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It's Tuesday and it's the proper time this week to ask a crucial question: What did you do last week? It's a trap question, specifically for those who work 9-5 or any other shift of employment. Elon Musk asked that question last week by sending an email to a bunch of federal employees. It's like […] The post What did you do last week? appeare...
The French registrant of the domain Vetronix.com acquired it at a DropCatch auction for $361 dollars, seven years ago. The 2018 registration was followed by a trademark application soon after and the launch of a business. That application at the USPTO was turned down, however: the USPTO refused the application, citing that the term is […] The...
Sedo Domain Sales report: The domain L5.com sold for $95,000 dollars tops this week's list of sales at the Sedo marketplace. The sale was brokered by Dave Evanson of Sedo. This is the latest domain sales report by Sedo.com, for the week ending on February 25, 2025. Information in this report has been […] The post #Sedo : Domain sales report...
Last year we shared the profile of GoDaddy superbroker, Yasuhiro Yakamoto. As one of the most successful domain brokers at GoDaddy and Afternic, Yasuhiro works with a team of capable domain brokers that have been trained extensively, developing the "masterclass" videos shared currently. It is with joy that we present, alongside Yasuhiro, the full t...
Sedo, our kind sponsor, is holding a bi-monthly GreatDomains auction, featuring quality domain names; the week-long auction takes place from February 20 – 27, 2025. A total of 234 domain names are included in the auction with each domain having its own reserve price. From that list, we picked 7 domain names for this edition […] The post...
Telepathy, Inc. is known for its brilliancy when it comes down to owning and operating ultra-premium domain names. That being said, the company founded by Nat Cohen has just sold the domain Brilliancy.com, apparently. Registered in 2003, Brilliancy.com changed hands in recent days. While we aren't sure how much it sold for, it was listed […] ...
In 2018, the domain Backpage.com was among several seized after sex trafficking charges were made. The FBI took control of its DNS, pointing Backpage.com to a lander with a prominent message. For a domain registered in 1999, this was the end of the road. These domains were renewed year after year since then but not […] The post Backpage.com: ...
Law School Admission Council, Inc. operating from the domain LSAC.org, filed a UDRP against the domain name LSAC.com, which was registered in 1996. The domain was acquired by veteran domain investor, Merlin Kauffman, most likely in 2012. It has been parked with PPC ads in recent years and it's listed for sale. According to the […] The post LS...
Mutual Capital Alliance helps private companies create shareholder value and liquidity. The company operates from MutualCapitalAlliance.com as expected but the company offers products with an "100 year" outlook. One hundred years, you might say – what a crazy idea! A 100-year financial package, like a mutual fund, benefits from compounded gro...
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. is a global oilfield services company that provides products and services for the energy industry, primarily in oil and gas exploration, drilling, and production. Founded in 1919 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, Halliburton is one of the largest providers in its field, operating in over 70 countries. The compan...
The domain ElasticJobs.com became the focus of a UDRP filed by elasticsearch B.V. Elastic is a Netherlands company known for developing Elasticsearch, a distributed search and analytics engine. It provides solutions for searching, logging, monitoring, and security use cases. They operate from the domain Elastic.co. In fact, Elastic is so known, dom...
Two weeks ago, the premium three letter domain TRC.com was captured by domain registrar and auctioneer, SAV.com. The week-long SAV auction closed at an even $100,000 dollars and now we can (almost) see who is the registrant. TRC.com resolves to a page primarily in Chinese that contains the asking price: $650,000 dollars. According to the […] ...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the introduction of two banking TLDs under the .in ccTLD: Bank.in and Fin.in. The two TLDs will be regulating and issuing domains exclusively to Indian financial institutions. The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) will act as the exclusive registrar and registrations w...
A good domain name is easy to rememberA great domain name is hard to forget. The domain name Queen.com falls in the second category; as one of the Domain King‘s premium domains, Queen.com has been reported by Rick Schwartz as part of a fresh joint venture. Rick does not release such news unless there's a […] The post Queen.com: The Doma...
A press release by GoDaddy about GoDaddy Airo, makes a bold claim: "For every website published using GoDaddy Airo 20 jobs are created." GoDaddy Airo is an under-development, AI-driven home-grown tool by GoDaddy that automates some functions of building, rolling out, and maintaining online presence for small businesses. GoDaddy believes it's the ne...
Meghan (Markle,) Duchess of Sussex, has relaunched her lifestyle brand, As Ever. In an Instagram post, the royalty and actress stated: "Im thrilled to introduce you to As Ever a brand that I created and have poured my heart into. As ever means as its always been or some even say in the same […] The post AsEver.com: Royal domain secured on Se...
Whaleco Inc. is the US-based subsidiary of PDD Holdings that operates China's retail giant, Temu. It serves as the legal entity managing Temus business in North America, handling logistics, payments, and compliance. While Temu itself is an online marketplace, Whaleco Inc. is the corporate structure behind it, helping facilitate its expansion and re...
