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VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the the 1st quarter of 2025. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the most recent quarter at 368.4 million. That is up 6.1 million registrations year over ...
DropCatch is auctioning off its latest catch at the drop, the domain Mine.com. Registered in 2000 before it expired at Spaceship, Mine.com has attracted numerous bidders that bid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a chance to own it. With three days left until the end of the auction, the highest bid sits at $412,500 […] The post Mine.com au...
Virgil Griffith's incarceration for helping North Korea evade sanctions led to an expired domain dispute. A man whose incarceration sparked a domain name dispute has been released from prison. Virgil Griffith pleaded guilty to a charge of violating international sanctions after teaching North Korea how to evade sanctions by using cryptocurrency. No...
.Com and .net registry changes return-of-capital strategy and upgrades its outlook. Shares of Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) are up over 9% in trading so far today while the NASDAQ is mostly flat. The jump comes after the company released earnings yesterday. In addition to a return to growth in the domain base, the company announced its […] Post lin...
Priority Air Express UK Limited tried to get the domain Priority-airs.com from its registrant using the UDRP process. It didn't work out, despite proving that the Respondent used the domain to impersonate the Complainant's business, even attempting to disrupt it. The reason: The Complainant's lack of a live, registered trademark due to allowing the...
A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for detailed fil...
Verisign's .com returned to growth in the first quarter after the company offered its registrars marketing programs that substantially discounted the retail price of domains. The company ended the quarter with 169.8 million .com and .net domains under management, a 777,000-name increase on the end of 2024. It's the first time it's reported quarterl...
Ocean Front Domains (OFD) rolled out a new, AI-driven domain valuation tool. Unlike other, established tools such as Estibot and Saw.com‘s homegrown valuator, OFD is interactive and rather chatty. Most likely driven by ChatGPT and trained on a cache of reported domain sales, OFD is welcome as a new addition.Many domain investors appreciate th...
.Com registry announces surprise dividend and a return to domain base growth. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported its first-quarter financial results today. The company reported a net increase in registered .com/.net domains for the first time since Q1 2023. The domain base ended Q1 at 169.8 million, up 0.78 million from the end of the previous [̷...
In a post on LinkedIn today Icon CEO Kennan Davison revealed that his company paid $12 million dollars to acquire the exact match domain for their artificial intelligence based startup. The sale was made by Andrew Miller (ATM Holdings and Managing Director for Hilco Digital Assets) with Lumis.com representing the buyer.
Icon.com was recently acquired for $12 million, according to a LinkedIn post from the startups Founder, Kennan Davison. The domain name is being used by a new company branded as Icon, which bills itself as the worlds first AI CMO (Chief Marketing Officer). Icon.com was acquired in a deal overseen by Andrew Miller of ATM […]Catchy.com
I wrote about the Mine.com auction on DropCatch.com earlier today. One of the things that stood out to me is the five day auction. As far as I have known, auctions on that platform are three days. They are only briefly extended when bids are placed in the final moments. I reached out to Andrew […]Catchy.com
YO.xyz – Namecheap customer (United States) Forward-thinking developers use .xyz domains to power innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. DeFi platform Fission.xyz aims to reshape private equity with tokenized venture investments. DeFi platform InkFinance.xyz supports DAOs, protocols, and asset managers with governance solutions. ...
A big domain company is merging two of its brands. Domain name and hosting rollup Newfold Digital is killing the iconic Web.com brand. The company announced today that it is sunsetting the brand and will transfer all Web.com accounts to Network Solutions, another well-known brand it owns. It states that customers shouldn't experience downtime or [&...
Appraisals offer good qualitative analysis, but you'll get a different answer every time. Several people have mentioned a new automated domain appraisal tool to me this week. Domain investor Howard Fellman created the appraisal tool at OceanfrontDomains using OpenAI. Let me start by saying I like what Howard has put together. The prompts he created...
Realtors take note: Your personal brand requires a domain name that should include your own name. In the case of Kathy Byrd, a realtor with the state of Alabama, her full name was registered by someone in her home state in the form of 3 domains: KathyByrd.com, KathyByrd.net, and KathyByrdRealty.com. This covered the full base […] The post Kat...
