15 stories tagged domain-names, newest first.
99 points by greyface- | 46 comments
Hagens Berman law firm page for a consumer class action alleging Verisign overcharged .com domain buyers through an illegal monopoly since 2022.
113 points by nikanj | 72 comments
Tell HN post warning that third-level .name domains will be permanently removed next year and asking how others migrated, with discussion comments.
116 points by mzajc | 140 comments
ICANN application details page for a new generic top-level domain application for the string .lan, in pre-evaluation processing.
35 points by irs | 39 comments
A browsable directory of applied-for new generic top-level domains (986 names), listing each proposed TLD with its applicant company and overlap counts.
31 points by ChrisArchitect | 38 comments
ICANN announcement publishing the list of applications received in the 2026 round of the New Generic Top-Level Domains program, including contention sets.
2118 points by pavel_lishin | 520 comments
Neil Fraser's blog post about Verisign's ICANN-approved plan to terminate third-level .name domains, threatening his long-held neil.fraser.name domain.
438 points by jemoka | 132 comments
A personal page mapping numbers 0–99 to companies named "[number]labs", highlighting which are AI-related, inspired by ElevenLabs and TwelveLabs.
980 points by kareiva | 158 comments
Blog post recounting how a joke domain purchase tied to radiosonde tracking via Habhub/SondeHub became entangled with government and geopolitical issues.
417 points by shaunpud | 157 comments
A Website Spec guide page explaining the _for-sale DNS TXT record (RFC 10023) for advertising that a domain is available for purchase.
649 points by HumanCCF | 362 comments
A blog post from HCCF proposing .self, a new human-centered top-level domain intended to support self-hosting; the page failed to load with an upstream connection error.
1043 points by ca98am79 | 558 comments
Medium post by Mike Carson describing how he acquired the defunct Friendster domain for $30k and his plans for it.
731 points by ssiddharth | 448 comments
Personal blog post recounting the author's bad experience buying a .online TLD domain from Namecheap for a small project and why they advise against it.
844 points by radeeyate | 331 comments
ICANN announcement about launching the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) and sunsetting the WHOIS service for domain registration data.
852 points by bryanbraun | 168 comments
Bryan Braun's blog post advising buyers to check a domain name's past history (spam, bad reputation) before purchasing it.
469 points by me_again | 244 comments
A protest page hosted on a .zip domain arguing that Google's .zip top-level domain enables phishing by confusing URLs with filenames and should be revoked.