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Trio of advocacy groups asks government to halt renewal of .com agreement with Verisign. Calling Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) a "cartel" and "economic termite," a consortium of three advocacy groups has asked the U.S. government to halt the renewal of Verisign's contract to run .com. American Economic Liberties Project, Revolving Door Project, and Deman...
Estibot launched a new tool that competes with dotDB. When people hear the name Estibot, many think only of automated domain appraisals. But as I've posted before, the company offers a lot more tools for domain investors. Earlier today, domain investor Mike Cyger posted a video showing Estibot's new Registered Domain Search Tool, which is […]...
An email marketer, a crypto company, and a wearable payments business bought domain names. Sedo's top sale this week was ipl.com for $265,000. It's unclear who bought the domain name, but at this price, you can be assured that it's an end user. Heres a list of end user domain name sales that just completed […] Post link: 11 end user domain sa...
Filter and bulk search improvements are rolling out to domain sellers. Afternic announced that it is rolling out UX/UI improvements starting today. The improvements will initially apply to a small subset of accounts and roll out to more accounts over time. Some of the improvements are rather incremental, but a couple caught my eye. First, […]...
Crawford takes CEO position after private equity-led buyout. Former CentralNic (now Team Internet Group) CEO Ben Crawford has returned to the domain name industry as CEO of corporate domain registrar Com Laude. Crawford helped build Team Internet Group from a tiny company to $700 million in annual revenue before leaving the company at the end [R...
AHNU is stuck with ahnu.co after a failed cybersquatting claim. World Intellectual Property Organization published the decision (pdf) in a dispute for ahnu.com today. Panelist Nick Gardner wrote a well-reasoned decision in favor of the domain name owner. Deckers Outdoor, aka Deckers Brands (NYSE: DECK), owns many shoe brands, including Ugg, Teva, a...
AtomPay gives domain sellers an affordable platform for handling domain sales payments and transfers. Domain name sales platform Atom has launched the AtomPay service that it announced earlier this month. AtomPay allows domain sellers to use the Atom payment and transfer platform to handle domain transactions that originated outside of Atom. Seller...
That's a lot of oinking. Domain name registrar Porkbun has hit two million domains under management, the registrar announced today. I like Porkbun has a registrar. When I reflect on why, I think it comes down to two things. First, its pricing is consistent and fair. The registrar usually adds about a dollar plus credit […] Post link: The doma...
XYZ founder discusses his company's evolution. New top level domains have been out for a decade now. One of the most interesting top level domain companies is XYZ. Its known for .xyz, but now operates a total of 35 domain extensions. On todays show, XYZ founder Daniel Negari reflects on the past ten years, his […] Post link: Daniel Negari ref...
Panelist John Swinson provided a thoughtful analysis of whether or not this domain was registered and used in bad faith. Domain investor Mike Mann has successfully defended his domain name ProIBS .com in a UDRP dispute. Mann acquired the domain name after the Complainant, a Swedish company called Calmino group AB, acquired trademark rights in [R...
Organization returns to Resorts World in Las Vegas. Internet Commerce Association (ICA) is returning to Las Vegas this January. The organization that represents domain name investors announced today that its annual meeting will take place January 26-28, 2025. It will return to Resorts World on the strip. This year, the organization arranged room bl...
Applicants in the next round will come armed with plans to use them (I hope). I got an alert today of another dot-brand top level domain name owner pulling the plug on its domain name. Dabur, a company that sells Ayurveda (traditional medicine in India) products, decided to cancel its .dabur domain name. Oddly, the […] Post link: Dot-brand to...
Company pitches a model that provides an incentive to place bids. Picture this: you're bidding in a domain auction. It goes on for hours, and you end up capitulating to some other domain investor. But you don't walk away empty-handed. That's the idea behind GBM's auction model. The company's auction technology incentivizes people to bid […] P...
A site about bees, a yard maintenance app, and a wool company bought domain names. Sedo didn't have any huge sales this past week (at least that were made public). But it turned in a higher-than-usual volume performance. There's a nice variety, toolots of different types of businesses choosing various top level domain names. Heres […] Post li...
The domain name owner was at least owed an explanation. A guy named Greg Foltz registered the domain GSF.com in 1993. He used it for his family and business (they are his initials, after all). Over thirty years later, Golden State Foods Corp comes along and files a UDRP against the domain name, claiming cybersquatting. […] Post link: GSF.com ...
Right of the Dot and Afternic have online domain auctions ending this week. Two domain name auctions conclude this week. First up, Right of the Dot's extended domain name auction from NamesCon ends Tuesday, June 18 at 1 pm CT. Right of the Dot says that some domains have lowered reserves, so if a domain […] Post link: Two domain name auctions...
