A new report from Expert Consumers names Network Solutions as a leading AI domain name generator for businesses, reflecting a broader shift in how organizations secure online identities. The recognition highlights the growing use of artificial intelligence during the earliest phase of launching a website: choosing the name. [Read more…]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit responsible for coordinating the global Domain Name System (DNS), has announced a new educational initiative aimed at one of the Internet’s most persistent limitations: language. The Universal Acceptance (UA) Curriculum program will allow universities to teach students how to build systems that properly support domain names and email addresses written in any script or language.
GoDaddy updated its Terms of Service on February 2, 2026. The change looks small on paper. The impact could be large in practice. At the end of Section 1, the registrar states that its services “are not intended for private, personal or household use.” The clause also says this limitation overrides any conflicting policy or product description. [Read more…]
Expired domain names have a reputation. Some SEOs treat them like a head start. Others treat them like a trap. A recent month-long test produced a clean takeaway: indexing speed is less about “authority” and more about whether Google can discover the domain name again after it drops.
Update February 11, 2026.
The domain name AI.com has sold for $70 million, marking the largest publicly disclosed domain name transaction in history. The second sale was brokered by Larry Fischer and John Mauriello, who represented the seller in the $70 million transaction. The deal more than doubled the prior public record and sent a clear signal about the rising value of category-defining digital property.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will hold its 85th Public Meeting in Mumbai from March 7 through March 12, 2026. The event, known as ICANN85, is hosted by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). For ICANN, this meeting arrives at a rare inflection point. For India, it places the country squarely at the center of global Internet coordination.