 respected nonprofits to oppose […]

December 3, 2019 / Last updated : December 3, 2019 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Mashable: Powerful internet authority says it’s powerless to stop billion dollar .org takeover

Mashable: Powerful internet authority says it’s powerless to stop billion dollar .org takeover . “ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization empowered to manage the internet’s domain name system, has said it will not stop the sale of the .org top level domain (TLD) extension from a nonprofit to a private equity […]

December 3, 2019 / Last updated : December 3, 2019 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Mozilla Blog: Questions About . org

Mozilla Blog: Questions About .org . “Last month, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced plans to sell the Public Interest Registry (PIR) — the organization that manages all the dot org domain names in the world — to a private equity firm named Ethos. This caught the attention of Mozilla and other public benefit orgs. Many […]

November 18, 2019 / Last updated : November 18, 2019 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Mashable: A private equity firm now runs .org, the domain for nonprofits

Mashable: A private equity firm now runs .org, the domain for nonprofits . “A private equity firm will soon run the internet’s top domain name extension for nonprofits after purchasing the nonprofit organization that runs it. Public Interest Registry (PIR), which runs the .org domain registry, has been sold to private equity firm Ethos Capital, […]

October 29, 2019 / Last updated : October 29, 2019 ResearchBuzz Tweaks & Updates

Google Blog: 13 shortcuts made possible by . new

Google Blog: 13 shortcuts made possible by . new. “Who doesn’t love finding a good shortcut? A year ago, G Suite created a handful of shortcuts: docs.new, sheets.new, and slides.new. You can easily pull up a new document, spreadsheet or presentation by typing those shortcuts into your address bar. This inspired Google Registry to release […]

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