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Acquiring domains isn't always easy. Domain buyer broker Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja returns to the show this week with more wacky domain name tales. Bill has met some interesting people while acquiring domain names and social media handles. On todays show, youll hear the tales of Pedro the Paranoid, The Satisfied Senior, The Lucky […] Post l...
It might have been a winnable case, but the airport didn't provide enough evidence. Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority, which operates West Virginia International Yeager Airport, tried to reverse domain name hijack a domain name. A Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) panelist made this ruling after the airport operato...
Was the registrant of this short domain really targeting the Complainant? A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ordered the domain name snet.info transferred to Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat, and I have questions. Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat has several trademark registrations for S-NET, and operates a website at s...
Afternic has published its monthly keywords list, showing the most popular keywords in domain names sold on its marketplace in February. My and AI remain the top two sellers this month. Here's the full list, with the previous month's ranking in parenthesis: my (1) ai (2) it (4) home (3) group (7) bet (6) your […] Post link: My oh my! Look at ...
Domain name was registered before the Complainant existed. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) Lifeware SA to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Lifeware SA filed a case against lifeware.com, which was registered in 1995. Lifeware wasn't incorporated until 1998. Assuming that the current registrant was th...
His heirs alleged the domain names were stolen. Nissan.com is famous as an early test case in cybersquatting. The car company Nissan battled for years to take the domain name from its registrant, whose name was Uzi Nissan. It failed, but Uzi Nissan spent over $3 million fighting Nissan in an eight-year battle that began […] Post link: Judge o...
Why SquadHelp's rebrand to Atom makes sense. SquadHelp announced this morning that is has rebranded as Atom, using the domain name atom.com. Earlier this week I was a guest on a business podcast, where I talked about the importance of domain names. The host asked me about domain marketplaces where people can search for domains […] Post link: ...
An insurance company, a domain registration business, and a lingerie seller bought domain names. Sedo publicly reported 45 domain sales of $2,000 or more for the past week. There are some nice domains in this batch, but it's difficult to figure out the buyer for most of them. The top two sales were xash.com for […] Post link: 13 end user doma...
Complainant previously owned the valuable domain name. OEE Ltd and Because Music SAS have lost a cybersquatting dispute (pdf) over the domain name because.com. The Complainant previously owned the domain name, which it bought at Sedo for $27,500 in 2007. According to the Complainant, the domain name expired in 2021 after it neglected to renew [R...
Customers can no longer list domains on the platform as of April 29, but Afternic listings will still be syndicated. GoDaddy will no longer let customers list domains directly on GoDaddy Auctions, effective April 29. The company announced today that it's ending so-called Member to Member listings on the platform. This includes seven-day public auct...
Fred Hsu discusses some of his company's plans for new top level domains tied to web3 communities. It's been just six months since I had Fred Hsu, co-founder of D3, on the podcast. The company has made many announcements since then, and it's becoming clear that it will be one of the more significant portfolio […] Post link: .Ape in to new TLD...
There's no end in sight for the .ai domain name boom. The domain name registry for .ai domain names has released its latest domains under management figure. The registry disclosed that there are 425,060 registered .ai domains as of today. Here's how this number has progressed over time: July 2, 2018 the total was 48,272 […] Post link: .AI add...
The reason domain names are important has changed over time. A few readers have sent me an article published in The Atlantic this week titled "The Web Became a Strip Mall" with the subhead "Domain names once gave the internet a sense of place. Now they are meaningless." Ian Bogost wrote about how domain names […] Post link: Domains aren't imp...
Monster never responded to the lawsuit, and a California court issued a default judgment. A California man has been awarded a $486,432 judgment against Epik founder Rob Monster and Epik Inc. over a stolen domain name. Robert M. Lee registered the domain name rle.com in 1995. In a lawsuit he filed in 2019, he alleged […] Post link: Man gets $4...
A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) Music Together, LLC guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The case followed a surprisingly common fact pattern: a company registers a domain name in good faith as a licensee of the Complainant, and the license is later terminated. In this case, the registrant of MusicTogetherofM...
X.com marks the spot…or does it? Let's face it: Many of the changes X (Twitter) has made under Elon Musk's ownership haven't been well thought out. The company is certainly following the "move fast and break things" business method. Security journalist Brian Krebs wrote today about the company's latest fumble, which fortunately has been fixed...
Move makes it easier for U.S. investors to invest in the company. U.S. investors interested in investing in domain name company Team Internet Group now have an easier option. The company trades on the London Stock Exchange's market for small and medium size growth companies, AIM, under the ticker TIG. Starting today, it's also available […] P...
