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A recent case raises questions about grace periods, buyer notifications, and balancing interests between sellers and buyers. I recently received an email from a distraught GoDaddy customer. He told me he had been making lease-to-own (LTO) payments on a domain name for over two years, totalling about $3,000. He went on vacation and, when he […]

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Did this panelist let the Complainant off the hook? GDPR and the near-universal implementation of Whois privacy have changed the process of filing UDRP cases. Before GDPR, a complainant either knew the identity of the domain registrant or knew the public Whois information was bogus before filing. Now, with privacy the default for most registrations, […]

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Use DotDB’s bulk tool to evaluate domains to buy or to evaluate your portfolio. Domain investors often look at how many top level domains a domain is registered in when evaluating domains to buy. An excellent tool for this is DotDB. But you have to be careful how you use it, and you must dig […]

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Experience spotting opportunities and strong mentorship led Daniel Koleshchuk to selling domains. My guest on today’s show knows how to spot market opportunities. In high school, he flipped bike parts. He was also a sneakerhead and found ways to jump on the latest shoe drops and flip them for profit. So when domain investor Braden […]

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More data and an easier offer submission process come to self-brokering. When Afternic launched self-brokering in March, it was decidedly bare bones. Call it an alpha version. Although it still has a long way to go, the platform has since released several improvements. There are three improvements worth calling out. More lead insights – previously, […]

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Some somewhat-recent end user domain name sales. When a news story falls through the cracks… I think of that phrase when I go back and review domain sales lists from a couple of months ago. I’m able to capture some end user domain purchases in my current weekly reports. But it can take time for […]

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Turmoil at Africa’s Regional Internet Registry is coming to a head. This site focuses on domain names, but there’s another part of internet real estate that is extremely valuable: IP addresses. Specifically, IPv4 addresses. They are a scarce resource, which has caused their value on the secondary market to increase significantly. Escrow.com does a brisk […]

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A Japanese domain registrar has driven significant growth in .xyz domain registrations over the past twelve months. Depending on the month, .xyz ranks either first or second in terms of total domains under management for new top level domain names. There were 4.8 million .xyz domains registered as of the end of March, the most […]

Post link: Digging into the numbers behind .xyz domain registrations

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Panelist uses strong language about fairness and deciding cases under the UDRP. A recent Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) decision is a reminder of what the UDRP was created for, and what it wasn’t. Textron Aviation Inc., maker of Beechcraft airplanes, filed the dispute against Atlantic Beechcraft Services over the domain name atlanticbeech […]

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Abuse rankings shift dramatically between open source and commercial blocklists, exposing blind spots in DNS monitoring. Many research organizations publish lists of top level domains and domain registrars that they claim have high rates of abuse. But the lists are only as good as their inputs. That’s the crux behind new data from ICANN, which […]

Post link: ICANN warns that DNS abuse rankings vary widely depending on blocklist source

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Domain registrar offers new auction opportunity with Premium User Auctions. Dynadot has launched a new option for domain investors to sell their domains through auctions. The company’s Premium User Auctions allow Dynadot customers to submit their domains for once-a-month auctions. There are no hidden reserves on the domain names; all domains start at their reserve […]

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An AI contract tool, a vaping advocacy group, and a seller of tactical gear bought domain names. One company acquired five country code domain names at Sedo this past week. And a Domain Name Wire reader who registered a similar domain years ago after reading an article here might be able to cash in. Read […]

Post link: 14 end user domain sales including two AI companies

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A review of keywords in aftermarket domain sales that have remained popular over time. Each month, Afternic posts a list of the top 20 keywords in domains sold on its platform. This is very helpful for domain investors when considering new domains to buy. While I post these lists and compare the ranks from month […]

Post link: 12-month analysis: Which keywords are most popular in Afternic domain sales

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Answer 10 questions correctly to have a chance at winning a basket of domain investor goodies. Do you live and breathe domain names? Think you know the latest domain stats and cybersquatting cases? Then it’s time to put your knowledge to the test. Take this month’s Domain Name Wire Trivia Quiz and see how you […]

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Learn why UDRP should be a last resort for many domain names. On today’s show, you’ll hear about the brand and trademark holder perspective of enforcement in the domain space. Daniel Greenberg, CEO of Lexsynergy, and Robert White, Head of Online Brand Protection for the company, join me to discuss how brands take enforcement actions. […]

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Many registrars showed strong growth in the latest .com registration data. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: March was the end of the quarter, and registrars finished strong. Month-over-month, Newfold was +117k, GoDaddy was […]

Post link: Registrar rankings: a strong finish to Q1 for .com domains

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A change for .co domains, a surging domain registrar, and more top stories from last month on Domain Name Wire. Here’s what happened in the domain business last month: 1. GoDaddy loses .co contract to TIG partnership – The “original” winners of the contract to commercialize .co have lost the renewal. A partnership between Team […]

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The organization takes another step to enable all domains to work with its systems. More than a year after ICANN staff gained the ability to send and receive emails from internationalized domain names (IDN), the organization has taken another step on the Universal Acceptance path. The non-profit domain overseer announced this week that individuals with […]

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Company will have to pay $1,000 a day, but it will be an uphill battle for Meta to collect. A federal judge has imposed contempt sanctions against Chinese company Leascend Technology (formerly 35.CN) in a long-running cybersquatting lawsuit brought by Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). The lawsuit was filed in U.S. Federal District Court in October […]

Post link: Meta Platforms gets contempt sanctions against former Chinese domain registrar

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Famous journalist and former CNN talk show host wins cybersquatting dispute over his personal name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled in favor of Piers Morgan in a cybersquatting dispute over the domain name PiersMorgan.com. Morgan filed the case against a respondent identified only as “W NA” in the UK. The domain was […]

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