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ICANN received 1,600 top-level domain applications in its latest round, down 17% from the 2012 expansion cycle.
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ICANN received 1,600 top-level domain applications in its latest round, down 17% from the 2012 expansion cycle.
Read more →Namecheap experienced a significant outage Thursday after cooling system failure at a Phoenix datacenter took thousands of servers offline.
Read more →GoDaddy opens Auctions API to all users, enabling programmatic domain searches, bidding, and purchases through its platform.
Read more →Infoblox research finds approximately 65,000 expired domains trade daily, highlighting potential security risks in domain market activity.
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Read more →Escrow.com facilitated $37.7 million in .AI domain sales in Q2, according to its Domain Investment Index.
Read more →Escrow.com's Q2 2026 report shows domain market transaction volume reached $160 million, up 25% quarter-over-quarter, with .AI domains hitting $37.7 million.
Read more →Domain owner conducts outbound marketing campaign to sell long-held domain name lacking inbound interest.
Read more →Link Freedom Group submitted over 300 applications for new generic top-level domains before ICANN's application window closed Wednesday.
Read more →Link Freedom Group disclosed over 300 domain name strings in its ICANN new top-level domain application.
Read more →DropCatch domain auction results from August 12, 2026 included FunArena.com selling for $5,520.
Read more →Jagex Limited filed a second UDRP against GrinderScape.org, claiming the prior respondent's defense relied on AI-generated false statements.
Read more →Public Interest Registry named 35 finalists for its .Org Impact Awards from 4,200 submissions, with each finalist receiving a guaranteed donation prize.
Read more →Ethereum Name Service establishes new foundation structure to advance .ens top-level domain application.
Read more →NamesCon Global 2026 agenda released, featuring sessions and keynotes scheduled for November 11-12 in Miami, Florida.
Read more →Web3 naming companies face integration challenges when applying for matching top-level domains in ICANN's new TLD round.
Read more →Phusion Projects' UDRP complaint against FourLokoFriday.com was denied after the respondent demonstrated the domain supported a legitimate private event, not trademark infringement.
Read more →Team.ai domain sold for $136,500 at Namecheap auction, reflecting continued demand for artificial intelligence-related web addresses.
Read more →ShortDot and Dot Hip Hop partner to expand marketing and registrar support for the .HipHop top-level domain.
Read more →.AI domains dominated the top 10 highest-priced sales this period, with all ten exceeding six figures, according to DNJournal's leaderboard.
Read more →DropCatch domain auction results from August 11, 2026 included MyDeco.com selling for $5,750.
Read more →GoDaddy launched its first liquidation auction, allowing a 500-domain portfolio sale to test the market for portfolio exits and downsizing.
Read more →Banque Palatine filed unsuccessful UDRP complaint against PalatineGrp.com, a Washington-based policy advisory site registered in March 2026.
Read more →Dragonfly.com returns to market months after selling in a seven-figure transaction, signaling potential resale activity in premium domain investments.
Read more →Afternic reported 27 domain sales exceeding $1,000 from July 1-15, including acquisitions by Wix and other end users.
Read more →Phishing alert: fraudulent email impersonating Atom circulating with .CO domain spoofing legitimate brand identity.
Read more →Atom, an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and marketplace, ranked #1,313 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies.
Read more →UpSnatch has built a dedicated browser for GoDaddy's liquidation auction, letting investors filter and inspect all 2,099 listed domains before they commit to a bid.
Read more →CampdenFb.com went for $3,910 in DropCatch's auctions on 10 August 2026, one of the results worth pulling out of that day's ledger.
Read more →A UK apparel company went after LoyalSoldiers.com on trademark grounds. The domain had been held a decade by a Costa Rica-based investor. It ended in a finding of reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →A French pharmaceutical company's complaint against Tedis.com was dismissed. The investor's $95,000 asking price, the panel found, proves nothing about cybersquatting.
Read more →# Rewrite: Domain buyer rejected $1,000 purchase offer, pursued costlier UDRP complaint that resulted in reverse hijacking finding.
