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General Dynamics Corporation is a mighty giant in the aerospace and combat systems. The GENERAL DYNAMICS mark was established in 1952 and it's been registered with the USPTO 20+ years ago. The company filed a UDRP against the domain name GeneralDynamics.net, a domain registered in November 2024 by a Turkish person. It's noteworthy that that […...
Welcome aboard, 2025! If you have quality LLLL .com (four letter/4L) domains, Sedo is planning an auction in January just for these. Note: Sedo is a premium sponsor of DomainGang. The Sedo auction of LLLL .com domains runs from January 16 – 23, 2025. There are 3 rules about the domains that you submit to […] The post Sedo auction: Submi...
An Italian nutraceutical and pharmaceutical company that formed in 2003 filed a UDRP against the domain name Pharmanutra.com, a DomainMarket asset. The Complainant reached out to DomainMarket to acquire the domain, receiving a quote for $180,000 dollars. According to the UDRP, the Respondent indicated that it was acting as the domain's broker at th...
The 4 years of Donald Trump's second term have yet to begin and we're already witnessing the level of madness that will ensue. Fresh off today's menu of changes planned by the Trump administration arrives the apparent renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America." That's not a joke. Trump's pure hatred towards […] The post Gulf of Ameri...
Two French companies filed a UDRP to get the domain Amexio.com, registered in 2011, from its current registrant. Michelios 3 and AmeXio are the two Complainants based in France. Meanwhile, the Canadian Respondent presented its case by pointing out its lawful registration and use of the domain, noting that the domain predates the registration of [&#...
Sedo domain sales report: Top sale is Genomatch.com that was sold for $25,000 dollars. Welcome to the latest domain sales report by Sedo; this time we cover the week ending on January 7, 2025. This information has been provided by Sedo.com, kind sponsors of DomainGang. The Sedo marketplace sells great domains 24/7 providing a great […] The po...
Sedo domain sales report: Top sale is Tachat.com that was sold for 100,000 Euro. Welcome a delayed domain sales report by Sedo; this time we cover the week ending on December 31, 2024. This information has been provided by Sedo.com, kind sponsors of DomainGang. The Sedo marketplace sells great domains 24/7 providing a great service. […] The p...
Sedo domain sales report: Top sale is Betz.com that was sold for $240,000 dollars. Welcome to a delayed domain sales report by Sedo; this time we cover the week ending on December 24, 2024. This information has been provided by Sedo.com, kind sponsors of DomainGang. The Sedo marketplace sells great domains 24/7 providing a great […] The post ...
The Chinese registrant of the domain Playboy.ai responded to the UDRP filed by Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. in the most creative way. The Respondent alleged that the term "playboy" dates to 1829 and refers to "the good life of the rich." He went on to share his plans for the domain: "I also registered the […] The post Playboy.ai UD...
In September, Turkish Airlines filed a UDRP to request the transfer of two domains, Thy.co and TurkishAirlines.co via the WIPO. In that filing submitted by Turk Hava Yollari Anonim Ortakligi, the panel pointed out that the two domains belonged to two separate registrants and ordered the removal of the domain TurkishAirlines.co from the process. The...
Namecheap continues to deliver notable sales of .AI domains on its marketplace. CEO, Richard Kirkendall, shared news of a fresh list of select domains and prices. These .AI domain sales took place in mid and late December. According to this quick report, the following .AI domains were sold on the Namecheap marketplace: Ani.ai $30,000 […] The...
Sedo shared the latest information about the most searched keywords on the Sedo.com marketplace, in the month of December 2024. Remember: Our sponsor manages an extensive collection of millions of domain names, running the Sedo.com marketplace that simplifies the process of purchasing and selling domains, catering to both investors and end-users. W...
Areal Studio, co-founded by entrepreneurs Mike Ivars and Victor Arenas, has launched its second product, inDomain, a platform for domain search and management. The inDomain platform seeks to modernize the domain search engine market, addressing years of stagnation with updated tools and a fresh approach. Features of the inDomain platform include re...
Rick Schwartz‘s strategy to wait for the right buyer ensures that his domain name acquisitions reach their maximum potential. Premium end-users seeking market dominance will willingly pay a premium for the quality, relevance, and uniqueness of domains in the Domain King‘s portfolio. Rick shared what appears to be the majority of his dom...
Typically, a Fortune 500 corporation such as IBM won't be willing to work on joint ventures after you register a domain incorporating their famous mark. The registrant of IBMTechnology.ai claimed that it was an honest attempt to "secure the domain" and forge "a collaborative relationship" with IBM. The latter filed a UDRP to protect its […] T...
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. filed a UDRP to get the freshly registered domain Hondae.com. It's rather obvious that the famous HONDA mark forms the majority of the domain keyword but the Respondent in this case attempted to present an alternate reality. According to Respondent, "strategic search" for tourist destinations yielded a range of result...
Greetings and salutations, my brothers and sisters in domaining; this is Father Domainicus, on this fine first day in the year of our Domain Lord, 2025. May the new year bring blessings upon you, with plentiful personal and professional successes. May you avoid extraneous fees tagged by unscrupulous domain brokers in certain marketplaces, amen. It ...