Report breaks down details behind malicious domains. DomainTools today released its inaugural DomainTools Investigations Year in Review. The report examines domains used for malicious activities, including phishing, spam, and the distribution of malware. DomainTools observed about 400,00 malicious domains in 2024. It broke down which domain registr...
As I was looking through the upcoming pending delete auctions, I was caught by surprise by an exceptionally valuable domain name. Mine.com went into pending delete status earlier this week. After the domain name made it through the pending delete process, it was caught by DropCatch.com. Mine.com has been entered into a public auction at […]Ca...
A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for detailed fil...
Domain sellers can add descriptions, appraisals, and more. Domain sales platform Saw.com has added new options to customize sales landing pages. The new options include: Writing a custom description for the domain (this can help avoid trademark claims) Show the saw.com appraised value when your list price is at least 10% below the appraisal value [...
JD Sports Fashion plc is a British multinational retailer specializing in branded sports fashion and outdoor apparel, footwear, and accessories. Founded in 1981 in Manchester, UK, the company has expanded globally, operating over 4,500 stores across 36 countries. JD Sports began its international expansion in 2009 with the acquisition of Chausport,...
Company says seller tried to raise the price from $38,000 to $380,000 after learning who was buying. An Australian business has filed a lawsuit after a domain name deal allegedly fell apart when the seller tried to raise the price tenfold. Pay.com.au Limited sued (pdf) Dean Adams, the registrant of PayRewards.com, in the District Court […] Po...
DynamicMath.xyz – Namecheap customer (Australia) The .xyz community is home to skilled professionals using .xyz to showcase their work, passions, and career experiences. Author and researcher Nadia Asparouhova uses Nadia.xyz to share her projects exploring techs influence on society. Science communicator Lauren Richardson uses LRBio.xyz to h...
TXT.com sold for $300,000 back in 2023. The domain name was resold on an LTO for $502,400 at Fruits.co.
Timing is critical with domain name sales. I may have a domain name for 10 years, let it expire, see it picked up by another investor, and it sells within a week. It's that idea that keeps me renewing domain names I might otherwise consider dropping. A domain name may not be in demand until […]Catchy.com
The domain name TXT.com was reported as sold for $502,400 dollars with the sale taking place on Fruits.co, a relatively new platform to sell domains on. Registered in 1990, TXT.com was sold in 2023 for $300,000 dollars according to Namebio. The newly reported sale is a nice flip but it's an LTO that spans 12 […] The post TXT.com reported as s...
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A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for detailed fil...
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires, was the first Jesuit and Latin American pope, serving from 2013 until his death on April 21, 2025, at age 88 from a stroke and heart failure. Known for his humility and progressive views, the late Pope Francis championed social justice and addressed clerical […] The post Pope D...
There is a new AI generated appraisal tool at OceanFrontDomains.com. Rick commented on X "Howard Fellman has unveiled his new ai generated domain appraisal tool and it is fantastic!!" "Hmmm @PaulENicks @jjstyler It would be a great idea for @GoDaddy and others to dump their incredibly bad, appraisal tools and substitute Howard's AI tool or […...
Company pushed forward with cybersquatting dispute even after learning that the domain matches the domain registrant's surname. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found (pdf) French company Cosmetic Research Group to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over the domain name soskin.com. The company, which sell...
A Chinese clothing company has asked ICANN to delete its dot-brand gTLD, despite the fact that it is being used for web sites and email. Redstone Haute Couture wants rid of .redstone, which has been in active use for almost a decade. My database shows that it has about a dozen names, most registered in […] The post Dot-brand actually being us...
Agent didn't make the top 20 at Afternic just one month after jumping into the #10 spot. Afternic has published the top 20 keywords in domains sold on its site in February. The word agent jumped onto its list at #10 in January, but dropped off the list the following month. Here's a list of […] Post link: Agent's stay on top domain keywords li...
