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We have recently seen some blockbuster acquisitions of internet real estate, in the form of premium dotcom domain names. NFTs.com was acquired for a reported $15 million and HubSpot acquired ...

NEW YORK – Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet’s key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the ...

The legal struggle for control of the nissan.com domain has taken a very unexpected turn. A lawsuit was filed by the estate of the domain's late owner in Virginia last summer. The suit is against an ...

Internet users may soon be required to pay an additional annual fee for each domain name they own, thanks to a virtually unnoticed requirement that will begin to take effect next year. The Internet ...

PayPal is among the as-yet unnamed organizations invited to join a new working group that ultimately will build the framework for the proposed .secure top-level Internet domain that also can be used ...

For David Hernand, co-opting some of the most popular content sites on the Internet seemed like a good way to make his point. Hernand, chief executive of Idealab-incubated startup New.net, is ...

RESTON, Va.—VeriSign is reporting that the third quarter of 2021 closed with 364.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, a 0.7% decrease of 2.7 million domain name ...

Shiba Inu developers are working with internet domain player D3 to introduce a “.shib” internet and top-level domain to the market as part of a push toward identity-focused projects. Representatives ...