Read more →NamesCon discusses anticipated changes for its 2026 event following last year's relocation to Miami under new ownership.
Read more →Domain investor meetup scheduled for August 29th in Ottawa, joining similar networking events held in other major cities.
Read more →The latest ICANN data has GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace and the rest of the leading .com registrars all down on the month before.
Read more →GoDaddy is taking fresh criticism over its aftermarket practices, though people who watch the industry closely reckon not every complaint in the pile is deserved.
Read more →Home Depot has filed a UDRP against VigoroCo.com, a Chinese-registered domain that carries its VIGORO trademark with a small tweak attached.
Read more →July was up on June at Spaceship's SellerHub: Buy It Now sales grew 13%, Make an Offer transactions 14%.
Read more →VisitReno.com fetched $9,250 through DropCatch's backordering network on 7 August 2026, among the selected results from that day.
Read more →GoDaddy launches its first liquid auction event to streamline domain sales and attract international buyers.
Read more →Venturi Engineering Solutions, a Canadian firm, keeps Venturi.ai after the Monaco automaker of the same name brought a UDRP and lost.
Read more →Nameshift's sales week of 27 July to 2 August 2026 included tvbes.com at €11,111, alongside the rest of the reported figures.
Read more →Disputes ran the month in July. Telegram's suspension, US seizure efforts and the .web launches accounted for much of the top coverage.
Read more →Tucows domain revenue fell 4% year on year to $65.0M in Q2, an improvement sequentially after the company shed some large customers.
Read more →OneFundBoston.org changed hands for $5,010 on 6 August 2026, picked out from DropCatch's auction results for the day.
Read more →Namecheap founder Richard Kirkendall has detailed recent .ai sales closed on Spaceship Sellerhub, a mix of previously reported transactions and fresh ones.
Read more →Plugable Technologies filed a UDRP against Pluggable.com, a dictionary word registered in 2009 for an unrelated business. The panel found reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →Thirty transactions, $2.29 million, all in .AI: that's Spaceship's tally. The biggest single deal came in at $200,000, which tells you where the ceiling currently sits on that extension.
Read more →Ray Dalio has filed a UDRP over RDalio.com, registered in Nigeria. The name clips his first name to an initial and keeps the surname intact, which is the whole of the complaint.
Read more →Plugable, which makes docking stations, lost more than its case at WIPO. The panel found reverse domain name hijacking, pointing to the founder's Reddit post and the thinness of the legal argument.
Read more →From the DropCatch auction sheet for 5 August 2026: RewardClub.com went for $10,505, picked up through the backordering service.
Read more →Dassault Systèmes came away with nothing from its UDRP against MediTwin.ai. The respondent produced development records, and the panel accepted the name was arrived at independently.
Read more →Porkbun now has four million domains under management across 750,000 customers. It has also signed on to DomainAttest, the ownership verification service.
Read more →Four million registered domains for Porkbun, which recent industry polling places fifth among competing registrars. A respectable number in a business where the top spots rarely move.
Read more →Omanta, a cancer research startup with Y Combinator behind it, has launched on Omanta.com. The brandable was bought from Atom before the name went public.
Read more →Two days after Google launched its NANO BANANA image-editing model, someone in China registered Nano-Banana.com. Google has now filed a UDRP over it.
Read more →Atom's latest end user sales run up to $128k, with buyers including a financial trading platform, a clean energy firm and a merchandise site.
Read more →Atom's DomainAttest, now backed by Porkbun, is an open specification for verifying who owns a domain. No DNS TXT records to add, no nameservers to change; verification happens on the spot.
Read more →Talar.com fetched $3,801 in DropCatch's 4 August 2026 auctions. The service chases expiring names the moment they drop, using a wide net of ICANN-accredited registrars to improve its catch rate.
Read more →DFB is Deutscher Fußball-Bund, which runs German football competitions, the national teams and a streaming service. Its UDRP against DFB.tv, registered in May 2007, did not go its way.
