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A Hacker News poster warns that domains using the third.level.name format are scheduled to be permanently expunged next year, and asks others how they are migrating away. The poster describes being stuck with Azure, saying admin emails on the account cannot be changed and that Microsoft support has been unable to help.
President Trump has begun promoting the term 'Artificial Super Intelligence' in place of 'AI,' reportedly describing those who resist the shift as 'the enemy.' OpenAI, which has built close ties to the Trump administration, has not commented on whether it will alter its branding to match the new terminology.
ICANN announced the completion of the application period for the 2026 round of new gTLDs, receiving 1,615 submissions from organizations worldwide. The applications include a mix of brand, community, geographic, and internationalized domain names, with the majority originating from North America and Europe. The full list of applications is now publicly available for review on ICANN's official site.
Verisign asked ICANN to eliminate all third-level '.name' domains to cut administrative complexity, and ICANN approved the request on 28 July 2026. Long-time users like Neil Fraser, who registered his personal domain nearly 25 years ago, learned of the change only recently via registrar notices, and will lose their websites, email addresses, and connected IoT services starting in February.
Google's Android 17 release becomes the first mobile OS to support Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), a TLS feature that hides the destination website names during connection setup, preventing ISPs and network snoopers from seeing which sites users visit. The update also lets carriers disable 2G connections on devices, cutting off a common vector for malicious SMS-blaster attacks, alongside stricter local-network permissions and default Certificate Transparency.