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Hundreds of Companies Bought Their Own Domain Extension. Then Never Moved In.
Hundreds of companies bought their own domain extension but never moved in. As the 2026 round opens with a $227,000 fee, the lesson is plain: delegating…
2 hrs ago
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Attila Borcsa
A domain name was the off-switch for WannaCry
The WannaCry virus asked one hardcoded domain name for permission before it encrypted anything. Nobody had bought that domain yet. It was about ten…
Jul 22
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Attila Borcsa
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Worth more than the company on it, but easier to take than real estate
Voice.com sold for 30 million dollars. A record in a database someone else keeps, changeable by a forged letter or a warrant. The asset is real, but the…
Jun 29
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Attila Borcsa
The Internet Was Patched in One Day. The Flaw Is Still There.
The 2008 patch that saved DNS never fixed it. Eighteen years on, the flaw sits in the protocol — and the real cure is still mostly unused.
Jun 24
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Attila Borcsa
The Domain You Forgot to Renew Wasn't Bought. It Was Caught.
An expired domain doesn't go on sale — it drops on a fixed schedule and is caught instantly. Drop-catchers stockpile accreditations. The firms that…
Jun 16
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Attila Borcsa
Your Link Shortener Lives Under the Law of a Country You've Never Visited
In 2010 Libya's registry deleted the vb.ly link shortener over content it deemed unlawful. Every domain hack — .ly, .ai, .tv — runs under a law its…
Jun 9
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Attila Borcsa
The World's Most Valuable Domain Wasn't Stolen. It Was Bought at Checkout for $12.
In 2015 a graduate student bought google.com for $12 on Google's own registrar. The control that failed was a renewal, not a firewall.
Jun 2
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Attila Borcsa
Data Theft Without a Breach. The Price of a Forgotten Domain.
An expired domain is a massive cybersecurity risk. See how attackers buy abandoned domains to intercept emails and reset passwords without hacking.
May 26
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Attila Borcsa
AI Recommends the Wrong Login Page. And It Recommends the Same Wrong One Every Time.
When a chatbot names the wrong domain, it names it the same way for everyone. A repeatable hallucination pointing at an unregistered domain is not an…
May 19
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Attila Borcsa
The Committee in Geneva That Decides Whether .io Lives
Will the .io domain survive? As the UK hands the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, the future of .io lies with the ISO 3166 agency in Geneva, not ICANN.
May 12
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Attila Borcsa
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A country can disappear from the internet. It has already happened.
A country can vanish from the internet without war. One OFAC sanction, one RSP compliance decision, one criminal case. The .iq and .yu cases prove it's…
May 5
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Attila Borcsa
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Tuvalu Is Drowning. So Is the Domain It Lives Off.
Tuvalu earns about $10 million a year from .tv — but that income is bonded to its statehood, not its land, so a sinking nation is rewriting its…
May 1
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Attila Borcsa
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