Read more →Comply Academy's founder runs a compliance-training business from ComplyAcademy.com, mostly for Mexico and Spanish-speaking audiences. The UDRP against Comply.Academy, registered February 2021, failed: descriptive name, genuine business at the other end.
Read more →A University of Florida athletic group went after TheSwamp.com, arguing it had used the phrase before the current owner bought the domain. The panel called it reverse hijacking.
Read more →August is meant to be the dead month. It isn't. Buying patterns have gone atypical and the domain market is running hotter now than at almost any other point in the year.
Read more →NamesLink.com has launched as a registrar, which means competing with entrenched, deep-pocketed incumbents in one of the industry's most crowded categories. Its people reckon they can outswim the pack.
Read more →LiveStory.com sold for $17,000 in DropCatch's auctions on 3 August 2026, the standout among that day's results.
Read more →Call it Competitive Acquisition Reassurance Syndrome: investors reading a rival's bid as proof of worth. What moves the price is the auction dynamic, not anything intrinsic to the domain.
Read more →WPCU.com dates back to 1997, which usually counts for something. Not here. Wright-Patt Credit Union won its UDRP on the strength of serial redirects and malware warnings.
Read more →Roughly half of Dynadot's registrations came from Asia, though the region's growth trails other markets. The Q1 Quarterly Intelligence Report landed after Q2 had already closed, so it reads late, but the numbers still repay a dig.
Read more →Forma Brands, parent of cosmetics label Morphe, went after six domain names in a single UDRP and came away with a reverse domain name hijacking finding. The panelist pointed to false statements in the complaint.
Read more →Conversational AI platform Yellow.ai is going public through a SPAC merger with Bluerock Acquisition Corp, a deal valuing the company at $550 million. The domain upgrade preceded the Nasdaq listing.
Read more →Elliot Noss makes the case on DNW Podcast #598 for DNS infrastructure as the groundwork for AI agent identity, and for verifying trust between agents that have no other way to prove who they are.
Read more →Paul Graham publicly questioned a startup's decision to spend $250,000 on a domain name, which turned a single purchase into an argument about where early-stage money ought to go.
Read more →Zillow's parent company has filed a UDRP over TheZillows.com, registered by a Chinese entity. The complaint alleges trademark infringement and registration in bad faith.
Read more →Folk.com went to the AI startup of the same name for $250,000. The asking price started at $350,000, so the exact-match cost the buyer rather less than the seller first wanted.
Read more →GoDaddy's chief executive has signed on with more than 230 organisations backing the Open Weights initiative, while the company keeps pushing Airo, its AI platform for building websites and apps.
Read more →Svai.com took $5,250 at DropCatch on 31 July 2026, the standout among that day's selected auction results.
Read more →.AI registrations climbed 123% year over year through July on Spaceship's SellerHub, where the extension is now outselling .com by a factor of eight.
Read more →Domain investors have put more than $10,000 towards Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through the Pan-Mass Challenge, with the weekend's riding now under way.
Read more →Suncast Corporation had evidence of trademark infringement and copied content, and still lost. The UDRP against SamSale.top was dismissed on procedural grounds, the fake site left standing on a technicality.
Read more →Tucows shares jumped almost 50% after the company announced a debt restructuring alongside a data centre transaction, a combination that could clear the way for a Ting Fiber sale.
Read more →Paul Keating has died after a battle with cancer. Among the first lawyers anywhere to make domain-related issues a speciality, he was one of the people who shaped how the industry's legal questions get argued.
Read more →Aftermarket revenue at GoDaddy grew 9% year over year in the second quarter. Shares fell anyway, with guidance rather than the quarter itself giving investors pause.
Read more →GoDaddy booked $1.3 billion in Q2 revenue. The registrar business held steady while commerce products and AI tools, Airo and the domain APIs among them, picked up pace.
Read more →FXLab.com fetched $3,788 on 30 July 2026 through DropCatch, whose backordering service runs across a network of registrars.
Read more →HAI Group argued that HiaGroup.com, a transposed-letter lookalike, was being used for business email compromise. A spoofed phishing email wasn't enough to prove it, and the UDRP failed.
