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As a follow-up to my DotDB video, see how to get some of this data (and more) through GoDaddy Domain Academy. Earlier this week, I posted a video showing how to use DotDB to research the number of top level domains a domain is registered in. GoDaddy customers with Domain Academy access (including those with […] Post link: Video: Get domain da...
DropCatch is a leading domain backordering service that helps users secure expiring domain names the instant they become available. Backed by hundreds of ICANN-accredited registrars, DropCatch increases the chances of success by rapidly attempting to register dropped domains. If multiple users backorder the same name, it goes to auction. Many domai...
Greek fintech startup, Viva Wallet Group, has acquired the domain Viva.ai using the domain acquisition services of Lumis. The company acquired Viva.com, along with More.com, in 2023. J.P. Morgan acquired 48.5% of the company in December 2022, with a cash injection of 100 million Euro. Many companies in the global financial sector are investing in [...
Domain Registries require a set of validated data from domain registrants; that data is collected by Registrars to form a domain's information, displayed in the WHOIS and Registration Data Directory Services (RDDS.) More registries will be requiring less data these days, what with privacy concerns and a set of rules such as the GDPR. GoDaddy [̷...
In this XYZ Quarterly well cover five tips for strengthening your brand through website strategy. Well also provide a recap of XYZs Q2 2025 activity . The emerging technologies that we cover continue to evolve. The content below offers ideas for inspiration, showcasing .xyz community members implementing these innovative concepts. The examples of ....
Voices.com Inc., operator of an online voice talent marketplace, filed a UDRP to usurp Voices.ai from Ukrainian domain investor Igor Gabrielan. Represented by attorney John Berryhill, Gabrielan argued that Voices.ai involves a generic term and was acquired legitimately through auction, with no intent to target Voices.com. The panel agreed. While Vo...
No matter how good your domain name is, if people can't find it you're not going to be able to sell it. With millions of domain names available on the aftermarket, businesses have some very deep water to wade through in search of the right name for their enterprise, Atom.com has unveiled a new AI powered search assistant that aims to make it easier...
DropCatch is a leading domain backordering service that helps users secure expiring domain names the instant they become available. DropCatch leverages hundreds of ICANNaccredited registrars to maximize the chances of capturing expired domains by racing to register them the moment they drop. When multiple users backorder the same name, it goes to a...
Sedo, our kind sponsor, is holding a week-long auction, featuring keyword domain names from July 17-24, 2025. These domains consist of four letters (LLLL) in .com only. A total of 202 domain names are included in the Sedo auction with each domain having a low 99 (USD/EUR/GBP) reserve. From that list, we picked 7 domain […] The post Seven with...
Person who bought domain on payment plan cashed in when restaurant chain came calling. This weekend I wanted to see how long the wait was for a table at Din Tai Fung during lunchtime. Its online waitlist was closed, so I called the location near me. I was taken aback when the recording told me […] Post link: DTF: Interesting story behind Din ...
Advance 2000, Inc. filed a UDRP complaint seeking the domain Advanced2000.com, claiming it conflicted with its registered ADVANCE 2000 trademark used since the mid-1990s for IT services. The company argued that Respondent Reza Sanjideh of Virginia, who operates under the name "Advanced 2000," was infringing on its rights and misleading users throug...
Saw.com posted another Throwback Thursday sale. In 2021 they helped the buyer acquire the domain name Licium.com for $140,000. Registered in 1995. Formerly owned by Licium Corporation. The domain name does not resolve currently, looks like the registrant is from China. AD Smart Domain Monetization Starts at Bodis sign up today AD For a better [R...
GONDI.xyz – GoDaddy customer (United States) Forward-thinking developers use .xyz domains to drive innovation in blockchain technology. DeFi platform Fission.xyz seeks to reshape private equity with tokenized venture investments. DeFi strategy platform CanopyHub.xyz aims to simplify DeFi yield strategies. Unified search engine OnDora.xyz str...
A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has admonished an IT services company that "made a farce" of a UDRP proceeding. Advance 2000, Inc., which uses the domain advance2000.com, filed a cybersquatting claim against advanceD2000.com. The subject domain is registered and used* by another IT services firm, Advanced 2000. That firm registe...
The company inadvertently let the valuable domain name expire. Voiceover marketplace Voices.com, Inc. has lost a cybersquatting claim it filed against voices.ai. The first of three prongs necessary to win a UDRP is that the domain is identical or confusingly similar to a mark in which the complainant has rights. Typically, the top level domain [...
Tool suggests domains based on business concepts and naming preferences. Domain name marketplace Atom launched a new "semantic search" tool today. The company's goal is to surface domain names that will be a good fit for businesses that they might not have otherwise discovered. It builds off Atom's learnings about what people search for and […...
