Afilias, Inc.

The entity sits on the left and its connections fan out by role on the right; the graph shows each group’s most confident connections, and the full list below carries every relationship.

Full list

• A $135 Million Auction, a Funding Agreement and .WEB’s Ten-Year Wait

  A US$135 million auction removed six rival .WEB applications from contention, but it did not determine who controlled the winning position, whether the funding arrangement complied with the 2012 rulebook, what independent review could actually remedy, or which company would ultimately be entered in the DNS root.

  Primary articlePublished 2026-07-31
• Afilias made registry scale valuable before its brand disappeared into Identity Digital

  Afilias became valuable in the domain-name industry because it sat behind names that other companies, registrars, governments and registrants needed to keep resolving. Its story is not a clean story of consumer brand growth; it is a story about registry contracts, DNS delegation, recurring wholesale domain economics, and the switching risk that made a back-end operator attractive to a consolidator.

  Primary articlePublished 2026-07-10