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Four letters, a dot and three more letters add up to a record: Shopify paid about $99 million (about €89 million) for the web address shop.com, according to the quarterly report the Canadian e-commerce company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. That makes shop.com the most expensive publicly known domain purchase ever.…

On October 27, 2026, the FBI seized the domain of Virtualine, a Russian-speaking bulletproof hosting provider whose direct customers included ransomware groups, an infostealer operator, and a Russian drug marketplace. In 2026, Virtualine received more illicit-attributed cryptocurrency than any other TRM-labeled bulletproof hosting provider, despite receiving less total value than several peers.

You have a product name, a pitch deck, and a launch plan, but the matching .io or .ai address belongs to someone else. For many founders, this is where naming stalls. The good news is that registrations do not always last. When an owner fails to renew, the name eventually returns to the open market,…