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Google disclosed that attackers hijacked DNS infrastructure of three country-code top-level domains — .gh, .sl, and .as — and used that control to obtain unauthorized TLS certificates for several Google domains and other major brands. Google says it has updated Chrome to block the identified fraudulent certificates and worked with other certificate authorities to do the same across browsers.
Bluesky has submitted an application to ICANN for the new .bsky domain suffix, which could allow users to create shorter, more personal web addresses. The approval process is expected to take 18 to 24 months, and the company has indicated it will not sell or monetize these domains, emphasizing their role in supporting an open web. If successful, users might transform their social handles into streamlined web addresses and expand their online profiles.
Daniel Rhyne, a former infrastructure engineer, received a 32-month prison sentence after remotely accessing his employer's network, locking thousands of devices, deleting admin accounts, and demanding a ransom. His actions included changing passwords, shutting down servers, and sending threatening emails to co-workers in late 2023.
A developer built a new domain lookup application called heade.rs over a weekend, utilizing Claude Code and deploying it on Cloudflare. The tool provides DNS, registration, email, and HTTPS details with a user-friendly interface, all at minimal cost. Unlike commercial options, it is designed solely for usability without sales or upselling.
Following President Trump’s declaration that the US would adopt the term 'super intelligence' for AI, the popularity of Slovenia’s .si domain extension has skyrocketed, with over 10,000 registrations daily since late September. Elon Musk also announced renaming his AI company to SpaceXSI, reflecting the trend. The .si extension has become the second most popular globally after .com, with significant interest from the US and India.
After an eight-year freedom of information battle, France's highest administrative court ruled against activist Cosimo Monico (writing as the requester) and co-plaintiffs Communia, Wikimédia France and La Quadrature du Net, who sought public release of 3D scans of Auguste Rodin's public domain sculptures. The ruling came despite an earlier opinion from France's own Commission on Access to Administrative Documents (CADA) finding the scans were administrative documents that should be disclosed, and despite the museum director's own written admission that she intended to ignore FOI law and force the matter to court.
Slovenia's .si domain is seeing a surge in registrations after President Trump signed an executive order directing government agencies to use 'SI' and 'super intelligence' instead of 'AI.' Registry SI reported a 2,199% jump in September purchases, with about 11,000 new addresses registered the day after the order and nearly 13,000 in a recent 24-hour period. Hosting platform Hostinger said .si is now its second most popular domain after .com, with buyers mostly from the U.S. and India, while Wix reported no meaningful change.
A link-building agency analyzed pricing data from 16,625 publisher sites across 53 languages and found that the most expensive, high-authority publishers increasingly decline to sell traditional dofollow SEO backlinks. Instead, these premium sites charge based on audience size and brand credibility, with prices ranging from under $100 to over $2,500 per placement depending on domain authority and traffic.
Microsoft confirmed that its September security updates (KB5124008 and KB5124012) for Windows 11 are causing domain authentication failures on enterprise systems that use the Machine Identity Isolation feature. Affected devices show domain trust and credential errors even when login details are correct, because the updates cause Windows to enforce existing Machine Identity Isolation settings that are only meant for environments running Windows Server 2025 domain controllers. The company has released a temporary workaround while it develops a permanent fix.
Microsoft confirmed it is investigating reports that the Windows 11 KB5124008 security update is severing secure channel connections between domain-joined PCs and Active Directory after a reboot, locking out users with valid credentials. Administrators on Reddit and Microsoft's Q&A forums say the problem appears tied to the Windows Machine Identity Isolation feature when running in audit or enforcement mode, and that uninstalling the patch and repairing the domain trust restores access.
A veteran link-building seller argues that bargain backlink deals, such as a $199 offer for 50 links from sites rated Domain Authority 60+, typically deliver fabricated authority scores rather than real traffic. These links often come from recycled private blog networks, expired domains, or hacked sites with no genuine readership, meaning the metrics are manufactured rather than earned.
Wirewiki, a site for inspecting DNS records, delegation and email deliverability data, has built an autocomplete feature that predicts and prefetches results before a user finishes typing. By fetching suggestions for the current character plus every possible next character during the keyDown event, then rendering them on keyUp, the tool displays matches from a 240-million-domain index with almost no perceptible delay.