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Complainant mistakenly referred to a Whois update date as the ownership date. GoDaddy's NameFind subsidiary has successfully defended its domain name smartcatch.com. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel found (pdf) that French company SmartCatch filed the case in abuse of the UDRP. NameFind acquired the domain as part of a portfolio pur...
These domains in the live domain name auction caught my attention. NamesCon is just two weeks away, and that means Right of the Dot's live domain name auction is coming soon. I talked to Monte Cahn and Scott Pruitt of Right of the Dot on DNW Podcast #484 about next month's auction. I reviewed the […] Post link: NamesCon auction: here are the ...
Several teams could acquire their matching domains for five figures. The National Hockey League finals are here, pitting the Edmonton Oilers against the Dallas Stars in the West and Florida Panthers against the New York Rangers in the East. It's been about five years since I last looked at which NHL teams own their team […] Post link: 2024 up...
Searching every day is a bigger commitment but can pay dividends. I typically search for and backorder domain names every five days. This saves me time because I search in batches rather than spend time on it every day. My five-day window is for a reason: Pending Delete status is five days, so this lets […] Post link: Expired domain hunting: ...
New role will be exclusively focused on domain name investors. Paul Nicks has moved to a new role at GoDaddy as the company shifts some management aspects of its domain name business. Nicks previously served as President, Domain Registrars and Investors. His new role is VP, Domain Investor. The move comes as GoDaddy is working […] Post link: ...
A web3 company valued at $1 billion pays dearly for a .org domain name. Web3 froth tends to help domain name sales, and this week's top public sale at Sedo is an example. Humanity Protocol, a web3 company that just raised $30 million, bought humanity.org for $225,000. That makes the top 10 public .org sales […] Post link: 13 End user domain n...
How domain investing helped Doron Vermaat buy a house. On todays show, domain investor and Efty co-founder Doron Vermaat returns to the show to talk about some of his latest domain sales. He compares his results in 2023 to 2022, and shares some sales (including a .io domain for $70k). If you need some inspiration, […] Post link: Buying a hous...
Forum deletes old stale accounts as part of a fresh beginning. Domain name forums DNForum and AcornDomains have purged 500,000 accounts, most of them yesterday. Helmuts Meskonis acquired both of the forums last year. He has since worked to revitalize DNForum, which has languished under multiple ownership groups. AcornDomains is a popular niche foru...
Finding good domain names available for hand registration is a skill that only the best domain name investors are good at. I count myself in that category. For example, check out this sweet domain I picked up earlier this month: The SDL market is huge, and the more SDLs, Ks, and FJs you can squeeze […] Post link: Check out my awesome new hand...
Panelist doesn't find RDNH for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes, I get midway through reading a UDRP decision and think to myself, "The panelist is definitely going to find reverse domain name hijacking." Then, the panelist surprises me. That's the case with a decision for westshorehomes.com. Forum panelist Bart Van Besien correctly decided in the ...
A "star" led last month's sales. Newfold Digital's expired domain name platforms (NameJet and SnapNames) had a relatively slow month for sales last month, at least as far as sales over $2,000 are concerned. The platforms combined to sell 58 domains over $2,000 for a total of $247,000. Here are some sales that stand out […] Post link: Four let...
Panelist rules the domain name was registered in good faith. A software company that specializes in services and support for the Ubuntu distribution of Linux has tried to reverse hijack a domain name. Canonical Software filed a cybersquatting dispute against the domain name lubuntu.net. Lubuntu is the name of the company's lightweight operating sys...
Deal values one of the largest domain name registrars at $6.9 billion. One of the world's largest domain name registrars is about to go private. Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP) announced that it's being acquired by Permira in an all-cash transaction valued at $6.9 billion. Existing shareholders will receive $44 cash per share, which is a […] P...
What an eclectic mix of domain names sales this week! The internet is certainly a diverse place. Consider the domains that sold to end users at Sedo this week: a sex toy shop, a couple of religious organizations, and a place to buy your smoking accessories. You wouldn't find the owners of these sites in […] Post link: End user domain sales: a...
GoDaddy's founder tells the story of how the company almost failed in a new autobiography. Few people have shaped the domain name industry and domain investing as much as Bob Parsons, the founder of GoDaddy. This month, Parsons published an autobiography, Fire in the Hole!: The Untold Story of My Traumatic Life and Explosive Success. […] Post...
Company adds another patent related to managing blockchain names. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted patent number 11,985,252 to Unstoppable Domains. The patent is titled Resolving and managing blockchain domains (pdf) and covers various aspects of blockchain domain names. Unstoppable Domains received a similar patent (11,558,344) f...