From hand-registration to $85,000 in 8 days. Imagine flipping a hand registration into an $85,000 sale in 8 days. My guest on todays show, Michael Santiago, did just that. Its not without controversy, though. What would you do if this opportunity presented itself to you? Michael tells this story and how upgrading a domain name […] Post link: ...
Perhaps Law School Admission Council needs to go back to law school. The organization behind the LSAT test students take to get into law school has lost three cybersquatting claims against LSAT tutors. Law School Admission Council, Inc. filed the disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) against various tutoring servic...
Price changes and payment options are coming. Domain Name Wholesale Exchange, a domain sales platform designed for domain investors to sell to other domain investors, will make changes after the new owner surveyed users. Domain investor Ryan Ewen and his company Domain Manage acquired the platform earlier this year and immediately surveyed users to...
No big sales during a slow month. Newfold Digital's expired domain marketplaces NameJet and SnapNames had a slow month in May. The company reported just 43 domains that sold for $2,000 or more, totaling $171,000. The top sale was cranio.com at $12,2111. Here are some domain names that caught my attention: Ytmp3 .cc $10,017 – […] Post li...
Cybersquatting case falls flat due to reseller/accessory exception. Tesla has lost a cybersquatting complaint it filed against the owner of TeslaShop .com. The domain name resolves to a page that states (translated from Polish): First, let's get one thing straight –we're crazy about Tesla.We love them, admire them and drive them with great pl...
Company forms partnership with plans to go after two new top level domain names. Blockchain company 3DNS (not to be confused with D3) and the .box top level domain announced a partnership with Optimism to apply for .chain and .super in the next round of ICANN's new top level domain name expansion. Optimism is an […] Post link: 3DNS announces ...
An out-of-this-world attempt to get a domain name fails. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has found that a Swedish company tried to reverse domain name hijack rocketship.com. App developer Rocketship AB filed the dispute against World Media Group, which has owned the domain (through common ownership) since 1998. That was well...
A chef, a real estate company, and an energy business bought domain names. A real estate bought three domains from Sedo this week, after completing a transaction last week as well. It will be interesting to see what they build on the domains; for now, one forwards to another website. Heres a list of end […] Post link: 13 end user domain name ...
Registrar hits one million domains as it continues to gain business. Namecheap's new domain name registrar, Spaceship, has hit 1 million domains under management. In a release yesterday, the registrar broke down the numbers: 71% new registrations, 29% inbound transfers 13% are .com. Many of the other top domains are inexpensive (for the first year)...
The original registration date can shed light on why the current registrant might have acquired the domain name. Dates matter in the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). If the current registrant of a domain name registered it before the Complainant existed or had any trademark rights in the name at issue, it's impossible […]...
Alibaba shows China's woes. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign covering the .com namespace. The data covers February 2024. Looking at this February's data compared to the same month a year ago shows some stark changes. Verisign has talked about a decline in domain registrations in China, and you'll note that Alibaba has […] Pos...
ICANN's board selects the organization's next leader. ICANN announced today the hiring of Kurt Erik Kurtis Lindqvist as its new president and CEO, effective December 5. Lindqvist has served as CEO of the London Internet Exchange (LINX) since 2019. Previous experience includes serving as CEO of Netnod and advising governments on internet governance,...
New board discovers alleged takeover of domain name. In 2022, I interviewed Callum Sommerton, CEO of Chill Brands Group (London: CHLL). The company had just acquired the chill.com domain name for $1.6 million, and things were looking up for the CBD company. It's been a rocky road since then. Earlier this year, Sommerton was suspended […] Post...
Learn how to trim your domain name portfolio. Sometimes, letting go of domain names is the hardest part. But not for my guest this week, domain investor and entrepreneur Yoni Belousov. Yoni is a long-time domain name investor, and on todays show, he talks about letting go of your loser domains and operating an efficient […] Post link: The eff...
Stock gets a lift after index announces its inclusion. The S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Friday afternoon that domain name company GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) will join the S&P 500 index. Shares in GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) jumped in after-hours trading Friday because index funds will need to add the stock to their portfolios. GoDaddy will replace [&...
Unstoppable Domains and Blockchain.com announced they will apply for .blockchain. .Blockchain is sure to be one of the most-applied-for top level domain names in the next round of ICANN expansion. This week, two companies announced they are partnering to apply for the domain name. I believe this is the first group to publicly reveal its […] P...
Popular creator platform takes another stab at a rebrand. Email marketing platform ConverKit has acquired the domain name kit.com ahead of a rebrand to Kit. The platform hopes to become "the operating system for the creator economy" and believes the new name makes more sense for the company. ConvertKit is taking a unique strategy to […] Post ...