Read more →Procter & Gamble keeps ScentStories.com and ScentStory.com. The panel went further and found the complainant liable for reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →A fragrance company took Procter & Gamble to WIPO over two domains, alleging bad-faith registration that would have predated the fragrance company's own existence.
Read more →Contact forms on corporate sites have a habit of quietly filing themselves in spam. Check the folder, audit the technical setup, and you stop losing enquiries you never knew arrived.
Read more →AsambleaNacionalVenezuela.org went for $2,566 at DropCatch on 29 July 2026, one of the day's selected auction results.
Read more →Source.ai changed hands for $200,000, the first visible payoff from the merger of Fruits.co and OpusDNS. The combined outfit wanted to show it could sell; that is one way to do it.
Read more →Lease-to-own is no longer a niche structure. Recent figures show five of six deals arriving as LTOs, a share of sales activity that keeps climbing.
Read more →Bulldog Digital Media, a UK SEO agency, paid $8,985 for its matching .com. Bought before the brand needed it rather than after, which is the cheaper order to do things in.
Read more →A CIIDRC panelist found reverse domain name hijacking after a self-represented complainant filed a UDRP whose allegations contradicted each other.
Read more →Tise.org was caught on DropCatch for $191 and registered in April 2026. eBay Marketplaces filed a UDRP, and the domain is going to eBay.
Read more →Cognition now owns Cognition.com, brokered by Lumis. The exact-match .com, secured as the company's main web address.
Read more →Among DropCatch's selected expired-domain results for 28 July 2026: Bbbet.com at $105,000.
Read more →NVIDIA has filed UDRP complaints over NvidiaCorp.com and NvidiaRecruits.com, alleging trademark infringement tied to a recruitment scam run under the company's name.
Read more →A Colombian customs agency brought a trademark challenge against Pasar.com, a domain dating to 1999. The registrant never filed a response, and the panel ordered transfer.
Read more →InterNetX has relaunched its website, and the pitch now leads with APIs and automation for enterprise domain management rather than anything retail.
Read more →A Colombian logistics company went after a common Spanish-word domain registered almost 30 years before its complaint. WIPO was unmoved; the panel found reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →Andrew Allemann and Ron Jackson, of Domain Name Wire and DNJournal, work through the biggest reported sales of the first half of 2026 in the latest DNW podcast.
Read more →Escrow.com booked its fourth-highest quarterly gross payments in Q2 2026, capping a strong first half for parent company Freelancer Limited.
Read more →Fourteen end-user sales at Atom this month. Buyers included a used car dealer, a freelancing platform and a children's AI company.
Read more →Lumis has started publishing client acquisitions as video, styled as a news bulletin with co-founder Hobi Michalec reading the items.
Read more →Afternic's Request Price lander now returns instant pricing, alongside domain resolution fixes on GoDaddy's main platform.
Read more →A hyphenated name with a country in it took $3,200 at DropCatch on 27 July 2026. OutdoorAccess-Scotland.com, expired and recaught, found its buyer at that number.
Read more →Nuwave Communications alleged bad faith registration of Nuwave.ai. A "for sale" listing on Atom, the panel held, does not on its own establish the complainant's trademark rights.
Read more →Symbolics.com, the first .com ever registered, sits in Verisign's records under Registry ID 57551_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN. A serial number, essentially, from the registry that runs the zone.
Read more →ZipChat paid $40,000 for its matching .com. The reasoning offered was friction: every spelling, every correction, every explanation removed from the customer's path.
Read more →Sedo has put its weekly sales reports on hold until 23 August. Summer holidays. The numbers will resume when the staff do.
Read more →The PayPorter.com complaint failed. Panellists were unmoved by the complainant's move into lingerie, and unimpressed by a second bite after a 2020 attempt had already gone nowhere.
Read more →Spaceship now has 9 million domains under management. The last million took roughly 50 days, which tells you something about the pace it has set.
Read more →Verisign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief puts global registrations past 400 million for the second quarter of 2026. A round number, finally crossed.
