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According to CryptoBriefing, the Virtual Currency Unit (VCU) led by Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Alona Katz collaborated with the FBI's New York office to conduct a joint operation that seized or shut down 241 fraudulent domain names and 112 servers. This operation marks the conclusion of a three-year investigation into an internationally connected cryptocurrency investment fraud network.The network primarily targeted Russian-speaking communities, directing victims to fake cryptocurrency investment platforms through Russian advertisements on Facebook, and then carried out secondary fraud under the guise of "recovering funds." Investigators estimate the related losses to be in the tens of millions of dollars, with some victims losing their entire savings. The prosecution has currently recovered about $300,000 for the victims, and there have been no reports of arrests from this operation. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center's 2025 Internet Crime Report indicates that cryptocurrency-related fraud losses reached $11.366 billion that year, a 22% increase from the previous year. Losses from cryptocurrency fraud accounted for more than half of all internet crime losses in 2025.

According to Decrypt, the Virtual Currency Unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office in New York, in collaboration with the FBI, successfully dismantled a multinational cryptocurrency investment scam network targeting the Russian-speaking community across the United States, seizing and shutting down 112 servers and 241 associated website domains. The involved servers were primarily hosted in Eastern Europe and the United States, with the core infrastructure and IP nodes distributed in places like Ukraine.Forensic evidence from the servers also indicated that the scammers would strike again weeks later, disguising themselves as "asset recovery service providers" to conduct secondary harvesting of victims, with the total amount involved reaching tens of millions of dollars. The prosecution had previously shut down 400 associated domain names, and this time directly seized the underlying servers to completely deprive the gang of the ability to quickly set up websites and contact victims. Law enforcement has currently seized approximately $300,000 in stolen funds, and the recovery efforts are ongoing.

The governance organization of Ethereum Name Service ENS DAO published a new proposal on X, suggesting the activation of ENSv2.The proposal plans to freeze new v1 .eth registrations, allowing domains that have not yet migrated to continue renewing and retaining existing domains, and subsequently transitioning the domain registration and resolution functions to v2.

The proposal for the activation of ENSv2 for Ethereum Name Service (ENS) states that after the official launch of ENSv2, new registrations for ENSv1 will cease, while existing .eth domain holders will not face a migration deadline and can continue to retain and use their registered domains.The proposal also arranges for ENS Labs to transfer its remaining management roles for ENSv2 to the ENS DAO, handing over the relevant management authority to the community.

The stablecoin and payment company Frax, headquartered in the United States, announced that it has submitted an application for its own top-level domain .frax to ICANN, claiming this is the first top-level domain application from a cryptocurrency company published by ICANN. The application is part of the 2026 New Generic Top-Level Domain Program and is supported by ICANN-accredited corporate domain registrar MarkMonitor. If approved, .frax will become a global internet top-level domain similar to .com and .org.Frax plans to allow users to own and manage .frax domain names on its blockchain Fraxtal through the Frax Name Service, while being resolved via the global domain name system. Related registrations will enter the Frax Burn Engine and permanently destroy FRAX. Founder Sam Kazemian stated: the cryptocurrency naming system allows internet identities to be owned, ICANN domains make them universally accessible, and .frax combines both, aiming for ownership to remain on-chain, domain names to be universally available, and to become programmable financial endpoints for people, businesses, applications, and AI agents.The plan will also extend Frax's financial network built around the fully-backed digital dollar frxUSD and the institutional connectivity platform FraxNet. Frax plans to explore the agency and machine payment functionalities of .frax domain names, including support for standards like x402, so that websites, applications, and autonomous software agents can identify counterparties, access services, and programmatically initiate stablecoin payments. Frax claims to have been serving users since 2020 and ranks 5th in the 2026 Fortune Crypto 100 stablecoin category.

OpenAI released the resident Agent Dots at DevDay, but the domains dot.com and dots.com are currently not owned by OpenAI. Among them, dot.com currently belongs to xAI, and opening it will directly redirect to Grok Bot, while dots.com is also not owned by OpenAI.Public WHOIS shows that dot.com was transferred in July of this year, about two months before Dots was officially released. After the news broke, the community speculated that xAI acquired the domain in advance, but there is currently no evidence to prove that they knew beforehand that OpenAI would use this name.dots.com originally belonged to the American women's clothing chain Dots. When the company went bankrupt in 2014, the domain was sold for $335,000 to an undisclosed individual buyer, and the actual holder has not received public confirmation since then.