A shopping list app, a musical instruments company and a real estate business bought domain names. I'm taking a few minutes out of the NamesCon conference to do this week's end user sales list. I only found seven end user sales from the Sedo list, but there are sure to be many more. I have […] Post link: End user domain name sales up to 55,00...
GoDaddy, a cybersquatting lawsuit, and Squarespace made the news in May. Here's a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by pageviews. 1. GoDaddy gets reverse domain name hijacking win – A World Intellectual Property Organization panel found that French company SmartCatch filed a UDRP case against GoDaddy's NameFi...
Textron Innovations, the company that owns the Beechcraft brand of airplanes, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybersquatting dispute against the domains HioBeech.com and BayAreaBeech.com. These domains are owned by a company that provides services related to Beechcraft planes: inspections, relocations, an...
Organization wants to eliminate private auctions in next round of new top level domain name expansion. In the 2012 round of new top level domain name expansion, ICANN encouraged parties that applied for the same string to work it out amongst themselves. Not this time. ICANN is working overtime to find a way to avoid […] Post link: ICANN wrest...
Another NameFind auction takes place this month, with more possibly on the horizon. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is planning another auction of its NameFind inventory following a successful auction in December. The next auction will start June 13 at 12:30 ET and run until June 20. Like last time, all names have no reserves but start […] Post link: Go...
Patent covers the lifecycle of a domain name that is connected to a blockchain address. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 12,003,615 to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for "Lifecycle administration of domain name blockchain addresses." The patent (pdf) describes a way of connecting domain names, such as example.com, to a blockc...
Atom announces new products to expand sales reach. Atom (formerly Squadhelp) announced several new features and programs today under the umbrella of AtomConnect. One is the Atom Distribution Network, which will syndicate Atom domain listings to partner sites, including registrars and startup service providers. The company will syndicate both Atom P...
How this entrepreneur found a new domain name. Nick Huber knew his companys domain name was a problem, so he paid $400,000 to get a better one. On todays show, he explains how his company searched for a new domain name and negotiated a payment plan to close the deal for somewhere.com. He also discusses […] Post link: The right domain is somew...
Developers gripe after GoDaddy cuts off API access; one says a customer's app went down as a result. GoDaddy is taking heat from some customers after cutting access to its APIs. On Reddit, one customer wrote: If you use godaddy as a domain registrar and are using their DNS api to validate your ssl cert, […] Post link: Developers frustrated by...
Non-profit faces $10 million budget shortfall. ICANN is laying off 33 staffers, the non-profit domain overseer announced today. That represents about 7% of the organization's ranks of 485 positions. ICANN said it is facing a deficit of $10 million a year, thanks in part to sluggish domain name growth. In a blog post, the organization […] Post...
Gravatar moves beyond avatars with new service. If you leave a comment on this blog post and you've ever registered your email address with a Gravatar-affiliated service, you'll see a profile picture (avatar) next to your comment. That's about the extent of what most people know about Gravatar, a service with 200 million users that […] Post l...
Domain investors will learn a lot at these two sessions. NamesCon is in Austin next week. I'm hosting two sessions, and I love how they're coming together. I think domain investors will get a lot of value from these. We're not rehashing things you've heard before and are not there to toot our own horns. […] Post link: Come to these can't-miss...
Domain registrar goes all in on domain name investors with revamped platform. About a decade after it lost much of its domain investor customer base in a disastrous platform switch, domain registrar Moniker is going all in on domain name investors again. This week, the domain registrar launched a new platform with domain investors in […] Post...
Organization says it has gone above and beyond what an arbitration panel required it to do. ICANN has filed a notice of demurrer in a lawsuit brought by domain name registrar Namecheap. Namecheap filed a complaint under the Independent Review Process (IRP) in 2020 to protest ICANNs unilateral decision to remove price caps on .org […] Post lin...
Domainer-to-domainer platform plans changes under new ownership. Domain Name Wholesale Exchange has a new owner. Based on tweets posted this evening, it appears that Ryan Ewen or one of his companies has acquired the platform. (You can hear a podcast interview with Ryan here.) I reached out to Ewen for details and will update this […] Post li...
A maker of "magic" faucets, a famous computer scientist, and a Danish retail chain bought domain names. I had a friend who was tired of paying for Topo Chico, so he installed a tap in his house that dispensed carbonated water. Did you know you can also get juice, vitamin water, etc., straight from the […] Post link: 16 end user domain sales u...
Paul Nicks is now VP of Domain Investor. Here's what that means for you. Paul Nicks has a new role at GoDaddy as VP, Domain Investor. The move is due to somewhat of a shift in how domains are registered and how the company views domains, so its important for domain name investors to understand […] Post link: GoDaddy domain investing update &#...
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