Ez.gg, pay.je and auction.gg are up for grabs. Dyandot is auctioning registry reserved .gg and .je domain names in partnership with ChannelIsles.net. .Gg is the country code top level domain name for Guernsey, and .je is the ccTLD for Jersey. Gamers have popularized .gg because it's short for "good game." Top .gg sales to date […] Post link: ...
This case was dead on arrival despite the Complainant's creative argument. Neurocog Pty Ltd, an Australian company in the psychology industry, has been found (pdf) guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybersquatting dispute with World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain neurocog.com. The business uses Neuro...
Only 1% year-over-year growth in Q1, but profitability up sharply. Team Internet Group (AIM: TIG, OTCQX: TIGXF, formerly called CentralNic) revealed its Q1 earnings today. The high-growth revenue of past years has now dwindled, but profitability is up. Team Internet said gross revenue of $195.9 million increased just 1% in Q1 compared to a year [&#...
Learn about this year's NamesCon and the live domain name auction. NamesCon 2024 is just weeks away, and it's not too late to register to attend. On today's show, I preview the event with two interviews. First, I speak with Soeren von Varchmin, Chairman of the Advisory Board at NamesCon. Soeren tells us what to […] Post link: NamesCon + Aucti...
Domain business holds steady, but long-term investments in fiber weigh on the bottom line. Shares in Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) fell sharply this morning after the company released earnings after the bell yesterday. As of 11:45 am EDT, shares are off over 8%, trading just above their 52-week low in November 2023. Tucows' top-line numbers were […] P...
Application describes a way to augment domain registrations with blockchain technology. Communications firm Verizon has filed a patent application (pdf) for Systems and methods for blockchain-based domain registration and device authentication. The abstract for the patent is: In some implementations, a device may receive a request to add a domain t...
Afternic published a list of the top keywords in domains sold through its platform in March. AI is back on top of the list after flirting with the top spot for many months. Another notable keyword is Florida, which also made the list in December. It seemed like an anomaly back then, and it still […] Post link: AI is back on top in the domain ...
Judge rules case is exceptional and warrants attorney's fees. The judge overseeing a dispute over TRX.com has ordered the plaintiff to pay the domain name owner's attorney's fees and expenses. Ruling that the case was "exceptional," U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver ordered JFXD TRX ACQ LLC to pay Loo Tze Ming $41,098.77. Background Loo […...
Web3 companies are announcing plans for the next round of new TLDs. For years, I've asked domain name companies a simple question about the next round of new top level domains: with so many strings applied for in the first round, what good strings remain for the next round? There have been some obvious answers, […] Post link: Web3 communities...
A lighting company, a road safety business, and a German car dealer bought domain names. Sedo's top public sale this week was lumeno.com for $25,000. An end user has already put the domain name to use. Heres a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo, as well as a few […] Post link: 12 domain names recently acquired by e...
Panelist finds the case was brought in bad faith. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has determined that Aromatech, Ltd tried to reverse hijack the domain aromatech.com. The case was dead on arrival because the current owner of the domain name registered it five years before Aromatech was incorporated. This means it was impossible ...
Case failed on all three requirements of UDRP. A Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy panelist has found Daily Workout Apps, LLC, guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which offers personal training apps, filed a dispute against DailyWorkouts.com. It uses the domain DailyWorkoutApps.com. Daily Workout Apps, LLC tried to reg...
Website and domain company reports robust growth and ups guidance for the full year. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) reported Q1 earnings before the markets opened this morning. The company reported 19% year-over-year revenue growth with $281.1 million in Q1. It had previously guided to $274 million to $277 million. Q1 organic growth, which excludes its G...
Squarespace stops the bleeding, GoDaddy down year over year. Squarespace has been registering fewer .com domains each month since taking over Google Domains, but Verisign's latest data show the trend reversed itself to start this year. Here's the trend: August (pre-acquisition) 250,324 September (acquisition occurred September 8) 189,713, down 24% ...
You don't hear about many domain sales, including this $2 million sale earlier this year. We often hear about domain name sales, but the public sales just scratch the surface. Many more sales are never made public. Some of these sales happen on DomainAgents. On todays show, DomainAgents CEO Ryan McKegney discloses that his company […] Post li...
GoDaddy auctions, WooCommerce and Uzi Nissan made news last month. These were the most popular stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by number of views. 1. West Virginia airport tries to reverse hijack a domain name – Air travel can make the news for hijackings, but this airport is in focus for a […] Post link: April's top doma...
Audit your account to prevent accidental sales at low prices. The other day I saw a lead in my Afternic account for a domain I recently acquired. The asking price was correct, but the floor price at which it could be sold was below what I paid for it; I had made a typo when […] Post link: How to audit your Afternic account for misspriced floo...
