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A soccer team's cybersquatting claim and a change to how expired .ai domains are sold were top stories in February. 1. New domain registrar already in breach of accreditation agreement – A five-month-old domain name registrar got hit with a breach notice. 2. Namecheap scores deal to sell expiring .AI domain names – The deal […] Po...
With private resolution out, applicants should still be able to recover some of their costs if they lose a contention set. ICANN didn't like how many contention sets were resolved in the last round of top level domain expansion, despite asking parties to resolve contention sets among themselves. I think it has overcorrected with its […] Post ...
Company tries to quantify the hit it will take from Adsense for Domains changes. Team Internet Group (AIM: TIG, OTCQX: TIGXF) issued an update today addressing Google's changes to domain parking and announcing that a possible acquisition will not happen. On the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) front, the company expects at least short-term pain from search [&...
Here's what you should know ahead of ICANN82. [Editor's note: ICANN's annual Community Forum begins this Saturday in Seattle. Although I reside in the Seattle area, I live on an island and don't know as much about the city as you'd expect for someone who has lived here for six years. So I asked long-time […] Post link: ICANN82 in Seattle: Wha...
AbdulBasit Makrani shares recent results from his 10,000+ domain portfolio. What kind of results can you get from a portfolio of just over 10,000 domains? My guest this week shares details of his sales last year. AbdulBasit Makrani was last on the show in November 2023, when he had just boosted his sales by lowering […] Post link: A 10,000 do...
Former .ai administrator shares that Identity Digital is keeping 10% of revenues from the domain. A couple of people have sent me videos this week of former .ai domain administrator Vincent Cate talking about the domain names. One of the videos, from March of 2024, discusses the finances and trajectory of the domain name. In […] Post link: Fo...
President Donald Trump's decision will impact future of British Indian Ocean Territory. The issue of the .io country code domain will be up for discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump today, in a very roundabout way. The United Kingdom has a plan to hand control of the so-called British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius. The […] Post li...
Complainants get one shot at UDRP and need to put their best foot forward. UDRP provider FORUM, aka National Arbitration Forum, published two UDRP decisions this week that show why complainants need a legal representative. In both cases, the complainants submitted bare-bones disputes. And both complainants found out that panelists aren't going to d...
Man says Rob Monster has yet to pay to settle up after a failed escrow transaction. An Epik customer has filed a notice of breach of contract/settlement agreement (pdf) in King County court in Seattle against former Epik CEO Rob Monster. In a previous lawsuit, Matthew Adkisson alleged that he agreed to buy nourish .com […] Post link: Man file...
It baffles me that Meta can't stop these scams when they occurs on its own messaging platform. If you manage a Facebook page then you're used to receiving scam messages telling you your account is about to be deleted. A typical message looks like this: We have detected that your Facebook page has been schedule […] Post link: Why can't Meta bl...
Price increase helps Escrow.com increase revenues in 2024. Escrow.com's parent company, Freelancer.com (ASX: FLN) (OTCQX: FLNCF), released earnings results today for Q4 2024 and the full year 2024. For the year, Gross Marketplace Volume (GMV, a measure of total transaction value) fell 7.9% to AUS $818.2 million at Escrow.com (excluding Freelancer)....
Entri sued after GoDaddy prevented the startup from making changes to customers' DNS records. Domain registrar GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) and Entri, a firm that helps customers change DNS records, have settled their lawsuit. Entri acts as a conduit between SaaS companies and domain registrars. If a customer needs to update their domains DNS records to [&...
A sports betting business, a physical security products seller, and a trade organization bought domain names. .AI domains continue to sell well, and Sedo had a couple of nice sales this week. Enable.ai ($40,000) sold to an end user, and the buyer for nano.ai ($25,000) is not yet known. Another notable sale for which we […] Post link: 10 domai...
Look out below; the domain industry was just dealt another huge blow. In September 2024, Google informed advertisers that new Google ad accounts would automatically be opted out of serving ads on parked domains. That meant that the growth of new ads to show on parked domains would stop, and over time, there would be […] Post link: Google now ...
Chinese company asks court not to issue contempt sanctions in long-running dispute. A Chinese company that once owned domain registrar 35.com has told a court that it shouldn't apply contempt sanctions to it in a cybersquatting dispute with Facebook parent Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). Leascend Technology Co., formerly known as Xiamen 35.com Techn...
This domain investor boosted his sales by changing his landing pages. On todays show, I talk to a domain investor who has been very successful with .io and .ai domain names. He discusses how hes tweaking his approach to investing in these domains in todays domain investing landscape. He also shares his 2024 domain sales […] Post link: A domai...
