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Three strikes, and OpenTLD is out. ICANN has sent a notice of termination to OpenTLD, the domain name registrar associated with the Freenom group of companies. Freenom is best known for giving away free domain registrations, most famously .tk, in a dwindling numberof country code domain names as itfaces legal challenges. However, it also has [̷...
Domain investors can filter inventory to find bargains. GoDaddy has released a beta search tool to help domain investors find good values within Afternic's inventory. The Afternic Advanced Search tool is available to anyone with access to Domain Academy. Domain Academy is free to customers with GoDaddy's Domain Discount Club membership. Think ...
NameJet and SnapNames combine for 73 sales of $2,000 or higher last month. Newfold Digital has revealed 73 sales of $2,000 or more from its platforms NameJet and SnapNames during October. The sales total $442,000. Here are some of the sales that stand out to me: 802 .com $53,499 – My, how the value of […] Post link: Newfold sales led by...
Court rules in favor of circus.com owner. Online gambling company Circus Belgium SA has failed for a third time to get the domain name circus.com. First, it tried to obtain the valuable domain name through a UDRP in 2016. It failed and was found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Several years later, […] Post link: Gambling com...
Netcraft published a report showing that criminals will use expensive domains for sophisticated schemes. Netcraft published an analysis of cybercrime in the .ai namespace today. .Ai is the country code for Anguilla and is popular because of artificial intelligence. This has driven a massive increase in registrations in recent years. According to Ne...
An online healthcare site, a green energy company, and a luxury vacation rental business bought domain names. RTbet .com led this week's Sedo sales list at $60,000. It's not yet clear who bought the domain name. I was able to find the buyers for some domains this week and discovered a couple more from last […] Post link: Recent Sedo end user ...
Company reports robust growth, with more ahead thanks to Google Domains acquisition. Website building platform Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) announced its Q3 earnings before the market opened this morning. Total revenue grew 18% year over year to $257.1 million. Bookings grew at the same 18% clip to $267.0 million in the quarter. Q3 includes about three...
New consent requirements could reduce parking revenue. Consent changes are coming to Google in January, which could impact revenue from parked domain names. Team Internet (AIM: TIG), the parent company of ParkingCrew and Tonic, sent a notice to publishers today explaining the change: As of January 16, 2024, it will be mandatory for all monetization...
Dynadot's monthly .ai auction concludes today. Dynadot's monthly .ai expired domain auction concludes this morning. Many of the auctions have already closed, but the auctions have generous extensions for late bids, so others will close later today. 192 of the 1,714 expired domains received bids. As of 9 a.m. PST, the bids total about $160,000, [...
This company thinks it can improve upon existing domain registrars using blockchain. Can blockchain technology improve domain name registrars? Thats what todays guest, Paul Gauvreau of 3DNS, believes. We discuss the relative benefits and potential drawbacks of bringing a registrar on chain. Also: Earnings season, .bot, domain search data, and It is...
Company plans new revenue sources for its domains business. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX), which operates OpenSRS, Enom, Hover, and a couple of other domain registrars, reported slight growth in its domain name business last quarter. The company grossed $61.1 million from its domain business in Q3, up from $60.3 million in the same quarter a year […] ...
An auctioneer of Indonesian art, a directory of Iranian lawyers, and an employee survey company bought domain names. I'm coming to you short-handed this week. Although Sedo published 53 domain sales of $2,000 or more from the past week, very few have been developed or forwarded. And all of them have protected Whois records. So, […] Post link:...
Panelist calls out Complainant for making "spurious allegations" against domain name owner. Playhouse International, which fashions itself as a more "sex-worker friendly" version of OnlyFans, has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against the domain name playhouse.com. The panel found that the dispute was an attempt at reverse domain name hijac...
Coffee company loses dispute against GoDaddy's NameFind. NameFind, a GoDaddy subsidiary with a portfolio of about 1 million domains, has successfully defended its domain cappuccine.com in a UDRP. The panel found (pdf) that the Complainant, Cappuccine Specialties, filed the case in bad faith as an attempt of reverse domain name hijacking. Cappuccine...
Know where to bid on expiring domains at each registrar. Many domain name registrars send their expired domain names to exclusive partners before deleting them. Knowing where these names go is critical for domain investors and end users alike. I most recently published a list of marketplaces and which registrars they have partnerships with a [̷...
Braden Pollock reveals a $600,000 sale as he and Andrew Miller discuss his equity deal in Hilco Digital Assets. On todays show, domain investor Braden Pollock explains his deal with Hilco Digital Assets, and were also joined by Hilco Digital Assets managing director Andrew Miller. We also discuss the state of the market, and Braden […] Post l...
