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IPv4 Pricing Through 2026 - Stability as Seller Leverage Begins to Return

After a sharp correction, the IPv4 market is showing signs of stabilization. Rising buyer activity, tightening supply expectations, and growing AI infrastructure demand are expected to support gradual price recovery through 2026, improving conditions for sellers.

Post-Quantum Cryptography - the Time to Act Is Now

As quantum computing advances, the race to secure the internet is becoming urgent. Experts at EuroDIG 2026 warned that only coordinated, multistakeholder action can accelerate post-quantum cryptography deployment before existing encryption becomes dangerously obsolete.

Community Networks: Africa’s Missing Layer of Digital Sovereignty

Community networks could become a crucial pillar of Africa's digital sovereignty, extending connectivity while giving underserved communities greater ownership, resilience, technical capacity, and influence over the infrastructure and services that increasingly shape economic opportunity.

DOTZON Study: Digital City Brands 2026

DOTZON's Digital City Brands 2026 study crowns .tokyo as the first Asian cityTLD to top the rankings, ending .berlin's four-year reign, while highlighting the growing role of city domains in digital identity, commerce and development.

Cybercriminals are Driving Significant Domain Name Market Demand

Cybercriminals are becoming a major force in the domain-name market, driving an estimated one-fifth of new gTLD registrations in 2025 and exposing how commercial incentives, weak enforcement, and scale continue to fuel online abuse.

How the AI Computing Paradigm Is Deconstructing Internet Governance

As AI giants build vertically integrated, compute-centric networks, they are bypassing DNS, reshaping routing, and concentrating infrastructure power, placing decades-old internet governance institutions under mounting pressure and raising the prospect of a fragmented, AI-driven Splinternet.

UDRP Review Is a Test of the MSM

As ICANN confronts a harsher geopolitical era, its long-delayed review of the UDRP has become a defining test of whether the multistakeholder model can still deliver legitimate, effective Internet governance and sustain confidence in its future.

Online Unregulated Peptide Sales Should Be Banned

Canada's online pharmacy industry is urging a ban on unregulated peptide sales, warning that products marketed for weight loss, bodybuilding and other uses pose serious health risks, evade regulatory oversight, and are increasingly sold online without prescriptions.

From Uptime to Trust: The Domain Security Strategy Behind Business Continuity

Domains and DNS underpin modern business operations, yet security gaps remain widespread. CSC's latest research shows why stronger domain protections are essential to resilience, helping companies reduce disruption, safeguard trust, and maintain continuity when attacks strike.

IPv4 Is Now a Sellers Market - What to Expect in 2026

After two years of falling prices, the IPv4 market has turned decisively. Surging transfer volumes, AI infrastructure demand and looming broadband expansion are tightening supply, pushing prices higher and leaving patient buyers facing a costlier reality.

Internet, Artificial Intelligence and the UN: How different is AI Governance from Internet Governance?

As the UN turns to AI governance, old lessons from internet governance loom large: multistakeholder rules matter, but sharper risks, geopolitical rivalry and machine autonomy make consensus harder and more urgent than before for all.

Africa’s Data Sovereignty Is Not About Where Data Lives: It Is About Who Controls It

Africa's data sovereignty debate focuses too heavily on where information is stored. Real sovereignty depends on control of cloud platforms, encryption, identity systems, and critical digital infrastructure that determine resilience, autonomy, and strategic power.

Fake Domains, Real Harm: The Data Behind India’s DNS Abuse Crisis

New data on DNS abuse reveals most malicious domains remain active beyond 24 hours, while a handful of registrars host the bulk of infrastructure, leaving India's population of first-generation internet users uniquely exposed to fraud.

dotBrand Domains as Trust Infrastructure in the Age of AI

As AI agents automate phishing, impersonation and domain abuse at machine scale, the Brand Registry Group argues that dotBrand domains are evolving from marketing assets into trust infrastructure underpinning cybersecurity, identity and interactions across the internet.

Time Sovereignty: Internet Policy and Defense Frameworks for Critical Infrastructure Synchronization Under Geopolitical Conflict

As power grids depend on microsecond precision, states must treat time synchronization as sovereign infrastructure, hardening satellite, fiber and orbital defenses against hybrid attacks that could trigger catastrophic blackouts through resilient sovereign time defense frameworks.

News Briefs

Researchers Uncover Browser-Based SSD Side Channel That Can Track User

Blank Domain Names Surpass Websites in Value for the First Time, Report Finds

Starlink and Amazon Could Gain Access to Europe’s Satellite Airwaves

Iran Begins Restoring Internet After Record 88-Day Blackout

Iran Threatens Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz

Inside Iran’s Shift From Internet Shutdowns to Tiered Connectivity

Internet Censorship Grows More Sophisticated, Warns OONI Co-Founder

AI-Driven Cyber Threats Are Growing, Google Warns

Steven Bellovin Takes Aim at Cybersecurity Myths in New Book

DNS Censorship Report Warns of Rising Domain Suspensions

UDRP Domain Disputes Surge on Back of Mega-Cases

ICANN Opens New gTLD Applications for First Time Since 2012, With $227K Entry Fee and 27 Scripts

Iran’s Internet Blackout Hits 60 Days - Deepening Economic Crisis, Two-Tier Access

Iran-Linked Cyberattacks Expose Fragility of America’s Industrial Nerve System

Iran’s Record Internet Blackout Deepens Civilian Isolation, Fuels Humanitarian Concerns

U.S. Blocks Foreign-Made Routers Over Cybersecurity Fears

Iran Targeted by Self-Propagating Malware in Supply-Chain Cyberattacks

ICANN Probes “Parked Domains” and Zero-Click Redirects Amid Growing Internet Governance Concerns

Kadnap Malware Infects 14,000 Routers Worldwide, Designed to Resist Takedowns Experts Warn

Iranians Outsmart Internet Blackout to Broadcast Airstrikes

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