Sedo Domain Sales report: The domain Weights.com sold for $85,000 dollars tops this week's list of sales at the Sedo marketplace. The sale was brokered by Mark Ghoriafi of Sedo. This is the latest domain sales report by Sedo.com, for the week ending on February 18, 2025. Information in this report has been […] The post #Sedo : Domain sales ...
Italian domain investor and industry analytics expert, Giuseppe Graziano, is heading up north. Nordic Domain Days, the Nordic domain industry conference, announced that Giuseppe Graziano will be returning as host and moderator of its Aftermarket segment. Giuseppe has won the "Master of Domains" Escrow.com award as one of the top three highest-gross...
The domain registrar arm of WordPress now offers 100-year domain registrations, ensuring digital presence for a full century. The announcement comes as astronomers track asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a chance of impacting earth sometime in late 2032that's in 7 years from now. By extending registrations well beyond a domain investor's or end-user reg...
When you sell domain names on Efty there are perks that might be lurking in the shadows. These perks aren't for everyone, mind you. In the case of Nikul of Hypernames the transaction involved six figures. Using the Efty Pay process provided by Efty the domain sale and transfer of funds completed in less than […] The post Six figure sale with ...
The domain name Valloni.com was registered in 2012; the domain is owned by NameFind Cayman Islands, the Caymanian branch of GoDaddy-owned NameFind. Lucien William Valloni is a Swiss national and a lawyer who trademarked the VALLONI mark in Switzerland and the European Union in 2023 and 2024 respectively. The Respondent states that it acquired the [...
Some things lead to a celebration but the sale of the domain Celebration.com appears to have taken place quietly. The domain resolves to Celebration, an event web site and registry provider, that worked out of the domain name CelebrationWishes.com for a while. That domain now forwards to Celebration.com. The company formed as Our Honeymoon Wishes [...
Domain brokerage Saw.com celebrated its 5th anniversary last year, an amazing feat for the domain industry. Jeff Gabriel‘s company provides full service domain brokerage while allowing seasoned domain investors to self-manage their assets on the Saw Market. A fresh announcement from Saw.com shares news of what has been improved in the past fe...
Prolific Indian domain investor Swetha Yenugula shared news of not one, not two, not three – but a quad of sales that took place on Afternic. The group of .XYZ domains reported as sold recently by Swetha is impressive: Bits.xyz – sold for $70,000 dollars Tectonic.xyz – sold afor $10,000 dollars Clandestine.xyz – sold for [&#...
Wasteland Inc. owns and operates five brick-and-mortar retail stores in California specializing in vintage clothing. They filed a UDRP to get the domain TheMidWasteland.com, which belongs to an Illinois-based lifestyle media platform that publishes content on cultural trends. The Complainant asserts rights to the WASTELAND mark since 1986, register...
It's Valentine's day today and the best time to go find great chocolates for your significant other! Flowers are nice to have but they can't be eaten so a quick visit to the highly acclaimed Maitland Chocolate Factory secured high quality truffle chocolates. In this domain sighting, the company's domain, MaitlandChocolate.com, can be seen: […...
The domain name Godspeed.com has been sold, moving away from its former registrant, DigiMedia. Registered in 1998, Godspeed.com was parked with DigiMedia landers for a decade; before that, it was a brand of apparel. The new owner of Godspeed.com is Godspeed Capital: […] a lower middle-market Defense & Government services, solutions, and t...
A Cypriot company filed a UDRP at the WIPO alleging that the domain name 1xperience.com was infringing on their brand. Navasard Limited, Cyprus provides online betting services from a variety of web sites such as 1xbet.com; they claimed rights to the 1XBET and 1X marks in various locales. Based in the US, the Respondent denies […] The post 1x...
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter (Q4/2024) and full year that ended December 31, 2024. "GoDaddy demonstrated strong operational execution and financial performance in 2024, making significant progress across our key strategic initiatives," said GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani. "Looking ahead to 2025, we are...
Alexander Pushkin (17991837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist, widely regarded as the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin's works blended Romanticism with social critique and innovative language, influencing generations of Russian writers. He died at 37 from wounds sustained in a duel. As much as Alexander Pushkin's legacy is ...
The Republic of Ireland is using the .ie ccTLD since its allocation on January 27, 1988. As a ccTLD, or national domain TLD, .ie is restricted to Irish individuals and businesses, along with non-Irish businesses and individuals with an established, proven relationship to Ireland. The country offers opportunities as a tax haven in Europe, making [&#...
A French company filed a UDRP against the domainYper.com asserting rights to the YPER mark in France, since 2015. The Korean Respondent noted that their company was harassed for years by the Complainant, all while the disputed domain was registered in 2010, five years before the Complainant's mark registration. Yper is the Greek root word […]...
GPU.net formed in 2022 aiming to be the "Airbnb" of GPUs, graphics processing units. The company was founded by Suraj Chawla, who is an entrepreneur and a physicist. There is a worldwide shortage of GPUs as AI projects utilize a gargantuan share of GPUs produced by companies such as Nvidia, AMD, and Microsoft. GPU.net helps […] The post GPU.n...
