Nonprofit body that coordinates the internet's domain name system and accredits the registrars authorised to sell domain names.
The DNS root zone moved from KSK-2017 to KSK-2024 on October 11, its second root key rollover after the first in 2018. Local press tied Maxis DNS failures in Malaysia to the change, but Maxis has not confirmed a cause.
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ICANN has published 1,615 applications for new top-level domains, and AI terms such as .agi, sought by seven bidders, drew the most competition. Companies that filed nothing still need to check the list for clashes with their own names and decide how their network filters will handle the new suffixes.
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ICANN's first open round for new top-level domains since 2012 drew more than 1,600 applications, according to Wired. The list stays private until October 7, the first day brand teams can see who wants their name or the word for what they sell.
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Investigator JP says Tronify.rent took $69,651 from about 80 crypto users in September and that Google Gemini told one victim the site appeared safe. PhishDestroy had already scored the domain a critical 90/100 threat before that money went to the site.
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ICANN approved Verisign's plan to delete about 22,000 third-level .name domains, some prepaid to 2040, around February 2027. Anyone using one of those addresses for email or password resets has until then to move it.
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A working group inside ICANN is drafting an obligation that would reach other domains tied to a confirmed abusive one. What triggers the check, and whether it runs before the first suspension, is unsettled.
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