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  <title><![CDATA[CircleID]]></title>
  <link>https://circleid.com/topics/domain_names</link>
  <description>CircleID - Domain Names</description>
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  <dc:rights>Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-08-18T22:23:00+00:00</dc:date>

  
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      <title><![CDATA[DNSSEC Doesn&#8217;t Need a Better Story - It Needs a Better Tuesday]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/dnssec&#45;doesnt&#45;need&#45;a&#45;better&#45;story&#45;it&#45;needs&#45;a&#45;better&#45;tuesday</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[DNSSEC adoption is stronger than headline figures suggest, yet uneven across industries. New data indicate the bigger obstacle is not reputation but operational friction, especially key rollovers, registrar coordination and automation still missing across major domains.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-18T11:39:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Massive Photo ZIP Campaign Targets Booking.com Partner and Other Hotels across Japan and Europe]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/massive&#45;photo&#45;zip&#45;campaign&#45;targets&#45;booking&#45;dot&#45;com&#45;partner&#45;and&#45;other&#45;hotels</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A sprawling phishing campaign targeting hotels in Japan and Europe used deceptive photo ZIP files and legitimate web services to establish persistent access, while researchers uncovered thousands of potentially connected infrastructure artifacts and victim IP addresses.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-18T11:18:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Regional Domain Registration Habits Are Changing Global Portfolio Strategy]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/how&#45;regional&#45;domain&#45;registration&#45;habits&#45;are&#45;changing&#45;global&#45;portfolio&#45;strategy</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Regional domain habits are reshaping global portfolio strategies, as European companies favor country codes, APAC embraces layered local structures, and North America sticks with generic domains, while rising fraud adds urgency to defensive registrations.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-17T10:39:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Whose Precedent Gets Remembered? Selective Amplification Has Its Own Amnesia]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/whose&#45;precedent&#45;gets&#45;remembered&#45;selective&#45;amplification&#45;has&#45;its&#45;own&#45;amnesia</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[DotConnectAfrica's .africa victory established an accountability principle later invoked by Amazon, yet institutional memory favored the better-known winner, revealing how selective amplification can detach precedent from its origins and reshape internet-governance history.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-17T10:33:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN Should Immediately Clarify if Applicants for the Same String Can Communicate Before Reveal Day]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/icann&#45;should&#45;clarify&#45;pre&#45;reveal&#45;communication&#45;between&#45;same&#45;string&#45;applicants</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[With more than 1,600 applications filed for ICANN's 2026 new gTLD Round, self-revealing applicants face uncertainty over whether pre-Reveal Day communications and agreements about overlapping strings could violate strict rules against privately resolving contention sets.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-16T19:38:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN Draws More Than 1,600 Applications in New gTLD Round]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/icann&#45;draws&#45;more&#45;than&#45;1600&#45;applications&#45;in&#45;new&#45;gtld&#45;round</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN has received more than 1,600 applications for new generic top-level domains, setting the stage for administrative checks, public disclosure and potentially fierce competition over sought-after additions to the internet's expanding domain-name system.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-15T10:42:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Now That You&#8217;ve Applied for a New gTLD, Should You Reveal?]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/now&#45;that&#45;you&#45;have&#45;applied&#45;for&#45;a&#45;new&#45;gtld&#45;should&#45;you&#45;reveal</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[With applications closed, new gTLD hopefuls face a changed calculation: revealing strings early could expose contention while information remains financially valuable, helping applicants make better decisions before fees are paid and withdrawal becomes increasingly costly.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-15T09:54:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Global Domain Activity Trends Seen in Q2 2026]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/global&#45;domain&#45;activity&#45;trends&#45;seen&#45;in&#45;q2&#45;2026</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[WhoisXML API's Q2 2026 analysis reveals rising domain registrations, shifting TLD rankings, growing DNS infrastructure concentration, and evolving malicious domain activity, based on billions of DNS records and millions of newly registered and confirmed malicious domains.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-13T07:43:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN&#8217;s New gTLD Application Window Set to Close, Capping a Landmark Expansion Round]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/icanns&#45;new&#45;gtld&#45;application&#45;window&#45;set&#45;to&#45;close&#45;capping&#45;a&#45;landmark&#45;expansion&#45;round</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN's second major domain expansion round closes August 12, with costly applications, support for 27 non-Latin scripts and stricter technical vetting setting the stage for a broader, more multilingual internet naming system.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-11T09:38:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beyond DUMs: The Case for Tracking What a Namespace Is Made Of]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/beyond&#45;dums&#45;the&#45;case&#45;for&#45;tracking&#45;what&#45;a&#45;namespace&#45;is&#45;made&#45;of</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Domains Under Management (DUM) measures a namespace's size, but not its character. Structural composition could reveal whether growth reflects durable adoption, speculative holdings or noise, giving registries a richer view of namespace health and strategy.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-10T12:00:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Role of Artificial Intelligence in ICANN&#8217;s 2026 Round of gTLD Applications]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/the&#45;role&#45;of&#45;artificial&#45;intelligence&#45;in&#45;icanns&#45;2026&#45;round&#45;of&#45;gtld&#45;applications</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI can help applicants navigate ICANN's complex new gTLD process, from business planning and financial modeling to drafting and reviewing applications, pointing towards faster, cheaper and increasingly automated domain-name rounds in the future.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-10T11:08:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[APT37 Strikes Again, This Time with NarwhalRAT]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/apt37&#45;strikes&#45;again&#45;this&#45;time&#45;with&#45;narwhalrat</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[North Korea's APT37 has launched a new NarwhalRAT campaign using spearphishing emails and malicious LNK files to deploy data-stealing malware. Researchers also uncovered infrastructure links and fresh indicators that expand the group's known operational footprint.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-07T08:38:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Web Has Become a Content Delivery Network]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/the&#45;web&#45;has&#45;become&#45;a&#45;content&#45;delivery&#45;network</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cyberattacks, AI scraping and relentless bot traffic have transformed CDNs from performance tools into the Web's defensive gatekeepers, reshaping Internet architecture, governance and control as private intermediaries increasingly determine which requests reach origin servers first.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-06T13:53:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Phantom Squatting: When LLMs&#8217; Hallucination Becomes an Attacker&#8217;s Best Friend]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/phantom&#45;squatting&#45;when&#45;llms&#45;hallucination&#45;becomes&#45;an&#45;attackers&#45;best&#45;friend</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[As AI reshapes cybersecurity, attackers are exploiting a fundamental weakness in large language models. Phantom squatting turns hallucinated domain names into trusted attack vectors, creating a new class of DNS abuse that defenders cannot solve by eliminating hallucinations alone.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-04T08:55:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Same Shape at Every Scale: What a Larger Domnain Namespace Confirmed - and What It Didn&#8217;t]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/same&#45;shape&#45;at&#45;every&#45;scale&#45;what&#45;a&#45;larger&#45;namespace&#45;confirmed&#45;a&#45;and&#45;what&#45;it&#45;didnat</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A larger namespace confirms the same four-layer structural pattern found across nTLDs, while revealing wider operator-to-investor variation and distinctive noise signatures that expose different registration dynamics hidden behind headline registration totals.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-03T07:26:00-07:00</dc:date>
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