This is the January 2026 edition of Anchovy News. Here you will find articles concerning ICANN, the domain name industry and ...

Registrars can now block people from registering tens of thousands of domain names that look like, are spelling variations of, or otherwise infringe on brand names. GlobalBlock, a solution already in ...

Defensive domain registration is the act of buying different versions of a website’s domain name in order to block competitors from obtaining them. The goals for defensive domain registrations are ...

Butterfly Protocol today announced the launch of its new distributed ledger blockchain-based web naming system built for the decentralized internet to support distributed applications as an ...

Keeping your brand safe online isn’t as simple as registering a domain and calling it a day. As the internet grows more complex and as bad actors get more creative, companies are rethinking how they ...

On 15 March 2025, the first ever officially registered domain name, symbolics.com, turned 40. The website associated with the domain name now features a ‘museum of the Internet’. The domain name ...