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This company makes it easier to change DNS records. If youve ever set up a new email marketing account, website builder account, etc., you know it can be a pain to change your DNS settings. Adding SPF records, MX records, TXT records and more can be involved. Thats where Entri comes in. The company works […] Post link: Connecting domains to s...
Domain investors successfully defend UDRP cases with the help of well-known domain attorneys. Czech Arbitration Court published two reverse domain name hijacking decisions today. Both cases involved personal name domains owned by domain name investors. Schwanhuer Industrie Holding GmbH & Co.KG, which owns a biking accessories company called Gon...
Company tried to get the domain name via UDRP over 15 years ago. Outside Interactive, a sports and outdoor media company, has sued the owner of outside.com in an effort to get the domain name. It's the company's second attempt to acquire the domain through legal means. In 2006, the company's predecessor-in-interest filed a cybersquatting […] ...
Diaz joins company that aims to rid the DNS of abuse. Paul Diaz has joined CleanDNS as vice president of engagement. CleanDNS helps registries and registrars eliminate domain registrations that are involved in abuse. For example, it recently worked with Sav.com to suspend 60,000 domains that were found to be repeatedly engaging in phishing, spam, [...
Russia is asking ICANN to intervene after it says the .aero registry unfairly suspended domain registration for organizations in the Russian Federation. .Aero is a sponsored top level domain operated by SITA Information Networking Computing USA, Inc. Andrea Zhinov, Russia's GAC representative to ICANN, wrote to ICANN on behalf of the Ministry of Di...
New ad accounts must opt-in for their ads to show on parked pages. Domain name parking (or what's left of it) just took another hit. Today, Google informed advertisers that new Google ad accounts will automatically be opted out of serving ads on parked domains. Advertisers with Search and Performance Max campaigns won't appear on […] Post lin...
A panelist ordered a legitimate non-profit's domain name transferred. The Coachella music festival has won a dispute it filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP), resulting in the transfer of the domains teachella.net and teachella.org. Festival organizers certainly could have a trademark dispute with the owner of the domains, b...
.Io domains top Sedo's sales this week. Sedo's top two public sales this week were .io domain names. A sports marketing company paid $50,000 for fan.io, and an unknown buyer plunked down 33,684 for med.io. Heres a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like […] Post link: $50,000 .io sale t...
Six registrars are breaching their contract with ICANN. ICANN sent breach notices to six domain name registrars yesterday. The organization sent breach notices to MAFF Inc., Maff Avenue, Inc., Flappy Domain, Inc., DotMedia Limited, DomainName Fwy, Inc., and DomainName Blvd, Inc. All six registrars appear to have common ownership; the registrars hav...
Panel agrees with domain owner that the case was filed in bad faith. A UDRP panel has ruled that Cronos Group, a Canadian cannabis company, tried to reverse hijack the domain name CronosGroup .com. Cronos Group Inc. uses the domain name TheCronosGroup .com for its website. It approached the owner of CronosGroup .com to acquire […] Post link: ...
New award to recognize company or individual that significantly advanced the domain industry. Internet Commerce Association has opened nominations for a new award dubbed the ICA Trailblazer Award. The award will "recognize and celebrate companies and individuals that have significantly advanced the domain name industry by creating an especially inn...
Application describes a way of generating a website and suggesting a domain using AI. Domain name registrar Sav.com has applied for a patent titled "Systems and methods for automatically generating a website and selecting a related domain name using generative artificial intelligence." Application number 18/654246 (pdf) describes a way to use a bus...
Afternic sellers will pay an additional 5% commission unless they opt out of new program. Domain investors who sell domains through Afternic will start paying higher commissions this Wednesday unless they opt out of a new program. Afternic Boost officially kicks into gear on September 4. At that time, sales commissions will increase from 15% [̷...
Hockey club wins cybersquatting dispute over confusingly similar name used to perpetuate fraud. The Edmonton Oilers hockey club has won a cybersquatting complaint it brought to disrupt an invoice fraud scam. In a dispute before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the team said that the registrant of eBmontonoilers .com was cybersqu...
Complainant previously owned the domain name, and tried to buy it back from a domain investor before filing a UDRP. Mangels Industrial S.A., a manufacturing company in Brazil, has been found to have tried to reverse hijack the domain name mangels.com. The company owned the domain at one point, but it let it expire (or […] Post link: Manufactu...
Company clawed back the domain nearly two months after selling it to winning bidder. A Swedish company has sued GoDaddy after a domain it purchased in an expired domain auction was clawed back by the registrar nearly two months after it bought it. Crisby Studio AB bought calor.com (heat/hot in Spanish) in an expired domain […] Post link: GoDa...
