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New group will focus on improving practices at hosting companies. This week, i2Coalition (Internet Infrastructure Coalition) announced its new Secure Hosting Alliance, which the organization says will “strengthen and improve the hosting and cloud landscape by fostering trust, advocating for fair policies, and safeguarding an open and accessible Internet for everyone.” The group will develop […]

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For a short time, I thought Homes.com failed to register a key domain name. Me, watching the Super Bowl at a party yesterday: Hmm, Homes.com is promoting the domain ComIsTheBest.com. Surely, they thought to register that domain. Me, checking on phone and trying to remember the domain: Really?  ComIsBest.com is available! Me, registering domain name […]

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How Unstoppable Domains has embraced DNS. I’ve interviewed the founders of Unstoppable Domains on two separate occasions, but the most recent was in 2020. A lot has happened in the past five years. On today’s show, Unstoppable Domains founder and CEO Matthew Gould sits down to talk about what the company is doing to marry […]

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Company wants domain name frozen after registrar fails to make $5.5 million deposit. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is asking a court to give it control of the 35.com domain name. The request comes after the domain name registrar 35.cn/35.com failed to deposit $5.5 million in an escrow as […]

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Cybersquatting cases, Whois, and .AI were top stories in January. These were the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by views: 1. Noon.com let a domain expire, failed to win it back in cybersquatting case – A popular ecommerce site in UAE forgot to renew its local country code domain. It tried […]

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Registry expects the overall base of .com and .net domains to fall this year. .Com and .net registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings on Thursday. Revenue increased 4.3% to $1.56 billion in 2024, and operating income increased 6% to $1.06 billion. The financial numbers increased while the base of registered .com […]

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Yep, artificial intelligence-related domains are still selling like hotcakes. Afternic released a list of the top-selling keywords on its platform in November. The top domains are no surprise, as my, ai, and home remain the top three. However, my and ai swapped positions. A separate unfiltered list shows that the is still the most common […]

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Latest numbers for the largest .com domain name registrars. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers October 2024. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: Hostinger, GMO and Realtime Register showed huge gains in new registrations in October compared to a year ago Gname […]

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Rebranded company forwards valuable domain name to StrategySoftware.com. Microstrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), the software-turned-bitcoin-speculation company, has rebranded as merely Strategy. The rebranded company still promotes its software but has the Bitcoin currency logo tacked on the end of its logo. Interestingly, the company’s website is on StrategySoftware.com, not strategy.com, even though the company owns the premium […]

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Ultahost is off to a rocky start with ICANN. One of ICANN’s newest domain name registrars is already in breach of its accreditation agreement, just months after signing it. Today, ICANN notified (pdf) Ultahost, Inc., that it is in breach of the agreement and must cure the breach within 21 days. Ultahost signed its accreditation […]

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Actor Walton Goggins shows how he uses GoDaddy Airo for his online business. Super Bowl ads put GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) on the map, and the company is returning to the game this year after an eight-year hiatus. You won’t find any scantily-clad women in this year’s commercial, though. It features actor Walton Goggins (who I […]

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Here are some of the domains end users recently purchased at Sedo. It wasn’t easy to find many domains on this week’s Sedo sales list that have already been developed or for which a buyer can be determined. With a short list of end user sales to work with, I went back to the January […]

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Company will take over auctions from Dynadot. Namecheap has won the right to auction expiring registry .ai domain names going forward. The company’s CEO, Richard Kirkendall, noted the change in a post on X today. Earlier in the day, Vincent Cate, who ran the .ai registry until Identity Digital took it over last month, sent […]

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Barry Keoghan stars in 11th Squarespace Super Bowl commercial. Website building platform Squarespace has revealed its 2025 Super Bowl ad. The commercial features the Irish actor Barry Keoghan riding a horse through the countryside, delivering websites door-to-door like newspapers were once delivered. Keoghan flings laptops with websites on them to townsfolk. One promoting a bar […]

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Domain was registered before the bar’s incorporation. A National Arbitration Forum panel has found that the Seattle bar Monkey Loft Lounge tried to reverse hijack the domain name MonkeyLoft.com. Monkey Loft filed a cybersquatting claim against the domain name even though it was registered before the bar was incorporated. To win a cybersquatting dispute under […]

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Search monetization decline drives revenue lower. Team Internet Group (AIM: TIG, OTCQX: TIGXF) reported preliminary 2024 financial results today. The company said revenue fell 4% to $803 million in 2024, down from $837 million in 2023. Gross profit slid 2% to $188 million from $191 million. The company’s adjusted EBITDA metric dropped 4% to $92 […]

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Upgrades include easier domain changes and bulk updates. One complaint I hear about domain registrar Sav is that its domain dashboard is rather rudimentary. Last week, the company addressed this by launching an entirely new domain admin along with a new website. The admin makes it easy to add/remove columns in the domain dashboard, offering […]

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Previous efforts to mix blockchain with domains have failed. Will new ideas work? I spent a couple of days last week thinking about blockchain technology and how it can impact domains. Blockchain company D3 held its second Dominion conference in Las Vegas immediately following the Internet Commerce Association meeting. It attracted a mix of blockchain […]

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Hear from 12 people who attended the ICA meeting in Las Vegas. Last week, Internet Commerce Association held its annual meeting in Las Vegas. On today’s show, you’ll hear from a dozen people who were at the show. You’ll hear from domain investors about what’s selling well for them, ICA employees and board members, get […]

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Company goes big on a .co.uk domain name. Sedo reported a blockbuster sale this week: tyres.co.uk for £300,000. That’s the fifth-highest .co.uk sale recorded by NameBio, and the highest since 2016. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here. Tyres.co.uk £300,000 – […]

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