Read more →WhoCares.com went for $14,755 in DropCatch's 24 July 2026 auctions, one of the expired-name catches to draw serious money that day.
Read more →Team Internet's first-half revenue fell 32% against last year. Comparison grew; the other divisions did not. On the acquisition question, nothing was said.
Read more →An investor makes the contrarian case for paying over the odds on three-letter .coms, arguing that quality bought expensively outlasts mediocrity bought at a fair price.
Read more →UDRP decisions climbed 12% year over year in the second quarter, per recent figures. More filings, more cybersquatting complaints reaching a panel.
Read more →CIRA's research finds Canadians warm to .CA: 88% read the extension as a signal that a business is genuinely local. Porkbun is happy to repeat the point.
Read more →Verisign posted 6.0% revenue growth for the quarter. Demand for .com held up, and the company set out how it intends to handle .web alongside it.
Read more →Qintel LLC's complaint over Qintel.pro collapsed when the panellist read the domain as wordplay on COINTELPRO rather than a run at the trademark.
Read more →Atlan Pte. Ltd. lost its case over atlan-ai.com, registered in January 2024. The respondent was running an actual consultancy, and that counted for more than the mark.
Read more →With .web delegated to the DNS root, Verisign has started operating the string. Registrar launches are pencilled in for later this year.
Read more →After a decade of litigation, Verisign has control of .web, the string it bought for $135 million in 2016. A 2024 launch is planned.
Read more →Verisign says .web names will go on sale this year, more than ten years after it won the registry rights in 2014. Patience, of a sort.
Read more →Braden Pollock took the top three sales on the latest chart and twelve of the top twenty besides. One seller, most of the leaderboard.
Read more →Vati.com fetched $12,110 in DropCatch's 22 July 2026 results, sold through the backordering service's registrar network.
Read more →DoverPMI.com, once the property of Dover's motorsports arm, lapsed and is now a security liability. What happens when nobody owns the domain after the business changes shape.
Read more →OpusDNS has abandoned its monthly pricing model for an alternative, and is refunding everything customers have paid in fees so far in 2024.
Read more →Radix logged record premium registrations across the first half of the year, with .tech and .space doing the heavy lifting on growth.
Read more →Runway AI now owns Runway.com, bought via ATM Holdings. The name had already moved from Tucows to Namecheap before the deal closed.
Read more →The U.S. government wants Egypt.com. Its suit alleges the domain was bought with proceeds from the illegal Abacus Market, making it seizable property.
Read more →GoDaddy has 2,099 names on the block, opening bids running from $100 up into the low four figures. A curated shortlist is out for investors to weigh.
Read more →Shenbo.com led the DropCatch results for 21 July 2026 at $50,000, alongside other selected auction outcomes from the day.
Read more →Lease-to-own on premium names gets another look: early-stage companies take the domain immediately and spread payments to match how fast the business actually grows.
Read more →EricManuelShorts.com, a shop selling counterfeit shorts, has been handed to EE Holding Group LLC after the Eric Manuel brand won its UDRP.
Read more →Peter Millar LLC took GForeGolfShoes.com through UDRP, arguing the name traded on its G/FORE mark for golf apparel and footwear. It won.
Read more →Identity Digital is putting .IO registrations and renewals up to $56 a year at wholesale, with the change landing in January.
Read more →SkiResort.com went for $80,000 in recent end-user sales. A .dev name in the same batch managed $30,000, which is a decent showing for the extension.
Read more →A cybersquatter got the domain back. The UDRP complainant had transferred it to another registrar post-decision, per the Internet Commerce Association's digest.
Read more →Two moves in a day: OpusDNS opens a free tier, and Atom.com puts forward a fix for the tedium of verifying who actually owns a domain.
Read more →Netpoint.com topped the 20 July 2026 DropCatch auctions at $8,250, with a handful of other results worth a look from the same session.
Read more →Outdoor Nation, LLC lost its complaint over ReelLifeClothing.com. Trademark registrations going back to 2011 weren't enough; the panel found no bad faith.
