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Government wants graffiti artist behind "DotCom" tags to pay restitution. Ever since moving to Seattle, I've gotten a kick out of a graffiti tag I see around town: DotCom. Now, King County, where Seattle is located, wants the prolific graffiti artist behind these tags to pay up. The county filed more than 30 criminal cases […] Post link: DotC...
Take a look at top keywords, and the impact of offering payment plans on sale prices. It's been a few months since I've reported on Afternic's keyword data, so now is a good time to check in as we conclude the year. Afternic has published the keywords found most often in domains sold in October. […] Post link: Afternic releases keyword and pa...
New option reduces the amount of clutter and distractions on for-sale pages. Domain sales platform Atom is known for trying new things, such as AI-written descriptions, down payments on long-term payment plan sales, and categorization. It can be overwhelming for domain sellers, and it can also sometimes be overwhelming for domain buyers. So, the co...
The company might have a trademark claim, but not a cybersquatting claim under UDRP. A UDRP panelist has found My Healthy Home, LLC to have tried reverse hijacking the domain name healthyhomeexperts.net. The Complainant operates a business using the domain healthyhomeexpert.com, which helps people improve indoor air quality. The Respondent provides...
Sedo had some strong sales heading into the holidays. The top sale for the week was mindsprint.com for $150,000. If I had to guess, I would say the buyer is the company that uses mindsprint.org, which recently changed its name from Olam Technology and Business Services to MindSprint. Some other top sales for which I […] Post link: Sedo's end ...
Patent covers a tool designed to help domain investors find more domains to register. Based on what you read in its statements, you'd think Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) loathes domain name investors. After all, it tells the government that it's not Verisign's wholesale prices it needs to worry about; it's those pesky domain name investors that […]...
These are the largest .com domain name registrars. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers August 2024. Here are some takeaways from this month's data: Squarespace's total DUMs fell year over year. August 2023 was the last month before the Google Domains acquisition. The year-ove...
It's a familiar pattern, but this expired domain buyer took it to another level. Oregon Public Broadcasting published a fascinating investigation this month into an AI-run news site. DailyTidings used to be a local paper in Ashland, Oregon. It went defunct and is now run by an army of AI-bots. Many people who read Domain […] Post link: From e...
John Berryhill explains why you should be cautious of country code domains and discusses an auction clawback lawsuit. Attorney John Berryhill joins us on todays show. John explains how Stuart Lawley, who passed away recently, helped John take the step to start his own law practice. Then we talk about country code domain names and […] Post lin...
Both domains were likely typosquatted, but the arguments in one case didn't line up. Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) provider FORUM published two decisions involving Hobby Lobby today, with drastically different results. In one case, the company won a dispute against the registrant of HobbyLobbby .com (three bs). In the other d...
Intellectual property agency filed a surprisingly deficient cybersquatting claim. European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the agency responsible for managing registration of EU-wide trademarks, has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking. The organization filed a cybersquatting complaint against the domain name epta-agen...
.Com accounted for 61% of registrations at Namecheap this year. Namecheap released a report this week showing which top level domains were most popular with its customers this year. With just a couple of weeks left in the year, the winners are clear in terms of new registrations: 1. .com 3,661,899 2. .shop 721,532 3. […] Post link: Namecheap ...
A change was necessary, but it creates a conflict. NamesCon formally announced its new location during the Thanksgiving holiday. After stints in Las Vegas and Austin, NamesCon is moving to Miami. It will hold its next event November 5-6, 2025 at Ice Palace, an event venue. I enjoyed the events in Austin, especially because I […] Post link: My...
Event seeks to bridge web2 and web3. Domain name and blockchain company D3 is holding Dominion 2025 in Las Vegas, January 29-30, 2025. The event will occur immediately after the Internet Commerce Association event and at the same venue, Resorts World. Many initiatives, protocols, and ventures are trying to connect domain names to blockchain technol...
A robot management platform, a women's clothing designer, and a shoe company bought domain names. FieldBots.com $9,000 – FieldBots provides a management platform for cleaning robots. It uses the domain FieldBots.io. LivablePlaces.com $8,000 – Livable Places is a platform for sustainability in real estate. Piral.com $7,500 – Piral ...
Complainants are asked to share very sensitive data in some cases. It might be fair to redact it from published decisions. Complainants in cybersquatting disputes filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) sometimes need to provide revenue and expense data. For example, a Complainant arguing it had a common law trademark w...
Saw.com's screening questions make responding to inquiries easier. As I mentioned on yesterday's podcast, I closed my first sale transaction on Saw.com last month. Saw launched its domain sales platform in August. I've added about 30 domains during the past few months and pointed them to Saw's landers. What I like the most about Saw […] Post ...