Halliburton filed a cybersquatting case. The cybersquatter was ostensibly Halliburton itself. World Intellectual Property Organization has published an interesting cybersquatting case decision. Officially, the dispute is titled Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. v. Hostmaster, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. The energy giant used to be the registr...
Liverpool FC lost a case it filed at Czech Arbitration Court. Liverpool Football Club has lost a cybersquatting dispute it brought against the domain name name LiverpoolFCTickets .com. The football team filed the cybersquatting dispute with Czech Arbitration Court, one of the groups that decides cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolutio...
.Ai domains were the big story last year. But there's another TLD worth looking into. Afternic released a lot of data about how top level domains performed on its platform in 2024. A couple of things stand out to me. First, let's look at the top TLDs based on total dollar value: Unsurprisingly, .com dominates. […] Post link: Afternic's 2024 d...
This new blockchain-based DNS has some holes. I give some of these blockchain companies points for creativity. But geez. I just came across a press release issued last month from a company called Packet. It promises decentralized, censorship-resistant domains. However, unlike some previous blockchain "domain" systems, it says websites built on Pack...
New annual report reflects pressure from outside groups to rein in .com pricing. .Com registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) tweaked the language about challenges to the .com registry agreement in its 2024 annual report released this month. Specifically, the company added adversaries to a list of potential challengers to the renewal of the .com contract....
Check out the official schedule for ICANN Seattle. ICANN has published the schedule for its Community Forum, which will take place in Seattle in March. The meeting technically starts on March 8, but the welcome ceremony isn't until Monday, March 10. That evening, the opening reception will also be held. While I mostly attend these […] Post li...
A fish farm, an AI company, and an online furniture seller bought domain names. Sedo's top public sale this past week was weights.com, and the buyer isn't using the domain as you might expect. By the way, Sedo's next GreatDomains auction begins on Thursday. Domains for sale include excitement.com, y3.com, and company.ai. Heres a list […] Post...
Patent covers detecting parked pages to block malicious activity. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted patent number 12,229,647 (pdf) to cyber security company Palo Alto Networks for Unified parked domain detection system. The patent describes ways to detect that domain names are parked. For example, common signatures can be words used on t...
Panelist finds in domain owner's favor, even though a response to the dispute wasn't file. Syndicat des Vins Ctes de Provence, a union of winemakers in the Ctes de Provence, France, has lost a cybersquatting complaint. The group filed a dispute against the domain name cotesdeprovence.com, which is owned by a man in New Jersey. […] Post link: ...
I was surprised by how many movies use a .movie domain in their previews, but most appear to use .com for their official websites. I went to a movie theater this weekend for the first time in years. One thing that struck me during the previews in addition to how long they were […] Post link: Movies use .movie in previews, but many official ...
How public policy impacts the domain and hosting businesses. Public policy has a major impact on the domain name business. On todays show, I catch up with one of the groups that helps represent domain registrars, hosts, and other internet infrastructure providers when it comes to policy. Christian Dawson is the co-founder and Executive Director [&#...
Luxury carmaker Bentley has decided it no longer needs its own top level domain name. Bentley Motors Limited is terminating its dot-brand top level domain, .bentley. The automotive company informed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on December 13 that it planned to cancel its contract to run the domain. ICANN made [...
It was a bad day for GoDaddy shareholders. Shares in GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) fell over 14% today after the company released earnings after the market closed yesterday. The company reported Q4 revenue of $1.19 billion, which was above its guidance of $1.165 billion – $1.185 billion. However, results for earnings per share missed investor expectat...
Domain business chugs along and wins a large registry contract. Tucows (NASDAQ; TCX) reported quarterly and full-year 2024 earnings after the market closed yesterday. For Q4, revenue increased 7.1% to $93.1 million from $87.0 in the same quarter a year ago. The company posted a steep net loss of $45.3 million in the quarter, with […] Post lin...
Help with a new study ranking domain companies by how healthy they are. The domain name industry is fixated on domains under management, or DUMs. We tend to rank registrars by how many domains their customers have registered and consider registries with the most registrations to be more successful. But the raw numbers are just […] Post link: ...
Company filed "Plan B" case after failing to buy domain name. A French delivery logistics company, Yper SAS, has tried to upgrade its domain name through reverse domain name hijacking. The company operates on yper.fr and has been trying to acquire the domain name yper.com. In fact, Yper has tried buying the domain on many […] Post link: Frenc...
Prolific UDRP filer stretches too far in recent case. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panelist has found (pdf) Navasard Limited to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Navasard Limited operates online gambling websites under the moniker 1XBET. It filed a cybersquatting complaint against 1xperience.com, a domain name used...
