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You have until 8 pm EDT to save money on .cloud domains. The registry for .cloud domains is making a big change to its pricing. Effective 00:00 UTC on June 5 (that’s 8 pm EDT today), the registry is changing its pricing for premium domains from a high-low model to a high-high model. Until now, […]

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A school district, a cybersecurity company, and a Chrome plugin maker bought domain names. Sedo’s top sales this week were EightAM.com for $26,000 and Flat.fi for €23,898. Neither domain is developed yet, so we’ll have to keep an eye on them to learn who bought them. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales […]

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i2Coalition highlights impact of DNS-level blocking. A new report and website from i2Coalition raise concerns about governments increasingly using DNS blocking to control online content, warning that it could harm the global internet. The report, “DNS at Risk: How Network Blocking and Fragmentation Undermine the Global Internet,” notes that DNS was built to neutrally direct […]

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New tier will include domain investor tools that other users don’t need. GoDaddy is introducing a new tier to its Domain Discount Club (DDC), a program that offers discounts and additional features. DDC currently has over 100,000 members. Many of these are domain investors, but others are bulk customers and agencies. These other groups probably aren’t interested in […]

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Panel says complainant doubled down despite evidence refuting its case. One of the key differences between the Nominet Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) for .uk cybersquatting claims and the UDRP is that DRS cases can be appealed. In a recent case, the appeal not only overturned the original decision but also resulted in a finding of […]

Post link: Appeals panel reverses .uk cybersquatting decision, finds reverse domain name hijacking

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From .com to .cat, Spain offers a colorful mix of domain extensions in everyday use. I just returned from a vacation in Spain. Whenever I travel to foreign countries, I pay close attention to domain names. While .com dominates the United States, it shares the stage with many other extensions in some countries. Spain is […]

Post link: Sightseeing in Spain… and spotting domains along the way

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Company went after descriptive and geographic domain name. A highly charged UDRP dispute has resulted in a finding of reverse domain name hijacking. The case involved two electrician companies in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city is commonly referred to as NOLA. Nola Electric and Maintenance Services LLC filed the dispute against Leiter Electric Services LLC […]

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A flashback to the invention of the DNS. One of my favorite interviews on the Domain Name Wire Podcast was from 2016, when I interviewed DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris. On today’s show, I’m replaying that interview. You’ll hear about the early days of the DNS, including why it was created. Paul also confirmed that some […]

Post link: Greatest hits: inventing the DNS – DNW Podcast #537

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It took nearly a year for the parties to settle their dispute. The registry for .top domain names has cured its breaches with ICANN compliance, as of today. ICANN sent a breach notice to .TOP Registry, the company behind the .top top level domain name, in July 2024. The breach notice stated that .top had […]

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A fintech company, an ISO consultancy, and a Hubspot agency bought domain names. Last week, Sedo reported 69 domain sales of $2,000 or more. Many of these were acquired by end users. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that recently sold at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here. MiamiNews.com […]

Post link: Companies recently bought these 15 domain names

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Revenue surges at domain registrar as domains under management continue to grow. NameSilo (CSE: URL) (PINKSHEETS: URLOF) has released its earnings for Q1. For the quarter, the company grossed CAD $15.9 million, up from CAD $12.8 million in the same quarter of 2024. That’s a solid 24% year-over-year growth. It was the 10th consecutive quarter […]

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21 projects approved for funding of up to $500,000. ICANN has released a list of projects funded in the first cohort of its inaugural grant program. The program uses funds collected from “auctions of last resort” from the last round of top level domain names. Overall, the group is contributing just over $9 million to […]

Post link: ICANN grants $9M, including $500k for UDRP defense

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Patent describes automated crawler and checkout simulator to spot fraud in newly-registered domains. PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has filed a patent application describing a method to proactively detect scam websites by automatically crawling newly registered domains and simulating checkout processes. U.S. patent application 18/521,909 (pdf), titled Automated Domain Crawler and Checkout Simulator for Proactive and Real-time […]

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An AI-tax preparation tool, a corporate events company, and a workplace violence prevention business bought domain names. Every week, I publish an end user domain sales report. This report reveals which end users bought domain names at Sedo during the past week. With most Whois records now obscured by privacy services, the most common way […]

Post link: End user rewind: more domain name sales

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Name.com offers significant discount on .com domains for one week. Do you have a list of .com domains you want to hand-register? You might want to wait a few more days. Domain Name Wire readers know that I rarely write about sales on domain registrations, but some are too good not to cover. Name.com is […]

Post link: Build your list: registrar offers $4.99 .com registrations

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GoDaddy plans featured auction that will include registry-owned .io domains. GoDaddy has announced that its next featured auction event will begin on June 10, with auctions concluding on June 17 and 18. This auction will include third-party inventory, as it did last time. Notably, Identity Digital is auctioning 170 .io domain names that had been […]

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.Global domains among most-sold premium domain names. Identity Digital has published a summary of domain name data from Q1 2025. The company is the largest domain name registry in terms of number of TLDs, with nearly 300. The company revealed 20 premium domain names registered during the quarter, including seven .global domains: architecture, gateway, usd, […]

Post link: Identity Digital releases Q1 data on premium domain sales and keyword trends

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AI, my, and group top the list of keywords in sold domain names. Afternic has released its latest list of hot keywords in the aftermarket, and AI leads the list again, other than for the filler word ‘the’. This list includes sales that occurred in March (with February rank in parentheses if it was in […]

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A newly issued patent aims to mitigate “resource starvation” resulting from bulk domain availability queries. Domain registrar GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has secured a patent designed to address spam-induced resource depletion caused by excessive bulk domain name searches. U.S. Patent number 12,316,600 (pdf), titled Dynamic systems for migrating spam-induced resource starvation domain name search methods of […]

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Marketplace will build a registrar from the ground up to benefit domain investors and buyers. Domain marketplace and naming platform Atom announced today that it has obtained registrar accreditation from ICANN. Becoming a registrar provides significant advantages for a domain marketplace, streamlining the management of domains and transfers, particularly for lease-to-own transactions. Atom, however, has […]

Post link: Atom becomes an ICANN-accredited registrar with big plans

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