How my domain sales are turning out in 2024. As 2024 winds down, its time to reflect on the years domain sales. On this weeks podcast, Im pulling back the curtain on my 2024 results. Ill cover how many domains I sold, my median sales price, the platforms I used to sell, my acquisition strategies, […] Post link: My 2024 domain sales results &#...
Company was founded well after domain registered and put to use. Indian mattress seller Wakefit Innovations tried to reverse hijack the domains wakefit.com and wake.fit, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled. Wakefit Innovations, which uses the domain wakefit.co, was incorporated in 2016. Wakefit.com was registered in 2009 a...
Organization isn't hearing cases and its decisions are no longer online. A lesser-known forum for hearing Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy cases is no longer active. Arab Center for Domain Name Dispute Resolution (ACDR) is now listed as a former provider on ICANN's website. The organization was controversial due to its connection to Dr...
Three former IONOS group employees are now working with GMO Registry. Three domain industry vets from Germany have joined GMO Registry to promote and manage the .shop top level domain name. Christian Voss, formerly CMO of Sedo, Michael Piotrowski, formerly Head of Marketing at InterNetX, and Claus Barche, formerly Head of Sales at InterNetX, have [...
An AI-powered hotel booking site, a cat litter seller, and a contact lens retailer bought domain names. Last week was the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., and I didn't get a chance to review Sedo's sales list. So, this week's list includes 28 sales from the past two weeks. The top sale was $165,000 for […] Post link: 28 new end user domain n...
An expired domain lawsuit, OpenAI's domain purchase and a sale of Rob Monster's assets were big news stories last month. 1. Judge dismisses GoDaddy expired domain clawback lawsuit – The judge kicked the case on jurisdictional grounds, but the plaintiffs refiled the case. 2. OpenAI acquires chat.com – OpenAI revealed that it was the comp...
Revenue and bitcoin holdings increase. NameSilo (CSE: URL) (PINKSHEETS: URLOF) reported Q3 earnings, including solid year-over-year revenue growth. The domain registrar posted $14.35 million of revenue in Q3 2024, compared to $12.45 million in Q3 2023. Gross profit increased to $3.24 million from $2.26 million. NameSilo reported a profit of $0.49 m...
.Ai domains under management continue to grow ahead of changeover. Anguilla's .ai namespace now has 572,575, according to the registry. The registry posted updated numbers on November 27, showing that the universe of .ai domains has increased by about 40,000 names since October 1. Identity Digital is preparing to take over registry managementfor th...
If only startup founders knew these 20 things about buying domains. Securing the right domain name is crucial for startup success, yet many founders struggle to navigate this essential step. In this episode, Name Ninja Bill Sweetman shares 20 things every startup founder should know about domain names. From budgeting and timing to strategy and [...
Case was dismissed over jurisdiction. Two companies that say GoDaddy unfairly clawed back domains they won at expired domain auctions have refiled a lawsuit after a judge dismissed their first one. Crisby Studio AB bought the domain name calor.com at GoDaddy Auctions, and Prime Loyalty LLC bought butane.com. Calor Gas Ltd of the United Kingdom [...
NTIA says it can't set prices even though it sets the prices. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued a statement Friday about the continuation of its agreement with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for running the .com registry. Bizarrely, the NTIA stated: Given the importance of the Cooperative Agreement for the stabil...
The six-year extension includes automatic price increases. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it has signed a contract extension with ICANN to operate the .com top level domain name. The six-year contract allows ICANN to increase the price of .com domain names by 7% in the last four years of the contract renewal. This means […] Post...
Escrow.com sees solid growth in Q3. Escrow.com released its Q3 Domain Investment Index (pdf) this week, reporting that it handled $99 million of domain name transactions during the quarter. Domain transaction dollar value was up 16% over the same quarter of 2023 and 10% quarter-over-quarter. (Escrow.com's report states that the quarterly gain was 8...
Panelist rules that registrant has rights or legitimate interests in domain name. An Austin-based real estate entrepreneur has lost a cybersquatting case he filed against a gripe site. David Lawver filed the dispute against DavidLawverScammer .com, which is used by a site thatoutlines six lawsuits that have been filed against Lawver. The site ranks...
Senator joins Congressman Nadler to question .com monopoly. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Jerry Nadler sent letters to the Department of Justice and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last week asking them to investigate the .com registry operator Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN). The letters do not appear to be...
The registry paid about $1.50 per name managed by back-end registry Identity Digital. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit that manages the .org top level domain name, has posted its annual Form 990 (pdf) tax return. The company generated $103.7 million in program revenue in 2023, up from $102.1 million in the prior year. Total […] ...
