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Judge denies motions to dismiss in cybersquatting lawsuit. A U.S. District judge has denied motions to dismiss a cybersquatting lawsuit over the domain name outside.com. Outside Interactive, a sports and outdoor media company, sued the owner of outside.com last year in an effort to get the domain name. It’s the company’s second attempt to acquire […]

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A vacation rental site paid dearly for a .de domain name. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the top .com sale on Sedo’s sales list this week. I previously owned buno.com, which sold for $95,000. I sold it for pennies. Granted, that was back in 2005. A great deal has happened to domain […]

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Company says funding will help it bridge the gap between web3 and DNS. Web3 naming platform Freename has secured a $6.5 million Series A round, the company announced today. That’s on top of a $2.5 million seed round it raised in 2023. Like many web3 naming companies, Freename started by offering alt-root domain names that […]

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“Marketplace-first” design could bring more visibility to domains listed on Saw.com. Saw.com has relaunched its website in a way that could deliver more buyers to domains listed through the company. The company’s previous website focused on its brokerage service and letting people list domains for sale with its landing pages. The new site is designed […]

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Court finally overturns UDRP decision for 2012. The wheels of justice turn slowly. Very slowly. Thirteen years after a UDRP panelist ordered Tucows to transfer the domain name marker.com to Marker Völkl (International) GmbH, a Canadian court has ruled that Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) can keep the domain. Tucows acquired the domain as part of its […]

Post link: 13 years later, court rules Tucows can keep marker.com domain name

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Fee increases will hit drop-catching companies the most. ICANN-accredited domain name registrars have voted to increase the amount of money they pay ICANN each year. In October, ICANN announced plans to increase costs on registries and registrars. One part of the fee increase required a vote: registrars accounting for payment of two-thirds of all registrar-level […]

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The top sale was a one-word domain with a long history. NameJet and SnapNames reported a strong sales month in June. The two domain auction platforms combined to sell 106 domains for $2,000 or more, totaling $593k. Here are some of the domains that stand out: Sleeps .com $41,000 – This domain was previously used […]

Post link: NameJet and SnapNames combine to sell nearly $600k of $2k+ domains in June

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Rebuilt API integrates with AI agents and dev tools to streamline domain registration and deployment at launch time. One open question about AI is how it will impact domain name registrations. On the one hand, I think the number of people registering domain names for content sites will decrease. On the other hand, vibe coding […]

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Panel finds Complainant didn’t meet grounds to refile the case. A three-person UDRP panel has denied a refiled dispute, but the majority of the panel declined to find reverse domain name hijacking. Tiger Aesthetics Medical, LLC, which uses the domain tiger-aesthetics.com, filed a case against tigeraesthetics.com in February. The panelist in that case denied the […]

Post link: Panel rejects refiled UDRP but majority declines to find reverse domain name hijacking

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Turning $500 into a profit through domain investing. Could you start domain investing from scratch with only $500 in your pocket? On today’s show, I discuss GoDaddy’s domain investor contest and how I’m learning first hand of the challenges of starting domain investing with a limited budget. You’ll hear a syndication from the Domain Academy […]

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As a follow-up to my DotDB video, see how to get some of this data (and more) through GoDaddy Domain Academy. Earlier this week, I posted a video showing how to use DotDB to research the number of top level domains a domain is registered in. GoDaddy customers with Domain Academy access (including those with […]

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Person who bought domain on payment plan cashed in when restaurant chain came calling. This weekend I wanted to see how long the wait was for a table at Din Tai Fung during lunchtime. Its online waitlist was closed, so I called the location near me. I was taken aback when the recording told me […]

Post link: DTF: Interesting story behind Din Tai Fung upgrading to three letter domain

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A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has admonished an IT services company that “made a farce” of a UDRP proceeding. Advance 2000, Inc., which uses the domain advance2000.com, filed a cybersquatting claim against advanceD2000.com. The subject domain is registered and used* by another IT services firm, Advanced 2000. That firm registered the domain in 1996 […]

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The company inadvertently let the valuable domain name expire. Voiceover marketplace Voices.com, Inc. has lost a cybersquatting claim it filed against voices.ai. The first of three prongs necessary to win a UDRP is that the domain is identical or confusingly similar to a mark in which the complainant has rights. Typically, the top level domain […]

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Tool suggests domains based on business concepts and naming preferences. Domain name marketplace Atom launched a new “semantic search” tool today. The company’s goal is to surface domain names that will be a good fit for businesses that they might not have otherwise discovered. It builds off Atom’s learnings about what people search for and […]

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Company sues after failing to regain control of domain names after theft. Treasure Global Inc., a Malaysian technology company, has filed a lawsuit after two of its domain names were stolen. The lawsuit states that its domain treasureglobal .co and zcity .io were stolen from its Namecheap account in May. Indeed, if you visit either […]

Post link: Malaysian shopping rewards business sues, says its domains were stolen

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Developer filed UDRP after first trying to buy the domain name. A Texas real estate developer has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after it filed a cybersquatting claim against empireindustrialpark.com. Empire Industrial Park LLC is a relatively new industrial park in Eagle Pass, Texas. Because the domain it wanted was taken, it […]

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Company makes record-busting $250,000 .bot sale. Sedo had a monster sales week! Typically, it reports 60-80 sales of $2,000 or more. This week, it reported a whopping 113. It makes me wonder how much of an impact Namecheap’s promotion of Sedo listings over Afternic has had. The top sale was crypto.bot, which sold for $250,000 […]

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More exclusive domain inventory is coming to Newfold’s domain auction platforms. Newfold Digital’s domain auction platforms NameJet and SnapNames will get first crack at expired domains from BlueHost and HostGator, the company announced today. These hosting companies are also part of Newfold Digital. Before November 2023, domains registered at BlueHost were registered through Launchpad or […]

Post link: BlueHost and HostGator to send expired domains to NameJet/SnapNames

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After advising clients on dot-brand domains for years, Fairwinds makes the move itself. Domain name and intellectual property consultancy Fairwinds Partners has moved its website to a dot-brand ahead of next year’s top level domain application window. The company submitted 133 top level domain applications on behalf of its clients in the 2012 expansion round, […]

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