It's been a phenomenal year for Swetha Yenugula, the Indian domainer prodigy with the ability to score high figure sales. The outgoing year, 2024, has contributed to Swetha's tally of several million dollars in domain sales; her five and six figure sales revolve around .XYZ domains. Less than a week after the $100,000 dollar sale […] The post...
Victory Capital Management Inc. is a US-based diversified global investment management firm with $176.5 billion in total client assets. Its VICTORY CAPITAL marks were registered in 2003, about 4 years after the domain VictoryCapital.com was registered (1999.) The Complainant filed a UDRP claiming that its mark is superior and that the Respondent ac...
CDN provider, Edgio, is bankrupt and in imminent shutdown; select assets of the company were acquired by Akamai, another CDN provider. The news is bad for .NET developers, a Microsoft technology, who have been deploying code via the domain name AzureEdge.net which is hosted on Edgio. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that offers […...
If you're not happy with your domain migration from Dan.com to GoDaddy's Afternic, no problem. The biggest domain registrar in the world is now offering an one time migration back to Dan.com and its marketplace, a company that still operates independently under the GoDaddy umbrella. "We believe that every GoDaddy customer deserves to be happy, [...
The UDRP that Armor Bank filed against the domains ArmorBank.com and ArmorBank.org was met with an unfortunate decision. Complainant, Armor Bank, is an Arkansas state bank. It is wholly owned by Big Creek Bancshares, Inc. ("Big Creek"), an Arkansas Corporation and the registrant with the USPTO of the mark ARMOR BANK. Meanwhile, the Respondent showc...
Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings LLC filed a UDRP against the domain Etradia.com, arguing that it's confusingly similar to its well-known ETRADE trademark, replacing the "e" with "ia" and omitting the asterisk, which failed to distinguish it sufficiently from the original mark. The sole panelist found that Complainant held clear rights to the ETRAD...
Frank Schilling‘s secret project, Domain Name Sales, was a platform to leverage the legendary domain investor's owned portfolio. Launched as a personal blog initially, it opened to the public in 2012. Eventually, it led to the creation of Uniregistry. These assets and domains became the property of GoDaddy, when Frank Schilling sold Uniregist...
When it comes down to zeroes, only the trailing ones matter and two recent domain industry scenarios demonstrate that. Indian domain prodigy, Swetha Yenugula, announced that she sold the domain Stable.xyz for $100,000 dollars, delivering "five zeroes" in a six figure deal that closed on Afternic. Said Swetha: "Santa Claus gave me a gift on […...
Multi-Wing Group A/S filed a UDRP against the domain Multiwing.com. The Complainant argued that the domain name was identical to its long-standing trademark and claimed that the Respondent lacked legitimate rights and had used the domain in bad faith to market competing products. The respondent countered by citing a terminated 1999 license agreemen...
NameJet, a historic domain auction marketplace, is pulling the plug on its reseller program effective January 1st, 2025. A notification was sent to all partners today notifying them of the upcoming changes: Greetings Sell Your Domains Lister, We are reaching out today to inform you that the Sell Your Domains program will end on January […] Th...
David Warmuz, founder of Trillion.com, announced his direct involvement with the Help.com project, becoming its CEO. In 2023, Trillion acquired Help.com for $3,000,000 dollars converting it to a full service web hosting provider with a focus in Australia; the company's previous CEO was Adam Farrar. The company is now targeting both Australian and i...
It's almost 2025 and it's your chance to contribute to next year's Global Domain Report 2025! Participation in this survey is highly valued and the insights provided will be incorporated into the upcoming Global Domain Report 2025 by two great companies in the domain industry: InterNetX and Sedo. The survey is designed to be concise […] The p...
Filing a UDRP as the Complainant requires producing the necessary evidence; in the case of the UDRP involving the domain Ocasia.org this didn't happen. The Complainant, Olympic Council of Asia, Kuwait, claimed that in 2001, it engaged the Respondent to register and maintain a website located at the disputed domain name. The filed complaint did [...
Fresh news of an ongoing merger of automotive giants, Nissan and Honda, is causing domain registration frenzy among domainers. Whilst the merger is far from complete, it'd create a super automotive company that'd rank 3rd in the world in terms of vehicle sales. Both companies possess strong, famous brandmarks; both NISSAN and HONDA are world-renown...
Instagram LLC filed a UDRP against the domain name GlassaGram.org that appears to be providing behind the scenes access to Instagram profiles' photos. Although the domain name does not contain the word INSTAGRAM, a registered trademark, the WIPO panelist ordered the domain to be transferred to the Complainant. Here's why: Instagram also owns rights...
Sedo is wishing everyone "Happy Holidays" and its great people are about to take a break from a year's hard work. We'd like to wish everyone at Sedo.com "Frohe Weihnachten!" and "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!" The weekly domain sales report that delivers important insights on the industry is also taking a break. […] The post Happy Hol...