Who had the best crystal ball for 2024? This week is Thanksgiving in the United States. As the year crawls to a close, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at predictions people made a year ago about the domain business to see how many were right. On todays show, well […] Post link: Who predicted it? – DNW Podcast #510 ...
He offered to provide evidence of his intended use under an NDA. The registrant of citi .ai had a rather creative defense to a cybersquatting claim brought by Citigroup Inc., but the panelist didn't bite. The giant financial firm filed a cybersquatting claim against Quoc Bui. Bui didn't file a formal response but sent an […] Post link: Citi ....
A bank, a dry cleaner, and a telecom company bought domain names. Sedo sold fewer .com domains than usual over the past week, but it made up for it with quality sales and non-.com sales. Heres a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like […] Post link: End user domain name sales including ...
Here come the Black Friday deals, and they're actually good. Next week is Thanksgiving week in the United States, and that means Black Friday is almost here. As always, domain name registrars are offering significant discounts, so now is an excellent time to come up with a list of domains to hand register. I usually […] Post link: Black Frida...
Giant Panda adds human element to optimize parked domains. If you check out the domain parking category on Domain Name Wire, you'll notice that posts are few and far between these days. Domain parking isn't what it used to be for the majority of domain name investors, and it seems like much of the news […] Post link: How a domain parking comp...
Patent covers a way to connect domain names to blockchain counterparts. On Tuesday, domain name company 3DNS was granted a patent for Blockchain-based domain name registrar and management system. The patent is the one that I wrote about when it was published earlier this year. U.S. Patent Number 12,147,978 (pdf) is summarized as: Introduced here [&...
Company might have a trademark case, but not a cybersquatting case. Tesla has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against a website that sells accessories for use in Tesla vehicles. The company filed a dispute against Teslaunch .net, which is based in China. Despite the domain owner not responding to the suit, panelist Steven M. […] Post l...
Search giant is demoting third-party content published on other websites to take advantage of their search reputation. Google is continuing to crack down on so-called "site reputation abuse" which it defines as "the practice of publishing third-party pages on a site in an attempt to abuse search rankings by taking advantage of the host site's [R...
A beauty products manufacturer, a business school, and a company that rents food trucks bought domain names. Since I was traveling in Istanbul last week, I didn't get a chance to do the weekly end user sales report. So here's a look at end user sales that were reported on last week's sales list. Later […] Post link: 11 recent end user domain ...
More domains and more importantly better names at better starting prices. GoDaddy has announced its next premium domain auction event, which looks better than the last one. The auction will start on December 3, with names closing on December 10-11. Like last time, it includes inventory from NameFind and BuyDomains. About 80% of […] Post lin...
Interisle report analyzes which top level domains are used for spam, spreading malware, and phishing. Interisle has released its annual Cybercrime Supply Chain 2024 report, which discusses which top level domain names are used for malware, phishing, and spam. The company reviewed 16.3 million attacks from Sept 2023 to Aug 2024. 8.6 million unique d...
New TLDs, domains in Turkey, cats, and other thoughts. Last week, I attended the ICANN Annual General Meeting in Istanbul. Here are some thoughts on the event: There were a lot of domain investors there, many of whom had just attended Domain Days in Dubai. I heard rave reviews about Domain Days and would like […] Post link: My thoughts on las...
Why it took so long for .music to become available, and what its founder envisions. Its been a long journey for .music: the new top level domain just came out in general availability in October. On todays show, Constantine Roussos explains why it took seven years to lock down the top level domain and another […] Post link: Strike up the band,...
Company first tried to buy one of the domains before filing a cybersquatting dispute. A Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP) panel has found that t-shirt printer Printfly Corporation tried to reverse hijack two domain names. The company filed a dispute claiming that rushordertees.co and rushtees.com, which are registered by a competitor, w...
Judge says plaintiffs didn't show subject matter jurisdiction. The judge overseeing a dispute over GoDaddy's clawback of expired domains has dismissed the suit (pdf) over subject matter jurisdiction. The Swedish company Crisby Studio AB bought calor.com (heat/hot in Spanish) in an expired domain auction at GoDaddy in early April this year. GoDaddy ...
An expanded list of the top domain name registrars, ranked by .com domains under management. Each month, I analyze the top domain name registrars with regard to .com domain names under management. I'm frequently asked which domain name registrars just missed the list. So this month, I'm also publishing my every-once-on-a-while look at the top [R...
Newfold Digital's aftermarket platforms combined for 68 sales of $2,000 or more in October. NameJet and SnapNames combined to sell 68 domains for $2,000 or more in October, the auction platforms revealed this week. Those domains combined for about $343,000 in winning bids. Here are some of the sales that stand out to me: TianTian […] Post lin...
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