Read more →A mining company went to WIPO over a four-letter .com and came away with nothing. Registering its mark earlier didn't establish bad faith, the panelist held.
Read more →DMSL.com was registered in July 1996. Deepak Mining Solutions Limited filed trademark applications in 2025, then filed a UDRP. Reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →Glide, which added AI products in 2023, went after the dictionary-word domain Glide.ai. The panel called it reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →With the 12 August application deadline closing in, new TLD applicants talk through the operational decisions that actually matter. DNW Podcast #596.
Read more →Atom has launched DomainAttest, a protocol letting marketplaces confirm who owns a domain and keep their listed inventory honest.
Read more →When a Lease to Own deal collapses, Afternic hands the domain back with auto-renew switched off. Sellers now get a note in the cancelation email telling them to re-enable renewal themselves.
Read more →Glide, the no-code platform, offered $103,750 for glide.ai and then filed a UDRP when that failed. The panel found bad faith on the complainant's side and refused the transfer.
Read more →Operation Offsides closed out with a final tranche of 168 domains seized by US authorities, all of them pirate sports streaming sites feeding off FIFA World Cup broadcasts.
Read more →VK, Russia's largest social network, is pushing users from VK.com to VK.ru. The move follows EU sanctions against the company.
Read more →The Vanguard Group took VanguardAurum.com in a UDRP, having argued trademark infringement and bad faith registration by the gold trader holding the name.
Read more →Telepathy Inc. has SoccerPlace.com on Afternic at $4,814. The name has been in hand since 1998, which is a long time to wait for that particular number.
Read more →Vip22.com went for $7,500 in DropCatch's 17 July 2026 auctions, one of the notable results from the backordering service that day.
Read more →Of the 17,576 possible three-letter .ai combinations, 149 are still sitting there unregistered. The rest are gone.
Read more →protectNIL Inc. owns the NILASSIST trademark and runs NILAssist.app. It went after the matching .com anyway, and the NCAA kept it.
Read more →Speed-and-Strength.com was registered in March 2025 to sell counterfeit motorcycle apparel. Turn 14 Distribution filed, and the panel ordered the transfer.
Read more →Zexa.com led DropCatch's 16 July 2026 results at $17,550, a four-letter dictionary-adjacent name doing what short .coms tend to do at auction.
Read more →Two AI startups picked the same brand name and are now in court over it. The outcome may set how far AI companies can stretch a trademark claim.
Read more →Cyclospora.com isn't a medical resource. The domain, named for the parasite, runs as a legal lead-generation platform chasing cyclosporiasis cases.
Read more →WTA.tennis stays with the Moldova-based individual who registered it in 2015. The WTA Tour filed a UDRP and lost.
Read more →NameBio rewards people who bother to learn it. Five ways to get more out of the sales database than a single price lookup.
Read more →AramisBrand.com is heading back to Aramis, Inc. after a successful UDRP. The site behind it appeared to have been vibe-coded.
Read more →Ode.com has relaunched under new ownership as Ode with Anthropic, an AI services company selling fractional services.
Read more →Inquiry volume on GoDaddy's Afternic is healthy enough. The problem sits further down: most broker outreach emails to prospective buyers simply go unanswered, and conversion suffers for it.
Read more →WW55.com sold for $20,504 in DropCatch's 15 July 2026 auctions, caught through the service's network of ICANN-accredited registrars.
Read more →Vint Cerf is advising Identity Digital's Innovation Labs, which is working on a DNS-based standard for identifying AI agents.
Read more →Cimpress has taken VistaprintPro.com by UDRP, arguing confusing similarity to its Vistaprint brand assets and straightforward trademark infringement. The panel agreed and ordered the transfer.
Read more →Three new top-level domains are on Google's paperwork at ICANN: .eat, .here and .fly. Short strings, and all three read as verbs or near enough.
Read more →Afternic has opened a limited beta of Portfolio Agent, aimed at sellers running portfolios of fewer than 500 domains. Small holders first, for once.