This approach could be the best of both worlds. NamePros is introducing a new feature for its free "for sale" parking pages, and I think it's brilliant. Domain investors typically choose between "buy now" and "make offer" landing pages. The former displays a price on the page, and people can instantly buy the domain. The […] Post link: NamePr...
WooCommerce is moving its domain back to WooCommerce.com after SEO challenges. For all of those that say changing domains is easy, so domain renewal prices shouldn't be capped… WooCommerce, a company owned by WordPress creator Automattic, is experiencing headaches after trying to change its domain from WooCommerce.com to Woo.com. The problem ...
A title insurance company, a rummy game app, and a cool lighting maker bought domain names. Sedo had a nice rebound in domain sales after a slowdown last week. Many of the top domains don't have obvious buyers at the time of publication, including the top sale lightbet.com, which went for $74,999. Here's a list […] Post link: End user domain ...
Expired domain market roars back thanks to a few big sales. Sales rebounded at Snapnames and NameJet last month. The two platforms combined for 63 sales of $2,000 or more, totaling $522k. This compares to 51 domains and $262k in February. Here are some notable sales for the month: Akira.com $75,000 – Unlike many domains […] Post link: S...
Richard Lau discusses a seven-figure domain sale and what companies using .ai domains should know. Domain investor Richard Lau joins me on todays show. We discuss his $1 million sale of gld.com and how a domain buyer broker helped seal the deal. Richard also explains why he hopes his sale of passes.com will turn into […] Post link: A golden d...
Entrepreneur Michael Cyger uses great domain to launch game site. I found a new time suck this weekend: pyramid solitaire. And I know exactly who to blame. Last week, Michael Cyger and his 13-year-old son held a mini spring break hackathon and developed a web version of the game. It's easy to find, too, since […] Post link: Pyramid.com launch...
A big cybersquatting case, .ai domains, and the domain aftermarket made news last month. 1. Canva triumphs in cybersquatting case, secures 174 domain names – That's a whole lotta domains in one UDRP! 2. Aston Martin wins .ai domain from misguided domain registrant – The .ai goldrush has attracted clueless cybersquatters like this one. 3...
Complainants didn't exist until 25 years after the domain was registered. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled (pdf) that two Brazilian real estate investment firms tried to reverse domain name hijack the domain trix.com. It was a simple, dead-on-arrival case. Trix Investimentos Ltda and Trx investimentos e participaes ltda...
Pay me at the same interval every time, and I'll be happy. I hear a lot of complaints about payouts from Afternic. Most of these complaints are about payments taking too long. I'm not really concerned with how long it takes to receive payments (within reason). I don't count on the cash flow from domains […] Post link: I care more about consis...
One time $400k sale buoys premium revenue. Top level domain name registry Radix has released its Premiums Report (pdf) for the second half of 2023. The company reported $4.8 million in premium domain sales at retail prices, a 28% increase over the second half of 2022 and an increase from the $4.64 million reported in […] Post link: Radix repo...
A very cool bird feeder company bought the top (publicly revealed) domain at Sedo this week. Sedo had a very slow week for public domain sales, probably owing to the Easter holiday. The company reported just 32 sales of $2,000 or more, which is about half of usual. This made it hard to find end […] Post link: End user domain sales up to $50,0...
Panelist points out many flaws in the Complainant's case. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) Euronet Worldwide, Inc. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The payments company filed a UDRP against Euronet.com, which is currently owned by Euronet Internet. Euronet Internet appears to have gone through many acquisi...
Ask your Afternic account manager to help get your domains on Fast Transfer after a domain transfer. When I win expired domains, I immediately list them for sale on Afternic. If they are at a Fast Transfer registrar such as Network Solutions, I'll opt them into that as well. After 60 days, I like to […] Post link: Transfer domains between reg...
But the Handshake .wallet owner wants to press his case. A long-running dispute between Unstoppable Domains and the owner of .wallet in the Handshake protocol has taken a strange twist. The controversy started when Scott Florsck began selling domains under his .wallet Handshake domain name. Unstoppable Domains has its own .wallet extension. After a...
Understanding the domain name market in Canada. Oh, Canada! This week, I chat with domain investor Frank Mardian, founder of the DN.ca domain name forum popular with Canadian domain name investors. Frank talks about becoming interested in websites when he ran a Mercedes Benz dealership, and how he started collecting domains. We discuss some nuances...
These changes should help sell more premium domain names. I was recently searching for domains on GoDaddy and noticed a few interesting things about how it presents premium domain names listed through Afternic. Lease-to-own GoDaddy appears to be testing different ways of presenting lease-to-own offers. This is how it looked on several domains I che...
Cybersquatters registered domains within days of acquisition announcement. Capital One Financial Corporation has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against three domain names related to its planned acquisition of Discover. Last month, Capital One announced the $35 billion takeover of Discover Financial Services. The banking firm defensively registered m...
