The CU Independent, a student-run newsroom covering the University of Colorado Boulder, is dealing with a problem that started quietly and then exploded. The publication lost control of its longtime domain name. Someone else acquired it. What followed was not a parked page or a resale listing. A fake news website went live, presenting itself as the “real” CU Independent.
Picture this: a customer visits a local business website and sees a blunt message plastered across the page.
Anna’s Archive, a well-known shadow library meta-search engine, has lost control over its primary domain name after an abrupt registry-level status change. The domain annas-archive.org was placed on “serverHold,” a status that typically removes a domain from the DNS so it stops resolving globally. In plain English: the address can look “dead” everywhere at once, even if the underlying infrastructure still exists.
A new phishing email is circulating that pretends to be a GoDaddy domain expiration notice. This one leans hard on panic. Big headline. Red banner. “24 HOURS LEFT — DOMAIN WILL BE RELEASED.” It is designed to make you click first and think later.
After more than a decade of anticipation, the next expansion of the Internet’s naming system has a firm timeline. On December 16, 2025, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released the Applicant Guidebook for the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round. This document sets the rules, expectations, and evaluation process for organizations planning to apply for new generic top-level domains, commonly referred to as gTLDs. [Read more…]
Another wave of phishing emails is circulating, and this time the attackers are impersonating GoDaddy with surprisingly convincing “expiration notices.” These messages look urgent, credible, and time-sensitive, yet a closer look reveals several red flags that make it clear these are not legitimate renewal reminders.