Latest Registrar news

Registrars can now block all domains that resemble brand names

Registrars can now block people from registering tens of thousands of domain names that look like, are spelling variations of, or otherwise infringe on brand names.
- Ax Sharma
- February 28, 2024
- 05:45 AM
- 6
Namecheap offers free anonymous hosting, domains for anti-Putin sites

US-based domain name registrar Namecheap announced today that it will provide sites protesting the current regime in Russia and Belarus with free domains and web hosting.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 02, 2022
- 12:37 PM
- 4
Namecheap is banning Russians, asks them to switch registrars

Domain registrar Namecheap is emailing customers registered in Russia saying it will no longer provide them with services because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 28, 2022
- 06:56 PM
- 8
EU legislation introduced to ban anonymous domain registration

The European Union is drafting legislation that could soon end individuals registering domains anonymously on the continent.
- Bill Toulas
- October 13, 2021
- 10:26 AM
- 0
RaidForums forced to use mirror after Brazilian govt contacts registrar

The RaidForums hacking forum has gone through a turbulent week, with its website now forced through a mirror domain after a government filed a legal request with their registrar.
- Bill Toulas
- October 04, 2021
- 01:00 PM
- 0
Over 60,000 parked domains were vulnerable to AWS hijacking

Domain registrar MarkMonitor had left more than 60,000 parked domains vulnerable to domain hijacking. The parked domains were seen pointing to nonexistent Amazon S3 bucket addresses, hinting that there existed a domain takeover weakness.
- Ax Sharma
- September 03, 2021
- 03:00 AM
- 1
Namecheap hosting and email DOWN in prolonged outage

One of the world's largest domain registrars, Namecheap has been hit with a series of mysterious outages today and it is not clear why..
- Ax Sharma
- August 30, 2020
- 11:12 AM
- 0
US govt to enforce HTTPS on new .gov sites starting September 1

Starting September 1, 2020, new .gov sites will only be accessible via HTTPS as they will automatically be preloaded according to an announcement made by the U.S. Government's DotGov Program today.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 22, 2020
- 01:26 PM
- 0
US Govt Adds Stricter Requirements for .gov Domain Registration

The U.S. government will start requiring notarized signatures as part of the registration process for .gov domains starting March 10, 2020, to prevent wire and mail fraud that might lead to such domains being registered by unauthorized organizations or individuals.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 05, 2020
- 06:14 PM
- 0
Zero-Day Bug Allowed Attackers to Register Malicious Domains

A zero-day vulnerability impacting Verisign and several SaaS services including Google, Amazon, and DigitalOcean allowed potential attackers to register .com and .net homograph domain names (among others) that could be used in insider, phishing, and social-engineering attacks against organizations.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 04, 2020
- 09:00 AM
- 0
World's First Domain Registrar Network Solutions Discloses Breach

World's first domain registrar Network Solutions disclosed a security breach that happened in late August 2019, and allowed a third-party to infiltrate some of the company's computing systems without authorization and potentially access some customers' personally identifiable information (PII).
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 30, 2019
- 08:57 AM
- 0
US Govt Rolls Out New DNS Security Measures for .gov Domains

New DNS security measures for all .gov domains will be implemented by the U.S. government starting today to help mitigate risks associated with future DNS hijacking incidents.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 17, 2019
- 02:37 PM
- 0
Cloudflare Becomes a Registrar, Sells Domains At Cost

Cloudflare has announced that they are expanding their domain registrar services so that all of their customers can register or renew a domain at cost. You heard me right. No more paying extra fees to register a domain. You pay what Cloudflare pays for a domain registration or renewal.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 27, 2018
- 08:00 AM
- 3
Zoho Suspended by Domain Registrar Over Phishy Emails

In a bizarre sequence of events, after the CRM software company Zoho was taken offline by their domain registrar, they posted to Twitter asking for help getting their service back up and running again. When Zoho customer's contacted TierraNet, they were told the CRM service was taken down due to phishing violations.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 24, 2018
- 05:52 PM
- 0