Read more →The Internet Commerce Association's third annual Levine Lecture lands on 28 July, with UDRP panelist Nick Gardner speaking on how domain disputes actually get decided.
Read more →Kevin Costner has filed a UDRP over KevinCostner.com. The registration dates to November 1998, which puts it ahead of the peak of his Hollywood prominence.
Read more →GGRG.com's latest Liquid Market Report is the tenth anniversary edition, a decade of the series under founder and chief executive Giuseppe Graziano.
Read more →BestCreditcard.com went for $5,650 in DropCatch's 14 July 2026 auctions, leading the selected results from that day's expiry sales.
Read more →For a short while, t.me stopped resolving after a Registry suspension, which broke Telegram's short links to channels, groups and profiles. The domain is back up.
Read more →Google has filed a UDRP against NanoBananaImg.com, registered in August 2025 under the registrant name "Harry Potter". The complaint cites its Nano Banana mark.
Read more →Sedo logged 51 sales above $2,000 last week. Top of the pile was an .io at $39,000, with twenty-four end user sales among the rest.
Read more →Aderant North America has filed a UDRP over maddi.ai, registered in January 2026 and priced at $34,888. John Berryhill is acting for the respondent.
Read more →Telegram's t.me went to server hold, and resolution for the messaging platform failed with it. Short links to channels and profiles stopped working.
Read more →"Where the World Finds You" is now a Verisign trademark application, which usually means an advertising campaign for the .com registry is somewhere behind it.
Read more →DoMore.com fetched $27,000 in DropCatch's 13 July 2026 results, sold through the backordering platform's network of registrars.
Read more →A former distributor is being sued for cybersquatting by Sport Court International, which says its trademarks kept appearing in domain names long after the relationship ended.
Read more →Sixteen years of publishing, and DomainGang's database has passed 16,000 articles. It has been covering the domain industry since 2009.
Read more →The respondent argued ChartHop.ai was just "chart" plus "hop". A UDRP panel disagreed, upholding the complainant's CHARTHOP mark over the descriptive-term defence.
Read more →With the new TLD application deadline closing in, the Early Warning Report now shows 365 string requests covering 313 unique strings.
Read more →A first-time buyer went outside GoDaddy for a purchase at SAW.com, naming unfamiliarity with the platform as the initial worry before the deal closed.
Read more →Atom.com runs contests, and investors can put AI tools to work matching what they already hold against whichever briefs happen to be open.
Read more →Operation Offsides has taken hundreds more domains, with the DOJ going after illegal sports streaming sites carrying FIFA World Cup matches and other live events.
Read more →Commercial Design Services, out of Tampa, has been fitting out offices since 1988. Commercial furniture, workplace design, and still family-owned after all that.
Read more →Atom.com has added a Business Development Representative. The AI-native marketplace is growing its sales operation, which is the unglamorous work behind any marketplace that intends to keep selling.
Read more →Five digits, $18,500. 77123.com closed at that price in DropCatch's 10 July 2026 auction, the sort of numeric string that trades on pattern rather than meaning.
Read more →URLs.com wants your regrets. The contest asks domain professionals to write up the acquisition they let slip, with cash prizes for the best confessions.
Read more →Rick Schwartz has registered TRAFFIC conference domains through 2029, which reads like groundwork for reviving the domain industry event he co-founded.
Read more →August 12 is the cut-off for ICANN's second Registry Service Provider application round, covering backend services for new top-level domains.
Read more →Team Beans LLC has filed a UDRP over ForeverCollectible.com, leaning on its FOREVER COLLECTIBLES mark from 2006 against what the complaint describes as a vibe-coded lookalike.
Read more →Registration date won it. The domain predated the trademark application, and the panel also found too little evidence that the contested domains sat under common control.
Read more →Buy-air.com went for $3,200 in DropCatch's 9 July 2026 results, picked up through the backordering service.
Read more →Atom pairs brand concepts with the domains that fit them, which makes it a natural home for brandable listings rather than keyword inventory.
Read more →New Street Consulting Group let InterimPartners.com lapse, lost it at GoDaddy auction, and has now filed a UDRP. The site that followed, it says, copied its own.
