Wholesale prices will increase by 7%. .Com prices are about to increase, so now is an excellent time to renew domain names to beat the higher costs. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the company that operates the .com registry, will increase wholesale prices from $9.59 to $10.26 on September 1. Most registrars add a margin to this, […]
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Domain name investors have a new option for selling their domains. Domain name brokerage service Saw.com launched a new domain name sales platform today. The platform allows domain name owners to list domains for sale, point them to Saw.com landers (example), and either self-broker the domains or hand them off to Saw.com’s brokers. Sellers will […]
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Company said weakness in OAuth caused domain hijackings. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) has posted a postmortem on a security incident that impacted mostly crypto/web3 company sites earlier this month. Several web3 companies reported that their domain names, which were registered at Squarespace, were compromised and their DNS settings were hijacked. The issue was detected on July […]
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These were the top selling keywords at Afternic in May. Afternic has revealed the top keywords in domain names sold on its platform in May. As the largest domain name marketplace and distribution network, this list is a fairly good representation of which domain names sell most commonly in the aftermarket. Here is the list, […]
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American Ecomomic Liberties Project says there are ways to pressure Verisign to lower .com prices. Last month, American Economic Liberties Project sent a letter to the U.S. government asking it to halt the renewal of the Cooperative Agreement with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for running .com. It argued that Verisign has a monopoly that allows it […]
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Friend bought friend.com on a payment plan rather than forking over most of its cash. There are a lot of stories going around today about Friend launching on the friend.com domain name. The maker of the AI product somewhat reminiscent of Her announced a $2.5 million fundraising round. It also said it acquired the domain […]
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Alt-root blockchain domains depend on resale value to survive. That’s a recipe for failure. The group behind .tez names recently made a proposal that I think encapsulates the problem with alt-root blockchain “domain” names. Tezos Domains are like many of these so-called domain names. Despite promises of lots of functionality, they currently function in one […]
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Panel agrees that the domain investor likely bought the domain for its value as a dictionary word. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled against Abnormal Security Corporation in a dispute over abnormal.ai. Domain investor Narendra Ghimire purchased the domain name in an expired domain auction in 2022 for $1,035. The three-person panel agreed that […]
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Company filed two cases against the same business. Both were doomed to fail. Descon Engineering Limited of Pakistan has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for the second time. Both UDRP cases involved the same domain name owner. Earlier this month, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published a decision by panelist Scott Blackmer […]
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Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name registrations, a drop of 1.8 million over the quarter. The domain base is down 2.2% […]
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Three Republican lawmakers have opened an inquiry into Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) contract to run the .com domain name registry. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chair Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter (pdf) to the National […]
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Digging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month’s report: GoDaddy registered over 100,000 fewer .com domains this March than last March. It has 1.2 million fewer .com […]
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Phishers continue to like cheap domains. Interisle published its Phishing Landscape 2024 report today, naming top level domains and registrars commonly used in phishing attacks. The company analyzed 1.9 million phishing attacks that took place between May 2023 and April 2024. Notably, this period began shortly after Freenom, a phisher’s favorite because of its free country […]
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A bank, a tax law firm, and an IT infrastructure company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from reporting domain name sales. But I don’t want readers to go hungry! So this week, I went back and looked at some of the sales from last month that have subsequently been developed, […]
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Paying customers can now import leads to use Efty Pay. Domain name sales platform Efty has launched the first iteration of Efty Pay for sellers. For the initial launch, Efty customers with an active subscription can import leads to use Efty Pay to complete the transaction. Sellers will need to complete a verification process, and […]
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A domain broker gives me tips to sell more domains. Last week, I talked about how my domain sales are down so far this year. Jeffrey Gabriel, Saw.com founder and domain broker, joins me this week to talk about what I can do to change this trajectory. He gives some frank advice about my domains, […]
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Its communications suggest not that much. Lately, Unstoppable Domains has been making a lot of announcements about partnering with companies to apply for top level domains through ICANN. The company currently peddles alt-root blockchain-based domain names to consumers. It has changed its marketing message for the times, pitching them as a backlash against censoring, then […]
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AI could have decided this case. World Intellectual Property Organization published a decision for young.com today. The three-person panel unanimously found in favor of the domain registrant (pdf) and found that Complainant Young Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed the case in bad faith. The panel had especially harsh words for the Complainant, noting that “to assert that it […]
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Google announced this morning that they are releasing their TLD registry platform, Nomulus, which is written in Java, under an Apache 2.0 license. The company uses the software to run their own registry for their TLDs. Portfolio TLD applicant Donuts has partnered with Google and contributed to the source code – they will also be running a public test instance of the system, which is geared towards being run on the Google Cloud Platform. So far, Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) has been operating Donuts’ registry backend.
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Here’s the full press release:
Introducing Nomulus: an Open Source Top-Level Domain Name RegistryDate: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 8:00am PT
Author: Ben McIlwain, Software Engineer
Today, Google is proud to announce the release of Nomulus, a new open source cloud-based registry platform that powers Google’s top level domains (TLDs). We’re excited to make this piece of Internet infrastructure available to everyone.
TLDs are the top level of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS), and they collectively host every domain name on the Internet. To manage a TLD, you need a domain name registry — a behind-the-scenes system that stores registration details and DNS information for all domain names under that TLD. It handles WHOIS queries and requests to buy, check, transfer, and renew domain names. When you purchase a domain name on a TLD using a domain name registrar, such as Google Domains, the registrar is actually conducting business with that TLD’s registry on your behalf. That’s why you can transfer a domain from one registrar to another and have it remain active and 100% yours the entire time.
The project that became Nomulus began in 2011 when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the biggest ever expansion of Internet namespace, aimed at improving choice and spurring innovation for Internet users. Google applied to operate a number of new generic TLDs, and built Nomulus to help run them.
We designed Nomulus to be a brand-new registry platform that takes advantage of the scalability and easy operation of Google Cloud Platform. Nomulus runs on Google App Engine and is backed by Google Cloud Datastore, a highly scalable NoSQL database. Nomulus can manage any number of TLDs in a single shared instance and supports the full range of TLD functionality required by ICANN, including the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), WHOIS, reporting, and trademark protection. It is written in Java and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
We hope that by providing access to our implementation of core registry functions and up-and-coming services like Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP), we can demonstrate advanced features of Google Cloud Platform and encourage interoperability and open standards in the domain name industry for registry operators like Donuts. With approximately 200 TLDs, Donuts has made early contributions to the Nomulus code base and has spun up an instance which they’ll be sharing soon.
For more information, view Nomulus on GitHub.
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