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Meta proactively registers domain names related to its Llama AI model. Meta AI's Llama model is only up to version 3.1, but the company is registering domains to prepare for future versions. This week, Meta (NASDAQ: META) registered at least 42 domain names related to Llama. Most of these follow a format of Llama[version number][the […] Post ...
1inch tried to snag a .com domain registered before the company existed. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled that crypto company 1inch Limited tried to reverse domain name hijack the domain 1inch .com. The company cited European Union and United Kingdom trademarks in a cybersquatting filing against the domain name. The proble...
A texting app, a cosmetic dentistry lead generator, and a seller of sheds bought domain names. With Sedo still on summer vacation, I dug into the archives this week to find 13 end user sales I missed toward the end of June. Heres a list of end user domain name sales at Sedo from the […] Post link: 13 end user domain sales up to $81,102 Domai...
Company reports stronger-than-expected growth. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) released Q2 earnings after the market closed today. Total revenue was $1.1 billion, up 7% year over year on a constant currency basis. The Core Platform segment, which includes domain names, grew 3% year over year. Godaddy raised its revenue guidance for the year, expecting year-ov...
Wholesale prices will increase by 7%. .Com prices are about to increase, so now is an excellent time to renew domain names to beat the higher costs. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the company that operates the .com registry, will increase wholesale prices from $9.59 to $10.26 on September 1. Most registrars add a margin to this, […] Post link: .Com...
Domain name investors have a new option for selling their domains. Domain name brokerage service Saw.com launched a new domain name sales platform today. The platform allows domain name owners to list domains for sale, point them to Saw.com landers (example), and either self-broker the domains or hand them off to Saw.com's brokers. Sellers will [&#...
Company said weakness in OAuth caused domain hijackings. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) has posted a postmortem on a security incident that impacted mostly crypto/web3 company sites earlier this month. Several web3 companies reported that their domain names, which were registered at Squarespace, were compromised and their DNS settings were hijacked. The ...
These were the top selling keywords at Afternic in May. Afternic has revealed the top keywords in domain names sold on its platform in May. As the largest domain name marketplace and distribution network, this list is a fairly good representation of which domain names sell most commonly in the aftermarket. Here is the list, […] Post link: AI ...
American Ecomomic Liberties Project says there are ways to pressure Verisign to lower .com prices. Last month, American Economic Liberties Project sent a letter to the U.S. government asking it to halt the renewal of the Cooperative Agreement with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for running .com. It argued that Verisign has a monopoly that allows it [̷...
Friend bought friend.com on a payment plan rather than forking over most of its cash. There are a lot of stories going around today about Friend launching on the friend.com domain name. The maker of the AI product somewhat reminiscent of Her announced a $2.5 million fundraising round. It also said it acquired the domain […] Post link: Friend....
Alt-root blockchain domains depend on resale value to survive. That's a recipe for failure. The group behind .tez names recently made a proposal that I think encapsulates the problem with alt-root blockchain "domain" names. Tezos Domains are like many of these so-called domain names. Despite promises of lots of functionality, they currently functio...
Panel agrees that the domain investor likely bought the domain for its value as a dictionary word. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled against Abnormal Security Corporation in a dispute over abnormal.ai. Domain investor Narendra Ghimire purchased the domain name in an expired domain auction in 2022 for $1,035. The three-person panel agreed...
Company filed two cases against the same business. Both were doomed to fail. Descon Engineering Limited of Pakistan has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for the second time. Both UDRP cases involved the same domain name owner. Earlier this month, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published a decision by panelist Scot...
Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name registrations, a drop of 1.8 million over the quarter. The domain base is down 2.2% […] Post link: ...
Three Republican lawmakers have opened an inquiry into Verisign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) contract to run the .com domain name registry. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chair Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) s...
Digging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month's report: GoDaddy registered over 100,000 fewer .com domains this March than last March. It has 1.2 million fewer .com […] Post li...
Phishers continue to like cheap domains. Interisle published its Phishing Landscape 2024 report today, naming top level domains and registrars commonly used in phishing attacks. The company analyzed1.9 million phishing attacks that took place between May 2023 and April 2024. Notably, this period began shortly after Freenom, a phisher's favorite bec...
A bank, a tax law firm, and an IT infrastructure company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from reporting domain name sales. But I don't want readers to go hungry! So this week, I went back and looked at some of the sales from last month that have subsequently been developed, […] Post link: 13 end user domain name sa...
