Tag: domains
VeriSign says, "not in your.name"
ICANN approves proposal to blow away 25 years' worth of *.*.name domains.
Brave not brave enough for .brave as Unstoppable ICANN bid proves stoppable
Unstoppable said Brave decided to not move forward with an ICANN application despite having already sold web3 domains advertised with a web2 future.
US gov suspends .org domain of Italian anti-fascist hacktivists Autistici/Inventati
Abuse of anti-terror powers highlights international risk of .org TLD being subject to the whims of the Oval Office.
How would a Telegram TLD work?
Telegram have applied for .gram to wrest control from Montenegro but we don't know exactly how it would look.
Crowdfunded new gTLD applications
Campaigns for .furry and .meow successfully each raised over the $90k needed to submit their ASP-supported applications.
Link Freedom Group (LFG) applies for over 300 new gTLDs
Applications have now closed for the opportunity to introduce the first new gTLDs since 2014 and I take a look at LFG's applications.
Notes for August 8, 2026
New TLD is purrfect, a living dress, deaf by cicada, Facebook doing Facebook things, and some nostalgic tunes from '97
Two Domains, One Build: Hosting .ngo and .ong Together with Eleventy and xmit
The small deployment breakthrough that let me serve one complete Eleventy site at both aila.ngo and aila.ong without turning either domain into a redirect.
Neues WHOIS – wozu der ganze Terz?
Im Dezember 2025 traten durch die EU-Richtlinie NIS-2 bedeutende Änderungen im WHOIS-System für Domains in Kraft. Diese Neuerungen zielen auf erhöhte Transparenz und Sicherheit im Internet ab. In diesem Beitrag beleuchten wir die Hintergründe dieser Entwicklung, die spezifischen Änderungen und deren Auswirkungen auf Domain-Inhaber.
Stupidest Drama Ever
An apparent extortion scheme involving famous writers and entrepreneurs lit up Bluesky the other night. It raises some important questions about whether Bluesky is up to the task of moderation.
Let’s Bring Back Small Tools
Thoughts on the misadventure of udm14, or what I hope to gain from successfully reviving the single-serving site for a couple of weeks.
DKIM for Cloudflare and Fastmail
Real quick! I’m in the process of migrating domains to Cloudflare. I moved scottspence.dev recently and noticed my Fastmail DKIM wasn’t configured correctly. Cloudflare will import your DNS records when you add a domain to your account with their...
Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban
Mastodon instance Queer.af is shutting down because the country that provides the domain is now ruled by the Taliban.
Adding multiple SPF records with Vercel
So, I just found that the SPF record on my Fastmail account for scottspence.com was throwing a verification error. I didn’t really know what the SPF record was for until this point and I had to research why it was failing on Fastmail. So, I did a...
Adding DKIM records to Vercel
So, I’ve started using Sendinblue for my transactional emails and newsletter. There’s the usual configuration to do with these services to add and configure your domain with them to show it as the sender. I’ve documented that process of Setting up...
Why Fastmail over ProtonMail
I’ve now been using Fastmail for a year now. I was using ProtonMail previously but decided to migrate to Fastmail. I’m going to go into the details of why I switched. This is personal preference and my reasoning behind the switch. For full...
Setting up Fastmail with Vercel
I’ve started using Fastmail, here’s how I set it up with Vercel for use with my own domains. If you’re interested in giving Fastmail a go then you can use my referral code for a 10% discount on the first year of Fastmail.
Setting up ProtonMail with Vercel
In this post I’m detailing how I set up my domain with ProtonMail and Vercel, this is mainly the CLI commands that are needed to get set up with ProtonMail and Vercel. I’ve decided to give ProtonMail a shot, I have lost faith in Google being a...
The Internet’s Many Branches
The evolution of the top-level domain, a solution to a technical problem that has evolved into something with lots of cultural and marketing value.
Configure Custom Domain Email with Zoho and Now
In this guide I’m going to cover the configuring of your custom domain with Vercel’s Now platform using the Now CLI. I’ll be primarily covering the steps you take after setting up an account with an email provider, the email provider I’m using is...
Make a simple, personal, URL shortener with Now.sh
Remember services like Bitly and TinyURL? Yeah, they still exist, shortening your URLs for you, they’ve been around for a long time too. Bitly founded in 2008 and TinyURL founded in 2002 😱
The Purple Unicorn
One of the most notable domain holdouts in internet history finally sells Purple.com to the mattress company that made its colorful name famous.
Deep Purple
Purple.com, a long-in-operation domain owned by an individual, isn’t for sale. On the plus side, the mattress company Purple appears to not have needed it.