Domain Name Industry News Archive

SIDN publishes RSSAC002 traffic metrics for .nl →

Guest Post: SIDN Labs shares insight into traffic to the authoritative .nl nameservers.

The DOs and don'ts of post-quantum DNSSEC →

Post-quantum signatures could dramatically enlarge DNSSEC responses, shifting many queries from UDP to TCP. Should resolvers limit unnecessary DNSSEC data, or is greater TCP use inevitable?

Your Router Trusts Its Validator. But Who's Watching the Validator? →

ROV turned your validator into a forwarding policy source. The registries have strengthened their side of the RPKI, but the chain from repository to router runs on your infrastructure. When that chain breaks, it often breaks silently.

PCAP-LM: Helping AI assistants read network traffic →

Guest Post: Packet captures are the ground truth of network operations, but analysing them is slow, requires specialist expertise, and does not scale. PCAP-LM rewrites captures into a form that AI assistants can read, helping address that mismatch.

The Internet's New Factories →

AI factories create several traffic systems at once, and power is shaping where they can be built. This article asks what operators can see, what stays private, and who decides how these systems are connected.

The Internet didn't break; we just forgot what it was leaning on →

Guest Post: When international links fail, hidden dependencies can take local services with them. Here's how operators can design for local resilience.

Solar PV for Internet resilience (Part 1): Designing your system →

Guest Post: Solar photovoltaics and battery storage can provide reliable power for network infrastructure, even in remote locations. Here's what's good to know before selecting equipment.

The RIPE Chair Team Reports - Highlights from RIPE 93 →

From digital independence and practical AI to inclusion and research, RIPE 93 gave the community plenty to discuss and act on. The RIPE Chair Team shares personal highlights from Sofia and ways to get involved in the work ahead.

Restating the case for DNSSEC →

Does TLS make DNSSEC unnecessary? An examination of common DNSSEC assumptions challenges that argument and considers DNSSEC's role in establishing trust, the risks of partial deployment, and the evidence from real-world outages.

APRICOT 2027 registration is now open, with discounts for APNIC Members →

Registration for the APRICOT 2027 Summit, being held from 24 February to 4 March 2027 in Hong Kong SAR, China, is now open. All registrations and payments completed on or before 15 November 2026 receive the early bird rate.

Same place, different view: How VPNs shape what we learn about the Internet →

Guest Post: A study found that changing VPN providers can change where web traffic appears to be served, affecting conclusions about domestic infrastructure, cross-border traffic, and data localization.

Mike Mann sells 12 domains for $325,228 in September →

Mike Mann reported 12 of his domain name sales in September 2026 for a total of $325,228. Reported prices started at $2,888 and went up to $150,000. Mike sold 12 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price was $27,102. Here is a look at some of Mike Mann's domain sal...

APNIC updates conference host and location selection process →

APNIC has updated its conference host and location selection process for stand-alone conferences to give prospective hosts clearer guidance and make assessment and decision-making more transparent.

Global Internet infrastructure at NANOG 98 →

Hyperscaler investment in submarine cables and the rise of LEO satellite systems are reshaping who builds, owns, and operates the networks that underpin global connectivity.

[Podcast] Quad 9 - Measurement in the privacy-preserving public DNS service →

Darren Kara discusses how the Quad 9 Public DNS server balances privacy, measurement, and global threat intelligence to help protect users from malicious destinations.

APRICOT 2027 Call for Presentations is open now →

If you have interesting Internet operations research or experience to share, submit a presentation for APRICOT 2027. Submissions close on 25 January 2027.

APNIC 62 workshops help build network security, automation, and routing expertise across the region →

More than 80 network engineers and operators strengthened their skills at APNIC 62 through hands-on workshops in network security, automation, and next-generation service provider routing.

The EVPN trust challenge: How to detect and contain internal MAC hijacks →

Guest Post: EVPN MAC mobility enables seamless workload movement, but it can also amplify the impact of MAC spoofing. A forged MAC address can redirect traffic across the fabric through BGP, making access-layer controls, route-reflector visibility, and MAC-move monitoring crit...

One week on the APNIC honeynet: 99,000 IP addresses and 173 million events →

Nearly 99,000 unique IP addresses interacted with APNIC's honeynet in just one week, generating 173 million events across SSH, Telnet, SMB, VPN, web, and Android services. The results show that long-known botnets, weak credentials, and unpatched vulnerabilities continue to dri...

RIPE 93 Daily Meeting Blog →

RIPE 93 has kicked off in Sofia - city of wisdom, Roman ruins, and yellow brick roads. As always, you can view the slides, you can watch the recordings, but if you want to get to the bottom of what's really going on, read this daily meeting blog!

Will Verisign's $171.4 million bet on .web pay off? →

Verisign paid a lot for .web. We're about to see what kind of return it will get. In an SEC filing yesterday, Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) disclosed the total cost of acquiring the .web top level domain: $171.4 million. Most of that was already known. In 2016, Nu Dot Co won an ICAN...