Despite a recent announcement by one domain registrar, .io domains prices aren't jumping. Earlier today, domain name registrar Hexonet sent a notice to customers about a .io price increase. The message stated: We have recently been informed about a price change by the registry for .IO domain names (registrations, renewals and transfers). As a resul...
This site helps you find recently-expired domains that you can hand register. A new expired domain name site offers an interesting twist on finding expired domains. The free site could be helpful to brandable domain investors looking to add inexpensive domains to their inventory. JustExpired searches through recently dropped domains to find ones th...
The flawed report doesn't adequately address the lock-in of existing domain registrants. ICANN has published an economic analysis (pdf) about price controls in .org and .info. While it has some good points, the analysis is flawed. The organization undertook the study due to an Independent Review Panel (IRP) decision in a case brought by Namecheap. ...
Snoop Dogg's daughter, an international trading company, and a clothing designer bought domain names. Domain broker Mark Ghoriafi has a lot of hustle and energy, which paid off this month with his biggest sale since joining Sedo: bagels.com. Here's a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view […] Post link: 1...
Domain aftermarkets need to clean up their inventory. Let me start this rant with some good news. This month, I sold a domain name for $6,500 that I found through Domain Academy's Afternic advanced search tool. I bought the domain for less than $100. Now for the bad news: I spent a lot of time […] Post link: The domain aftermarket has a big p...
It's 2024. UDRP Complainants must stop making an argument that's no longer true. John Berryhill won another UDRP this week. While there's a lot I could write about his successful defense (pdf) of the domain name transco.com, I want to focus on one of the Complainant's arguments that bothers me. Many complainants argue that the […] Post link: ...
It turns out the domain hadn't expired and shouldn't have been auctioned at SnapNames. Last week, I wrote about an issue I was having with Crazy Domains. After trying and failing to resolve the issue with Crazy Domains' support over several weeks, I didn't know what else to do other than write about it. And […] Post link: My Crazy Domains iss...
Fight over dueling blockchain-based naming systems will continue. Namecheap's CEO has vowed to start selling .wallet domains in the Handshake protocol soon. Writing on X, Richard Kirkendall stated, ".wallet handshake domains will be back for sale soon at Namebase. Stay tuned." Namecheap owns Namebase, a sort of registry and marketplace for Handshak...
After judge dismisses case, domain owner asks for attorney fees. Lawyers for the owner of trx.com today made their case (pdf) for why the judge should award attorney fees. I've rehashed this case many times, including why the judge dismissed the case. You can catch up here. In its motion for fees, trx.com's attorneys argue: […] Post link: TRX...
"On-chain" domain registrar files patent. Blockchain-based domain name registration company 3DNS has filed a patent application for Blockchain-Based Domain Name Registrar and Management System (pdf). The company summarizes the invention as: Introduced here are techniques/technologies that allow a blockchain-based domain name registrar and managemen...
I won a domain name in a SnapNames auction this month. It's been a pain ever since. Winning a domain name at SnapNames can be frustrating when the domain is at a registrar you've never used. You must set up your account at the new registrar and get used to a new interface. For this […] Post link: The insanity of Crazy Domains DomainNameWire....
A name-image-likeness college athletics company, a crypto business, and an orthodontist bought domain names. Sedo's top public sale this past week was profile.link for 40,000. The domain hasn't been developed yet, but it would be a nice name for a link-in-bio solution. Another somewhat mystery is DreamCosmetics.com at $25,000. A MarkMonitor client ...
Deal will reduce Team Internet's reliance on Google for monetization. Team Internet Group (AIM: TIG) announced today it is acquiring Shinez I.O. Ltd for an enterprise value of $41.8 million. Shinez runs a network of 40 sites, including TravelerDreams.com and OurFashionTrends.com. On a cursory review, the content seems rather thin and at risk of Goo...
Domain registrar says it has no direct knowledge of underage porn on the website. Domain name registrar Epik has retracted a statement it made after booting the website Kiwi Farms from its service in December. At the time, Epik stated that it received a complaint about the controversial Kiwi Farms website that it believed to […] Post link: Ep...
Sedo reveals interesting domain aftermarket data. Sedo and InterNetX have released their annual Global Domain Report. The report contains interesting data about both the primary and secondary domain name markets and includes quotes from many people in the domain name business. My favorite part of the report is data about the aftermarket, primarily ...
Both of the company's business segments continue to grow. Team Internet Group (AIM: TIG), formerly known as CentralNic, published its 2023 annual report today. Here's a look at some of what the company reported. Team Internet's Business Team Internet runs two core businesses: Online Marketing and Online Presence. Online Marketing derives its revenu...
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