A janitorial supply company, a maker of electronic fish bait, and a tracksuit seller bought domain names. Sedo had a lot more sales over $2,000 this week than in a typical week. Unfortunately, few of them resolve to active websites yet so it's difficult to tell if end users bought the domains. Heres a list […] Post link: This weeks end user d...
First half continues upward trajectory for premium domain revenue. Radix has published its premium domains report for the first half of 2024, and it was the best half the registry has ever had when it comes to premium domain sales. The company reported $5.16 million in retail revenue from premium domains. That's up from $4.8 […] Post link: Ra...
Hear why ConvertKit is changing its name to Kit. ConvertKit founder Nathan Barry was on the Domain Name Wire Podcast in 2018, talking about his companys plans to rebrand. He shelved those plans after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new domain. Now, six years later, CovertKit is finally rebranding. The company will […] Post link...
The eth.link saga is over after dismissal. Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has formally dismissed a lawsuit it filed regarding the domain name eth.link. Eth.link is used as a resolving service for .eth names. People can type a second level .eth name followed by eth.link to get the name to resolve in their browser. The person […] Post link: Ethere...
The company, which has been slow to launch its domains, is finally rolling out two more. Amazon is finally launching a couple more of its top level domain names. About eight years after ICANN delegated .deal and .now, the company opened the domains in Sunrise today. Trademark holders will be able to register the domains […] Post link: Amazon ...
UDRP carves out exceptions for legitimate use of brand names in domains. Textron Innovations Inc., the maker of airplanes and airplane parts including Cessna and Beechcraft, has lost another cybersquatting case under the Oki Data precedent. Oki Data was a case that established an idea of nominative fair use in domain names, at least as […] Po...
A crane company, a beverage mixer seller, and a Barcelona tourism organization bought domain names. Sedo's top sale this week was crypto .co.uk, brokered by Mark Ghoriafi. It's unclear who bought it yet and if it was an end-user or investor purchase. Otherwise, Sedo's list of public sales this week was a little short. But […] Post link: 16 en...
GoDaddy begins sharing data about new domain registrations. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has a new feature that shares which keywords are being registered most often in new domain names. The company already publishes which keywords are most common in Aftermarket domains, but this data is always a few months behind. The new data is extremely current. [̷...
While some domain registrars have increased prices faster than wholesale increases, robust competition means consumers can still register and renew domains for close to the wholesale cost. One of Verisign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) defenses to increasing .com prices is that "unregulated" domain registrars set the price people actually pay for domains and ma...
GoDaddy explains why it introduced Afternic Boost, plus plans for Dan. Last week Mark Levine and I gave our initial feedback on Afternic Boost, a new program from Afternic that promises extra exposure for a fee. Today, Im joined by Alan Shiflett. Alan manages all of GoDaddys products for domain investors. He talks about how […] Post link: GoD...
Mononames sifts through millions of available domains, including one word domains and .com domains with common prefixes and suffixes. I've long been a fan of OneWord.domains, a site that helps you find exactly what it describes: one-word domain names available for registration. A few months ago, Gatan Le Heurt-Finot, a master's student and entrepre...
He made a tough case look easy. Oh, Jesus was definitely cybersquatting. But he performed a miracle to get away with it. Cybersecurity company Sysnet North America, Inc., which operates Viking Cloud at the domain name vikingcloud.com, filed a cybersquatting complaint against the registrant of vikiMgcloud .com. While I can't be sure, Jesus apparentl...
A longtime employee alleges that ICANN did not properly handle complaints. A woman who worked for ICANN for 22 years sued the non-profit this week, claiming sexual harassment, gender discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, and other claims. The plaintiff's suit states that she was: … ICANNs second longest tenured employee with a st...
Two domain-related companies made the list of fastest-growing companies. Domain name company Identity Digital landed on the Inc. 5000 list again this year. It's the fourth consecutive year the top level domain registry made the list. The company ranked #3,235, as measured by three-year revenue growth. The company generated 152% growth during that t...
A surprising factor helped the domain registrant, and the panel rightfully decided this case was too close to call to order the domain transferred. OneTab Ltd, which offers a browser plugin for organizing tabs on Google Chrome, has lost a cybersquatting complaint in an interesting case that tested the bounds of the Uniform Domain Name […] Pos...
35 finalists vie for up to $50,000 donation. Public Interest Registry has named the 35 finalists for this year's .ORG Impact Awards, and announced that actor Alan Cumming will host the awards ceremony this fall. Cumming, an Emmy and Tony-award-winning actor, is well known for his roles on shows like The Good Wife and, my […] Post link: .Org n...
Company files UDRP after failing to buy domain for two decades. A UDRP panel has found Work In Progress Creative Solutions Ltd, aka WIP Systems, guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which offers a workflow platform, started using the domain name wipsystems.co.uk in 2007 and wipsystems.com.au in 2018. It coveted wipsystems.com and f...