CAPIF 5 Meeting Report: More Local Routes, Stronger Regional Connections →

More local peering, stronger routing security and a shared ambition to improve connectivity: CAPIF 5 brought Central Asia's Internet community to Dushanbe to compare progress, discuss persistent challenges and learn from the people building the region's networks.

Your most pressing questions about ASPA, answered →

Answering some of the most frequently asked questions about ASPA.

Verisign sets another registration record, .web sunrise in December →

13.1 million new .com/.net registrations set another record. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported third-quarter earnings this afternoon. The company reported $443 million in Q3 revenue, up 5.7% year over year. Operating income increased from $284 million to $296 million. Net incom...

Afternic released its Portfolio API. Here's how to use it →

New API makes it possible to integrate with other tools and manage your portfolio. Afternic's Portfolio API is now open to all sellers. The API lets sellers automate tasks and optimize their portfolio. I've used it in two ways: Add listings - When I have bulk listings to add,...

Green energy company tries UDRP after three failed purchase attempts →

DLA Piper represents green energy firm in bad cybersquatting claim. A Danish green energy company has been found guilty (pdf) of reverse domain name hijacking. WindSpace A/S filed a cybersquatting claim with World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain name wind...

Rolling the root key: What happened? →

The DNS root key was rolled on 11 October 2026. Was the key roll a success?

.Qa domains get new restrictions: change your nameservers now →

People outside Qatar and domain investors should take note. Qatar is adding new restrictions to second level .qa domain registrations, severely restricting who can register the domains. The .qa registry has not yet publicly published its updated guidelines (the most recent reg...

auDA plans to grandfather existing .com.au and .net.au registrants →

Move could save millions of domain registrations from the chopping block. auDA, the organization that manages Australia's .au country code domain, plans to give a reprieve to existing .com.au and .net.au domain name registrants. Last month, auDA's board approved changes that w...

Eighteen end user domain sales including .si →

A couple of companies bought .si domains for defensive purposes. Looking at some of this week's sales at Sedo, it's clear that many of the sites were built with coding assistants. The ease of developing sites is a key driver behind domain sales this year. Here's a list of the...

Turning IPv6 tunnels into programmable delay lines for pulsing DoS →

Guest Post: TED shows how permissive tunnel decapsulation and inconsistent IPv6 Extension Header handling can focus low-rate traffic into short, high-rate bursts.

DNA Progress, NIS2 Amendments, CSA 2.0 and More - EU Regulation Update October 2026 →

As sweeping regulatory files move through the legislative pipeline, co-legislators are actively shaping their positions in the European Parliament and Council. Meanwhile, the Commission keeps laying the groundwork for new initiatives ahead. Here's our latest overview of key re...

Being connected is not enough: Territorial inequalities in fixed-Internet access and performance →

Guest Post: High aggregate Internet penetration can mask significant territorial inequalities. Using the Dominican Republic as a case study, this analysis shows that access and network performance vary widely across provinces, highlighting why the digital divide is about more...

Man tries to reverse hijack lotto domain name →

Complaint filed against the generic name of a lotto-style game. An Indian man tried to reverse-hijack the domain name sattamatkajico .com, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist ruled. Rikshiram Aghria filed the dispute (pdf), citing Indian trademark registrations...

Report: cheap domains, bulk registrations, subdomains favored among cybercriminals →

Latest Interisle report continues on themes from previous years. Security firm Interisle released its annual Cybercrime Supply Chain 2026 report (pdf) today, outlining how different internet layers contribute to cybercrime. The report echoes previous ones, pointing to cheap do...

Geo TLD applications plummet in 2026 round →

The number of geo domain name applications was down significantly from the previous new TLD round. In 2012, new top level domain applicants applied for some of the largest city names: .london, .nyc, .miami, and more. Sixty-six applications were filed for geographic top level d...

Escrow.com sees summer slowdown for domain sales →

Company expects a bounceback in Q4. Escrow.com's parent company, Freelancer Limited (ASX: FLN; OTCQX: FRLCY), released a Q3 business update (pdf) today. Overall, Escrow.com's Gross Marketplace Value (GMV) rose 28.0% year over year to $153.1 million in U.S. dollars. The Austral...

Mike Mann sells 6 domains for $219,064 in August →

Mike Mann reported 6 of his domain name sales in August 2026 for a total of $219,064. Reported prices started at $7,400 and went up to $150,000. Mike sold 6 .com(?) domains. The average reported domain sales price was $36,511. Here is a look at some of Mike Mann's domain sales...

INNOG 9 at APNIC 62: Building resilient infrastructure for the next Internet →

INNOG 9, co-located with APNIC 62, offered a distinctly operational perspective, drawing on experiences from India and Bangladesh. Topics ranged from IPv6 deployment and submarine cable infrastructure, to lessons learned from Internet disruptions.

APNIC 62: Automation, trust, and the future of Internet infrastructure →

At APNIC 62, keynote speakers Amajit Gupta and Yukako Uchida showed how the future Internet will depend on both autonomous, AI-driven networks and trusted human relationships.