The domain name Weather.ai was just sold for $150,000 dollars, according to a post by domain investor James Booth. The sale took place on Atom, as the lander for Weather.ai still resolves there. Brokers Lumis brokered the transaction. If confirmed, Weather.ai would become the #1 .AI sale this year, surpassing those of Tether.ai ($100,000) and [R...
Elon Musk, a special government employee, has been granted extraordinary powers under the Donald J. Trump administration. The Tesla and SpaceX founder owns and operates X, formerly Twitter, as well as being the world's richest person. His current involvement with restructuring US government agencies has become controversial, as Elon Musk is not an ...
TrueCrypt was an open-source disk encryption software that allowed users to create encrypted volumes on their storage devices. It provided on-the-fly encryption, meaning data was automatically encrypted and decrypted as it was read or written. TrueCrypt supported full-disk encryption, hidden volumes, and plausible deniability. In May 2014, the proj...
Freename‘s mission is to empower users with decentralized domain names and top-level domains (TLDs) on blockchain networks. Freename provides ownership, control, and monetization opportunities without traditional registry restrictions, enabling its users to create, trade, and utilize Web3 domains for websites, digital identities, and other ap...
Sedo domain sales report: Top sale is My.de that was sold for 25,000 Euro ($25,830 dollars). Welcome to the latest domain sales report by Sedo; this time we cover the week ending on February 11, 2025. This information has been provided by Sedo.com, kind sponsors of DomainGang. The Sedo marketplace sells great domains 24/7 providing […] The po...
Quite often, Chinese respondents to UDRP filings oppose the Complainants' well-justified claims of trademark violations. In the case of the domain MidjourneyAPI.xyz, the Respondent (Cheng Fu) had the audacity to question the Complainant's well-known trademark, MIDJOURNEY, used continuously since early 2022 and well prior to the registration date fo...
The domain name AI.com is forwarding to DeepSeek currently. DeepSeek is an AI lab developing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) and code-generation models, emerging as a rival to OpenAI and Meta. Its DeepSeek Coder and DeepSeek LLM gained traction but controversy arose over its ties to China, sparking concerns about data security and influenc...
US Federal authorities have seized more than 125 domains in connection to illegal video streaming. The seizures were part of a crackdown on piracy and the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content. The majority of the following domains were registered with Porkbun, with 2 domains registered at Tucows: 1streams.xyz 720pstreams.xyz acestreams.io ...
Athena Cosmetics, Inc. of California filed a UDRP to get the domain AthenaCosmetix.com from its British registrant. Despite the obvious phonetic matching between the two companies, the Complainant's own products do not carry the company's names: Complainant has failed to prove any rights, registered or common law, in the ATHENA COSMETICS mark. It h...
The Mexican registrant of Omnidoc.com, a domain registered in 2002, fought back at the UDRP that OMNIDOC, France, filed at the WIPO. The Complainant claimed ownership of numerous trademarks worldwide but provided only its French trademark registration for OMNIDOC filed on October 25, 2019, and registered on February 14, 2020. It submitted no eviden...
TRC.com, a premium, three letter .com domain with an original registration date in 1997, expired, dropped, and was deleted. The folks at SAV.com were able to capture this former Alibaba Cloud Computing registrar domain that was registered to a Chinese registrant. So what happened? We don't know for sure why would anyone let TRC.com drop. […] ...
The Respondent in the UDRP case filed against the domain franco-suisse.com increased their asking price, after the WIPO panelist's decision. The Complainant is the owner of International Registered Trademark for the word mark FRANCO SUISSE, registered in 2022. They operate from francosuisse.fr that forwards to franco-suisse.fr. The business claims ...
The White House registered two government domain names, DEI.gov and Waste.gov, as President Donald Trump and his minions advance plans to purge the federal workforce. DomainTools WHOIS records show the sites were created Tuesday evening at the Executive Office of the President's request. Their purpose remains unclear and neither site was responsive...
A company that acquired rights to the ENRON mark via its registration in 2021 has filed a UDRP to get the domain EnronEnergy.com from its registrant. The Turkish Respondent did not respond but the Forum panelist noted that the "new" Enron is unrelated to the one that shut down years ago and it's now a […] The post EnronEnergy.com UDRP: New En...
It's 2025 and Namecheap delivers notable sales of .AI domains on its marketplace. In fact, Namecheap will be the default platform where expired .AI domains are to be auctioned daily, taking over from Dynadot and its monthly auctions. CEO, Richard Kirkendall, shared news of a fresh list of select domains and prices that were sold […] The post ...
Frank Schilling is living the life in the Cayman Islands, five years after selling Uniregistry to GoDaddy. To celebrate that massive multi-million dollar sale, Frank created his own Super Bowl ad of sorts. Titled "I know what the frank I'm doing" the ad features Frank Schilling raising a glass of wine at his authentic and […] The post Frank S...
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