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Initial registration surge wanes, but expect more after priority period. Australian businesses and consumers have registered 127,000 second level .au domain names so far, a little over a month since they were launched. Until March 24 of this year, you could only register third level domains such as example.com.au and …

Rothnie made the right call in this dispute. Outfront Media, a large outdoor advertising company in the United States, has lost (pdf) a UDRP it filed against the owner of outfront.co. The case was decided fairly, and the panelist deserves props for considering the issue of reverse domain name hijacking …

Domain aftermarket propels Core Platform segment to better-than-expected revenue. Revenue in GoDaddy’s (NYSE: GDDY) “Core Platform” segment grew ahead of expectations last quarter, and the company credits the aftermarket for the better-than-expected results. In prepared remarks during the investor conference call yesterday, Mark McCaffrey, GoDaddy CFO, stated: Core platform revenue, …

Company filed a “Plan B” case after failing to buy the domain name. Canon City Property Management LLC, a property management company in Canon City, Colorado, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a UDRP against the domain name canoncitypropertymanagement.com. That domain is registered to …

Results divided into only two segments now, providing less visibility into the domains business. GoDaddy reported Q1 results after the market closed today. For the quarter, GoDaddy generated $1.003 billion in revenue, up 11% from the same quarter last year. This slightly topped guidance. Net income was up from $10.8 …

A robotic lawnmower company, an autonomous store creator, and a machine learning company bought domain names. Sedo had a good sales week in terms of volume, turning in 79 public sales of $2,000 or more. The top two sales weren’t .com: casinoapps .org for $42,500 and pfp.xyz for $34,999. The …

Here’s what made news in the domain name business last month. 1. Namecheap and GoDaddy fight about domain aftermarket – GoDaddy president of domains Paul Nicks and Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall traded barbs on Twitter. 2. NFT company Dapper Labs registers hundreds of domain names – AppDetex has landed a …

Kavanaugh’s novel arguments don’t persuade panel. Ryan Kavanaugh lost a UDRP he filed to take down this website. As I predicted, film financier Ryan Kavanaugh lost a cybersquatting challenge he filed against YouTuber and host of the H3 podcast, Ethan Klein. Klein created a website at doesryankavanaughlooklikeharveyweinstein.com that compares Kavanaugh’s …

Demand for domains is off to a slower start this year. Earlier today, I published the latest .com rankings, which evaluated top registrars’ performances in January of this year for .com domains. The numbers tell us something we already knew: demand for new .com domains is tempering. Last week, Verisign …

These are the fastest growing and biggest domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers January 2022. Registrations slowed in Q1, and we should see this reflected in the top registrar reports. New …

Latest tax return reveals big salaries and a growing treasure chest. ICANN has filed its 2021 Form 990 (pdf), which is the non-profit equivalent of a U.S. tax return. The return covers the 12-month period ending June 30, 2021. Here are some noteworthy points: Nine employees had total compensation of …

How people sextupled their money in one week. Short numeric .eth domains have shot up in value. Three and four digit .eth domain names are the new hot thing. Over the past week or so, prices of short numeric .eth domains have taken off. .Eth domains are connected to Ethereum …

Untapped agrees to a permanent injunction against using the Canvas brand. The future is Untapped, and that’s a bummer for the company formerly known as Canvas. Image from Untapped blog announcing the name change. Instructure and Untapped (formerly called Canvas) have settled their lawsuit. Instructure (NYSE: INST) sued Canvas in …

I still don’t understand its domain strategy. I’ve questioned Yuga Labs’ defensive domain registration strategy before and I’m going to do it again. In March I wrote about how the Bored Ape Yacht Club creator registered over 1,000 domain names related to its brands including BAYC, CryptoPunks and Ape Coin. …

Michael Cyger talks about selling DNAcademy and what it could mean for domain investors. In his first interview since selling DNAcademy to GoDaddy, Michael Cyger talks about how the deal came together and, more importantly, what it could mean for domain name investors. We also discuss how GoDaddy is working …

Google Registry launches .channel with a different business plan. Google broadens the audience for .channel, which launches in sunrise this week. Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) launches the .channel top level domain into sunrise tomorrow, May 3, with a different business plan than what it initially envisaged. .Channel was originally intended as …