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Warner Bros. Discovery is ditching the Max name. Warner Bros. Discovery (NYSE: WBD) is changing the name of its Max streaming service. It’s changing it to…wait for it…HBO Max. Yep, it’s going back to its old name. The streaming service is popular for its library of HBO hits and more recent content such as The […]

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A drone company, a food site, and a concrete installer bought domain names this week. It was a great week for end user domain sales at Sedo. I was able to determine end user buyers for over a quarter of the platform’s public sales over $2,000. That does include ones that are likely end user […]

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Panel says Zaddy, LLC should have known it couldn’t win dispute over domain registered 13 years before its trademark rights. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found (pdf) Zaddy, LLC guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over the domain name zaddy.com. Zaddy, LLC, which sells sex and wellness products under the […]

Post link: HugeDomains gets reverse hijacking win against sex and wellness products company

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It’s the second time the company has faced an issue like this. Cryptocurrency trading platform Curve Finance is blaming a DNS issue for an imposter site that was able to drain wallets. The platform has been using the domain name curve .fi for its website. .Fi is the country code for Finland, and .fi domains […]

Post link: Domain exploit at Curve Finance triggers wallet drains, registrar intervenes

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The seller tried to hike the price from $38,000 to $380,000 after discovering Pay.com.au was the buyer, but a lawsuit must have changed his mind. A man who backed out of a domain deal after finding out who the buyer was has capitulated after the buyer sued him. Last month, Pay.com.au sued Dean Adams, the […]

Post link: Pay.com.au secures domain name after suing seller who backed out of deal

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Panelist explains fraudulent scheme by Complainant to hijack valuable two-letter domain name through UDRP. A person filed a UDRP complaint stating that a domain name was fraudulently stolen from them. But the panelist reviewing the case determined it was the Complainant who was committing fraud. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) case for KS.com shows […]

Post link: Ks.com case emphasizes value of short domains and risks of UDRP abuse

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Organization filed UDRP after first trying to buy the domain name. A Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP) panelist has found Illinois Agricultural Association (IAA) guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The organization, which was founded in 1912, filed the dispute against the domain name iaa.org. It uses the domain iaafoundation.org. Whois shows iaa.org is […]

Post link: Illinois Agricultural Association tries reverse hijacking domain name

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Learn the secret to this domain investor’s success. Trade publications and entrepreneurship media often profile C-level executives and entrepreneurs who wake up early to get a start on the day or who burn the midnight oil. It made me think, why not profile a domain investor? So here’s a profile of a day in the […]

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Complainants need to understand the purpose of UDRP. Another company has mistaken what the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) can be used for. It’s designed to quickly resolve clear-cut cases of cybersquatting, not trademark disputes. TomoCredit, Inc. filed the case against tomo.com, which is owned by Tomo Networks, Inc. The Complainant is a credit […]

Post link: It’s a trademark issue, not cybersquatting

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Award honors those with top dollar volume on Escrow.com. Escrow.com has unveiled its 2025 Master of Domains awards, honoring the top 10 domain brokers by transaction volume on its platform for deals closed in 2024. Topping the list once again is Andrew Rosener of Media Options, who has now led the ranking for seven years […]

Post link: Media Options tops Escrow.com Master of Domains list for seventh straight year

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How to handle complex payments and other complications. Sometimes, agreeing on a price is the simple part of a domain name transaction. There can be all sorts of hurdles to completing the deal. For example, what if one of the parties doesn’t want to complete Know Your Customer requirements for escrow? What if a seller […]

Post link: Trouble at the finish line – DNW Podcast #534

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Ecommerce business forks over seven figures for domain name. BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), the Shopify competitor that helps customers sell stuff online, purchased a domain name for $2.444 million in Q1. The company disclosed the purchase in its financial results for Q1 published yesterday. While the company did not disclose what the domain name was, I […]

Post link: BigCommerce buys domain name for $2.4 million

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Expired domains revenue continues to lift results at Tucows. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported first-quarter earnings after the market closed yesterday. Overall revenue increased 8% year over year to $94.6 million, with the domain business growing 6% to $65.3 million. Gross margin for the domain business increased 9% to $20.2 million. The increase came despite domains […]

Post link: Expired domains lift Tucows results, despite customer defection

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Sahar Sarid and co-defendants sentenced to probation. The three remaining defendants in a California criminal case involving Mugshots.com have been sentenced after entering into a plea agreement. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced charges of extortion, money laundering, and identity theft against the four alleged operators in 2018. According to Becerra’s office, the site published […]

Post link: Plea deal resolves long-running Mugshots.com extortion case

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End users bought these domains at Sedo this past week. Sedo had a couple of nice sales this past week that are surely to end users, but for which the buyers’ identities are not yet known. Sollers.com sold for $50,000. The first Google result is for a Russian auto company, but other companies also use […]

Post link: Latest domain sales: AI, insurance, crypto, and more

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Panelist shows how train maker’s bad faith arguments didn’t make sense. A recent UDRP decision at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) raises interesting questions about complainant diligence and reverse domain name hijacking. Alstom, a French train and rail manufacturer, filed a dispute against the domain name AlstoMarketing .com. The company became aware of the […]

Post link: Alstom’s cybersquatting arguments did not compute

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GoDaddy back above 600k monthly adds; Namecheap adds nearly 400k .coms. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers January 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: GoDaddy had a better January than the month prior (when it dipped below 600k), although it was […]

Post link: Registrar stats: GoDaddy rebounds and Namecheap surges

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Company went after domains that were registered in good faith by arguing retroactive bad faith. A UDRP panel has found Styleline Studios International Limited to have tried reverse hijacking two domain names. The case shows the limits of using UDRP to settle commercial disputes when a domain is originally registered in good faith. Styleline filed […]

Post link: Retroactive bad faith argument leads to reverse domain name hijacking decision

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Saw.com discloses recent sales, including the longest domain it has ever brokered. Every week, I post a report showing end user sales from Sedo. I appreciate that Sedo shares sales data because it helps all domain investors. Recently, Saw.com offered to provide some end user sales to me. While the brokerage couldn’t attach prices to […]

Post link: Saw.com discloses domain sales, including longest domain it’s ever brokered

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Both companies have trademarks, and Respondent’s predate the Complainant’s. A UDRP panelist has found Quality Transportation Services, Inc. to have tried reverse domain name hijacking smartrail.com. It filed a cybersquatting case against Regal Rexnord Corporation, a machinery company. Both the Complainant and Respondent have trademark rights for the term Smart Rail/Smartrail, just in different fields […]

Post link: Cybersquatting dispute goes off the rails, ruled reverse domain name hijacking

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