1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (405+ words) The application window for the next round of ICANN’s New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Program officially closed on August 12 after a 15-week period, with more than 1,600 applications submitted. This is an important milestone for organizations that have applied for a…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (201+ words) In every case, the one surface where the problem was always visible? Ordinary network infrastructure. A firewall caught Alibaba’s crypto mining spree because that kind of misaligned act comes in hot and heavy on a network activity graph. The harms…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (520+ words) Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently uncovered an active multistage intrusion campaign targeting organizations in the hospitality and hotel industry in Europe and Asia, particularly Japan, since April 2026. The researchers identified 78 network IoCs comprising 73 domains and five IP addresses in their report....

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (510+ words) CircleID In February 2018, I wrote a post titled “Starlink and Cuba, a Match Made in Low-Earth Orbit?” That was just before SpaceX launched its test satellites and before it had applied to the ITU for permission to offer satellite Internet…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (223+ words) CircleID This marks only the second such expansion window in the program’s history, following the original 2012 round that introduced hundreds of new domain endings. Base application costs start at $227,000, though many bids are expected to run higher once specialized evaluation…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (280+ words) Although I started writing this article six months ago, it’s now only a few days until the August 12 deadline for ICANN’s application submissions for new gTLDs. But better late than never, as the old saying goes. So here we go!...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (382+ words) The public Web used to employ a predictable model: operators registered domain names, set up the records, opened ports 80 and 443, and allowed the machine to answer requests from the Internet. The DNS name identified the service, the IP address showed…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (591+ words) In a recent CircleID piece, I described a structural pattern that appeared consistently across several large nTLD namespaces: a speculative noise layer in the high teens to low twenties, a dominant neutral middle making up 55–70% of each zone, a smaller…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (431+ words) Sekoia threat researchers recently analyzed a new campaign leveraging the ErrTraffic ClickFix malware distribution framework and identified several network IoCs from which we extracted 71 domains. They believed LenAI who has been gaining notoriety as a MaaS operator in the Dark…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) Would you like to share some work you have done around DNS security with the wider ICANN and Internet community? Have you done something interesting with DNSSEC, routing security, RPKI, or browser security that you think others would find interesting?...