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Organization filed UDRP after first trying to buy the domain name. A Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP) panelist has found Illinois Agricultural Association (IAA) guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The organization, which was founded in 1912, filed the dispute against the domain name iaa.org. It uses the domain iaafoundation.org. Whois shows iaa.org is […]

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Learn the secret to this domain investor’s success. Trade publications and entrepreneurship media often profile C-level executives and entrepreneurs who wake up early to get a start on the day or who burn the midnight oil. It made me think, why not profile a domain investor? So here’s a profile of a day in the […]

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Complainants need to understand the purpose of UDRP. Another company has mistaken what the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) can be used for. It’s designed to quickly resolve clear-cut cases of cybersquatting, not trademark disputes. TomoCredit, Inc. filed the case against tomo.com, which is owned by Tomo Networks, Inc. The Complainant is a credit […]

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Award honors those with top dollar volume on Escrow.com. Escrow.com has unveiled its 2025 Master of Domains awards, honoring the top 10 domain brokers by transaction volume on its platform for deals closed in 2024. Topping the list once again is Andrew Rosener of Media Options, who has now led the ranking for seven years […]

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How to handle complex payments and other complications. Sometimes, agreeing on a price is the simple part of a domain name transaction. There can be all sorts of hurdles to completing the deal. For example, what if one of the parties doesn’t want to complete Know Your Customer requirements for escrow? What if a seller […]

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Ecommerce business forks over seven figures for domain name. BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), the Shopify competitor that helps customers sell stuff online, purchased a domain name for $2.444 million in Q1. The company disclosed the purchase in its financial results for Q1 published yesterday. While the company did not disclose what the domain name was, I […]

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Expired domains revenue continues to lift results at Tucows. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported first-quarter earnings after the market closed yesterday. Overall revenue increased 8% year over year to $94.6 million, with the domain business growing 6% to $65.3 million. Gross margin for the domain business increased 9% to $20.2 million. The increase came despite domains […]

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Sahar Sarid and co-defendants sentenced to probation. The three remaining defendants in a California criminal case involving Mugshots.com have been sentenced after entering into a plea agreement. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced charges of extortion, money laundering, and identity theft against the four alleged operators in 2018. According to Becerra’s office, the site published […]

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End users bought these domains at Sedo this past week. Sedo had a couple of nice sales this past week that are surely to end users, but for which the buyers’ identities are not yet known. Sollers.com sold for $50,000. The first Google result is for a Russian auto company, but other companies also use […]

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Panelist shows how train maker’s bad faith arguments didn’t make sense. A recent UDRP decision at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) raises interesting questions about complainant diligence and reverse domain name hijacking. Alstom, a French train and rail manufacturer, filed a dispute against the domain name AlstoMarketing .com. The company became aware of the […]

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GoDaddy back above 600k monthly adds; Namecheap adds nearly 400k .coms. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers January 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: GoDaddy had a better January than the month prior (when it dipped below 600k), although it was […]

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Company went after domains that were registered in good faith by arguing retroactive bad faith. A UDRP panel has found Styleline Studios International Limited to have tried reverse hijacking two domain names. The case shows the limits of using UDRP to settle commercial disputes when a domain is originally registered in good faith. Styleline filed […]

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Saw.com discloses recent sales, including the longest domain it has ever brokered. Every week, I post a report showing end user sales from Sedo. I appreciate that Sedo shares sales data because it helps all domain investors. Recently, Saw.com offered to provide some end user sales to me. While the brokerage couldn’t attach prices to […]

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Both companies have trademarks, and Respondent’s predate the Complainant’s. A UDRP panelist has found Quality Transportation Services, Inc. to have tried reverse domain name hijacking smartrail.com. It filed a cybersquatting case against Regal Rexnord Corporation, a machinery company. Both the Complainant and Respondent have trademark rights for the term Smart Rail/Smartrail, just in different fields […]

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Company with pending lawsuit tries to settle trademark dispute with UDRP. A three-member National Arbitration Forum panel has found Renu Medispa, L.L.C. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over the domain name RenewCDA.com. Renu Medispa filed the UDRP in March against Angela Sattler, who operates Renew Aesthetics & IV Hydration Bar in […]

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Meskonis hopes to revive yet another domain forum. Helmuts Meskonis, founder of Domain Summit, has acquired the domain forum NamesLot. The non-monetary transaction sees Meskonis’ companies providing advertising and promotional services to the seller. Meskonis now has seven domain name forums. It’s unsurprising if you haven’t heard of NamesLot; the forum has been inactive since […]

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An Indian defense company, a jewelry business, and a Chinese electronics testing company bought domain names. Sedo published two sales lists this past week. I already published an end user list from the first one; below are sales from the second week. You can view previous lists like this here. QuoteIQ.com $8,800 – This domain […]

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Dates and new venue announced for ICA meeting. The Internet Commerce Association has announced a new venue and dates for its 2026 annual member meeting. Next year’s event will take place January 15–17, 2026 (Thursday through Saturday), at Park MGM in Las Vegas. The new location offers several benefits over the previous venue, Resorts World, […]

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Indian publisher sought domain used by famed UK media company. In a battle between centuries-old news organizations, The Times in London has won. Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. publishes The Times of India, which began publishing in 1838. It filed a cybersquatting dispute with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against the domain TimesNow.com, which […]

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A deep dive into what’s happening in the primary and secondary domain markets. Every year, InterNetX and Sedo release a Global Domain Report. On this week’s show, I speak with representatives of the two companies to understand more about the 2025 report. First, Simone Catania of InterNetX joins me to explain what goes into developing […]

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