Paying customers can now import leads to use Efty Pay. Domain name sales platform Efty has launched the first iteration of Efty Pay for sellers. For the initial launch, Efty customers with an active subscription can import leads to use Efty Pay to complete the transaction. Sellers will need to complete a verification process, and […] Post lin...
A domain broker gives me tips to sell more domains. Last week, I talked about how my domain sales are down so far this year. Jeffrey Gabriel, Saw.com founder and domain broker, joins me this week to talk about what I can do to change this trajectory. He gives some frank advice about my domains, […] Post link: Advice for selling more domains &...
Its communications suggest not that much. Lately, Unstoppable Domains has been making a lot of announcements about partnering with companies to apply for top level domains through ICANN. The company currently peddles alt-root blockchain-based domain names to consumers. It has changed its marketing message for the times, pitching them as a backlash ...
AI could have decided this case. World Intellectual Property Organization published a decision for young.com today. The three-person panel unanimouslyfound in favor of the domain registrant (pdf) and found that Complainant Young Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed the case in bad faith. The panel had especially harsh words for the Complainant, noting that ...
Brokers can earn a 20% commission by selling domains on Atom. Atom has launched its updated Cloud Broker program, which allows people to earn commissions for selling domains listed on the domain marketplace. Brokers can obtain unique links for domains listed on Atom and earn 20% of the commission if someone clicks through the link […] Post li...
Company searches for the domain name owner in the wrong Georgia. Jorge Almirall registered the domain name almirall.org in 2002 and has used it for email since then. This year, the Spanish pharmaceuticals company Almirall, S.A. filed a cybersquatting dispute against the domain name. With GDPR, nearly all domain names have protected Whois records. A...
It was a slow week for domain name sales at Sedo. Sedo published a very short list of sales over $2,000 for the past week, led by FG.org at $95,000. With such a short list, I came up short finding end user sales. So, this week's report also includes sales from Sedo's report one month […] Post link: Here are domains that end users recently bou...
Escrow.com has second-best quarter of the past two years. Escrow.com released its Q2 2024 Domain Investment Index (pdf) report today, showing an upward trend in domain sales. The company handled $90 million of domain name sales last quarter, up from $84 million in Q1 of this year and $79 million in Q4 of last year. […] Post link: Domain sales...
Lease-to-own option now available on GoDaddy-branded lander. Afternic has launched a new landing page option that replaces the Dan.com lander while adding additional features. Called the Custom Lander, it allows domain sellers to offer lease-to-own transactions on a GoDaddy-branded lander (and URL) for the first time. It looks very similar to the o...
Fourth-largest new top level domain registry is in the dog house. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to .TOP Registry, the company behind the .top top level domain name. The breach notice says .top has failed to comply with Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) requests, does not have a proper process for handling DNS abuse […] Post link: ICANN se...
Michael Bang has figured out how to find domains with a good chance of being accepted on Atom. He wants to help other domain investors, too. A lot of rookie domain name investors make mistakes when they choose which domains to register. Michael Bang admits he's made plenty of mistakes. But using Atom as a […] Post link: How one domain investo...
Let's dig into my sales results this year. How are your domain sales so far this year? Minenot so great. On todays show, I share in-depth numbers about my sales in the first half of 2024: sell-through rates, top level domains, where I acquired the domains and more. I also hypothesize about why my sales […] Post link: My domain sales so far th...
GoDaddy's API changes topped last month's news. These are the top stories on Domain Name Wire from last month. Get this list earlier by subscribing to the Domain Name Wire newsletter. 1. Developers frustrated by recent GoDaddy API restrictions – Developers say they didn't get advance notice and only found out about the change when […] P...
Attackers are hijacking domains to steal crypto assets. Many web3 companies are reporting that their domains registered at Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) have been hijacked. Earlier today, Unstoppable Domains wrote on X that it is a victim. It is concerned that people are spoofing the company in email and might create a fake website to try […] Post...
Company alleges that GoDaddy is unfairly blocking it from automating customers' DNS change requests. A company that helps domain owners update DNS records has filed an antitrust lawsuit against GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY). Entri acts as a conduit between SaaS companies and domain registrars. If a customer needs to update their domain's DNS records to work...
These two companies are fighting over the earth. The Website, Inc., which operates an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar called DotEarth, has sued (pdf) a web3 company called Dot Earth Inc. The Website's domain name registrar is at DotEarth.com. The company was founded in 1999. It holds IANA #64, which shows how old it is. (A […] Post lin...
