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Reston, Virginia-based registry operator for .com, .net and .name, and a DNS root zone maintainer that also runs two of the internet's root servers.
IANA lists KSK-2024 (key tag 38696) as the root zone's signing key since 11 October 2026, with KSK-2017 no longer signing. Cached DNSKEY data delays failure on resolvers that trust only the old key, so a resolver that still answers has not proved it trusts the new one.
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FBI agents used a warrant on registry VeriSign to seize two CSAM-for-sale sites that sold a 189GB collection on 315 girls for $64.90. Paris prosecutors arrested a 25-year-old French resident suspected of running them, the Justice Department said.
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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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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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Atlas Data Privacy Corp sued the people-search broker Radaris under Daniel's Law, filed twice, and now holds an order transferring radaris.com and more than a dozen related domains to it.
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