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Panel determines UDRP was filed in abuse of the policy. Australian hospitality software company Redcat Pty Ltd tried to reverse hijack the domain name redcat.com, a World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled (pdf). Redcat.com was registered 29 years ago by an Oregon man who has used the domain for email and registered the name […...
It's the second time Namecheap has filed a UDRP against the same man. Namecheap has won (pdf) a second cybersquatting case against a man in Germany who has registered domains including the Namecheap brand. The large domain name registrar filed the case against Agit Kaya, who registered the domain namecheap .auction. Kaya made a somewhat […] P...
Read about last month's top news, including why .com is growing again. These were the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by views: 1. Judge allows expired domain clawback lawsuit to proceed against GoDaddy – But two of the defendants and many of the claims were dismissed. 2. Four reasons why .com […] Post link: Top domai...
All domain segments are growing, and expired domain revenue continues to grow. Tucows reported Q2 earnings this afternoon. Overall, the company's revenues increased 10% year-over-year to $98.4 million. In the domains business, revenue increased 8% to $67.6 million, and gross profit expanded 14% to $21.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA increased 12% to $12...
Primary and aftermarket domain revenue jumped in Q2. GoDaddy (NASDAQ: GDDY) reported Q2 earnings after the markets closed this afternoon. For the quarter, revenue clocked in at $1.2 billion, up 8% year-over-year. Total bookings were $1.3 billion, up 7% year-over-year. The Core Platform segment, which includes domain names, beat guidance at 5% growt...
A fashion clothing store, a computing resources business, and a Chevrolet dealer bought domain names. Sedo is taking a short summer break from reporting domain sales. But I know how much you all need your sweet, sweet, end user juice. So this week, I revisited the sales list from the week of July 6 to […] Post link: Rewind: recent end user do...
GigaLaw's quarterly report sheds light on what's happening in UDRP decisions. Getting a complete picture of UDRP cases is difficult because there are five approved UDRP dispute providers. Just because numbers are trending one way with a particular provider doesn't mean it's true of all of the providers combined. Thankfully, there's a source that co...
Want an expiring domain from one of these registrars? You should backorder them at NameJet or SnapNames. Last month, NameJet and SnapNames began auctioning expired domains from BlueHost and HostGator. Both of these platforms are owned by the same parent company, Newfold Digital, as the auction platforms. The company owns a number of other prominent...
Cleaning products company filed cybersquatting complaint against domain registered well before it existed. Nuvik USA Inc., a manufacturer of cleaning products such as antibacterial wipes, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed acybersquatting complaint (PDF) with World Intellectual Property Organization against th...
Company will migrate 10 million domains to Tucows Registry. Top level domain name company Radix is moving its backend registry operations to Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX), the two companies announced today. Radix has used Team Internet Group (LON: TIG) (formerly CentralNic) for its registry backend since launching domains in the 2012 round of top level doma...
Complainant makes arguments in its case that seem to be in defense of the domain name owner. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has found (pdf) Top Systems Brasil Software Financeiro Ltda. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name topaz.com. The financial technology company made rather bizarre arguments in th...
Accelerator-backed startups increasingly turn to .ai and other alternatives. New analysis from top level domain company Identity Digital shows that young startups are increasingly turning to non-.com domains, in particular .ai. The company analyzed the domain choice of over 4,000 startups from Y Combinator and Techstars from 2020 to the present, an...
Buyers might be more inclined to purchase a domain at the marketplace offering lower monthly payments. Elliot Silver posted today about how he handles "dual" listings that are on both Atom (premium) and Afternic. I sold a domain on Afternic last month that was also listed on Atom, and it brings up another thing to […] Post link: Watch out for...
Company tried to obtain valuable domain through UDRP after its purchase overtures were rebuffed. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found Smarkets Limited to have tried reverse hijacking the domain name sbk .com. The sports betting company has stylized trademarks for SBK and uses the domain name betSBK .com. The domain was acqu...
Two large site builder platforms are now auctioning their expired domain inventory at GoDaddy. GoDaddy Auctions recently picked up expired domain inventory from two large website builder companies, Squarespace and Wix (NASDAQ: WIX). Squarespace is the bigger prize of the two. The company took over Google Domains in September 2023 and is now the 5th...
Company tried to buy the domain name before filing a cybersquatting complaint. A Nominet Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) panelist has found (pdf) travel company Cloud Travel to have tried reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybersquatting dispute against CloudTravel.co.uk. It registered the domain CloudTravelS.co.uk for its business...
