The former Soviet Union’s domain traffic is driven by a botnet. Last month, Cloudflare launched a new section in Cloudflare Radar that ranks top level domains by their “DNS Magnitude”, which is a measure of how many unique clients send queries to the TLD. The company made the surprising filing that the Soviet Union’s legacy […]

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Company files with court after becoming aware of lawsuit. Not so fast! That’s the message for heavy metal band Slipknot, which filed an in rem lawsuit against the domain name slipknot.com last month. Yesterday, attorney Jeffrey Neuman entered a notice of appearance on behalf of the domain’s owner, Slipknot Online Services, Ltd. The filing states […]

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The keyword hub is a consistent seller in the aftermarket. Afternic has published a list of the top 20 keywords in aftermarket sales for August. Here’s the list, with the prior month’s ranks in parentheses. ai (1) my (2) group (4) it (6) home (3) bet (18) auto (13) solutions law homes tech best (19) […]

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A look at the top 10 .com registrars for both new monthly registrations and total domains under management. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers July 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: If you’re curious how many domains Unstoppable Domains is registering […]

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Panelist determines complex dispute is about IP licensing, not cybersquatting. A fight over a domain name related to a restaurant in Scotland has resulted in a finding of reverse domain name hijacking (pdf). The somewhat convoluted case involves a restaurant called Laila Edinburgh. The Complainant is the current proprietor of this restaurant. The domain at […]

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