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Here’s what you should know ahead of ICANN82. [Editor’s note: ICANN’s annual Community Forum begins this Saturday in Seattle. Although I reside in the Seattle area, I live on an island and don’t know as much about the city as you’d expect for someone who has lived here for six years. So I asked long-time […]

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AbdulBasit Makrani shares recent results from his 10,000+ domain portfolio. What kind of results can you get from a portfolio of just over 10,000 domains? My guest this week shares details of his sales last year. AbdulBasit Makrani was last on the show in November 2023, when he had just boosted his sales by lowering […]

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Former .ai administrator shares that Identity Digital is keeping 10% of revenues from the domain. A couple of people have sent me videos this week of former .ai domain administrator Vincent Cate talking about the domain names. One of the videos, from March of 2024, discusses the finances and trajectory of the domain name. In […]

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President Donald Trump’s decision will impact future of British Indian Ocean Territory. The issue of the .io country code domain will be up for discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump today, in a very roundabout way. The United Kingdom has a plan to hand control of the so-called British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius. The […]

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Complainants get one shot at UDRP and need to put their best foot forward. UDRP provider FORUM, aka National Arbitration Forum, published two UDRP decisions this week that show why complainants need a legal representative. In both cases, the complainants submitted bare-bones disputes. And both complainants found out that panelists aren’t going to do the […]

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Man says Rob Monster has yet to pay to settle up after a failed escrow transaction. An Epik customer has filed a notice of breach of contract/settlement agreement (pdf) in King County court in Seattle against former Epik CEO Rob Monster. In a previous lawsuit, Matthew Adkisson alleged that he agreed to buy nourish .com […]

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It baffles me that Meta can’t stop these scams when they occurs on its own messaging platform. If you manage a Facebook page then you’re used to receiving scam messages telling you your account is about to be deleted. A typical message looks like this: We have detected that your Facebook page has been schedule […]

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Price increase helps Escrow.com increase revenues in 2024. Escrow.com’s parent company, Freelancer.com (ASX: FLN) (OTCQX: FLNCF), released earnings results today for Q4 2024 and the full year 2024. For the year, Gross Marketplace Volume (GMV, a measure of total transaction value) fell 7.9% to AUS $818.2 million at Escrow.com (excluding Freelancer). For Q4, it fell […]

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Entri sued after GoDaddy prevented the startup from making changes to customers’ DNS records. Domain registrar GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) and Entri, a firm that helps customers change DNS records, have settled their lawsuit. Entri acts as a conduit between SaaS companies and domain registrars. If a customer needs to update their domain’s DNS records to […]

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A sports betting business, a physical security products seller, and a trade organization bought domain names. .AI domains continue to sell well, and Sedo had a couple of nice sales this week. Enable.ai ($40,000) sold to an end user, and the buyer for nano.ai ($25,000) is not yet known. Another notable sale for which we […]

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Look out below; the domain industry was just dealt another huge blow. In September 2024, Google informed advertisers that new Google ad accounts would automatically be opted out of serving ads on parked domains. That meant that the growth of new ads to show on parked domains would stop, and over time, there would be […]

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Chinese company asks court not to issue contempt sanctions in long-running dispute. A Chinese company that once owned domain registrar 35.com has told a court that it shouldn’t apply contempt sanctions to it in a cybersquatting dispute with Facebook parent Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). Leascend Technology Co., formerly known as Xiamen 35.com Technology Co., responded […]

Post link: Court filing: Too late, 35.com is sold, and Chinese law wouldn’t let registrar pay Facebook

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This domain investor boosted his sales by changing his landing pages. On today’s show, I talk to a domain investor who has been very successful with .io and .ai domain names. He discusses how he’s tweaking his approach to investing in these domains in today’s domain investing landscape. He also shares his 2024 domain sales […]

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Halliburton filed a cybersquatting case. The cybersquatter was ostensibly Halliburton itself. World Intellectual Property Organization has published an interesting cybersquatting case decision. Officially, the dispute is titled Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. v. Hostmaster, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. The energy giant used to be the registrant of the domain name halliburton .jobs. In October, it filed […]

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Liverpool FC lost a case it filed at Czech Arbitration Court. Liverpool Football Club has lost a cybersquatting dispute it brought against the domain name name LiverpoolFCTickets .com. The football team filed the cybersquatting dispute with Czech Arbitration Court, one of the groups that decides cases under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). […]

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.Ai domains were the big story last year. But there’s another TLD worth looking into. Afternic released a lot of data about how top level domains performed on its platform in 2024. A couple of things stand out to me. First, let’s look at the top TLDs based on total dollar value: Unsurprisingly, .com dominates. […]

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This new blockchain-based DNS has some holes. I give some of these blockchain companies points for creativity. But geez. I just came across a press release issued last month from a company called Packet. It promises decentralized, censorship-resistant domains. However, unlike some previous blockchain “domain” systems, it says websites built on Packet are accessible through […]

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New annual report reflects pressure from outside groups to rein in .com pricing. .Com registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) tweaked the language about challenges to the .com registry agreement in its 2024 annual report released this month. Specifically, the company added adversaries to a list of potential challengers to the renewal of the .com contract. Under […]

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Check out the official schedule for ICANN Seattle. ICANN has published the schedule for its Community Forum, which will take place in Seattle in March. The meeting technically starts on March 8, but the welcome ceremony isn’t until Monday, March 10. That evening, the opening reception will also be held. While I mostly attend these […]

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A fish farm, an AI company, and an online furniture seller bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this past week was weights.com, and the buyer isn’t using the domain as you might expect. By the way, Sedo’s next GreatDomains auction begins on Thursday. Domains for sale include excitement.com, y3.com, and company.ai. Here’s a list […]

Post link: 15 end user domain name sales up to $85,000

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