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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 ...

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 ...

D3 Global, the a decentralized domain name company, has raised $25 million to modernize the way that internet domain names operate. D3 is building what it calls the world’s first DomainFi network on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

D3 Global, a startup working on a way to bring internet domain names onto the blockchain, said Wednesday it has raised $25 million in an early-stage financing led by venture capital firm Paradigm to ...

The ISP industry is watching with interest the ongoing competition to operate the .net domain, which is a critical component of the Internet’s infrastructure. Five domain name registries submitted ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to move their net banking website addresses to the exclusive internet domain — ‘.bank.in’ not later than October 31, 2025, as per a central bank ...