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Domains, DNS, and TLS Certificates

Security, Compliance and Performance. These are great sounding words and every IT executive worth their paycheck is all over them. So why do large, sophisticated companies keep experiencing catastrophic domain and DNS-related outages again and again? See how major brands like Sorenson Telecom, Equifax and even Microsoft suffered domain-downtime and loss of customer goodwill.
Microsoft registers generics as they come off collision list →

Here’s a quick look at some of the new TLDs Microsoft has been registering as they came off the collision list. The collision list consists of domain names, temporarily reserved because of their perceived potential to disrupt the proper functioning of the Internet.

.News Sets Record With Of Over 400 Registrations on Day 5 of EAP; Now Over 1,000 →

A look at .news, boasting record numbers, according to The Domains, in the Early Access Program (EAP) stage of this new TLDs launch. It also features a list of the top .news domain names registered by day 5 of the EAP.

Success.Bank: New Top-Level Domain Drives Thousands Of Sign-Ups →

A look at the early success of .bank and how this new TLD will help banks to be more secure in the prevention of phishing scams and fraud. The article also discusses the state of .realtor, which in March 2015 had registrations numbering 95,000.

The Hunger Games franchise ditches dot-com domain →

CNBC gives an account of the Hunger Games movie franchise moving its official website from .com to a the new TLD .movie. Their new website address is thehungergames.movie.

New domain names are just better…right? →

Nick Leech, a marketing executive in the Internet industry offers his perspective on how the new TLDs can enhance digital marketing efforts because they provide localization, relevance and branding.

Dotcom to .Pizza: Welcome to the Web Domain Rush →

CNBC provides an in depth overview of events taking place in the new TLD marketplace with references to Carly Fiorina, Taylor Swift and a company named Fast Twitch that registered fasttwitch.training for $40 instead of buying fasttwitch.com for $20,000.