Kevin Ohashi - Entrepreneur I Love Learning New Things.

A sports drink company, a laser show business, and an auction site bought domain names. Sedo had some nice sales this week, including event.photography for $10,000. The company’s five public five-figure sales aren’t connected to live websites yet, so it’s not clear who bought them. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that […]

Post link: 10 new end user domain name sales

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

Start the new year off right by taking care of these three tasks. The turn of the calendar can be a fresh start. I use it as a reminder to perform tasks that should be done periodically. Here are three things I did this month to maintain my business. Refresh Sedo inventory I don’t add […]

Post link: Three things for domain investors to do in January

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

Here are 20 end user domain sales that took place over the holidays. Sedo recently published lists of sales from the holiday season. In today’s post, I review 20 end user sales that took place during the two weeks ending January 5. You can view previous lists like this here. Hype.gg $40,000 – Hype Gaming […]

Post link: 20 holiday end user domain name sales

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

Registrar offers big discount with no limits. I do not often write about a domain name registrar’s sale prices, but a new deal starting today warrants its own story. Domain name registrar Spaceship began offering new .com registrations today for just $4.99. Unlike promotions at other registrars, there’s no limit. No coupon code is required. […]

Post link: Spaceship offers $4.99 new .com domain registrations and cheap transfers

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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. […]

Post link: Whois, RDAP, and DNS data – DNW Podcast #517

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: Last month’s top domain stories and podcasts

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: Rob Monster asset auction took place this week

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: Top .com domain registrars: Porkbun jumps, China rebounds?

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: Sedo end user domain name sales: blockchain, AI, and more

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: How to set up a backup payment method at GoDaddy

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: Panel finds reverse domain name hijacking over Amexio .com

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: Two investment groups make proposals to acquire Team Internet Group

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: Playboy.ai: “Little boy playing” defense fails

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: Court dismisses .wallet lawsuit

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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. […]

Post link: Use something other than .com for email? Users weigh in with their experiences

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: 2024 in review – DNW Podcast #516

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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. […]

Post link: How domain name stocks performed in 2024

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: 2024 in review: The Domain Aftermarket

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

.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 […]

Post link: .Ai approaches 600k domains as handoff nears

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

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 […]

Post link: 2024 in review: Domain Parking

© DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.