GoDaddy has moved quickly to grow its Airo.ai experience by adding six new AI agents built for small business owners. Announced from Tempe, Arizona, the update follows the public Beta launch of Airo.ai and shows that GoDaddy is serious about giving entrepreneurs practical help with marketing, operations, and website management. The goal is simple: save time, reduce busywork, and make it easier for small businesses to bring in customers and protect their online assets. [Read more…]
Scammers are getting more creative with phishing attempts, and the latest wave of fake ICANN emails is a perfect example. These messages claim that you must “verify your email within 48 hours” or risk losing DNS access to your domain name. It looks urgent. It sounds official. It uses ICANN’s name. But it’s completely fake.
Expert analysis and commentary on ICANN’s latest move to secure the Internet’s future.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is preparing for a defining moment in Internet history. At this year’s Web Summit in Lisbon, the nonprofit behind the Domain Name System (DNS) is spotlighting two crucial issues: the expansion of digital identity through new domain extensions and the growing global pressure threatening to fragment the Internet as we know it. [Read more…]
Updated November 3, 2025
Someone stole the domain name Perl.com. They thought it was just a domain name snafu, but in fact it was stolen, transferred from one domain name registrar to another without the owner’s permission.
I am seeing more and more domain names get stolen recently, especially as the value of domain names goes up. This has been a trend over the past few years, and that’s why I’ve written this post. Some domain names are selling hundreds of thousands of dollars. But that’s not that important if you’re domain name is stolen and your website is down, you’re losing business, and you no longer have access to your email. So, it’s imperative that you protect this valuable digital asset that you own. If you suddenly find that someone stole your domain name from you, then you need to act quickly. The longer you wait the more difficult it will be to recover. Here’s what you need to do if someone stole your domain name. [Read more…]
In the next round of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications, applicants face the risk of selecting a string that someone else also applies for. In prior rounds, when more than one applicant submitted the same string, they entered a “contention set.” Then they could either resolve that privately or go into an official auction run by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Private deals were allowed. But under new rules, once reveal day arrives, private resolution isn’t allowed. That means losers in a contention set must withdraw (and forfeit large sums) or bid in the ICANN auction. The stakes are high. With application fees over US$200,000 and additional legal/consulting costs, one wrong string choice can cost a lot. [Read more…]
The Public Interest Registry (PIR), operator of the .ORG Top-Level Domain, has announced an expanded partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to disrupt criminal networks that profit from online child sexual abuse. The initiative extends PIR’s existing sponsorship to domain registrars, giving them free access to IWF’s detection tools for identifying and blocking abusive websites. [Read more…]