Atom.com will pay domain investors if a domain listed on Atom Premium sells on Afternic. Afternic's decision last year to move to a two-tier commission model has been a challenge for competing marketplaces. The two-tier system charges an additional 10% commission when sellers park their domains on other platforms. This added cost has pushed many [&...
Company publishes blog post to dispell what it calls myths that people are spreading about the company's operation of the .com registry. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) has publicly begun rebutting those who think .com prices should be reduced or frozen. Pat Kane, senior vice president of Verisign's naming and registry services, published a blog post today...
An Instagram contest platform, a sports uniform manufacturer, and a couples therapist bought domain names. This week's top public sale at Sedo was UpSign.com for 55,000. The domain doesn't resolve yet, but there are many potential buyers, including one that has a trademark for the term for eSignature services. For today's post, I'm including sales ...
It's time to update those top sales charts. I never believed that the fund.com domain name sold for $10 million back in 2008, and now we have proof. A ruling in the Court of Chancery in Delaware shows that the $10 million sale was fabricated as part of a stock pump and dump scheme. According […] Post link: Fund.com never sold for $10 million,...
Traffic arbitrage business faces headwinds as the cost of traffic increases while revenue per visitor decreases. Team Internet Group (AIM: TIG, OTCQX: TIGXF), a rollup of domain name and online advertising companies, announced results for the first half of 2024 today. The company posted overall revenue growth of 3% year over year, grossing $409.7 m...
Discussing Afternic Boost and if it's worth it. Last week, Afternic announcedAfternic Boost, a new program that the company says will increase sales up to 10%. While everyone likes to sell more domains, the announcement landed like a lead balloon with most people Ive talked to. The key reason is that you have to give […] Post link: Thoughts o...
Domain name business grows slightly with another consistent quarter. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported Q2 earnings after the market closed yesterday. The company has three main business segments: Tucows Domains, Ting fiber, and telecom software business Wavelo. Q2 revenue from the domain business was $62.4 million, up 4% year over year. The gross margi...
A web3 project, an attorney, and a grocery chain bought domain names. Sedo delivered three weeks of domain sales data this week. In this report, I review end user purchases that took place in mid-July. You can view previous lists like this here. LandWolf.com $42,069 – LandWolf is a cryptocurrency project. BenBornstein.com $20,000 – Ben ...
GoDaddy ends its backorder product, which lost its purpose many years ago. In a long overdue move, GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is killing its backorder service. GoDaddy never competed well with dropcatching services like SnapNames and DropCatch, which use lots of registrar credentials to acquire domains. The company has mostly focused on direct-transfer b...
All sellers will be opted into a program that increases marketing but charges an additional 5% commission. Afternic announced a new program today called Afternic Boost, which it says can increase domain sales by up to 10%. Afternic Boost includes features designed to sell more aftermarket domains: Domains appear in suggested search results on GoDad...
Here's the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers April 2024. A few things stand out in this month's report: Godaddy once again generated nearly 100k fewer .com registrations than a year before. I suspect GoDaddy is one of […] Post lin...
You might be better off putting your money in a savings account. This morning, Giuseppe Graziano of domain brokerage GGRG published an analysis of domain name investing that I think all domain investors should read. It's especially compelling given that Verisign indicates one of its pushbacks against limiting .com price increases is that the averag...
Company grabs 10 domains after owner told it to "grab it or get lost". IBM has won a cybersquatting complaint it filed against ten domain names that included its brand and cryptocurrency terms. Most of the domains follow the format ethereum-ibm.tld. The domains are: cryptocurrencyibm. xyz, ethereum-ibm. app, ethereum-ibm. com, ethereumibm. com, eth...
UDRP Perspectives covers common UDRP topics, with links to relevant decisions. A new website is helping to educate trademark holders, domain registrants, and panelists on current UDRP jurisprudence. UDRPPerspectives.org is a project by lawyers and panelists Zak Muscovitch and Igor Motsnyi. The site provides up-to-date case law and commentaries on t...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today sent a letter to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) affirming that it will renew the agreement for running the .com registry. However, the organization said it was opening a discussion about pricing in response to requests from lawmakers and outside groups. The letter makes clear that...
Take a summer vacation last month? Here are some of the stories you might have missed. These were the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by views. 1. DNS company files antitrust lawsuit against GoDaddy – A company that assists people with changing their DNS records alleges that GoDaddy has unfairly blocked […] Post link:...
A new report sheds light on which domains phishers use to steal information. These days, it seems like a never goes by without someone trying to phish me, either via an email saying a bank account is about to be suspended or a text message trying to scare me into logging into a site. Phishing […] Post link: Which domains phishers use – ...
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