Collaborate Disseminate
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a major functional component of the modern Internet. We rely on it for just about everything! It’s responsible for translating human-friendly domain names into …read more Continue reading Will .IO Domain Names Survive A Geopolitical Rearrangement?
Brian Krebs reported that X (formerly known as Twitter) started automatically changing twitter.com links to x.com links. The problem is: (1) it changed any domain name that ended with “twitter.com,” and (2) it only changed the link’s … Continue reading X.com Automatically Changing Link Text but Not URLs
Sad story of Tokelau, and how its top-level domain “became the unwitting host to the dark underworld by providing a never-ending supply of domain names that could be weaponized against internet users. Scammers began using .tk websites to do every… Continue reading How .tk Became a TLD for Scammers
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ChatGPT hallucinations cause turbulence in court, a riot in Wales may have been ignited on social media, and do you think .MOV is a good top-level domain for “a website that moves you”?
… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #324: .ZIP domains, AI lies, and did social media inflame a riot?
It seems there’s a service for everything, but sometimes you simply learn more by doing it yourself. If you haven’t enjoyed the somewhat anachronistic pleasures of running your own server …read more Continue reading Run Your Own Server for Fun (and Zero Profit)
On October 19th, [Seth_h] from the KiCad Project posted on the KiCad forums that the project’s original domain name kicad-pcb.org has been unexpectedly sold to a third party, and urged …read more Continue reading KiCad Team Releases Warning Regarding Domain Name
Just because the email (or letter) directs you to a phone number doesn’t mean you aren’t being phished. The nearby image shows part of a recent phishing email. It claims that I ordered a laptop/tablet from Microsoft for delivery to an unfam… Continue reading Beware of Phone Phishing
Over the past few months there has been a battle waging in the world of domain names; the overseeing body ICANN had hatched a plan to transfer the entire .org registry to a private company, to significant opposition from .org domain holders, concerned citizens, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Part …read more
It doesn’t have regulatory authority, so it can’t do much, but the hundreds of registrars it authorizes can and should. Continue reading ICANN asks registrars to crack down on scam coronavirus websites
Earlier this week, domain name registrar Namecheap sent out an email to all customers advising them of a secret deal that went down between ICANN and Verisign sometime late last year. It has the potential to change the prices of domain names drastically over time, and thus change the makeup …read more