According to official disclosures from Coinbase, it has collaborated with Microsoft and several institutions to combat the AI-driven cybercrime platform EvilTokens. This platform offers "phishing as a service" through Telegram bots, utilizing AI to analyze trust relationships and payment permissions in compromised email accounts, and bypassing multi-factor authentication through Microsoft's device code login process.The Coinbase global intelligence team tracked that between October 2025 and June 2026, EvilTokens generated approximately $1.1 million in revenue through four Tron addresses, involving over 1,000 deposits from more than 700 different addresses. The related evidence supported Microsoft's civil lawsuit, ultimately leading to the seizure of 50 websites and the deactivation of over 175 associated domain names. The Metropolitan Police Service of the United Kingdom arrested the relevant operators and seized digital devices on September 11. Coinbase stated that this incident did not result in the leakage of Coinbase accounts or credentials, but some customers were manipulated into transferring cryptocurrency to the scammers' addresses through phishing emails.

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams stated on the X platform that the original domain holder of Uniswap.com had asked for a seven-figure sum, but the team refused to pay. SBF subsequently purchased the domain for a seven-figure amount and pointed it to a fork project. Due to the malicious use of the domain, the legal team ultimately acquired the domain for free.

Matthew Gould, the founder of Unstoppable Domains, stated that the company did not submit an application for its Web3 top-level domains in ICANN's 2026 expansion round and will refund customers who purchased related domains. Gould mentioned that the compliance, application, and bidding costs of incorporating Web3 domains into the ICANN system exceeded the company's expected recoverable sales. This move ends the company's commitment since 2019 that domains like .crypto and .wallet would eventually be resolvable in standard browsers.The application window for this round of ICANN opened on April 30 and closed on August 12, receiving over 1,600 major applications. Gould stated that customers have been notified via email, but the list of affected extensions and refund terms have not been disclosed. Some holders questioned the scope of the refunds, claiming they held the domains based on Unstoppable's commitment to advance the ICANN application. Gould responded that Web3 domains will still serve as on-chain assets for cryptocurrency transactions.Unstoppable continues to participate in ICANN activities as a service provider and previously announced a partnership with Telegram to apply for the .gram domain. Meanwhile, ENS has chosen a different path, with token holders approving the restructuring of the ENS Foundation to pursue the .ens top-level domain in ICANN, but ENS will not apply for .eth, as it is reserved for ISO 3166-1 country codes.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov stated that Telegram has applied to ICANN for the .gram domain zone. If the application is approved, approximately one billion Telegram users will be able to obtain exclusive second-level domains, such as yourname.gram.Users will be able to quickly build interactive websites under Telegram's hosting with a single prompt. This initiative aims to further expand Telegram's ecological service capabilities, combining instant messaging with personal domains and website hosting.

On this day 18 years ago, Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto registered the domain bitcoin.org. This domain subsequently became an important platform for early information dissemination and community collaboration for Bitcoin.On August 18, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto completed the registration of bitcoin.org; in October of the same year, he published the Bitcoin white paper through this channel, and in January 2009, he mined the genesis block, launching the Bitcoin network. bitcoin.org has long hosted the Bitcoin protocol documentation, client download guides, and foundational educational content, making it one of the iconic online assets in the process of Bitcoin's transition from concept to global adoption.

Yield Guild Games (YGG) announced the official launch of YGG 3.0, transforming from a Web3 gaming pioneer into a cross-domain infrastructure layer, providing a platform for various communities to organize manpower, skills, and capital, covering digital economy collaboration.The core of YGG 3.0 includes the Guild Protocol open framework, composed of three main components: Guilds (social), Assets (capital), and Activities (operations), promoting decentralized networks to become productive economic engines; in terms of World Model Training, the guild collects human spatial data to serve physical AI and robotics, and distributes collection tasks through the @yggalerts task platform.In addition, YGG provides a human coordination layer for AI-assisted game development for @vibecode_game, responsible for playtesting, curation, and ranking; Institutional DeFi supports professional independent guilds in managing idle capital through automated, risk-controlled yield strategies.

