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First version of self-brokering system is limited. Afternic launched a new feature today that allows domain name investors to self-broker domain names rather than have Afternic’s brokers manage negotiations. The self-brokering feature is very much a minimum viable product, and it will only make sense for some domain name investors to consider at this stage. […]

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Just one of the registrar families has grown its base of .com domains over the 12-month period ending in November. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers November 2024. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: Of the top 10 registrars by total .com […]

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A furniture company, a sushi restaurant chain, and a guy named Pascal bought domain names. Sedo’s top public domain sales this week was bookwalker.com for $27,000. The buyer might be a Japanese e-book store with this name, but it’s unclear at this time. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed […]

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Fascinating stats in this year’s Global Domain Report. Domain name marketplace Sedo and registrar InternetX have published the 2025 Global Domain Report. The report looks at both the primary and secondary markets for domain names. It uses data from dozens of sources, augmented by a survey the companies sent to domain industry participants. Here are […]

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Company converts license into domain acquisition. Event ticket seller Vivid Seats (NASDAQ: SEAT) disclosed a $17.3 million domain name acquisition in its latest annual report. On October 22, 2024, we acquired a domain name that we had previously licensed (the “Acquired Domain Name”). In exchange for the Acquired Domain Name, we are required to disburse […]

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What I learned at ICANN82 in Seattle. The domain name industry gathered in Seattle last week for ICANN’s annual community forum. During the show, I caught up on what’s happening with two important topics: Adsense for Domains and new top level domains. On today’s show I recap what I learned. You will then hear from […]

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Mumbai and Lisbon will host the next two community forums. ICANN has announced the locations for its 2026 and 2027 annual community forum meetings. The community forum, one of three major meetings ICANN holds annually, typically takes place in March. This year’s meeting was in Seattle last week. Next year’s meeting will be March 7-12, […]

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Also, it claims a domain can “degenerate” into a bad faith registration. Just when you think you’ve seen it all: a company literally told a domain broker it had a “Plan B” before filing a Plan B reverse domain name hijacking attempt. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel found (pdf) Skytree B.V. guilty of reverse […]

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Panelist finds “Plan B” attempt to secure domain through cybersquatting claim. A French nutrition supplements company tried to reverse hijack the domain name nutriforce.com, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has determined (pdf). Nutriforce France SAS, which registered the domain nutriforce.fr for its business in 2023, filed the dispute. The domain was acquired in an […]

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Panelist admonishes company for filing bad cybersquatting dispute. Hubris? Narcissism? Just plain ballsy? I’m unsure how to describe it, but the result isn’t surprising: an Ohio company was found to have tried to reverse hijack the domain names resource.com and resourceinteractive.com. From IBM. Resource Interactive, a Salesforce implementor that uses the domain name resourceinteractive.net, filed […]

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Company went after a domain name it knew was registered before it had trademark rights. A French seller of women’s shoes, purses, and other accessories has been found (pdf) to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Cassy SAS filed a dispute with World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain name cassy.com. The company uses […]

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Company says it no longer wants one of its domains, but it still has two other dot-brand top level domains. Prudential, the global financial services company, has informed ICANN that it is terminating one of its top-level domains. In January, Prudential notified ICANN that it no longer wants to retain the .pramerica domain. This week, […]

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Judge has ordered domain registrar to pay over $5 million. A cybersquatting legal battle that began over four years ago is set to continue. Leascend Technology Co., Ltd. formerly known as Xiamen 35.com Internet Technology Co., Ltd, has appealed multiple rulings in a lawsuit filed by Meta Platforms. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. Federal […]

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Samba.com auctioned for over $100,000 in January. Newfold Digital has published sales results on its NameJet and SnapNames platforms for January and February of this year. In January, the two platforms combined for 66 domains sales of $2,000 or more, totalling $409,000. January was headlined by the $143,000 sale of samba.com. In February, the platforms […]

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Person in Ukraine registered domain and used it to promote pet monitoring app. Calvin Broadus, more commonly known as Snoop Dogg, has won a cybersquatting dispute he filed against a person in Ukraine. The rapper filed the dispute (pdf) against the domain name SnoopDoggBush .com with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Bush is the name […]

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Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030. ICANN has notified the operator of the legacy Soviet Union country code domain, .su, of its plans to retire the domain in five years, Domain Name Wire has learned. The .su namespace, which remains open for new registrations and currently has around 100,000 domain names, is […]

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New team launches domain registrar that will offer marketplace and monetization. I’ve been a bit bewildered by .shop suddenly hiring lots of industry talent many years after the top level domain launched. This week at the ICANN meeting in Seattle, the move made much more sense as .shop’s parent company, GMO Internet Group, made a […]

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AI companies and web3 projects bought domain names this week. Sedo had a huge sales week, closing GX.com for $1.2 million and double.com for $980,000. Remarkably, gx.com sold through a buy now transaction. The marketplace also sold coches.es for EUR 120,000 and wwww.com for $120,000. Unfortunately, it’s not yet clear who bought any of these […]

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Patent describes way to obtain information from “thick” RDAP records. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 12,250,217 to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for GTLD domain name registries RDAP architecture (pdf). The patent is a continuation of patents filed in 2016 and 2017. RDAP is short for Registration Data Access Protocol, which has replaced […]

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Nova Registry is going big with top level domains. At least one company is going big in the next round of new top level domain expansion. On today’s show, Yoni Belousov explains why his company Nova Registry plans to apply for around 200 new top level domains in the next round. Nova didn’t participate in […]

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