XYZ acquired a domain name for the C-suite. Can it expand its popularity? Top level domain name company XZY LLC has acquired the .ceo top level domain name. .Ceo was one of the strangest top level domains applied for in the last round of domain expansion. The idea was to get CEOs to register and […] Post link: XYZ acquires .ceo top level doma...
These domain industry vets hope they can combine the benefits of web2 and web3. Fred Hsu and Shayan Rostam have been in the domain business for a while. In fact, if youre relatively new to the industry, you might not know who Fred is because he was before your time: He was a founder of […] Post link: Bridging web2 and web3 – DNW Podcast...
Panelist admonishes Complainant for filing unwinnable cybersquatting dispute. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) Cathleen Trigg-Jones to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking for the domain iWoman.com. Trigg-Jones, a journalist and coach, has trademarks for iWoman on the U.S. Supplemental Register. These mar...
A French nursing home operator thought these domains were targeting it. I doubt it. Sex and massages at nursing homes? That makes for a curious targeting claim in two recent UDRP cases, which were decided differently. Korian, a French nursing and retirement home operator, filed cybersquatting claims against KorianSex .com and KorianMassage .com. At...
He's just the latest person the publisher has sued. Entrepreneur Media, the company behind Entrepreneur magazine and Entrepreneur.com, has sued (pdf) yet another person who dared to use the word Entrepreneur in his brand. The company filed a lawsuit against David Schools, who runs sites at entrepreneurshandbook.co and ehandbook.com. It alleges that...
The company validates its domain name strategy for a second time. A claims adjuster that fights insurance companies has won another type of victory against an insurance company: reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH). In fact, it's the company's second RDNH win. Harris Claims Services in Illinois registered the domain name countrycompaniesinsurancecl...
Close to 10,000 people are expected for annual show in Germany. Cloudfest, a conference managed by the same group that organizes NamesCon, has opened registration for its 2024 show. The annual event takes place at Europa-Park in Germany and attracts over 8,000 people. Next year's event will be March 18-21. Passes are free for what […] Post li...
A Cadillac dealer filed a cybersquatting dispute against adillac.com. A Cadillac dealer has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a strange cybersquatting dispute. Jeff Wyler Automotive Family, Inc. owns 23 car dealerships in Ohio. Its Cadillac dealership uses the domain name jeffwylerfairfieldcadillac.com. The company file...
ccTLD manager says it will fine registrars for not suspending domains and if customers contact the registry directly. .AI, the country code for Anguilla, has become very popular thanks to its use by artificial intelligence companies. But a recent policy change by the registry is sure to irk registrars that sell .AI domain names, and […] Post ...
A background check provider, a mining company, and a French restaurant bought domain names. This week's top public sale at Sedo is an interesting one: 1337.org for $50,000. Here's a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here. 1337.org $50,000 – I spent […] Post link: End us...
We discuss the Las Vegas meeting, Lonnie Borck award, .net prices and more. My guests this week are Kamila Sekiewicz and Zak Muscovitch of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA). We kick things off by talking about the upcoming ICA meeting in Las Vegas, including some news about the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award. I mange to […] Post link: Catc...
Registrar has not been responsive to ICANN's requests and hasn't paid its bills. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to accredited registrar GKG.net. Officially, the breach notice is for three issues: Failure to implement a transfer due to a UDRP decision Failure to respond to an ICANN request about abuse complaints Past due accreditation […...
Afternic reveals top keywords in aftermarket sales in July, including the same top three as last month. Afternic has revealed the top 20 keywords in domain names sold in July through its platform, with filler words removed. Some terms on the list this month that didn't make it in in June include it, services, online, […] Post link: Top 3 sell...
Dynadot gets exclusive deal with .AI registry to auction expired domain names. Dynadot is now auctioning expired .AI domain names in an exclusive partnership with the .AI registry. .AI is the country code for Anguilla but has become popular as a short top level domain for artificial intelligence companies. Aftermarket sales for .ai domains have [&#...
Amazon registers domains for Eye Gaze, Right Pet Tags, and more. Amazon held a product launch event earlier this week. And as it always does when it launches products, it undertook a seemingly futile effort to protect the product names in second level domain names. I say futile because, for every domain the company snapped […] Post link: Amaz...
Don't ignore automated appraisals. They can be helpful. I had a really good start to the month for domain sales. One of the sales led me to audit my listing prices after reviewing GoDaddy appraisal values. The .com domain sold for $6,000. When I received the sale email, I looked back at the domain's history […] Post link: When's the last time...
A cosmetics company, an electronic components marketplace and a self storage company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from publishing domain sales. But have no fear, I won't keep you jonesing for end user sales data! I went back to the lists from May 7 and May 14 to look for […] Post link: 17 somewhat recent end use...
