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Customers get a little more time to use pre-paid backorder credits. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has extended the deadline for customers to use domain backorder credits. The company announced last August that it was sunsetting its backorder product and gave customers 12 months to use the credits. Today, it announced a 60-day extension to October 7. […]

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Soon, it will be the exclusive way to reach the registration path at the world’s second-largest domain registrar. Namecheap is removing Afternic and Sedo domains from its registration path, but is offering an alternative way for domain sellers to reach its customers: listing domains on Spaceship’s SellerHub. Spaceship is one of Namecheap’s domain registrars, and […]

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Company sought domain name matching its ICOY workplace safety brand. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) that ITWAY S.P.A. attempted to reverse domain name hijack the domain icoy.com. ITWAY offers a system called ICOY, designed to reduce workplace accidents involving heavy machinery, such as forklifts. The company registered the domains icoy.it and […]

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A Y Combinator startup, an AI agent platform, and a musical group bought domain names. Sedo had a couple of nice mid-five-figure domain name sales this week. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that were recently completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here. HealthAndWellness.com $49,500 – Whois lists […]

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Strong growth at its Spaceship registrar propelled Namecheap into #2 spot for .com domains under management. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers February 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: Namecheap+Spaceship has overtaken Tucows to be the second-largest .com registrar overall. It […]

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Security researchers found 164GB of exposed data from ICANN-accredited registrar, including sensitive domain transfer codes. ICANN-accredited registrar Openprovider accidentally leaked sensitive domain name and customer data, researchers recently discovered. Bob Diachenko, a cybersecurity researcher and owner at Security Discovery, and Cybernews discovered a publicly exposed Elasticsearch instance containing 164GB of data from the registrar. The […]

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Registry says it is reviewing the domains and considering additional safeguards. Public Interest Registry (PIR) is taking action after a researcher noted a proliferation of gambling domains in its .ngo and .ong namespaces. PIR, the non-profit behind the .org top level domain, launched .ngo and .ong in the 2012 round of new TLDs to serve […]

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Learn what Atom hopes to accomplish by becoming a domain registrar. Domain sales platform Atom recently announced it had become an ICANN-accredited registrar. On today’s show, Atom founder and CEO Darpan Munjal joins me to talk about three overarching missions Darpan wants to achieve by becoming a registrar. He also discusses new features available on […]

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Panelist finds “Plan B” attempt after purchase negotiations broke down. A FORUM UDRP panel has found that jewelry maker Mengjia Li, who goes by the name Eve Li, engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over the domain name eveli.com. The Complainant uses the domain name eveli.co.uk for her jewelry business, and she […]

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Plan ahead to save money by registering for these conferences early. It’s the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere today, which means many people are taking a break from their computers to enjoy summer vacation. But a packed domain conference calendar kicks off this September. Tickets are usually cheaper the earlier you buy them, so […]

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Complainant tried to upgrade from .co to .com through UDRP. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found that a Colombian entrepreneur tried to reverse domain name hijack the domain watertimer.com. Felipe Ospina filed a UDRP against the domain registrant, who acquired the domain name in 2023 for $4,120. Ospina has since launched a business […]

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Domain investors will be eligible to acquire so-called Service Names. The .music domain name registry has introduced a new category of domain names called Service Names. These names don’t have traditional nexus requirements, making them easier for anyone to register. Most .music domains require registrants to demonstrate a direct connection to the music industry and […]

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If you need records, now is the time to download them. If you need any data from domain sales platform Dan.com, you have only nine more days to download it. The platform will officially be retired on June 27. GoDaddy acquired Dan.com in 2022 for over $70 million. Since that time, it has moved most […]

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Settlement resolves antitrust lawsuit and restores Entri’s integration with GoDaddy domains. Entri and GoDaddy have announced a deal to allow people to use Entri to update DNS records for domains registered at GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY). The multi-year agreement resolves a lawsuit between the parties. Entri acts as a conduit between SaaS companies and domain registrars. […]

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Newfold Digital is divided into two divisions. Web.com is now officially part of Network Solutions. Starting this week, visitors to Web.com see a splash page that points them to the login page for Network Solutions, marking the brand’s formal transition. When parent company Newfold Digital announced earlier this year that it would retire the Web.com […]

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A vaccine maker, an author community, and a tool for runners bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this week was dollars.com for $500,000. Mark Ghoriafi brokered this name, but we don’t know who the buyer is yet. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view […]

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URS was designed for super-slam-dunk cases of cybersquatting. This was anything but. Krahn Chemie GmbH, a chemical distribution company, has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case in a rather convincing manner: it was found to have filed the case in abuse of the URS. I don’t write about URS cases that often. It’s a […]

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GoDaddy’s no-hidden-reserve format offers insight into investor valuations. One of the advantages of an auction without hidden reserves is that you can get a good sense of the investor market value for each domain. It’s a “wisdom of the crowds” scenario. Consider the current GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) featured auction that ends on Tuesday. There are […]

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Whois privacy was implemented for all domain names today. Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the registry that manages Nigeria’s .ng country code domain, implemented Whois privacy on all .ng domain names today. Previously, Whois for .ng domains included details about registrants, including names, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. Starting today, Whois lookups only […]

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Panel finds company filed complaint in bad faith after failed purchase attempt. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has found (pdf) Afianza Asesores, S.L. to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name Afianza.com. The Spanish consulting company filed a cybersquatting complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) against the […]

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