Fake UDRP notices, .ai domains, and .de’s domain outage were top stories last month.

1. Germany’s .de domain faces outage – A problem with DNSSEC led to a brief outage.
2. Network Solutions duped by fake UDRP notice – First name .com, now Network Solutions gets tricked. What is the perpetrator trying to accomplish?
3. 33 companies that bought .ai domain names this year, including SpaceX – I reviewed public .ai domain sales this year to find end users who have put their domains to use.
4. Birth certificates for AI agents – The post accompanying this podcast with Akram Atallah was popular. We discussed how to use the DNS for AI agents.
5. We put 15 domain appraisal tools to the test. This is what we learned – Domain Name Wire is reviewing automated domain appraisals. Results have mostly been disappointing.
Podcasts:
Domains in Stockholm – conversations with five people at Nordic Domain Days in Stockholm.
Full-time domain investing – Nikul Sanghvi explains what it’s like trading domains full-time.
Birth certificates for AI agents – Akram Atallah discussed DNSid, which would apply DNS to AI agents.
Acquiring and building TLDs – Lars Jensen discusses how ShortDot became a big TLD company despite not applying in 2012.
From naming to domaining – Naming Expert Phil Davis gives step-by-step instructions for finding domains you can hand register.





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