I don't understand why the Complainant wasted its money. Sometimes I read a UDRP and scratch my head. What was the Complainant thinking? That's my response to Healthyr, LLC v. Jonathan Curd, filed with World Intellectual Property Organization. Healthyr is a health and wellness company that uses the domain behealthyr.com. It selected this domain bec...
Lessons to help you in domains investing and business. Its been 10 years since Bill Sweetman launched Name Ninja. Since then, hes helped countless companies acquire domains to launch new products and brands. On todays show, Bill talks about many of the lessons hes learned. These lessons are relevant to entrepreneurs, domain investors, corporations,...
How the commission discounts work. Yesterday, Afternic announced it's launching lease-to-own (LTO) deals. The company will charge buyers a service fee for longer-term deals and will share some of this fee with sellers in the form of reduced commissions. There has been a bit of confusion about this, partly because Afternic has a two-tier commission ...
Afternic will leverage Dan.com's existing LTO system but will tap into GoDaddy and its brokers for greater distribution. Lease-to-own (LTO) options for Aftermarket domains are finally coming to Afternic and GoDaddy. The company has said the feature was on its roadmap, but some of the details of the rollout show that it's a bit more […] Post l...
Domain registry ups the lower end of its revenue guidance for the year. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported first quarter earnings this afternoon. The company ended the quarter with 174.8 million domains in the .com/.net base, which was 1.0 million more \than it ended 2022. 161.6 million of those are .com domains. It processed 10.3 million […] P...
Which is more important when setting prices? I was having a conversation with a couple of domain investors the other day about a domain I just sold. They asked me how much I acquired it for, and I informed them that I acquired it in 2019 via NameJet for about $2,000. The conversation immediately turned […] Post link: Acquisition cost vs. repl...
Judge dismisses case against GoDaddy for locking domain name. U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes has dismissed (pdf) a lawsuit filed against GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) over the domain name 968.com. In the lawsuit, Yuming Hao stated that she acquired the domain name 968.com from a man named Chu Chu for 800,000 (about $120,000 at the […] Post link:...
The registry itself was named in a cybersquatting case. Automattic, which operates the .blog top level domain through its company Knock Knock Whois There (KKWT), has successfully defended a .blog domain in an interesting cybersquatting case. Insurance giant AXA filed the UDRP dispute against the domain name axa.blog. KKWT had identified this domain...
GoDaddy's aftermarket launched two new features today. GoDaddy's Afternic released two new features today. First, Afternic now allows for automated ownership verification. This will hopefully resolve a lot of complaints and support work. Previously, when you tried to add a domain to Afternic that someone else had listed, you got an error that force...
Domain owner registered the domain many years before Complainant existed. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled (pdf) that the online gambling company that uses vgw.co for its website tried to reverse domain name hijack vgw.com. VGW Holdings Limited, an Australian company, has operated its site at vgw.co since 2010. It also ...
Company admits it owes the plaintiff money but denies other claims. Epik has responded to a lawsuit that alleges the company owes a customer $327,000 over a failed domain transaction. In its response, the company basically agrees (pdf) that it owes Matthew Adkisson $327,000 for the failed transaction for nourish.com. But it also denies that […...
It's a reverse domain name hijacking case. Every once in a while, a law firm files a UDRP as a complainant. The results can be disastrous when the firm doesn't specialize in intellectual property. So I give some credit to Hale Law, P.A., in Florida. The firm specializes in car accidents, not IP, so the […] Post link: Two lawyers file a UDRP a...
Is it time to cash in? Last week I gave a talk at MicroConf in Denver titled Should you sell your business? Many DNW Podcast listeners have started businesses they might be interested in selling. On todays show, I discuss the reasons you might want to sell your business and some alternatives to cashing in. […] Post link: Should you sell your ...
Company diversifies revenue stream with Microsoft deal. Domain name and online advertising company rollup CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) released news this morning. First, on the earnings front, the company expects to report $194.9 revenue for Q1 when the official tally is complete. That's up 24% year over year. It says gross profit was $45.8 millio...
Company tweets complaints about the company's former CEO, asks him to resign, and threatens to sue him. Epik's Twitter account has been inactive since Rob Monster left the company in September 2022. It's back and with a message for the company's founder. In a series of tweets over the past five days, the company has […] Post link: Epik threat...
The aftermarket is back. Aftermarket domain name sales rebounded sharply in Q1 this year, according to Escrow.com. The company reported that overall payment volume at Escrow.com was AU $268.6 million. That's down 5% compared to the first quarter of last year but up 47% compared to Q4 2022. It's the best quarter since Q2 2022. […] Post link: E...
This case was dead on arrival. TicketSms s.r.l., an online ticketing company, has been found (pdf) to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain names ticketsms.com and ticketsms.net. The complaint followed a common fact pattern: a business that didn't exist when the Respondent registered the domain name covets the domain name. I...
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