It tried to use UDRP to resolve a trademark dispute, not a cybersquatting dispute. Descon Engineering Limited has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over desconllc.com. The company uses the domain descon.com. The dispute the company filed is a trademark dispute, not a cybersquatting dispute under the Uniform [&...
Early bird deal runs through the end of this month. Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has opened ticket sales and hotel reservations for its annual member meeting in January. Next year's event will return to Resorts World in Las Vegas, June 26-28, 2025. Early bird tickets are available until the end of July for $399. Hotel […] Post link: Ti...
Company could have avoided reverse domain name hijacking decision had it done its homework. A French property management company has lost a cybersquatting dispute and has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Although it likely would not have won the case, had it done proper research, it might have avoided the finding of […] Pos...
A stablecoin operator, a building supply company, and a business that sells used golf clubs bought domain names. Sedo had some notable sales this past week. First, it sold two betting domains: 69bet .com for $140,000 and 27bet .com for $80,000. Is there some Chinese meaning to these numbers? Second, it closed the sale of […] Post link: 11 dom...
The domain was registered well before the company existed. GigPig, A UK company that connects musicians with venues for gigs, has been led to the slaughterhouse in a cybersquatting dispute. The company filed a UDRP against GigPig.com, a domain that was registered in 2001. GigPig was founded in 2021, although it claims it has been […] Post lin...
Company increases prices on six top level domain names. If you own a lot of domain names offered by Google Registry, you should consider renewing them before August 1. The company is increasing the wholesale price of six of its domain names by $2 each. That might not seem like much in nominal terms, but […] Post link: Google is increasing dom...
Company wants trademarks for new top level domain names. D3, a company that intends to apply for new top level domain names for various web3 communities, has filed internet-to-use U.S. trademark applications for .ape and .magic. The company has announced plans to apply for the .ape domain name in conjunction with Bored Ape Yacht Club. […] Pos...
Why this group thinks Verisign shouldn't be able to raise the price of .com domains. Last month, a consortium of advocacy groups asked the US government to take action against the .com contract with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN). On todays show, Matt Stoller, research director for American Ecomomic Liberties Project and author of The BIG Newsletter, [...
Company argues that registries and registrars should report incidents to ICANN instead of individual governments. Domain name registry business Identity Digital has asked the U.S. government to create a registry and registrar carveout for cybersecurity incident reporting. In March 2022, President Biden signed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critic...
Registry updates data about domains under management. The registry for Anguilla's .ai top level domain name has updated the number of domains currently registered. As of yesterday, July 1, there were 478,696 registered .ai domains. This is about 50,000 more domains than were registered on April 12. If trends continue, the domain will top 500,000 [&...
My domain sales are down significantly this year compared to this point last year. We're halfway through 2024, and my domain sales are rather dismal compared to last year. At many times in recent months, I've been reminded of one of my favorite books as a child. The reality is my portfolio has a lot […] Post link: My no good first half of 202...
Domain investors get another appraisal tool, this one courtesy of Atom. Domain name sales platform Atom has launched a domain name appraisal tool in beta. Automated domain name appraisal tools are controversial when people don't like the numbers they calculate. However, I find the data behind how the appraisal is calculated to be interesting. Atom'...
How domains get stolen and how to recover them. I write about domains getting stolen all of the time. On todays show, I interview someone who helps people recover those domains. Bill Hartzer explains how domain names commonly get stolen and the ways to go about recovering them. Interestingly, many of the times someone reaches […] Post link: R...
Verisign responds to letter from advocacy groups. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) today filed a notice with the SEC stating that the .com contract cannot be put out to competitive bidding. The company was responding to a letter sent by American Economic Liberties Project and other advocacy groups asking the U.S. government to terminate the agreement and [&...
Patent attorney files cybersquatting claim for his name, but loses because the domain is registered to someone else with the same name. Will the real John Rizvi please stand up? Oh, there are more than one of you. A Florida patent attorney named John Rizvi has lost (pdf) a cybersquatting dispute he filed against the […] Post link: John Rizvi ...
The company tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain in 2017. Yoga apparel company Alo, LLC has filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) in an effort to get the domain name alo.com. It's the company's second attempt to upgrade its domain name through legal means. In 2017, it filed a cybersquatting dispute under the […] Post link: Yo...
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