ENS DAO has voted to approve the proposal "Next Era of ENS DAO" and completed on-chain execution, officially establishing the ENS Foundation to promote the ENS ecosystem into a new governance phase.According to the proposal, the ENS Foundation will become a fully operational organization, equipped with a full-time executive director, a professional team, and a board of directors consisting of 5 members, responsible for undertaking institutional work related to ENS in areas such as law, policy, standard-setting, and brand protection.ENS stated that over the past nearly ten years, ENS has developed into an important infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem, with millions of registered domain names, and has been integrated by numerous wallets, applications, and Layer 2 networks. However, the DAO itself lacks legal entity status, making it unable to effectively participate in the governance of the internet naming system, sign institutional cooperation agreements, hire full-time employees, maintain trademark rights, or engage in regulatory discussions. The establishment of the ENS Foundation aims to fill this gap. In the future, the foundation will be responsible for:Representing ENS in internet standard organizations such as ICANN, IETF, and W3C, promoting the recognition and management of the ".ens" top-level domain (TLD);Participating in policy discussions as a legal entity, communicating with regulatory agencies and government departments;Holding and protecting ENS trademarks and intellectual property, combating phishing and impersonation;Hiring full-time employees responsible for ecosystem operations, funding programs, and fund management;Becoming a formal cooperation entity between traditional institutions such as registrars and standard organizations and the ENS ecosystem.

The Solana Name Service (SNS) announced that .sol domain registrations are expected to be suspended on August 17, 2026, to align with the subsequent eligibility snapshot process. The official statement mentioned that .sol domains registered before the suspension will be included in the upcoming snapshot range, and users can check their eligibility results after the snapshot is completed.SNS also stated that it will continue to disclose relevant progress starting from August 17, and .sns domain registrations are expected to resume in mid-September, with more details to be announced later. The official also reminded users to be cautious of fraudulent claim links and emphasized that SNS will not ask users to claim domains, sign transactions, or pay fees to receive new .sol domains.

According to the official announcement, Bitget CFD has added a "Private Domain Copy Trading" mode. This feature uses an invitation-based copy trading method, where only users who have obtained the private domain password or invitation link shared by trading experts can follow the corresponding trading projects.The private domain copy trading feature helps trading experts limit the range of copy trading users and track the conversion effects of various channels through different invitation links. This mode does not affect public domain copy trading projects; the same trading expert can simultaneously run one public domain and one private domain project, with relevant data independently counted. A single private domain project supports a maximum of 100 copy trading users by default and can create up to 10 invitation links. Users can update to version 2.90.0 to experience the related features; for more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

According to International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest), the core domain name t[.]me of Telegram has been set to serverHold status by the .me registry, causing the domain to go offline from the global DNS, making all t.me links inaccessible. Currently, Telegram, the .me registry, and the backend operator Identity Digital have not provided any public explanation.Analysts have pointed out that .me is the country code top-level domain for Montenegro, which is currently in the process of negotiating EU membership. This blockade may be related to the advancement of EU regulatory matters.

The security alert released by Blockaid on platform X indicates that its system has detected an attack targeting the front end of the Yield Yak website. The project's subdomain vote.yieldyak.com has been implanted with eleven drainer malicious code. Blockaid pointed out that the method of this attack is similar to the security incident that Gitcoin.co encountered yesterday.

Blockchain security company Blockaid stated that its detection system found signs of a front-end attack on the Gitcoin subdomain files[.]gitcoin[.]co, with suspected malicious code named "Eleven drainer" included in the website, used for wallet asset theft. Blockaid warns users not to interact with the website at this time, and the related issues are under investigation and repair.

CoW DAO announced that its domain registrar was subjected to a social engineering attack on April 14, during which the attacker briefly controlled the official domain for about 4.5 hours and directed users to a phishing website, thereby inducing them to sign malicious transactions. The project team emphasized that the CoW Protocol itself was not compromised, but some user assets were affected during that time window.In response to this incident, the CoW DAO community governance proposal CIP-86 has been approved, establishing a discretionary compensation fund to reimburse affected users for their losses. The official reminder states that eligible users must submit their claims by May 14, including affected wallet addresses, asset information, transaction hashes, and names, and apply via email at help@cow.fi, with the email subject clearly stating "Discretionary Grant Claim for".

CoW Swap tweeted that it has regained control of the cow.fi domain and has been operating normally on cow.finance for some time, and is currently gradually transitioning back to the original domain.The official statement indicated that the attacker deceived the DNS registrar with forged documents on April 14 to gain control of the cow.fi domain; the attacker deployed a highly realistic phishing website, implementing it in two phases: first, inducing users to sign malicious transactions through a wallet stealer, and then stealing mnemonic phrases and passwords through fake wallet pop-ups; this attack targeted the domain registrar and did not involve a breach of CoW Swap's own infrastructure or private keys. Affected users should use tools like Revoke.cash to revoke all authorizations and consider transferring funds to a new wallet.