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Oct 26, 2026
Josh ReasonGUEST
well? Yeah, that's actually a great question and something that I was going to talk about as well.
Josh ReasonGUEST
I actually registered lots of other names in other TLDs in 2025 as well.
Josh ReasonGUEST
So the total amount of revenue generated from hand registrations last year outside of .com was 260,000.
Andrew AllemannHOST
Including the .com or outside of the .com? Including the com.
Andrew AllemannHOST
Are you continuing to...
Andrew AllemannHOST
I mean, some of those names are cheap the first year, like .energy, and then they go up a lot.
Andrew AllemannHOST
Are you renewing those? Are you still trying to hand register new TLDs?
Josh ReasonGUEST
I just dropped the entire batch of .energy names that I had registered despite making those two sales.
Ben GalbraithGUEST
Yeah, I own octo.dad.
Ben GalbraithGUEST
When the .dad TLD came out that day, I bought the domain.
Ben GalbraithGUEST
Yeah, eight kids.
Ben GalbraithGUEST
And yeah, five pods.
WarrenHOST
There are some registrars that are just way more malicious than others, and not necessarily the registrar themselves, but the domains that are registered through that registrar are more likely to be for malicious actors than not.
WarrenHOST
And certain TLDs, like the top-level domain like .coms and whatever, could also be associated with malicious activity.
WarrenHOST
And I just find it really interesting that there are some domains that are just known for how likely the...
WarrenHOST
A bad actor is using them.
WarrenHOST
Like obviously you get it for a year by renewal, but I wonder if it stops being used like after one month or two months, like once you run the campaign already.
WarrenHOST
And so there's domains floating around there.
WarrenHOST
It's a good reminder that there are so many domains that are being registered and by certain TLDs that you should be careful about which TLDs you're picking because the whole TLD might be blocked.
WarrenHOST
Like for us, I know in one of our products, we automatically block any XYZ usage.
Jonathan SimnettHOST
I see where your crazy hypothesis is here.
Jonathan SimnettHOST
So you're saying that .ai might be replaced if somebody, I don't know, influential, decided that the TLD, the top-level domain as they call it, should be not .ai but .si, which happens completely coincidentally.
Jonathan SimnettHOST
to be
Paul MaherHOST
Slovenia.
Jonathan TenenbaumHOST
Today's episode is a Sherpa Short titled All Will Be Revealed, where I'm joined by Yoni, Vaughn, and Dan of LFG to talk about the new ICANN gTLD reveal, where the guys talk about their reaction to the reveal and some of their plans and strategies around their applications.
Jonathan TenenbaumHOST
We also talk about some other interesting applications, the importance of domain names into the future, and we also talk a bit about .si domains and country code TLDs versus the new gTLDs.
Jonathan TenenbaumHOST
All that and more is coming up on today's show.
Jonathan TenenbaumHOST
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Vaughn LyleyGUEST
Went south.
Jonathan TenenbaumHOST
[laughs] Went south.
Jonathan TenenbaumHOST
Well, I mean, the fact that you had, you know, they came out and publicly said, "Look, we applied for all of these TLDs," and it turned out to just be not true, you know? Like, I don't know what the, I don't know what the point was, you know? I guess just to get, you know, just to troll everybody.
Jonathan TenenbaumHOST
I don't know.
Josh ReasonHOST
I really do think that they're, they're undervalued.
Josh ReasonHOST
They're really undervalued, um, comparative to some, some of these prices on, um, alternative TLDs.
Josh ReasonHOST
I mean, you've got to understand, one of the reasons why these alternative TLDs became popular in the first place among startups and end users was because they were cheap.
Josh ReasonHOST
It was because they could go and register a .so for 20 bucks.
Josh ReasonHOST
It was because they could go and register a .ai for 100 bucks, uh, maybe a couple thousand.
Josh ReasonHOST
.ai did it in a big way.
Josh ReasonHOST
But it doesn't always happen, you know.
Josh ReasonHOST
There have been plenty of other TLDs that have really struggled to go over that, that hurdle, despite getting, you know, adoption from some end users.
Dan MartellHOST
But to me, it's like nail the outcome or the benefit, and then just add whatever else you need on the domain to get it to work.
Dan MartellHOST
And look, the truth is, is the dot IOs, the dot FMs, the dot TVs, the dot whatever.
Dan MartellHOST
You can go there initially, and eventually, if you grow enough, you can buy the .com, but I just don't think it matters anymore.
Dan MartellHOST
I think that most of the traffic you're gonna get is gonna be linked, and in those links, the domain is gonna be already referenced, so you don't need to get a very expensive .com for your startup.
Jared ReimerHOST
Ulrich writes, "This keeps happening to country code TLDs more often than other TLDs.
Jared ReimerHOST
ccTLDs were established in the beginning of the Internet and do not always obey the modern rules of how TLDs are operated.
Jared ReimerHOST
With DNS often being used as a proof of ownership of a domain, DNS tampering can also affect the issuance of TLS certificates, which in some ways is supposed to be a backup for DNS in establishing if you are connecting to the correct site." Scotus writes, "Johannes's point about the way some ccTLDs are operated is a good reminder that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and attackers are relentless about finding that link and exploiting it.
Jared ReimerHOST
Many of the other links here are pretty darn strong, but compromising the registry layer Let the attackers change authoritative DNS and then obtain certificates through the normal validation process for names they had temporarily taken control of.
Jared ReimerHOST
You can secure the site and can, and still lose the name.
Matt KaneGUEST
[laughs]
Jim McGowanHOST
I wasn't even sure what the .gg TLD stood for.
Jim McGowanHOST
How-- Uh, like is that, is that just because you've been around for a minute? How is it that you came to possess such a, an, an incredible, uh, domain name?
Matt KaneGUEST
Well, I think you've kind of managed to find the, the dark secret of a lot of the success of AT Protocol-
Claire AirdHOST
[upbeat music] Two Shiny Hunters suspects arrested in Jordan and the US.
Claire AirdHOST
Hackers breach TLD registrars to get valid Google certs.
Claire AirdHOST
Japanese authorities arrest a Qilin ransomware member, and Google suspends its open source bug bounty program after a flood of AI bug reports.
Claire AirdHOST
This is the Risky Bulletin prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by me, Claire Aird.
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