A study by Interisle Consulting Group found that at least 10% of new generic top-level domain registrations in 2025 had already turned up on security blocklists, with the true share of malicious registrations potentially reaching 20% once related but unlisted domains are counted. Interisle's Greg Aaron and Karen Rose presented these figures at the ICANN 86 Policy Forum, citing ICANN's own research that for every three blocklisted domains, two associated ones often go undetected. ICANN's Office of the CTO has since pushed back somewhat, arguing the numbers hinge heavily on how 'abuse' is defined.
labs.ripe.net
· 2026-08-30
A new installment in an ongoing Domain-Driven Design series examines how separately owned and deployed bounded contexts, such as Ordering and Fulfillment, communicate business facts to each other. It introduces the concept of an integration event as a stable public contract distinct from internal domain events, delivered via asynchronous messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Azure Service Bus.
deniskyashif.com
· 2026-08-30
Shadow library Anna's Archive went offline in mid-August after what appears to have been a coordinated attack on its network infrastructure, sparking fears of a legal takedown given its ongoing court battles. The site has already lost its .org, .se, .pm and .vg domains this year following lawsuits from music companies and major book publishers, and now operates from .gl, .pk and .gd domains registered outside U.S. jurisdiction. Combined default judgments against the site's anonymous operators now total roughly $340 million, yet the archive keeps returning online.
torrentfreak.com
· 2026-08-24
A business owner trying to sign up for Google Workspace repeatedly hit an error claiming their legitimate, premium .one domain was actually an 'email provider,' blocking account creation. After escalating through multiple support agents, a specialist, and a video review by product engineers, Google's only resolution was to suggest using a different domain instead of fixing the false flag. The issue reportedly also affected other organizations, including Ukraine's Ministry of Economy, and remained unresolved as of August 2026.
blog.elis.cc
· 2026-08-23
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