An interesting theory from Rank Theory. For decades, people have purchased expiring domains with lots of backlinks for their SEO benefit. Sometimes it's to redirect them to other websites. In other cases, people build new sites on the domains to take advantage of the Google juice. But what will happen as AI traffic becomes more […] Post link:...
Here are the correct answers to last month's trivia contest. Last month, I held the first DNW trivia contest. Participants had to answer 10 questions correctly to win these prizes: $250 account credit atDynadot One-year Novice account atEstibot($348 value) One-year Domainer membership atNameBio($144 value) A shoutout on Domain Name Wire and DNW's X...
Tune in as Ron Jackson and I discuss the top sales so far this year. On this week's show, DNJournal publisher Ron Jackson joins me to discuss this year's top sales through the first half. Spoiler alert: sales are up big time! We review the top sales and discuss how the domains are being utilized. […] Post link: This years top domain sales (so...
Mean Girls star Renee Rapp picks up bite.me for upcoming album. The registry for .me domain names has revealed that it sold 34 premium registrations through the registrar channel in the first half of this year. That compares to 16 domains in the first half of 2024. All told, the 34 domains totaled 222,500 in […] Post link: Bite.me headlines p...
The rather generic brand will get a boost from great domain name. Ever since BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC) acquired commerce.com for $2.444 million earlier this year, the question has been what it would do with the domain. Today, the company announced a new parent company brand, Commerce. It's also changing its stock ticker on the NASDAQ […] Pos...
ChatGPT can now automate domain investing tasks, such as finding end user buyers for your domains. ChatGPT's agent mode is a game-changer. It can automate research and tasks, going as far as logging into services to grab data or complete repetitive tasks. To whet your appetite for what it can do, watch this video showing […] Post link: How to...
Company filed cybersquatting dispute against domain registered before it had trademark rights. French Blunomy Advisory, an environmental consulting firm, has been found (pdf) to have tried to reverse hijack the domain blunomy.com. The company filed the dispute against a man in France who registered the domain well before the Complainant filed a tra...
AI and my remain hot in aftermarket sales. Afternic has published a list of the top 20 keywords in domains sold on its platform in May. AI and my remain at the top of the list. The keywords have been on the chart every month for the past year. One interesting keyword is car, which […] Post link: See the top 20 keywords in sold aftermarket dom...
Domain industry overseer says domain registrar is lax when investigating and responding to DNS abuse complaints. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc, a fairly large domain name registrar in Asia. WebNic has about 500,000 .com domain names under management in addition to domains in other extensio...
Despite sequential decline, first-half dollar volume was up sharply compared to last year. Domain transaction dollar volume at Escrow.com slipped in Q2 compared to Q1, the company reported today. However, it was up for the first half of 2025 compared to the first half of 2024, thanks to a strong first quarter. The company handled […] Post lin...
Stay connected with the DNW App for your Apple or Android device. The way we consume and interact with news continues to change. With that in mind, I'm excited to announce the launch of the Domain Name Wire App. Over the past few years, I've found myself downloading apps for news sites that I frequently […] Post link: Now available: Domain Na...
Verisign's CEO talked about the impacts on last week's earnings conference call. On DNW Podcast #545, I discussed how AI is impacting domain names with Carlos Armada of name.com. What does Verisign, the .com and .net registry, think the impact will be? Officially, Verisign's SEC filings mention AI as a risk factor: The number of […] Post link...
Company files with SEC to sell large portion of its holdings of .com registry. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has filed to sell about 1/3 of its holdings in .com/.net registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN). The company currently owns 14.2% of common shares of the company. It could sell between 4.3 million to 4.8 million shares. If […] Post lin...
Company fails to secure valuable domain through World Intellectual Property Organization. ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an Indian company that runs the ride-hailing app Ola, has lost (PDF) a cybersquatting complaint it filed against the valuable domain ola.com. The domain name registrant became the owner of the domain after lending money to the previ...
A discussion about AI's impact on domains. AI is changing every industry, and the domain name business is no exception. On todays show, I speak with Carlos Armada, Director of Product at name.com. The backdrop of our conversation is name.coms new API, which is built with features that make it work better with AI tools. […] Post link: AI is ch...
Domain names are now cheaper in many countries. The U.S. dollar is declining in value, and that could have interesting implications for the domain name aftermarket. In early January, it took just $1.03 to buy a euro. Now, it's around $1.17, and some analysts think the dollar could slip even further. You can point to […] Post link: What the we...
