cs🤨 They’re wanting $14,000 for this
Porkbun Marketplace: The domain microsoft.zip is for sale.
#Cybersquatting #DomainSquatting
https://microsoft.zip/
How much are domain names actually worth? And what’s the story behind http://milk.com ? : Planet Money : NPR
#milk #domains #DomainSquatting
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5526903/domain-name-value-milk-dot-com
#milk #domains #DomainSquatting
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5526903/domain-name-value-milk-dot-com
Mr Tech KingAI-powered scammers cloned a college radio station's identity buying its expired domain. They filled WECB.fm with fake news and AI authors for ad money, hurting real student journalists. Google had to step in. Stay vigilant online. #AIScams #DomainSquatting #DigitalIdentity
Apps For HumansLuckily, just by #coincidence, I went there today right when I was needed most. I didn't charge them anything for solving an emergency. It was literally just having the knowledge to immediately know what the problem is and how to fix it.
Things could have been much worse if someone bought their domain underneath them... So good thing we solved it in time. I love being able to help.
Miguel Afonso Caetano#UK #Anguilla #TLDs #AI #GenerativeAI #DomainSquatting #CyberSquatting: "The tropical British territory of Anguilla wasn’t known to many outside those who sought out its sun-kissed beaches. That was until the generative AI revolution. Suddenly, the island of around 16,000 people became a key broker in the future of our digital lives.
In the 1990s, it was given the domain name ending .AI. Back then, gTLDs (or generic top-level domain names) didn’t go much beyond .com, .org, or .net. The only real envisaged market for .AI domain name endings was local businesses on the island. Until ChatGPT changed everything, and the market for .AI domain names exploded.
Today, more than half a million .AI domain names are registered with Anguillan authorities, who have until now used a local firm called DataHaven.net. The domain names registered include x.ai and claude.ai but notably not open.ai, which is currently held up in a long-running dispute between an individual who claims to have invented the name and concept of OpenAI before Sam Altman unveiled it in 2015—and has a surprising amount of documentary evidence to support his case."
Kevin Karhan 
MiaFalTrying to decide what domain I should use for this cooking website I’m gonna abandon in 3 months. *evil laugh about squatting on 20+ domains*
@trashrobot #DomainSquatting should be illegal!
hackaday unofficialKiCad Team Releases Warning Regarding Domain Name
On October 19th, [Seth_h] from the KiCad Project posted on the KiCad forums that the project's original domain name kicad-pcb.org has been unexpectedly sold to a third party, and urged members of the community to avoid any links to this old website.
KiCad has used the domain kicad-pcb.org since 2012 as the official source for information on and downloads of their popular open-source electronics design software. Unfortunately, the original domain name was purchased before KiCad was formalized as an organization, so it was not directly under their control. This all came to head when the old domain name was unexpectedly sold to an unnamed third party that was not affiliated with the project. Currently, the old domain is just a website covered in ads, but the KiCad team fears that it may be used maliciously in the future.
With KiCad's popularity, thousands of tutorials, articles, and project guides over the years have included links to the old KiCad domain. A Google search in October 2021 found more than 19,000 instances of the old domain spread across the internet. [Seth_h] has called upon the community to make every effort possible to update old links, reducing the chance that people stumble across the wrong website.
[Editor's Note: We think we got 'em all, let us know if we missed any.]
Luckily, Digikey has swooped in to help save the day. They purchased a new domain, kicad.org, from squatters and donated it to the KiCad Project. [Seth_h] explains in his post that a number of safeguards have been put in place to prevent this from happening in the future, including not having the domain name owned by a single person, and having all KiCad trademarks registered to the Linux Foundation.
There's a good reason why KiCad has gotten so popular, it is packed full of great features for PCB design. Check out our coverage of some of the new features we are most excited for in KiCad 6.0 here.
