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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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An update on Featured.com and why it acquired HARO. Featured founder Brett Farmiloe was my guest on the podcast in 2023 after his company rebranded from Terkel to Featured using the domain Featured.com. On today’s show, Brett returns to explain how the new domain and brand have helped his company since then. Featured also recently […]

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Could you turn $500 of domains into cash within one year? GoDaddy Domain Academy is running a contest in which six domain investors compete to see who can make the most money in a year. It’s a highly restricted contest meant to simulate what it would be like as a new domain investor. Each investor […]

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A shoe seller, an AI business, and a real estate firm bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale of the past week was PlayID.com. The domain doesn’t resolve yet, but a couple of different businesses use this name in alternative extensions. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. […]

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Proposed system bypasses registrar pre-approval and enables features like fractional ownership. D3Serve Labs (no relation to D3 Global Inc.) has filed a patent application (pdf) for Method and system for enabling the transfer of domain. The patent application (18/978071) describes a blockchain-based method and system for securely transferring “beneficiary-ship” of domain names while maintaining compliance […]

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Trustee disavows claim, says original UDRP filing was unauthorized. The registrant of TRX.com has just secured another win toward retaining his domain name, following a surprise UDRP decision in 2022 that had ordered it transferred. Loo Tze Ming purchased the domain name trx.com for $138,000 in April 2022 on the domain marketplace 4.cn. In October […]

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Indian ride-share and delivery app company fails to snag valuable domain through UDRP. Roppen Transportation Services Private Limited, which operates the Indian ride-hailing and delivery platform Rapido, has lost (pdf) a cybersquatting dispute it filed against rapido.com. The registrant of rapido.com acquired the domain name in 2014. That was before Roppen Transportation existed and used […]

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Company’s cybersquatting complaint blends in irrelevant arguments. Vorwerk International AG, maker of the Thermomix line of food processors, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (pdf). The company filed a cybersquatting dispute with World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain name TM7.com. Vorwerk is releasing the latest Thermomix product, dubbed the TM7, later […]

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Registry contract will transition to Team Internet’s registry backend in partnership with Colombian domain registrar. After 15 years, the rights to operate Colombia’s .co domain name extension is changing hands. The country has awarded a 10-year contract to manage the popular domain to Equipo PuntoCo, a newly formed joint venture between Team Internet (AIM: TIG, […]

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This company changed domain names as its business evolved. This is part of a series in which businesses discuss why they changed domains and the process they went through. The story has been edited with permission. Rick Levine, Partner/CEO of Modus At the end of March, we made a big move: we changed our domain […]

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Domain name was registered before it had trademark rights. Alumni Ventures LLC, a venture investing group, has been found (pdf) to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name AlumniVentures.com. The company uses the domain name av.vc. It claimed two trademarks, with the earliest use in commerce date of 2018. However, the registrant of […]

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