Here's why Verisign predicts its domain base will grow again this year. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released its Q2 earnings yesterday and issued improved guidance, predictingannual growth in the .com/.net domain name base this year. All of the growth in its combined domain base last quarter came from .com domain names. Here are four reasons why [̷...
Select investors can get up to 200 .com registrations for $5 each. Unstoppable Domains has introduced a Domainer Club, offering customers up to 200 .com domain registrations per week for $5 each. The company already offers all customers up to 100 .coms for $5 on Fridays. People who join the club get an additional 100 […] Post link: Unstoppabl...
Company now predicts return to annual growth in domain base. Verisign (VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, announced Q2 earnings after the market closed today. Q2 revenue was $410 million, up 5.9 percent from the same quarter in 2024. The company processed 10.4 million new registrations across the two top level domains […] Pos...
Domain valuation agent is improving, but still has issues. Dharmesh Shah, the HubSpot co-founder and AI enthusiast who sold Chat.com to OpenAI, has been rolling out frequent updates to his domain valuation agent lately. I tested the system yesterday and again today after he pushed another round of improvements. Compared to when I first tried [̷...
Answer 10 questions by July 31. The deadline for this month's Domain Name Wire trivia contest is nearly here. Just answer 10 trivia questions by July 31 for your chance to win: $250 account credit atDynadot One-year Novice account atEstibot($348 value) One-year Domainer membership atNameBio($144 value) A shoutout on Domain Name Wire and DNWs X [...
Company falsely argued domain name was recently sold. An Australian masonry firm has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a case involving tyrone.com. Corcreevy Pty Ltd, which does business as Tyrone Group, filed the dispute against domain name investment company Anything.com, Ltd. Anything.com acquired the domain name, which is a ...
Judge denies motions to dismiss in cybersquatting lawsuit. A U.S. District judge has denied motions to dismiss a cybersquatting lawsuit over the domain name outside.com. Outside Interactive, a sports and outdoor media company, sued the owner of outside.com last year in an effort to get the domain name. It's the company's second attempt to acquire [...
A vacation rental site paid dearly for a .de domain name. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the top .com sale on Sedo's sales list this week. I previously owned buno.com, which sold for $95,000. I sold it for pennies. Granted, that was back in 2005. A great deal has happened to domain […] Post link: 31 end user domain name sales up to $420,0...
Company says funding will help it bridge the gap between web3 and DNS. Web3 naming platform Freename has secured a $6.5 million Series A round, the company announced today. That's on top of a $2.5 million seed round it raised in 2023. Like many web3 naming companies, Freename started by offering alt-root domain names that […] Post link: Freen...
"Marketplace-first" design could bring more visibility to domains listed on Saw.com. Saw.com has relaunched its website in a way that could deliver more buyers to domains listed through the company. The company's previous website focused on its brokerage service and letting people list domains for sale with its landing pages. The new site is design...
Court finally overturns UDRP decision for 2012. The wheels of justice turn slowly. Very slowly. Thirteen years after a UDRP panelist ordered Tucows to transfer the domain name marker.com to Marker Vlkl (International) GmbH, a Canadian court has ruled that Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) can keep the domain. Tucows acquired the domain as part of its […] ...
Fee increases will hit drop-catching companies the most. ICANN-accredited domain name registrars have voted to increase the amount of money they pay ICANN each year. In October, ICANN announced plans to increase costs on registries and registrars. One part of the fee increase required a vote: registrars accounting for payment of two-thirds of all r...
The top sale was a one-word domain with a long history. NameJet and SnapNames reported a strong sales month in June. The two domain auction platforms combined to sell 106 domains for $2,000 or more, totaling $593k. Here are some of the domains that stand out: Sleeps .com $41,000 – This domain was previously used […] Post link: NameJet a...
Rebuilt API integrates with AI agents and dev tools to streamline domain registration and deployment at launch time. One open question about AI is how it will impact domain name registrations. On the one hand, I think the number of people registering domain names for content sites will decrease. On the other hand, vibe coding […] Post link: N...
Panel finds Complainant didn't meet grounds to refile the case. A three-person UDRP panel has denied a refiled dispute, but the majority of the panel declined to find reverse domain name hijacking. Tiger Aesthetics Medical, LLC, which uses the domain tiger-aesthetics.com, filed a case against tigeraesthetics.com in February. The panelist in that ca...
Turning $500 into a profit through domain investing. Could you start domain investing from scratch with only $500 in your pocket? On todays show, I discuss GoDaddys domain investor contest and how Im learning first hand of the challenges of starting domain investing with a limited budget. Youll hear a syndication from the Domain Academy […] P...
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...
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 ...
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