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DomainTools CEO discusses the move to RDAP and how companies use DNS data to thwart attacks. Many listeners know DomainTools for its database of historical Whois records, domain monitoring, and other domain data. However, the company and its customer base have evolved over the years. On today’s show, DomainTools CEO Tim Chen discusses that evolution. […]

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Here’s what made news in December. 1. Stuart Lawley, who fought for .xxx, has died – Lawley, former CEO of ICM Registry, died at 61. 2. Companies refile expired domain clawback lawsuit against GoDaddy – Two buyers of expired domains have refiled a lawsuit alleging GoDaddy improperly took the domains back. 3. Namecheap reveals 2024 […]

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Sales will partially satisfy a judgment in a stolen domain name lawsuit. After about a one-month delay, the King County Sheriff auctioned off some of Rob Monster’s assets this week to partially satisfy a court judgment. The sale stems from a $486,000 judgment against Monster in a stolen domain lawsuit from Monster’s time as CEO […]

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These are the largest .com domain name registrars. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers September 2024. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: Porkbun returned to the monthly list for the second time in the year Gname was back on the new monthly […]

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A blockchain company, an AI platform, and a custom rims seller bought domain names. Sedo has published sales lists for the past three weeks. For this report, I reviewed sales from the week ending December 22. The marketplace had some great sales that week, including Betz .com for $240,000 and PayCard.com for $100,000. It’s not […]

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Select a backup payment method to avoid an accidental expiration. Last week I wrote about the need to add a payment method for domains you win in GoDaddy premium auctions. Godaddy’s Joe Styler commented that there is a way to add a backup payment method to your account. This protects you in case a domain […]

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Panel determined that the Complainants tried to mislead it. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found that Michelios 3 and AmeXio of France tried to reverse hijack the domain name amexio.com. The parties filed the dispute against eWeb Development Inc. of Canada. eWeb Development Inc. offers aftermarket domain names and web development solutions. It […]

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Shares soar on buyout talk. Two investment groups have made separate proposals to acquire Team Internet Group (London AIM: TIG), the company stated today. TowerBrook Capital Partners (U.K.) LLP and Verdane Fund Manager AB each made offers with proposals to buy the company’s outstanding shares for 125 pence each. As a result, shares for the […]

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Panelist doesn’t accept domain registrant’s flimsy justification for registering playboy.ai. I get a kick out of some of the defenses domain registrants throw up when confronted with a cybersquatting complaint. Consider a case just published for playboy.ai. Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. filed a dispute against a person in China who registered the domain. Playboy first […]

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Judge sides with Unstoppable Domains, which promised not to sue (again) over the alt-root domain extension. A judge has dismissed (pdf) a lawsuit over the .wallet alt-root, blockchain-based top level domain name. The controversy started when Scott Florcsk began selling domains under his .wallet Handshake domain name. Unstoppable Domains has its own .wallet extension. After […]

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Some cite acceptance and confusion, but many say the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. There was an interesting post on Hacker News yesterday about using non-.com domains for email addresses. A user kicked it off by asking: I want to make a lifelong email domain, but don’t want to pay an enormous amount for a .com. […]

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My good sales month, plus a look back at popular and noteworthy stories in the domain business. Happy New Year! As we look forward to 2025, let’s take a moment to consider what impacted the domain industry in 2024. On today’s episode: Postscript to my 2024 domain sales episode, adding in my December sales (it […]

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GoDaddy and NameSilo gained; Team Internet Group and Tucows faced headwinds. With 2024 in the books, here’s a look at how domain name stocks performed for the year. For reference, the NASDAQ was up nearly 29% for the year. NameSilo (OTC: URL.CN): NameSilo posted a 141% gain for the year as it continued to grow. […]

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Afternic introduces Boost and more domain sales platforms launch. Most domain investors make money by selling their domains through aftermarket platforms such as Afternic and Sedo. This year brought significant developments to these platforms. The biggest story comes from the largest platform, Afternic, which faced business challenges and introduced changes to adapt. In August, Afternic […]

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.Ai namespace continues to grow quickly. If you listened to this year’s predictions podcast, you heard many people talk about artificial intelligence. One of the biggest beneficiaries of AI in Anguilla, which lucked into having the .ai country code domain. The registry that manages .ai just updated its statistics: as of today, there are 598,007 […]

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There are storm clouds in parking, and this could impact the domain industry at large. You might be surprised that I’m discussing domain parking as a big topic in 2024. While I don’t write about parking much these days — given that most domain investors no longer make significant money from it — it remains […]

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The domain market is flat. What does this mean for the industry at large? What does the domain name industry look like without growth? In 2024, we found out. According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, there were 362.3 million registered domain names at the end of last quarter. This represents a decline of […]

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Patent describes way to validate that an entity has rights to register a reserved name. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted patent 12,184,604 (pdf) to Unstoppable Domains for “Domain name registration based on verification of entities of reserved names.” The patent covers a method of identifying domains that should be reserved from registration, […]

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Domdevelo OÜ, an Estonian company that owns cripto.com, has sued (pdf) Foris Limited, a Hong Kong company that owns crypto.com. In November, Foris Limited filed a cybersquatting complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization, arguing that Domdevelo was cybersquatting with its registration of cripto.com. As a result, Domdevelo filed a lawsuit earlier this month in […]

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Bank goes after .com domain registered before it had trademark rights. A Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) panelist has found that Armor Bank tried reverse hijacking the domain ArmorBank .com. The Arkansas bank uses the domain name armor.bank. The company filed a cybersquatting dispute against ArmorBank .com and the matching .org domain name. […]

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