How does the music industry mirror the cautionary tales of Kodak, the Sony Walkman, and Nokia? Constantine Roussos, founder of Dot Music, explores music's digital transformation, addressing outdated business models and the power shift to streaming platforms. Roussos highlights the urgent need for verified music identities to secure the future for a...
Winning auctions at DropCatch is a great feeling. The domain drop-catching platform offers both public and private auctions with the majority being domains that were caught on the drop. The HugeDomains-owned company does millions of dollars in revenue annually, backed by a huge number of ICANN-accredited registrars: Almost 1600 registrars, per the ...
Bluesky has been gaining popularity as a free social media app that presents a Twitter-like (now X) environment, free of bots and musky toxicity. For a while now, Bluesky users could switch away from the .bsky.social suffix to using their domain names as their Bluesky handle. The process is explained here and a more technical […] The post Blu...
Volusia county officials in Florida implemented domain monitoring, after a scam involved the creation of emails on a similar domain name. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood announced the arrest of 26 year old Keith Merard, following a complex fraud scheme involving stolen Starlink satellites worth $48,000 dollars and other equipment. Merard creat...
The domain name Paycard.com was sold via the Sedo domain platform for $100,000 dollars. The sale was announced today by Derick Clegg, Premium Domain Broker at Sedo.com, who noted: "Brokered the sale of Paycard.com! The seller is thrilled with the price, and I love seeing this domain find a promising new project." Sedo eventually released […] ...
The days of big, bulky "for sale" landers are over at Atom.com, formerly known as Squadhelp. In a true Oppenheimer moment, the company announced that it has changed its focus for 2025 and beyond, by creating small, "particle" landing pages. Darpan Munjal, founder & CEO of Atom.com noted about the changes: "It was a moment […] The post Opp...
DomainTools, the quintessential tool that queries, stores, and analyzes WHOIS data, and more, shared news that are of importance to all domain investors. The company is warning of a "Possible deprecation of WHOIS services for ICANN TLDs" after January 28, 2025. In detail: ICANN is in the process of transitioning registries and registrars from using...
Afternic‘s top keywords for December 2024 are finally here, as the company prepares for an early holiday season shutdown. Tracked through GoDaddy‘s proprietary Cairo AI, this amazing series tracks the most popular keywords in domain sales achieved through Afternic. "Our system analyzes millions of search terms on the so-called ‘re...
It's the end of the year and prolific Indian domain investor Swetha Yenugula shared news of her latest domain sale via the Afternic platform. Spectral.xyz, a 2020 registration, was sold by Swetha for $20,933 dollars. The meaning of "spectral" is of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly. There are several potential buyers for […] The...
If you want to try Afternic Boost, the increased domain visibility feature provided as a paid upgrade, there's an easy, quick solution. It's no longer necessary to wade through your Afternic settings, tweaking switches and whatnot; the new method is indeed ingenious and fast. "We had a great idea here at GoDaddy, as great as […] The post Visi...
Talend S.A.S is a French company that owns a portfolio of trademark registrations for TALEND including European Trademark No. 014226989 registered on September 25, 2015. They filed a UDRP against the domain RenTALEND.com, registered in 2024. At first glance, the domain appears to incorporate the TALEND brand in in its entirety. At least, that's wha...
Sedo domain sales report: Top sale is MindSprint.com that was sold for $150,000 dollars. Welcome to the latest domain sales report by Sedo; this time we cover the week ending on December 17, 2024. This information has been provided by Sedo.com, kind sponsors of DomainGang. The Sedo marketplace sells great domains 24/7 providing a great […] Th...
Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company based in New York City. The company was formed in 1998 and in 2023 had revenue in excess of $78 billion dollars. They filed a UDRP to get the domain name Citigroup.ai for obvious reasons: The domain infringes on their famous […] The post Citigro...
During the past week, mysterious drone displays have sparked curiosity and concerns across New Jersey and nearby states. Drone formations with glowing patterns have left residents wonder if they're witnessing military experiments, alien signals, or something more sinister. A new theory is gaining traction, especially among domain name investors: Ma...
Thy means "your" and Thy.co could mean "your .co" domain. The archaic reference did not sit well with Turk Hava Yollar, a Turkish company that operates Turkish Airlines since 1933 and THY.com since 1997. Turk Hava Yollar filed a UDRP to get the domain Thy.co but THY is not their primary trademark and it's not […] The post Thy.co domain shalt ...
After four years with the GoDaddy Registry as Director of Premium Domains, Kathy Nielsen moved out of the company in October. The experienced domain industry professional with a long career at Sedo and Neustar is now the VP of Business Development at WebUnited, a Web3 company that aspires to bridge the gap between Web2 and […] The post Web2 t...
A billionaire hedge fund manager, author, public speaker and philanthropist who was ranked in 2020 as the world's 79th wealthiest person was targeted in a domain squatting case. Raymond Dalio has been called the "Steve Jobs of Investing" by aiCIO Magazine and Wired Magazine and named one of the 100 Most Influential People by TIME […] The post...
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