DropCatch auctions: Select domain results for July 15, 2025 | Mark As Read |
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...
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BlueHost and HostGator to send expired domains to NameJet/SnapNames | Mark As Read |
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...
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Stream.ad UDRP follows domain lapse and $9,500 Sedo listing | Mark As Read |
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...
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Whois Display Issue at GoDaddy Poses Legal Risk | Mark As Read |
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
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Fairwinds finally moves its website to its own dot-brand domain | Mark As Read |
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...
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Hey UDRP panelists, we need to talk about Whois privacy | Mark As Read |
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...
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Ksuite.com UDRP: Domainer proves 20 year ownership matters | Mark As Read |
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...
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Why Your Lead Says Stalled (And Why Thats Not a Bad Thing) | Mark As Read |
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...
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Why Your Lead Says Stalled (And Why Thats Not a Bad Thing) | Mark As Read |
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...
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XYZ Registry Domains Report June 2025 | Mark As Read |
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...
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What Makes A Word Memorable? Surprising Results From MIT Research Study | Mark As Read |
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...
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#Sedo : Domain sales report | July 15, 2025 Crypto.bot sold for $250,000 dollars | Mark As Read |
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...
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Crypto.bot sells for $250K to lead Sedo domain sales | Mark As Read |
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 …
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Sedo weekly domain sales led by Crypto.bot | Mark As Read |
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...
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SAW newsletter: Find out what this top domain brokerage is up to! | Mark As Read |
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 […...
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Crypto.Bot Sells for $250k via Sedo | Mark As Read |
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...
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FairWinds Partners ditches .com for its own TLD | Mark As Read |
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 ...
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Cannes.ai taken from German registrant after city files UDRP | Mark As Read |
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...
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How should platforms handle late payments in domain lease-to-own agreements? | Mark As Read |
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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Turtle.xyz sells for $106K | Mark As Read |
Swetha sold Turtle.xyz for $106,000 at Afternic. Nocturnal.xyz also sold for $25K. Turtle.xyz looks like it was registered back in 2014 by a Japanese registrant. It was left to expire and later registered in 2019. turtle.xyz 106,000 USD 2025-07-14 Afternic nocturnal.xyz 25,000 USD 2025-07-14 Afternic AD Smart Domain Monetization Starts at Bodis sig...
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ProductHunt Launch Domain Usage (15th July 2025 ) | Mark As Read |
Below are today's ProductHunt projects along with their domain names. If the domain is the play or apple store, it's an app not a website. Raw Domain .txt Download com:135, ai:24, app:19, io:11, dev:6, me:6, tech:6, co:5, net:5, live:3, org:3, site:3, cc:2, cloud:2, club:2, fun:2, online:2, so:2, xyz:2, bio:1, ca:1, chat:1, compare:1, de:1, design:...
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Domain Name Sale Stats 13th July 2025 | Highest Sale a .com $63,004 | Mark As Read |
A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for detailed fil...
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DropCatch auctions: Select domain results for July 14, 2025 | Mark As Read |
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...
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Airport.media sells for $50,215, highest reported .media all time | Mark As Read |
Airport.media sold for $50,215 at Sedo. The domain name was registered in 2014 and parked at Sedo. It's the highest reported .media sale of all time. I have to be honest I thought .media would have done better than it has to date. It's a …
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Dynadot May 2025 Aftermarket sales report led by Gorillas.io | Mark As Read |
Dynadot released their May 2025 Aftermarket report. The sales data comes in a number of categories. Expired auctions, Last Chance auctions, Backorder auctions, User auctions and Marketplace. The top sale for May 2025 came from the expired category. Gorillas.io sold for $34,547.70. Novaline.com was the second highest sale and it came from the market...
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What duty does a UDRP complainant have to withdraw a case? | Mark As Read |
Did this panelist let the Complainant off the hook? GDPR and the near-universal implementation of Whois privacy have changed the process of filing UDRP cases. Before GDPR, a complainant either knew the identity of the domain registrant or knew the public Whois information was bogus before filing. Now, with privacy the default for most registrations...
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Video: How to use DotDB to evaluate domain demand across TLDs | Mark As Read |
Use DotDB's bulk tool to evaluate domains to buy or to evaluate your portfolio. Domain investors often look at how many top level domains a domain is registered in when evaluating domains to buy. An excellent tool for this is DotDB. But you have to be careful how you use it, and you must dig […] Post link: Video: How to use DotDB to evaluate ...