Lovable is a popular "vibe coding" startup that has quickly become a leader in that space. Lovable was founded just 8 months ago, and TechCrunch reported that the startup just achieved unicorn status – a valuation of $1 billion or more. The company raised a $200 million Series A funding round, and it now has […]Catchy.com
Swiss wealth planning firm Sequent (Schweiz) AG filed a UDRP complaint against domain investor, James Booth, seeking to claim the premium domain name Sequent.com. The company claimed common law trademark rights in SEQUENT, citing a 2019 rebrand after separating from Rothschild & Co. and argued that the domain was listed at a high price solely [...
The domain Gaijin.com has had a successful life, ever since its registration by creative person, Brandon Harris, in 1995. Unlike many generic domains registered early, this one wasn't parked or hoarded for the three decades that passed since. Harris was hit with a C&D in 2013, after a Russian games developer formed in 2002 claimed […] The...
Domain Registrars seeking to expand their premium namespace offerings should consider the .med TLD, operated by MedistryLLC and designed exclusively for verified medical professionals, institutions and enterprises. By establishing a secure, trustdriven environment, .med enables registrants, from hospitals and research centers to individual practiti...
DropCatch is a leading domain backordering service that helps users secure expiring domain names the instant they become available. Backed by hundreds of ICANN-accredited registrars, DropCatch increases the chances of success by rapidly attempting to register dropped domains. If multiple users backorder the same name, it goes to auction. Many domai...
Christian Voss joined Taku by GMO along with several other talented domain industry professionals, many of which are from Germany. The new domain registrar and marketplace backed by the GMO Internet Group aims to streamline domain registration, marketplace transactions, and traffic monetization, with a particular focus on Asias expanding digital la...
Top.Domains follows up on Love.now with Watch.now at $79,988. This is now the highest reported .now sale. I think it's one of the best .now names if you like .now. Watch.Now is the perfect call to action for a streamer or broadcast network. Congrats to Top.Domains AD Smart Domain Monetization Starts at Bodis sign up […] The post Watch.now sel...
Company sues after failing to regain control of domain names after theft. Treasure Global Inc., a Malaysian technology company, has filed a lawsuit after two of its domain names were stolen. The lawsuit states that its domain treasureglobal .co and zcity .io were stolen from its Namecheap account in May. Indeed, if you visit either […] Post l...
Developer filed UDRP after first trying to buy the domain name. A Texas real estate developer has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after it filed a cybersquatting claim against empireindustrialpark.com. Empire Industrial Park LLC is a relatively new industrial park in Eagle Pass, Texas. Because the domain it wanted was taken, it [...
GenVentures.xyz – Domain.com customer – (United Kingdom) Forward-thinking investment firms use .xyz domains to highlight their role in advancing AI and shaping emerging technologies. VC firm Infinite.xyz backs decentralized networks and deep tech innovation, from Ethereum to Tesla. VC firm Nascent.xyz aims to support transformative cryp...
The domain JaquelKnight.com was originally owned and used by choreographer JaQuel Knight but expired following a management lapse. It was later acquired at auction by a Turkish person, leading to a UDRP filing. Knight and his company J.K. Creatives argued that the Respondent had no rights to the domain and had initially redirected it to […] T...
Madagascar is a sovereign island countryofficially the Republic of Madagascarindependent since 1960, with its capital at Antananarivo and full UN membership. This 592,000square km island off Africas southeast coast is home to about 32million people, mostly farmers, and governed from its highland capital, Antananarivo. Who says you can't buy an enti...
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – In a notable development within the domain name aftermarket industry, NameJet has announced that expired domain names from two major hosting providers – Bluehost.com and HostGator.com – will now be auctioned exclusively on its platform and that of its sister site, SnapNames. This move expands NameJets reach i...
Company makes record-busting $250,000 .bot sale. Sedo had a monster sales week! Typically, it reports 60-80 sales of $2,000 or more. This week, it reported a whopping 113. It makes me wonder how much of an impact Namecheap's promotion of Sedo listings over Afternic has had. The top sale was crypto.bot, which sold for $250,000 […] Post link: 2...
DropCatch is a leading domain backordering service that helps users secure expiring domain names the instant they become available. DropCatch leverages hundreds of ICANNaccredited registrars to maximize the chances of capturing expired domains by racing to register them the moment they drop. When multiple users backorder the same name, it goes to a...
More exclusive domain inventory is coming to Newfold's domain auction platforms. Newfold Digital's domain auction platforms NameJet and SnapNames will get first crack at expired domains from BlueHost and HostGator, the company announced today. These hosting companies are also part of Newfold Digital. Before November 2023, domains registered at Blue...
