CRA locking 800K user accounts
In light of recent reports of a security breach at the Canadian Revenue Agency that took place in August and September of last year, the…
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.com prices could rise for the first time in eight years
The Verge is reporting that ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is close to granting final approval for a a series of price…
Ethos Acquires Donuts Domains
DomainNameWire is reporting that venture capital firm Ethos has completed the takeover of Abry Partners’ share of registrar Donuts. The move comes after more than…
Whatsapp Lays Down The Gauntlet — Share with Facebook or Lose Access!
TrustedReviews.com is reporting that the latest Terms of Service update for Whatsapp contains a remarkable new demand — allow the app to share data with…
Beware Building Businesses on Social Media
With social media taking centre-stage in so many of our lives, it’s the perfect place to build a business, right? Well, not really. CIRA recently…
.CA Hits Milestone with 3 Millionth Domain
Canadians have registered their 3 millionth .CA domain, CIRA announced in a December 1st press release. The milestone was celebrated by CIRA’s CEO Byron Holland…
CIRA Releases 2020 Cybersecurity Report
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has published its annual cybersecurity report for the year and its findings are not positive. Here are some of…
ICANN69 Concludes General Meeting
ICANN69, ICANN’s regular general meeting, concluded earlier this month. Among the list of topics for the meeting were governance of the ccNSO (country-code names supporting…
XYZ acquires 5 new domain names
As reported by Domain Name Wire, new top level domain name registry XYZ has acquired Dominion Domains’ portfolio of five top level domain names, including…
A trip down memory lane: the first domains registered
Jeffrey Gabriel takes a walk through the early history of the internet as he recounts not only his first domain names, but also the very…