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ICANN to review reviews after review review request fails | Mark As Read |
An effort by ICANN's At-Large community to force the Org to stick to its bylaws commitments to periodically review its accountability and transparency has failed after nobody else supported it. As I reported last month, ALAC petitioned its Empowered Community co-members to get ICANN to overturn its decision to delay Accountability and Transparency ...
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DawsonGroup.com UDRP: Dawson vs. DawsonWho won? | Mark As Read |
The domain DawsonGroup.com, registered in 2009 by US-based consultant Rhett Dawson, was challenged by UK leasing giant Dawsongroup Limited. Despite owning UK trademarks and operating since the 1980s, the Complainant failed to show that the Respondent lacked rights or acted in bad faith. Dawsongroup argued the name matched its long-used brand and do...
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Got a Lowball Offer on Your Domain? Heres Why You Should NEVER Ignore It | Mark As Read |
How a $4,500 Offer Could Lead to a $45,000 Sale I was speaking with one of our clients recently about our platform, future plans, and the domain industry as a whole. Midway through our conversation, he hit me with a question Ive heard in many forms over the years: Jeff, Ive got a domain priced … The post Got a Lowball Offer on You...
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Traubi.com UDRP: Case failed due to lack of targeting proof | Mark As Read |
The domain Traubi.com, registered in 2004 by US-based Karch Kreitz, was challenged by Hungarian beverage company ZOLD-VILAG 2000 Kft., which owns national trademarks for TRAUBI and TRAUBISODA. The Complainant argued the domain matched its marks and had been passively held in bad faith. The Respondent countered that "traubi" was chosen as a cute, gr...
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RoyalCraft.com: Asking $180,000 dollars for domain? Lets file a UDRP! | Mark As Read |
The domain RoyalCraft.com, registered in 2004, was challenged by UK-based Royalcraft Limited, which holds a 2012 trademark for ROYALCRAFT and operates the site royalcraft.co.uk. The company sells furniture and leather goods and claimed that the domain's use with PPC links to "outdoor furniture" showed targeting and bad faith. The Respondent, RoyalC...
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Materials engineering platform GenMat.xyz applies AI and quantum computing to accelerate advanced materials discovery | Mark As Read |
GenMat.xyz – Squarespace customer (United States) Innovators in science and technology use .xyz domains to drive progress in AI, quantum research, and advanced engineering. AI-powered web3 project Newton.xyz aims to advance chain unification and agent-based automation. Decentralized platform GetOro.xyz aims to empower individuals to contribut...
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From selling shoes to selling domains DNW Podcast #543 | Mark As Read |
Experience spotting opportunities and strong mentorship led Daniel Koleshchuk to selling domains. My guest on todays show knows how to spot market opportunities. In high school, he flipped bike parts. He was also a sneakerhead and found ways to jump on the latest shoe drops and flip them for profit. So when domain investor Braden […] Post lin...
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Sword.com: Corporate buyer was Sword Healtha digital health company | Mark As Read |
The buyer of Sword.com for $1.5 million dollars was Sword Health, a digital health company founded in 2015 in Portugal and now based in New York. They operate from SwordHealth.com. It provides AI-powered physical and mental health care using wearable sensors and licensed clinicians. The company has raised around $450 million from investors includin...
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OS.ai Acquired by Perplexity | Mark As Read |
In March, HubSpot co-Founder Dharmesh Shah announced the acquisition of OS.ai for $150,000. In response to his post on X, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas replied to Dharmesh to tell him he wanted to buy OS.ai. It looks like that happened. Yesterday evening, Srinivas posted about OS.ai, and Dharmesh re-posted his comment: And so it begins. […]...
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Cyborgs.com: Telepathy sold this aged, premium .comWho bought it? | Mark As Read |
The domain Cyborgs.com has been sold by Telepathythe boutique domain investment company founded by entrepreneur, Nat Cohen. Registered in 1997, Cyborgs.com changed hands in recent weeks. It now forwards to Web3Domainer.com, indicating that a domain investor acquired it. Unlike most of Telepathy.com‘s domain names, Cyborgs.com was acquired in ...
