The New York Times nameserver hijacking dominated last month’s news.
Each month I post a list of the top news stories from the prior month. I’m a bit behind for August thanks to the U.S. holiday last week and a trip to visit domain companies in Seattle (more on that later).
Here’s a list of the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month:
1. ICANN officially kills Google’s plan for dotless .search top level domain name – Google’s hope for a dotless .search domain name is dead…for now. It will have to lobby ICANN post-grant to offer it as a dotless domain. This won’t change Google’s plans to go after the domain, however.
2. How The New York Times could have prevented yesterday’s attack for just $50 – The NYTimes.com domain name was missing an inexpensive security feature called Registry Lock.
3. Billionaire pays $2,395 for his domain name – and other weekly end user domain name sales.
4. Daniel Negari has bold ambitions for changing the domain space with .XYZ – Negari’s next business quest involves three top level domain names.
5. Melbourne IT the weak link as Twitter and NY Times domain names compromised – see story #1.
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