DNS, Routing & BGP

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (469+ words) Guest Writer | Published 8 Oct 2026 Detection is the first line of defence when building an incident response plan for email failures. Automated monitoring can identify broken renders, dead links and authentication misalignment before recipients notice. Proactive detection through continuous monitoring prevents…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago   (813+ words) Stop surprise domain drop-offs. Learn how agencies map vendor notice recipients across 50+ client registrar accounts to eliminate lost renewal emails. Digital agencies, managed service providers (MSPs), and IT consultants routinely manage dozens, sometimes hundreds, of client web assets. Among the…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago   (348+ words) ICANN published the applicant identities and proposed domain extensions for its 2026 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) round on October 7, disclosing 1,615 active applications from 481 applicants. The release provides the first public view of proposed new Internet namespaces in the first application…...

6+ hour, 16+ min ago   (141+ words) AI-translated from Japanese. Please refer to the original ASCII.jp article for the authoritative version. On October 8, Interlink announced that its subsidiary, Interlink System Creation Research Institute, has applied to ICANN for the top-level domain '.neko'. Top-level domains are strings…...

7+ hour, 47+ min ago   (381+ words) LONDON, Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Markmonitor Group, the global company that manages the domain names of the world's largest companies, welcomed last night's announcement that hundreds of corporations are obtaining their own "Top-Level Domain" to secure their online identity, while issuing a…...

16+ hour, 2+ min ago   (411+ words) According to Google, attackers compromised infrastructure behind three country-code domain namespaces—.gh (Ghana),.sl (Sierra Leone), and.as (American Samoa)—and used it to obtain unauthorized HTTPS certificates for Google domains and other organizations. These domain endings aren’t limited to…...

19+ hour, 43+ min ago   (149+ words) Registrar applies for 15 top level domains. Domain name registrar and web presence platform Squarespace has thrown its hat into the ring for new top level domain names. The company applied for 15 top level domains with ICANN this year: brand chef…...

14+ hour, 51+ min ago   (225+ words) Andrew Allemann 1 Comment October 8, 2026 Company replaces 19 of its proposed strings. Well, that was quick. Less than 24 hours after ICANN revealed which top level domains companies applied for, Link Freedom Group has decided which strings it will continue to pursue. The…...

23+ hour, 44+ min ago   (371+ words) Nigerian web services company EnrolWeb earns ICANN accreditation, marking a major milestone in its journey from web hosting platform to global domain registrar. Enrol Web Services Limited, the Nigerian technology company behind EnrolWeb, has secured accreditation from the Internet Corporation…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (909+ words) The moment domain nerds have been waiting for is here. Although quite a few companies chose to show their hand ahead of time, on October 7, ICANN pulled back the curtain on the 2026 round: every applied-for top-level domain and every contention…...