I’m hosting two sessions today at NamesCon. The annual NamesCon Global event kicks off in Austin this morning. Over 1,000 people have registered for the event, which is being held in conjunction with CloudFest USA. I’m hosting two fireside chats today, and I hope you’ll attend if you’re in Austin. At …
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The good days are back, as domain sales at Escrow.com in Q1 2023 matched Q1 2022. .AI domain transactions are surging, and interest in non-.ai domains for AI businesses is even higher. We already knew that Escrow.com saw a rebound in its business last quarter. Now, the company has quantified …
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Combined company will have technology and brokerage experience. Domain name brokerage Saw.com and NameSilo (CSE: URL) announced today that Saw.com is merging with NameSilo’s NameLot. The combination will give Saw.com a technology stack for selling more domains. The companies already had a sales partnership. Whenever someone searched for a name …
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Listing domains for sale is about to get easier. It might be difficult to remember, but there was a time when aftermarket domain name transactions were much more complex. If a buyer in China wanted your domain, they had to go to the landing page where it was advertised for …
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New TLD sales of up to $250,000. Identity Digital has released to Domain Name Wire the details of 36 “platinum” domain name sales from recent years. Platinum domains are ones that the registry held back for sale to customers. All but one of the domains are in new TLDs; the …
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He might have sold it to the other company that tried to buy it earlier. Earlier this year, entrepreneur Dharmesh Shah acquired chat.com for over $10 million. He just flipped the domain name. Shah posted on LinkedIn this morning that he sold the domain name to another (currently anonymous) party …
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Namecheap’s application describes a way to call people by domain name. A diagram from Namecheap’s patent for “Domain Communications System.” Domain name registrar Namecheap has filed a U.S. patent application for a “domain communication system.” The application (pdf) describes a system where you can contact someone using their domain name …
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Complainant cited Whois privacy service’s details to suggest an association with malware distribution. Markel Corporation has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name MarkelGroup.com. The company filed a UDRP complaint with National Arbitration Forum against a domain registrant in Florida. Markel’s big mistake was to …
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Ouch. A dental supply company has lost a cybersquatting dispute in which it tried to grab the valuable domain painless.com. Benco Dental Supply Co. filed a UDRP with National Arbitration Forum against Pain Management, Inc. As the registrant’s name suggests, the domain registrant has previously offered pain management medical services. …
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A florist, a dream interpretation site, and a furniture design company bought domain names. China, Germany, Italy, Austria, United States. Sedo is the king of country code domain names, and this week’s end user sales chart is a prime example. ccTLDs outnumber the .coms on the list! But my favorite …
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I feel like a hand-registration genius. AI-powered domain name generators are opening many people’s eyes to the quality of domains available for hand registration. Before these tools became available, most domain investors generated domains to hand register in one of two ways: 1. Follow trends for new words, technologies, etc., …
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Get ready for next week’s live domain name auction. NamesCon is next week, and that means it’s time for another live domain name auction. On today’s show, Monte Cahn of Right of the Dot discusses what goes into planning a live auction, some of the names he’s excited about, and …
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AI is still very hot. Today, Afternic published the top keywords in aftermarket domain sales from March. Let’s start with the list before digging in a bit: 1. The 2. My 3. I 4. AI 5. Of 6. It 7. Group 8. And 9. To 10. Health 11. For 12. …
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More awards and an in-person awards ceremony are on tap this year. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the organization that runs .org, has put out a call for nominations for this year’s .ORG Impact Awards. It’s the fifth year that PIR will honor organizations and individuals making an impact on the …
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Panelist rules that Valhallan filed a cybersquatting dispute in bad faith. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) Valhallan, LLC to have tried reverse domain name hijacking. Valhallan, an esports training company, uses the domain name valhallan.com (one L in the first instance). It filed the dispute against …
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Deja vu. Not so fast (or slow, as you might observe). Just weeks after ICANN’s board decided the organization should move forward with contracting .web to Nu Dot Co, which plans to assign the domain to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the timeline is in doubt again. Posting on its website today, …
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