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ProductHunt Launch Domain Usage (14th July 2025 ) | Mark As Read |
Below are today's ProductHunt projects along with their domain names. If the domain is the play or apple store, it's an app not a website. Raw Domain .txt Download com:99, ai:27, io:16, app:11, net:9, org:5, dev:4, online:4, tech:4, xyz:3, ae:2, cc:2, co:2, de:2, in:2, it:2, pro:2, space:2, us:2, club:1, cz:1, diy:1, eu:1, lk:1, me:1, party:1, [...
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Domain Name Sale Stats 12th July 2025 | Highest Sale a .com $15,250 | Mark As Read |
A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for detailed fil...
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DirectResponse.com: Former Digital River asset sold for $252kWho bought it? | Mark As Read |
The auction of DirectResponse.com via DropCatch involved $252,500 dollars, a massive score for the sister company of HugeDomains. And yet, that amount of money is a drop in the cost bucket to operate the drop-catching service! DropCatch operates hundreds of domain registrars, attempting to secure dropping domains milliseconds after they become avai...
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Top Topics: Grabbed the com of a major brand; Dot .es for Spanish only? Short URL forward lander; Sell domains younger than 60 days; My 7 year drought | Mark As Read |
Fresh Top Topics A weekly news review at NamePros! Accidentally acquired the exact match .com of a multi-billion dollar brand; Can only Spanish citizens own .es domains? Just decided on a simple URL forward for lander; Can I sell a domain before the 60 day period ends? Spent the last seven years buying domains, but without any significant sales. ...
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Atom has started accepting .now domains | Mark As Read |
Darpan Munjal posted on X that Atom has started accepted .now domains on their marketplace. He stated he liked the branding potential. James Booth expressed is dissent with that opinion. James wrote: "Disagree. Dont follow every hype. Yes some sales but seems artificial atm. Not seeing commercial usage" .Now has had a few nice sales […] The p...
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FBI seizes major game piracy domains in international crackdown | Mark As Read |
The FBI‘s Atlanta Field Office has struck a major blow against video game piracy, seizing several high-traffic websites that had been distributing pirated games on a massive scale. In a coordinated action that included the dismantling of website infrastructure, federal authorities targeted a group of domains notorious for leaking and distribu...
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ProductHunt Launch Domain Usage (12th July 2025 ) | Mark As Read |
Below are today's ProductHunt projects along with their domain names. If the domain is the play or apple store, it's an app not a website. Raw Domain .txt Download com:101, app:14, ai:12, in:7, io:6, org:5, xyz:5, co:3, dev:3, fun:3, info:3, net:3, space:2, tech:2, art:1, bot:1, cloud:1, design:1, diy:1, google:1, ink:1, life:1, live:1, me:1, onlin...
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Domain Name Sale Stats 10th July 2025 | Highest Sale a .now $25,000 | Mark As Read |
A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for detailed fil...
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DropCatch auctions: Select domain results for July 11, 2025 | Mark As Read |
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...
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Software.net closes at $47,500 | Mark As Read |
Software.net was allowed to expire and closed at $47,500 at DropCatch. 61 reported Software related .net sales at Namebio. This will be the highest sale if paid for. Domain Price Date Venue auctionsoftware.net 5,000 USD 2014-09-03 Uniregistry discountsoftware.net 5,000 USD 2007-11-06 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. softwarepc.net 4,260 USD …
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Monarch.com Acquired by Monarch via Hilco Digital & Snagged | Mark As Read |
Monarch.com was recently acquired by Andy Booth in a deal brokered by Sedo's Dave Evanson. Andy mentioned this acquisition on X a little over a week and a half ago. The acquisition price for Monarch.com was not shared by Andy or by Sedo. When I visited Monarch.com today, I noticed the domain name is now […]Catchy.com
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Wander.ai sells for 95K to lead a fresh handful of .ai domain sales | Mark As Read |
Richard Kirkendall released some fresh .ai domain name sales. Wander.ai sold for $95,000 to lead the list. Producer.ai sold for $84,000. Wander.ai was acquired for $1.024 back in 2019. Producer.ai was purchased for $140 back in 2019. AD Smart Domain Monetization Starts at Bodis sign up today AD For a better Escrow experience checkout EscrowDomains....
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XYZ Registry: Tackling malvertising with policy-driven action | Mark As Read |
XYZ Registry takes a firm stance against DNS abuse to protect our domain space. Over the past decade, weve developed an adaptive anti-abuse program to address emerging threats. Our team proactively identifies and mitigates various forms of DNS abuseincluding, but not limited to, phishing, malware, and spamacross our TLDs. With the help of cybersecu...
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