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Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of numerous companies, has announced on Twitter the launch of X.com. The website is (almost) blank for now, but Musk promised to unveil more tomorrow.

Elon Musk has acquired X.com, a domain name he last owned in 1999 for an online financial services company, which after merging with Confinity and rebranding as PayPal, was eventually sold to eBay.

Donald Trump has a collection of 3643 websites registered to his name, adding 490 websites in the 18 months before his inauguration. TrumpisFired.com and ImBeingSuedByDonaldTrump.com are two examples.

Uniregistry, a firm managing registration of website top-level domains has officially been made ".game" available, opening opportunities for gaming communities to have their own personalized website.

WordPress.com, the paid side of WordPress, has started to utilize the Let's Encrypt project to enable HTTPS for all of the websites with custom domains that are hosted on the service.

As part of the restructuring plan of Google, the new firm has encountered an issue about acquiring Alphabet.com. The domain is currently owned by car maker BMW, and it has no plans to sell it.

Microsoft has registered a handful of new domain names recently that are all targeted at Apple developers, including the likes of Microsoftlovesappledevelopers.com.

Microsoft, along with many other major brands - and even celebrities - are acting fast to buy out web domains with the upcoming .adult and .porn suffixes before the general public gets to.

Google has managed to purchase the .app domain from ICANN for $25 million, which is the highest bid for any domain ever, surpassing bids from other tech companies for the same.

Microsoft has registered a few new domain names but the one that stands out is AnarchistFashion.com and while the company will likely not say what the name is for, it certainly is interesting.

The government of the United States has announced that it will cede its oversight in assigning domain names and web addresses, while turning the task over to a new organization.

The NHS website has been recently sending its users to a malware infected domain. This was due to an internal coding error that affected more than 800 NHS webpages, which are being currently fixed.

The webpage for Google in Palestine has been attacked by an unknown group, calling for revolution in the disputed lands around Palestine and Israel. How they pulled off the hack is still uncertain.

Domain registrar Namecheap has accused GoDaddy of attempting to thwart the transfer of domains, in violation of ICANN rules. GoDaddy currently faces an Internet boycott for it's support of SOPA.

Microsoft has registered the domain "skypesexfinder.com" after it expired, and thanks to some automated (and presumably unwanted) Bing redirecting it now helps you find cyber sex over Skype

On July 1, Google removed the entire co.cc subdomain from its search results in an effort to combat the spread of malware and spam. Co.cc is infamous for hosting malware landing pages and spam distribution...

Today the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) added the top level domain .xxx to the root nameservers in preparation for the full launch. A few domains are already resolving, such as SEX.xxx and XXX.xxx, with...

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has decided to exercise their powers and seize the domains to both ATDHE.net and ChannelSurfing.net earlier today. If you go to ATDHE.net, you'll be shown a statement...

Bank of America is buying up domain names with derogatory words like "sucks" and "blows" in an effort to protect its executives and board members from potential future attacks according to a report out of...

If you have a US based domain name and are tied to piracy, the office of Homeland Security may be on the hunt for your domain, as over 70 domains have been seized and effectively...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (or ICANN) is expected to approve a new system this week that will allow for website addresses with characters other than those based on the Latin alphabet....

According to the APC Mag website, the popular xpmediacentre.com.au community site, managed to grab windows7.com.au, while Gavin Howard from IT training agency Which Training was quick off the mark to snatch up Windows7.net.au. Howard told...

Registrations for the .me top level domain started yesterday afternoon, giving users a new crack at getting a personalised web address. Unlike the recent staggered rollout of the .asia domain, the .me registrations are open...

A solution provider in Florida that owns the domain name windowsserver2008.com has re-directed the URL to Apple's online store, where visitors are greeted by a giant image of the recently unveiled MacBook Air. On Wednesday,...

Google Inc. announced yesterday that it would begin to take increasing measures against domain name tasting, a practice which exploits a grace period originally designed to rectify legitimate mistakes, such as registrants mistyping the domain...

It is official! eCOM-LAC and NIC Mexico, the organizations in charge of pursuing the Internet domain name for Latinos, announced that .LAT as the extension to identify this new domain. The decision for the extension...

If you had trouble accessing government websites in California a few days ago, don't worry, you weren't hallucinating: the federal government apparently briefly suspended the entire "ca.gov" domain after a hacker managed to insert redirects...

The organization behind ".um", the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, decided the domain wasn't worth the effort. Since it wasn't being used anyway, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers unanimously decided...

Thanks to Brettuk for posting this in BPN. A net domain for pornography was originally considered in 2001. A proposal was made in June 2005, a final approval was expected in December 2005 but was...

The recent rejection of a dedicated .xxx domain for porn sites has prompted the company behind the plan, ICM Registry, to launch a legal attack against the US Department of Commerce. ICM claims that the...