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Lease-to-own option now available on GoDaddy-branded lander. Afternic has launched a new landing page option that replaces the Dan.com lander while adding additional features. Called the Custom Lander, it allows domain sellers to offer lease-to-own transactions on a GoDaddy-branded lander (and URL) for the first time. It looks very similar to the old Dan.com lander […]

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Fourth-largest new top level domain registry is in the dog house. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to .TOP Registry, the company behind the .top top level domain name. The breach notice says .top has failed to comply with Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) requests, does not have a proper process for handling DNS abuse […]

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Michael Bang has figured out how to find domains with a good chance of being accepted on Atom. He wants to help other domain investors, too. A lot of rookie domain name investors make mistakes when they choose which domains to register. Michael Bang admits he’s made plenty of mistakes. But using Atom as a […]

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Let’s dig into my sales results this year. How are your domain sales so far this year? Mine…not so great. On today’s show, I share in-depth numbers about my sales in the first half of 2024: sell-through rates, top level domains, where I acquired the domains and more. I also hypothesize about why my sales […]

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GoDaddy’s API changes topped last month’s news. These are the top stories on Domain Name Wire from last month. Get this list earlier by subscribing to the Domain Name Wire newsletter. 1. Developers frustrated by recent GoDaddy API restrictions – Developers say they didn’t get advance notice and only found out about the change when […]

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Attackers are hijacking domains to steal crypto assets. Many web3 companies are reporting that their domains registered at Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) have been hijacked. Earlier today, Unstoppable Domains wrote on X that it is a victim. It is concerned that people are spoofing the company in email and might create a fake website to try […]

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Company alleges that GoDaddy is unfairly blocking it from automating customers’ DNS change requests. A company that helps domain owners update DNS records has filed an antitrust lawsuit against GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY). Entri acts as a conduit between SaaS companies and domain registrars. If a customer needs to update their domain’s DNS records to work […]

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These two companies are fighting over the earth. The Website, Inc., which operates an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar called DotEarth, has sued (pdf) a web3 company called Dot Earth Inc. The Website’s domain name registrar is at DotEarth.com. The company was founded in 1999. It holds IANA #64, which shows how old it is. (A […]

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It tried to use UDRP to resolve a trademark dispute, not a cybersquatting dispute. Descon Engineering Limited has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over desconllc.com. The company uses the domain descon.com. The dispute the company filed is a trademark dispute, not a cybersquatting dispute under the Uniform […]

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Early bird deal runs through the end of this month. Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has opened ticket sales and hotel reservations for its annual member meeting in January. Next year’s event will return to Resorts World in Las Vegas, January 26-28, 2025. Early bird tickets are available until the end of July for $399. Hotel […]

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Company could have avoided reverse domain name hijacking decision had it done its homework. A French property management company has lost a cybersquatting dispute and has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Although it likely would not have won the case, had it done proper research, it might have avoided the finding of […]

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A stablecoin operator, a building supply company, and a business that sells used golf clubs bought domain names. Sedo had some notable sales this past week. First, it sold two betting domains: 69bet .com for $140,000 and 27bet .com for $80,000. Is there some Chinese meaning to these numbers? Second, it closed the sale of […]

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The domain was registered well before the company existed. GigPig, A UK company that connects musicians with venues for gigs, has been led to the slaughterhouse in a cybersquatting dispute. The company filed a UDRP against GigPig.com, a domain that was registered in 2001. GigPig was founded in 2021, although it claims it has been […]

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Company increases prices on six top level domain names. If you own a lot of domain names offered by Google Registry, you should consider renewing them before August 1. The company is increasing the wholesale price of six of its domain names by $2 each. That might not seem like much in nominal terms, but […]

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Company wants trademarks for new top level domain names. D3, a company that intends to apply for new top level domain names for various web3 communities, has filed internet-to-use U.S. trademark applications for .ape and .magic. The company has announced plans to apply for the .ape domain name in conjunction with Bored Ape Yacht Club. […]

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Why this group thinks Verisign shouldn’t be able to raise the price of .com domains. Last month, a consortium of advocacy groups asked the US government to take action against the .com contract with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN). On today’s show, Matt Stoller, research director for American Ecomomic Liberties Project and author of The BIG Newsletter, […]

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Company argues that registries and registrars should report incidents to ICANN instead of individual governments. Domain name registry business Identity Digital has asked the U.S. government to create a registry and registrar carveout for cybersecurity incident reporting. In March 2022, President Biden signed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA). The […]

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New requirement kicks in this year for companies to file ownership statements. U.S. domain name investors who operate their business as a limited liability company or corporation have a new filing requirement this year. Nearly all businesses (other than sole proprietorships not filed with a Secretary of State) must file a Beneficial Ownership statement with […]

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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.

Also covered by:

• DomainNameWire: Google open sources domain registry, Donuts collaborates as pressure on registry providers mounts. The article focusses on the rising pressure on Domain Registry Operators, and a potential switch of platforms by Donuts away from Rightside.

Here’s the full press release:

Date: 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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