Panelist admonishes company for not backing up its common law trademark claims. A UDRP panelist has found that Veracyte, Inc. attempted to reverse hijack the domain name genomedx .com. The company claimed common law trademark rights in the term arising from the use of the term by a predecessor in interest that was acquired in […] Post link: U...
Sam Parr does a podcast for high net worth individuals called Moneywise. Shane Cultra is on the latest podcast and it's a good listen. If you have followed Shane in domaining you will probably learn some things about him that you did not know. On Moneywise, we talked about his $10M net worth and why […] The post Shane Cultra on the Moneywise ...
The UDRP filed against the domain Soskin.com ended with a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking – an easy decision, as the Respondent's last name is Soskin. ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION Cosmetic Research Group v. Robert Soskin Case No. D2025-0784 1. The Parties The Complainant is Cosmetic Research Group, F...
Group finds consensus on tweaks to UDRP. The World Intellectual Property Organization and the Internet Commerce Association have published an initial report regarding potential changes to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The organizations convened a group of 16 UDRP experts with experience as counsel, as panelists, and as p...
Veracyte, Inc. sought the transfer of the domain Genomedx.com via the UDRP process, claiming common law rights to the GENOMEDX mark. The case was so weak that the lack of a response by the Respondent did not sway the Forum panelist into the Complainant's side. Said the panelist: Complainant asserts that it has common law […] The post Genomedx...
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) is pleased to announce the release of the Initial Report of the WIPO-ICA UDRP Review Project Team, developed in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The Initial Report is the result of a nearly year-long collaboration between WIPO and the ICA, co-led by Brian Beckham (WIPO) ...
A breakdown of all announced domain sales $500 and over, Domains, venue and sale price data courtesy of Namebio.com This data assumes all sales from Park.io, Sav.com, GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, Dynadot, SnapNames, Whois.ai, Catched.com, Docky.ly and NamesCon are wholesale and all others are retail. Full Rundown See bottom of page for detailed fil...
The Forward, a historic pillar of Jewish-American journalism, has announced the acquisition of the premium web domains Yiddish.com and Yiddish.org. The domains were donated by Elie Hirschfeld, a New York-based real estate developer and philanthropist who serves as president of Hirschfeld Properties and founder of the Hirschfeld Foundation. Rachel F...
Company terminates its one dot-brand top level domain. Redstone Haute Couture Co., Ltd., a Chinese fashion company, has informed ICANN that it is terminating its .redstone top level domain name contract. The company owns a number of fashion brands, including GIADA, CURIEL, Gabriele Colangelo, Colombo, and YI. Under the .redstone top level domain, t...
MyCeleste.xyz – Squarespace customer (Portugal) Forward-thinking developers use .xyz to showcase solutions powered by artificial intelligence. Manufacturing platform Amper.xyz enhances factory operations with AI and real-time insights. AI deployment platform Fleek.xyz aims to redefine cloud infrastructure with decentralized solutions. ...
How Google's changes will impact domain monetization. Above.com has played an integral role in domain name monetization since the early days of parking. It has navigated many changes in monetization, and sees both challenges and opportunities in Googles recent changes to its parking business. On todays show, Above.com and Trillion founder David War...
(Sponsored) Freename has launched a game-changing platform that bridges the gap between Web3 and traditional domains. Debuting on April 7, 2025, the Freename Aftermarket is the first unified marketplace where blockchain and standard domain names are traded togetheroffering a seamless experience across both ecosystems. A Unified Hub for Brands and D...
What happens when a cybersquatting lawsuit is filed against a registry-owned premium domain name? A law firm has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit against a single-letter .law domain, and the outcome could have implications for registry-owned premium domain names. The X-Law Group, PC, a law firm in California, filed the lawsuit (pdf) against x.law and...
The acquisition of a business due to bankruptcy is a straightforward process: a court order describes the assets that must be transferred via the liquidation. In the case of InlandBoatClub.com the business folded and two years ago the assets' transfer to the new owner was agreed upon. Except that the domain wasn't transferred. Not smartly, […...
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