Average sale price in aftermarket increased during the quarter. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported Q1 earnings this afternoon, including a surprise jump in domain name aftermarket revenue. Overall, GoDaddy's revenue increased 7% year over year to $1.109 billion. Revenue in the Applications & Commerce segment increased 13% year over year and revenue ...
Company uses .box as an internal address on its internet gateways. The maker of FRITZ!Box internet gateways made a disturbing discovery this year: .box is a real top level domain name. The company discovered this after someone registered fritz .box. For years, the company has used fritz .box as the internal login for customers. Customers […] ...
Sellers get the same amount, while buyers pay the USD equivalent in their preferred currency each month. This week, GoDaddy enabled long term payment options on Afternic domains to customers outside of the United States in their own currencies. This isn't as easy as it sounds. All Afternic domain names are priced in U.S. dollars. […] Post lin...
See which of your domains are growing in popularity. I use dotDB several times per week for domain research. At its core, dotDB helps you see the number of extensions a domain name is registered in, as well as other variations of names that include its keyword. It's great for quickly gauging the popularity of […] Post link: dotDB's new Domain...
Escrow.com shows sequential growth in domain sales but down year over year. Escrow.com released its Q1 Escrow Domain Investment Index (pdf) today, which reported a slight uptick in domain sales compared to the Q4 of last year. Overall, the service handled $84 million of domain name and website transactions in Q1, up from $79 million […] Post ...
A .ar domain name leads the pack. Sedo's top reported domain name sale this week was x.ar, which was bought by a blockchain augmented reality company for close to $100,000. I had difficulty finding many end user sales in Sedo's latest batch of published sales, so I went back about a month to find some […] Post link: End user domain name sales...
Taylor Swift tries to shake off unauthorized websites. Taylor Swift's intellectual property entity, TAS Rights Management, LLC, has filed two cybersquatting cases to take control of domain names it says are infringing on its intellectual property rights. All of the domain names include keywords that suggest the domains could be used to sell unautho...
Why Squadhelp changes its name and how it came up with Atom. Darpan Munjal has been a guest on this podcast many times, but he gets a different introduction this time: CEO of Atom. Thats because his company Squadhelp recently rebranded as Atom and moved its site to atom.com. On todays show, Darpan discusses why […] Post link: Rebranding to At...
Trx.com owner's attorney says plaintiff tried to gish gallop the court. The defendants in a cybersquatting dispute have labeled the plaintiff's arguments a "Gish Gallop" as they ask the court to award attorney's fees. A "gish gallop" is a rhetorical technique in a debate where the debater attempts to overwhelm his opponent by making an […] Po...
Company will increase marketing plans in second half of year to grow domain name base. Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported earnings yesterday and lowered its guidance for the year. It once again blamed China for much of the drop, noting that its base of .com and .net domains fell by 360,000 names in the country. But it […] Post link: Verisign bla...
Complainant accidentally let the domain expire. A UDRP panelist has ordered the domain name SmartContracts.com transferred in an unusual case. SmartContracts.com is a valuable domain name that would be coveted by many blockchain companies and enthusiasts. The Complainant, SmartContract Chainlink, Ltd. was the registrant of the domain name but let i...
.Com domain base drops, hurting Verisign's prospects. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released earnings this afternoon and has downgraded its guidance for 2024. The company ended Q1 2024 with 172.5 million domains across .com and .net, down 0.27 million from the end of last year. .Com domains under management slipped 0.2 million, while .net remained largel...
This calculator makes it easy to offer financing options to prospective buyers. Long term payment plans and domain financing are becoming popular ways to close the gap in domain name negotiations. The creator of Domaining has created a handy calculator to help calculate the terms of these agreements. Hosted on catchy.com, the calculator lets you [&...
Stronger ID verification replaces the PayPal verification system. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has introduced a new bidder verification system for new accounts to reduce deadbeat and shill bidders. As has been the case since 2015, new account holders can only have two active bids for up to $1,500 in total. To bid on more auctions or […] Post link: Go...
I understand rebranding, but this? Well, this one is a bit of a head-scratcher. Remember SumoMe? The company paid $1.5 million to acquire sumo.com back in 2017 because people didn't understand its name. It forwarded it to sumome.com. The business was sold in December, and sumo.com wasn't part of the deal. Apparently, the acquirers didn't […] ...
A form-building app, a grilling products company, and a process automation consultant bought domain names. The owner of the new TLD hack pay.day got a payday this week: they sold the domain on Sedo for 21,000. Google's registry launched this domain in early 2022. There aren't many good domains on .day, but this is a […] Post link: Domain Jack...
Two panelists denied the UDRP. The other dissented and would have transferred the domain. Who was right? It's not often that I read a UDRP that's found in favor of the Respondent, but feel like perhaps the Complainant should have won. And I'm not sure I completely feel that about a dispute over trimble.ai, but […] Post link: The Complainant l...
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