Industry

End User Radix Premium Domain Sales – May 2019

At Radix, we're always on the lookout for websites on our TLDs that stand out from the rest. In this post, we look at four end-user premium domain name sales, or "Marquees" as we'd like to call them, that were registered in May 2019. more

Rhysida, Not Novel but Still Dangerous: DNS Revelations

Rhysida, a new ransomware currently plaguing users may not be novel, but it's proving to be just as effective. Fortra published an in-depth analysis of the malware currently holding the data of healthcare organizations primarily based in the U.S. hostage. more

Radix Launches RFP for a Registry Service Provider (RSP)

Radix today announced the beginning of its invite-only Request for Proposal (RFP) process for the selection of a Registry Service Provider (RSP). Radix currently manages over 7 million domains across extensions that include .Online, .Store, .Tech, .Website, .Space, .Press, .Site, .Host, .Fun, .Uno, .Pw and .In.net. more

Sunrise Period Begins for .NGO and .ONG

Nearly four years ago, our team met around a conference table and decided to embark on a new journey -- to devise and deliver a central space online that would forever change how nonprofits, NGOs and charities engage on the Internet. more

New Internet Top Level Domain “.One” Goes to Highest Bidder in Historic Auction

RightOfTheDot announced today that they and their partner Escrow.com have facilitated the contention set auction of the new gTLD Web address ".One"; the winning bidder for the new TLD extension is One.com of Dubai, AE, which will act as the worldwide registry for .One domains.  more

Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report: DNIB.com Announces 356.6 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Second Quarter of 2023

Today, the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report was released by DNIB.com, showing the second quarter of 2023 closed with 356.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 1.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.5%, compared to the first quarter of 2023. more

Radix Reports $7.6M in Total Premium Domain Name Retail Revenue in 2022, Highest-Ever Annual Number to Date

Radix today shared its bi-annual premium report for the second half of 2022, giving a complete overview of the premium domain sales across its new TLD portfolio from 1st July to 31st December 2022. more

Neustar Collaborates With auDA to Increase Resilience, Availability and Diversity of the .au Domain

Neustar announced today that they have commenced working with the .au Domain Administration (auDA) to increase the resilience, availability, and diversity of Australia's .au country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) zone, by adding additional DNS name servers. more

XCSSET Shows How Threat Actors Cope with OS Changes, Does Away with Python Like macOS

Just as software and hardware vendors push upgrades and updates for their products and services to stay secure against the latest threats, so do threat actors work as fast as possible to stay abreast of OS and version modifications. That's exactly what the XCSSET malware operators have done for their campaigns targeting macOS users to continue working. more

Verisign Q2 2020 Domain Name Industry Brief: Internet Grows to 370.1 Million Domains in Q2 of 2020

Verisign today released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2020. more

MarkMonitor Releases New gTLD Quarterly Report for Q2 2020

MarkMonitor today released its latest issue of the New gTLD Quarterly Report for the second quarter of 2020, including a particular focus on registration trends during the pandemic. more

RIPE 85 News Update

Over 1,000 organizations are each waiting more than 300 days to get a block of just 256 IPv4 addresses -- a /24 -- in the RIPE region. The RIPE NCC warned that the wait time will soon reach 24 months despite allocating 900 /24s in the last year. more

IPv4 Leasing Price: IPXO Introduces the Industry’s First Statistics Hub

Responding to the market's demand to understand the commercials of the IP leasing market better, IPXO has launched its Statistics Hub, unveiling the latest details and trends as they appear on the IPXO Marketplace. more

Industry Insights: Verisign, ICANN and Industry Partners Collaborate to Combat Botnets

Addressing DNS abuse and maintaining a healthy DNS ecosystem are important components of Verisign's commitment to being a responsible steward of the internet. We continuously engage with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and other industry partners to help ensure the secure, stable and resilient operation of the DNS. more

Radix’s Karn Jajoo Talks GDPR Benefits, Positive Outlook of New gTLDs and Radix’s Impressive Growth

In a recent interview with Karn Jajoo, Head of Premium Portfolio at Radix, he discusses Radix's impressive growth in 2018, the positive impact of the EU's GDPR has been it's spawned privacy discussions in developing countries with local data privacy laws and more. more