The domain Stream.ad was registered in October 2024 by 1Star Ventures LLC, shortly after the Complainant, Polish firm Stylem sp. z o.o., failed to renew it during a rebrand. Stylem holds an Andorran trademark for STREAM, registered in 2018 for internet services. The Complainant argued the domain was acquired in bad faith, pointing to a […] Th...
I discovered an issue with the way Whois records are displayed at GoDaddy that could be problematic for domain investors. I was made aware of this when DomainTools detected a Whois change for one of my domain names that hadn't undergone any Whois updates. This is an issue GoDaddy is aware of, and I hope […]Catchy.com
After advising clients on dot-brand domains for years, Fairwinds makes the move itself. Domain name and intellectual property consultancy Fairwinds Partners has moved its website to a dot-brand ahead of next year's top level domain application window. The company submitted 133 top level domain applications on behalf of its clients in the 2012 expan...
Have some panelists still not gotten the memo? Yesterday, I wrote about Whois privacy and UDRP complaints. I took issue with World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Warwick Rothnie's decision not to find reverse domain name hijacking, in part because the Respondent's identity was protected by a privacy service. Well, another day, and anot...
Domain investor Chad Folkening prevailed as the Respondent in the UDRP filed against the domain Ksuite.com. Registered in 2004, Ksuite.com was challenged by Swiss cloud provider Infomaniak Network SA, owner of a 2024 Swiss trademark for KSUITE, a productivity platform launched around 2020. The Complainant cited changes to the domains landing page a...
If you've ever checked your Afternic Lead Center, you may have noticed some leads marked as Stalled, sometimes for weeks, months, or even years. Its a status that can raise eyebrows or even frustration: Why is this lead still here? Is it ever going to go anywhere? Lets look at the data: 36% of all… The post Why Your Lead Says Stalled (And Why...
June 2025 Highlights 84 premium XYZ Registry domains were registered* Most popular TLDs in premium sales*: .xyz, .Security, and .Game Examples: L.xyz, Citadel.Security, and Mars.Game Most popular TLDs in standard sales: .xyz, .Autos, and .Yachts Highest .xyz premium sale(s): L.xyz – $10,000/year MSRP 49.xyz – $2,500/year MSRP Discover.x...
We often talk about a domain name as being memorable. The term 'memorable' has been used on more than 4300 pages of the NamePros site, and no doubt on countless landers, descriptions, and outbound messages. The term 'memorable' appears, according to Google, in more than 370 million web pages. But what exactly do we mean by memorable? And does rese...
Sedo Domain Sales report: The domain Crypto.bot sold for $250,000 dollars tops this week's list of sales at the Sedo marketplace. This domain has a renewal fee of $6,000 dollars! This is the latest domain sales report by Sedo.com, for the week ending on July 15, 2025. Information in this report has been […] The post #Sedo : Domain sales rep...
Crypto.bot led all domain sales at Sedo this week, it sold for $250,000. Reve.com was the top .com at 79,000 Euro, ($91,842). For the summer it was a big week in terms of number of sales, over 110 reported sales. It was a good week …
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Crypto.bot led the way at $250,000. Reve.com was the top .com at 79,000 Euro, ($91,842). 67 .com sales 33 cctld sales 13 other tld sales Domain name Price Currency .COM reve.com 79000 EUR oten.com 32000 USD eshraq.com […] The post Sedo weekly domain sales led by Crypto.bot appeared fi...
SAW.com has published its first newsletter, one that every domain investor should subscribe to. SAW is coming up with several exciting new updates, courtesy of its newly hired marketing director. As part of the news, the top domain brokerage has added new payment methods, enhanced its email system, fixed bugs, and increased the credit card […...
Sedo shared that the largest publicly reported domain name sale of the week on its platform is Crypto.Bot for $250,000: $250,000 for crypto .bot! This #domain with the highly sought-after keyword #crypto topped last week's Sedo public #sales. The high value is no surprise, given "crypto" is a consistent top performer in our monthly […]Catchy...
Domain name strategy consultancyFairWinds Partners has moved its website from fairwindspartners.com to home.fairwinds. This shift puts their own .BRAND domain front and center as ICANN readies the first new generic toplevel domain (gTLD) application window since 2012, opening in April 2026. Unlike .com or .org addresses, .BRAND domains live at the ...
The domain Cannes.ai, registered in June 2023 by German AI enthusiast Ignace Ayosso, was challenged by the City of Cannes, France via the UDRP process. The city owns both French and EU trademarks for CANNES, dating back to 2005 and 2006. The Respondent claimed he planned a civic-minded AI platform and had reached out to […] The post Cannes.ai...
A recent case raises questions about grace periods, buyer notifications, and balancing interests between sellers and buyers. I recently received an email from a distraught GoDaddy customer. He told me he had been making lease-to-own (LTO) payments on a domain name for over two years, totalling about $3,000. He went on vacation and, when he […...
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