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The Long Wait for .web Ends

After a decade of legal disputes, Verisign has secured .web and will launch the long-awaited domain later this year, opening a new chapter in digital identity while raising fresh questions about pricing, adoption and competition. more

Network Challenges from AI Traffic

Cisco warns AI traffic will reshape internet infrastructure as inference workloads demand lower latency, stronger upstream capacity and new network architectures, with AI expected to generate one quarter of web traffic by 2035 worldwide eventually. more

What Third-Party Domain Registrations Reveal About World Cup 2026 Risks

Third-party domain registrations tied to FIFA are surging ahead of the 2026 World Cup, revealing how major events fuel brand abuse, customer confusion, and fraud, from fake ticket sites to sophisticated scams timed to exploit peak fan interest. more

Researchers Uncover Browser-Based SSD Side Channel That Can Track User

Researchers have uncovered a browser-based technique that exploits SSD activity through local storage features, allowing malicious websites to infer user behavior, identify visited sites and applications, and potentially expand online tracking without special permissions. more

Steven Bellovin Takes Aim at Cybersecurity Myths in New Book

Cybersecurity pioneer Steven Bellovin's new book strips away jargon and outdated online-safety advice, offering ordinary users practical guidance on passwords, phishing, privacy and digital habits in an era of constant cyber threats and increasingly sophisticated scams. more

The Internet That Works for Some: Universal Acceptance Failures Across Asia Pacific

Across Asia Pacific, millions are excluded from digital services because systems fail to recognise non Latin scripts, exposing how flawed design assumptions about internet users entrench inequality across the region in welfare, finance and education. more

World Internet Statistics December 2025

Global internet use has surpassed six billion users, yet stark divides persist between regions, genders and urban-rural populations. Meanwhile, download speeds have surged and smartphones now dominate how people access the web worldwide. more

Smartphones and Digital Literacy

As smartphones become the primary gateway to the internet for billions, a critical question emerges: does app-based digital fluency prepare users for the demands of computer-based work in a modern economy? more

The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix

The hiQ ruling erased legal protections against commercial scraping, leaving infrastructure providers to absorb escalating costs. Without federal action defining data misappropriation, a free-rider AI economy could undermine open networks, investment, and long-term data integrity. more

Configuration Chaos: Cloudflare Explains Major Outage in Detailed Post-Mortem

Cloudflare has detailed the cause of a global outage in a post-mortem report, revealing that a flawed internal database change -- not a cyberattack -- caused widespread service disruption across its network and customer systems. more

Cloudflare Outage Highlights Internet’s Growing Single Points of Failure

Cloudflare's global outage caused cascading failures across the internet, reigniting concerns about the concentration of web infrastructure and the urgent need for more resilient, transparent systems to support critical online services. more

Massive AWS Outage Disrupts Global Internet, Services Restored After DNS Failure

A major Amazon Web Services outage briefly disrupted millions of websites, apps, and smart devices worldwide. The DNS-related failure exposed the internet's heavy dependence on a few cloud providers before full recovery was achieved. more

Building a Trusted Internet Starts with Hosting Providers

The Secure Hosting Alliance has introduced a certification programme to establish clear, verifiable standards for internet hosting providers, aiming to improve accountability, boost transparency, and strengthen the trust that underpins global online infrastructure. more

Connectivity in Every Language: Building a Multilingual Internet Together

Around the world, communities are racing to close the digital divide. From fiber deployments in rural areas to affordable smartphones and digital skills training, the goal is clear: connect the unconnected. But as we pursue that goal, a deeper question emerges that demands just as much urgency as infrastructure: When people get online, can they actually participate in the digital world? more

Japan Post Launches Digital Codes to Replace Traditional Addresses

Japan Post said Monday that it has launched a "digital address" system that links seven-digit combinations of numbers and letters to physical addresses. more

Industry Updates

.store and MrBeast Campaign Surpasses 500 Million Views Across Platforms

Radix Releases UA Readiness Study on E-Commerce Platforms to Support Broader Internet Compatibility

2024 .US Town Hall Registration Open: Explore Industry Trends & Policy Insights

Radix-Owned Namify AI Ranks #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt

Radix Releases H2 2023 Premium Domains Report, Reaches $4.8M in Total Premium Domain Name Retail Revenue

eCommerce Business on .Store Sees More Traffic and Visibility; 12-Month Study Indicates

i2Coalition Launches Solutions Strategy for an Open and Free Internet

Radix Raises the Bar for Digital Engagement With the Spotlight.online Contest

Radix Reports Creators Ranging from Solo Entrepreneurs to Major Celebrities Adopting .Store for eCommerce

Domains and Creators: Connecting Creativity, Clout and (Brand) Custody

‘Break the Code 2’ Gives .Tech and Radix’s Marketing Team Another Win, Gives Marketers an Example to Follow

The IT & Tech Industry Badly Needs Female Reinforcement

BreakTheCode.Tech is Back!

Radix Year in Review: Radical Marketing Campaigns From 2021

Radix’s .Site Domains’ Evokes Over 6000 Creative Ideas Through #SiteIt Contest