VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and internet security, today announced that the third quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 330.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations as of Sept. 30, 2017.1 The decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain …
RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and internet security, announced that its earnings call for the fourth quarter and full year 2016 will take place on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, at 4:30 p.m. (EST). The earnings news release will be distributed to the wire services at approximately 4:05 p.m. …
2016 was quite a wild ride for pop culture, the internet, and the world alike, and many of us are very much looking forward to seeing what 2017 will bring. For our fourth year running, we asked a handful of Dyn’s tech gurus to try their hand at the question of what’s ahead. Enjoy! The Year …
More than 100,000 people in the UK have had their internet access cut after a string of service providers were hit by what is believed to be a coordinated cyber-attack, taking the number affected in Europe up to about a million. TalkTalk, one of Britain’s biggest service providers, the Post Office and the Hull-based KCom …
A major cyberattack affected hundreds of websites, including the New York Times, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify, and eBay. The attack was actually centered on Dyn, a New Hampshire-based company that offers a platform to optimize websites’ online performance. This includes monitoring and controlling applications and infrastructure with data and analytics to reroute traffic and ensure end-users …
TheDomains has reported that there are now 21,060,309 new gTLD’s registered, just under 5 million more and with that .XYZ passed .info but did not have the actual number of registrations. Today we know the actual number of registrations for .XYZ is 5,580,532 through the last zone update. .info according to registrarstats.com currently has 5,509,571 registrations. …
The expansion of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by ICANN in recent years can put enterprise computers at risk due to name conflicts between internal domain names used inside corporate networks and those that can now be registered on the public Internet. To explore the scope of the problem, researchers from Verisign and the University of …
Fred Krueger who two weeks ago announced he was leaving Minds + Machines (MMX) , and also announced he has sold over 10% of his shares a few days later, has written an interesting post “Why I hate ICANN” on Facebook. Here is the post reprinted unedited: “One of the advantages of leaving MMX is that …
The DCA vs. ICANN Independent Review Process (IRP) Panel, has made yet another interim declaration that has gone against the express wishes of ICANN. It appears that the Panel saw through the ploy of ICANN, and agreed with DCA Trust’s argument that the IRP defendant wanted to “opportunistically” take advantage of the reconstitution of the …
A Minnesota court case that declared domain names are property and subject to garnishment. This is according to Cincinnati.com From the article: A Minnesota Appellate Court recently weighed in on an emerging question in the online world – is a domain name and the Web site associated with it subject to a garnishment order? The …