Never worry about renewing your domain again, if you trust Automattic to do it for you. A couple of years after introducing a pre-paid, 100-year hosting package, WordPress.com's parent company, Automattic, is offering 100-year domain registrations. The ICANN-accredited registrar is offering 100-year domains in .com, .org, .net, and .blog. .Com and ...
I hope no one purchased $DNS. You can be excused for doing a double take yesterday if you follow The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on X. The company's account was briefly compromised last night to promote a crypto scam. As captured by John Berryhill, the perpetrators posted information suggesting that ICANN […] P...
You need to take these two steps when you receive a cancellation notice. A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from Afternic informing me that one of my lease-to-own sales had been canceled because the buyer had failed to make a payment. It was an inexpensive domain, and the buyer paid for four […] Post link: Do these two things when you...
Tobacco company Reynolds, a hospice provider, and a roofing business bought domain names this week. Sometimes, it's difficult to find domains on Sedo's weekly sales list that were acquired by end users. This week, however, it was easy. Many domains have public Whois records or have already been developed/forwarded the domain. This week's top public...
New group will focus on improving practices at hosting companies. This week, i2Coalition (Internet Infrastructure Coalition) announced its new Secure Hosting Alliance, which the organization says will "strengthen and improve the hosting and cloud landscape by fostering trust, advocating for fair policies, and safeguarding an open and accessible Int...
For a short time, I thought Homes.com failed to register a key domain name. Me, watching the Super Bowl at a party yesterday: Hmm, Homes.com is promoting the domain ComIsTheBest.com. Surely, they thought to register that domain. Me, checking on phone and trying to remember the domain: Really? ComIsBest.com is available! Me, registering domain name ...
How Unstoppable Domains has embraced DNS. Ive interviewed the founders of Unstoppable Domains on two separate occasions, but the most recent was in 2020. A lot has happened in the past five years. On todays show, Unstoppable Domains founder and CEO Matthew Gould sits down to talk about what the company is doing to marry […] Post link: Unstopp...
Company wants domain name frozen after registrar fails to make $5.5 million deposit. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is asking a court to give it control of the 35.com domain name. The request comes after the domain name registrar 35.cn/35.com failed to deposit $5.5 million in an escrow as […] Post...
Cybersquatting cases, Whois, and .AI were top stories in January. These were the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by views: 1. Noon.com let a domain expire, failed to win it back in cybersquatting case – A popular ecommerce site in UAE forgot to renew its local country code domain. It tried […] Post link: January's hot...
Registry expects the overall base of .com and .net domains to fall this year. .Com and .net registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings on Thursday. Revenue increased 4.3% to $1.56 billion in 2024, and operating income increased 6% to $1.06 billion. The financial numbers increased while the base of registered .com [R...
Yep, artificial intelligence-related domains are still selling like hotcakes. Afternic released a list of the top-selling keywords on its platform in November. The top domains are no surprise, as my, ai, and home remain the top three. However, my and ai swapped positions. A separate unfiltered list shows that the is still the most common […] ...
Latest numbers for the largest .com domain name registrars. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers October 2024. Here are some takeaways from this month's data: Hostinger, GMO and Realtime Register showed huge gains in new registrations in October compared to a year ago Gname [&...
Rebranded company forwards valuable domain name to StrategySoftware.com. Microstrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), the software-turned-bitcoin-speculation company, has rebranded as merely Strategy. The rebranded company still promotes its software but has the Bitcoin currency logo tacked on the end of its logo. Interestingly, the company's website is on Strate...
Ultahost is off to a rocky start with ICANN. One of ICANN's newest domain name registrars is already in breach of its accreditation agreement, just months after signing it. Today, ICANN notified (pdf) Ultahost, Inc., that it is in breach of the agreement and must cure the breach within 21 days. Ultahost signed its accreditation […] Post link:...
Actor Walton Goggins shows how he uses GoDaddy Airo for his online business. Super Bowl ads put GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) on the map, and the company is returning to the game this year after an eight-year hiatus. You won't find any scantily-clad women in this year's commercial, though. It features actor Walton Goggins (who I […] Post link: Here's ...
Here are some of the domains end users recently purchased at Sedo. It wasn't easy to find many domains on this week's Sedo sales list that have already been developed or for which a buyer can be determined. With a short list of end user sales to work with, I went back to the January […] Post link: Recent end user domain name sales: DomainNam...
Company will take over auctions from Dynadot. Namecheap has won the right to auction expiring registry .ai domain names going forward. The company's CEO, Richard Kirkendall, noted the change in a post on X today. Earlier in the day, Vincent Cate, who ran the .ai registry until Identity Digital took it over last month, sent […] Post link: Name...
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