Bluehost announced on November 5 a global run of AI events for small businesses: a free virtual small business summit on November 10 with Gary Vaynerchuk and Codie Sanchez, plus an AI Builder Tour through 10 cities on four continents that runs into January 2027. The number in the release that matters most is Bluehost’s […]

Link Freedom Group is making one of the biggest bets on the future of the internet that the domain name industry has seen in years.

Bodis gave domain investors three days’ notice. On 28 January 2026 the company announced it was shutting down its services. By 31 January it had stopped monetizing domains altogether, and it dropped its PayPal payout threshold to one cent so operators could empty whatever was left in their accounts.

Over the years, I have investigated and consulted on hundreds of domain name disputes, and a particular pattern keeps resurfacing. A business hires a web designer or developer to build and maintain its website. The developer, as a matter of convenience, registers the company’s domain name and is listed as the registrant of record. The […]

A New Map of American Entrepreneurship On June 30, 2026, GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) released its 2026 list of America’s Most Entrepreneurial Cities, and for the first time, the company partnered with Zillow (Nasdaq: Z, ZG) to layer housing-market data onto the rankings. San Antonio, Texas, took the top spot with 11% year-over-year business growth and […]

Industry veteran Eddie Sixto brought the domain investing community together once again. This time, the setting was Fort Lauderdale. The turnout exceeded expectations. More than 40 attendees filled the room, many traveling in from Texas, Michigan, and Minnesota.

GoDaddy and LegalZoom have announced a partnership that targets a growing issue: trust in AI agents operating across the open web. The announcement signals a shift in how businesses, platforms, and users will verify AI-driven interactions.

A Connecticut nonprofit that helps veterans and vulnerable families is now fighting to regain control of its own digital identity. The Make a Home Foundation has launched a GoFundMe campaign to recover domain names it says were taken without permission during a website project. The situation has triggered a legal process through ICANN (Internet Corporation […]

The domain name industry has always operated on relationships, timing, and access to information. While large conferences serve a purpose, many of the most valuable conversations happen in smaller, informal settings. The upcoming South Florida Domainers Meetup is one of those settings, and more importantly, it is part of a much longer-running community effort that […]

Netcraft has introduced a new capability that targets cybercrime at its earliest stage. The company announced its AI-powered Preemptive Domain Disruption system, a method that identifies and removes malicious domains before attackers ever use them. This is a shift in how domain-based threats are handled. It moves action from reaction to prevention.

I’ve been warning people for years about letting a domain name expire. Most people treat it like cleanup. “I don’t use it anymore, so why renew it?” I get the logic. I also know the risk, and it’s bigger than most people think.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Squarespace returned to the Super Bowl with a familiar move and a sharper edge. Its 12th Big Game appearance trades spectacle for tension, using a single idea many business owners recognize instantly: the pain of a lost domain name.