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Owner of Spase.io is really upset about losing a UDRP for Spase.com. An entrepreneur who was found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name Spase.com went on a twitter rant Friday, railing against the decision and calling ensuing media coverage “fake news”. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel …

How domain brokers, buyers, and sellers should act ethically. How should domain name brokers behave? On today’s show, domain buyer broker Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja discusses the role of buyer brokers, seller brokers, and buyers and sellers in domain name transactions. There are a lot of shady things that …

Chinese companies might move their domains from the United States. Domaingang.com reported on September 24 that WeChat.com has recently moved from the USA-based registrar MarkMonitor to the China-based eName. This happened amid the worsening relationship between the USA and China. Naturally, you may wonder whether it is just a single …

A crypto transaction is not a tax-free transaction. U.S. taxpayers who sell domain names for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether must report these as income on their income tax returns. For this year’s tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service is setting a trap for anyone who doesn’t report cryptocurrency …

Some nouns have rarely-used plurals. I’ve acquired domain names to start businesses, and I’ve talked to lots of entrepreneurs when they were selecting their domain names. In some cases, they have their eye on a great one or two-word domain name. A question inevitably comes up, particularly for nouns: what …

After losing UDRP for Pocketbook.com, e-reader maker tries U.S. courts. The maker of PocketBook e-readers is suing over the domain name Pocketbook.com. Image from one of Pocketbook’s regional websites. PocketBook International SA, a company that sells ebook readers, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to try to get the domain name …

I’m planting lots of small seeds and making marginally bigger bets. There are lots of great domain investors out there. People who make bold investments and great sales. I am not one of those people. I’m good at it, but not great. (Note that some of the people you think …

Moderna buys a domain and Microsoft sells one. Xplore offers “Space as a Service”, helping companies get scientific research projects to space. It bought the domain Trajectory.com at Sedo. Moderna, a healthcare company trying to create a Covid-19 vaccine, bought the domain ModernVaccines.com at Sedo this past week. It wasn’t …

Second brand aimed at high-end buyers. Imperial.com, Andy Booth’s latest domain brokerage brand. If you’re going to sell premium domains, it’s helpful to use premium domains yourself. Or two premium domains. That’s the strategy domain investor Andy Booth is taking. He started using Evolve.com for his brokerage last year. Now …

A new company goes after domain registered in 2005. The owner of a business called Spase has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name Spase.com. Spase is a service that converts photographs into 3D models. The business was just launched last year at Spase.io. The …

Two-factor users should no longer get errors when submitting domains through Domain Listing Service. They fixed the glitch. GoDaddy has fixed an annoying issue with its Domain Listing Service. Domain Listing Service allows GoDaddy customers to list domain names on the Afternic network from within their GoDaddy accounts. Customers can …

Owners told a newspaper they turned down a $145,000 offer for the domain name. TikToks.com, soon to be owned by Bytedance. In June, the Herald Sun published an article about two Melbourne teens who have had success with online businesses. The article stated: And about six months ago, the pair purchased …

False information does significant damage. False allegations and stories seem to travel around the internet much faster than the truth. And I’m not just talking about politics. Last week, a Hacker News story made waves when someone suggested that GoDaddy engaged in frontrunning searches; i.e., it saw what a user …

You can now see how many top level domains a word is registered under. OneWord.Domains now shows how popular a word is across top level domains. OneWord.Domains is a site dedicated to helping people find available one word domain names across many different top level domain names. Not all one …

How are web businesses faring? It depends on the audience. By now, we have a good idea about what is happening in the domain name industry due to the pandemic. But what about developed websites? The answer, unsurprisingly, is that web businesses are experiencing mixed results. Peter Askew runs three …

Company tries to use UDRP to take domain registered in 1997 by now-deceased man. One of the world’s most valuable companies just plumbed new depths in cybersquatting disputes. Saudi Aramco, the $133 billion Saudi Arabian oil company, filed trademarks for a new brand called Orizon last year. Naturally, the company …