Kevin Murphy

War disrupts ICANN 85 - Domain Incite It seems a bit tasteless to whine about disrupted flights when the Middle-East is erupting into war; nevertheless, that's the immediate issue facing would-be attendees at this week's public ICANN meet...

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Namecheap abandons fight for .org price caps - Domain Incite Namecheap seems to have thrown in the towel in its long-running fight to get ICANN to cap the prices of .org and .info domain names. The registrar terminated its Independent Review Process complaint a...

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Identity Digital acquires another gTLD - Domain Incite Identity Digital has bulked out its already substantial portfolio of gTLDs, taking over the ICANN registry contract for another 2012-round string earlier this month. The company is now running .onl vi...

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Seven dead registrars on the out - Domain Incite When a registrar stops paying its registry partners, they tend to be cut off relatively quickly. ICANN takes a bit longer. That seems to be what's happening to a collection of accredited registrars un...

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Sav.com owner takes over .radio gTLD - Domain Incite The .radio gTLD appears to have changed hands, with a young registry affiliated with Sav.com taking over the reins. ICANN documentation shows that Digity, a company led by Sav CEO Anthos Chrysanthou, ...

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I'm afraid I haven't talked to Paul in maybe a decade. The last time I saw him in public was November 2024. He seemed a little paranoid to say the least. I hope all is well. static.sched.com/hosted_files...

*This* was the final straw?

ai.com, the most-expensive domain sale ever domainincite.com/31543-ai-com... #domains

.ai hits seven figures, raises prices - Domain Incite The .ai ccTLD recently crossed over the one million domain milestone and has raised its already substantial registration fee. According to a social media post from the Government of Anguilla, .ai went...

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Typosquatter gets two years in jail - Domain Incite A man who used a typosquatted domain to defraud a couple out of $146,000 has been given a two-year jail sentence in Australia. According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, Indian national Pardeep Pard...

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Epstein low-balled registrants to get his exact-match domain - Domain Incite Dead rapist Jeffrey Epstein tried to secure the .com and .net versions of his name by low-balling the existing registrants over relatively trivial amounts, the latest batch of "Epstein files" publishe...

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Epstein bought “mother” domains for Fergie while serving time - Domain Incite Dead rapist Jeffrey Epstein registered several feminist-themed domain names for former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson while he was serving time for sex trafficking a minor girl, the latest batch of "E...

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Two former ICANN directors want back in - Domain Incite Gluttons for punishment? ICANN's At-Large Community has named the first four candidates standing to join the Org's board of directors, and two of them have form. Sébastien Bachollet, Justine Chew, Mau...

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Former ICANN director could lose control of ccTLD - Domain Incite The government of Ghana has announced plans to nationalize the .gh ccTLD, taking control from a former ICANN director who has run the registry for over thirty years. The Minister of Communication, Dig...

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UK launches “police.ai”, but does it own the domain? - Domain Incite The UK's increasingly authoritarian government this afternoon announced extensive policing reforms, including what it called "Police.ai". Home secretary Shabana Mahmood, speaking in Parliament in the ...

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Team Internet still in talks to sell off domains unit - Domain Incite Team Internet says negotiations to spin off its domains business are "progressing well" after a difficult 2025. The company yesterday issued a trading update, saying that its 2025 revenue and profit w...

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Is AI SEO the snake oil of the 2020s? - Namecheap Blog The AI SEO boom looks like progress, but much of it is recycled mediocrity. Learn where AI belongs in search and where humans must lead.

Namecheap takes a richly deserved swipe at AI slop. www.namecheap.com/blog/is-ai-s...

NamesCon returning to Miami in November - Domain Incite NameCon Global will be held again in Miami, Florida, for its 2026 conference, organizers said over the weekend. The annual two-day conference will return November 11 with the Ice Palace Studios at its...

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Antifa (United States) - Wikipedia

Interesting how BlueSky chooses to preview nazis.us, which actually redirects to the DHS web site.

“Mad Dog” politician registers nazis.us, redirects to Trump admin site - Domain Incite An American Congressional candidate has registered the domain name nazis.us and redirected it to the US Department of Homeland security web site. Independent candidate Mark Davis, whose Twitter handle...

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“Lowest Price Guaranteed!” $48 .com registrar canned - Domain Incite ICANN has terminated its second registrar of the week, ending the accreditation of Hong Kong-based 0101 Internet for non-payment of fees and other infractions. The registrar, not to be confused with t...

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Fifth-largest gTLD not dead after all - Domain Incite ICANN has assured users of its zone file distribution service that the .top gTLD is not dead, after an unspecified snafu earlier this week suggested it was. On Wednesday, users of the Centralized Zone...

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Half of registrar’s domains are abusive, ICANN says - Domain Incite A fast-growing registrar seems to be experiencing its growth spurt due to extremely high levels of DNS abuse, including phishing, according to the latest public breach notice from ICANN Compliance. Mo...

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Burr joins PIR after leaving ICANN board - Domain Incite Community lifer Becky Burr has joined Public Interest Registry as senior policy advisor, the company announced today. Burr, who at the US government was instrumental in the formation of ICANN in the l...

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Refunds galore as gTLD losers finally bow out - Domain Incite There's been a wave of withdrawals of new gTLD applications over the last couple of months after ICANN gave 15 companies their final notice that it was time to ask for a refund or lose their money for...

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.goo terminated as search engine closes down - Domain Incite The .goo gTLD is among a pair of dot-brand gTLDs to recently self-terminate. goo was a 1990s-style search portal focused on the Japanese market and owned by local incumbent telco NTT. It eventually lo...

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GoDaddy to offer domain blocking to people who don’t have trademarks - Domain Incite GoDaddy's registry arm wants to offer registrants the ability to block others from registering their brands in other TLDs, even if they don't own a registered trademark. In what could be a game-change...

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Happy new year expected for domain industry, says ICANN - Domain Incite ICANN's revenue for 2026 is expected to be significantly above its earlier predictions, and it isn't just because the Org cranked up its registry and registrar fees last year. The budget for fiscal 20...

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Team Internet looking to break up - Domain Incite The return of CentralNic? Team Internet this week announced that it is seeking to break up the company, selling off its various divisions to different buyers. The move follows devastating changes to G...

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Noss to leave Tucows corner office - Domain Incite Tucows CEO Elliot Noss has stepped down after over a quarter century in the role. He will be replaced by Davide Woroch, currently CEO of the Tucows Domains business, reflecting the company's newly rev...

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