Read more →Atom and Dynadot have wired their marketplaces together, so inventory on one becomes visible to the buyer base on the other.
Read more →Two years after launching its Distribution Network, Atom has signed Dynadot to a mutual listing syndication deal, each side carrying the other's inventory.
Read more →Germany's .de registry has crossed 18 million domains under management. It took five years to add the last million, having reached 17 million back then.
Read more →.DE now counts 18 million registered domains, with the extension's 40th anniversary falling in November.
Read more →Thirty-nine end users bought at Atom in June. Sales data points mostly at AI startups and lead generation firms doing the buying.
Read more →Six six-figure sales, $1.7 million between them, across .com and ccTLDs. The aftermarket has started summer in decent shape.
Read more →Tolt.com carried a $50,000 NameFind ask. The buyer waited, then took it at GoDaddy auction for $4,000.
Read more →Dommy.com fetched $3,701 in DropCatch's 8 July 2026 results, caught through the backordering service's registrar network.
Read more →Chicago Public Media picked up Chicago.com from Wrapports LLC, the Sun-Times publisher, as a donation. The site launches this autumn, giving public media a rather enviable address.
Read more →K Holding owns trademarks in real estate services. That was not enough. The panelist found no evidence the registrant of Junot.com acted in bad faith, and denied the complaint with a reverse domain name hijacking finding.
Read more →London Operations LLC went after CasinoRoyale.com and lost. The panel read the matter as a trademark clash, not cybersquatting, and said so plainly before denying the complaint.
Read more →Having failed to buy the matching .com, French real estate firm K Holding turned to WIPO. The panel denied the complaint and labelled the attempt reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →A GoDaddy DBS broker reports the prospect turned down the sale, saying the domain is earmarked for use. The suggestion: diarise a follow-up for December and try again.
Read more →Among the DropCatch results for 7 July 2026, an oddity worth noting: HowTallIsTheStatueOfLiberty.org went for $3,120.
Read more →Allianz took aim at AllianceCorretora.com, a Brazilian insurance name, and the panelist declined to rule. The dispute sat outside what UDRP was built to handle. Complaint dismissed.
Read more →Super early bird tickets for the ICA's 2027 Las Vegas conference are on sale now, roughly a year and a half ahead of the doors opening.
Read more →Seventeen end user sales this week, and the buyers make an odd line-up: a wound care company, a cold-pressed juice business, an African AI firm.
Read more →Banana is about as generic as a word gets. The panel still handed Google three AI image domains, including Banana.new, ruling that the Nano Banana trademark context carried more weight.
Read more →Olkiluoto.com, named for the Finnish nuclear site, led Sedo's weekly report for the period ending 7 July 2026 at €17,000.
Read more →Four letters, five figures. Ombi.com sold for $11,005 at DropCatch on 6 July 2026, topping the day's results from the backordering service.
Read more →Attorney John Berryhill and colleagues have now pushed past $200,000 raised for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute across multiple Pan-Mass Challenge rides.
Read more →The complaint against TheMarginNews.com alleged the .com was funnelling traffic to a competitor at TheMargin.news. The panel denied it anyway.
Read more →FB2FA.com pairs Meta's FB mark with the shorthand for two-factor authentication. Registered in Thailand, offering Facebook-focused services. Meta won the transfer.
Read more →OMIS Group came back for a second attempt at Omis.com, registered in 2003, and was refused again. This time the panel stopped short of a reverse domain name hijacking finding.
Read more →Rob Schutz recounts an acquisition that involved a police officer, on DNW Podcast #594. The lesson, as ever, is what persistence does to a reluctant seller.
Read more →Rentals ask less up front, which is the whole appeal. The risk-reward maths still favours an escalating lease-to-own structure, where the buyer ends up holding the asset.
Read more →Sedo's most-searched keyword ranking for June 2026 is out, and bank has moved to the top of the list.
Read more →iiiBet.com, three i's and a gambling term, fetched $10,006 through DropCatch's registrar network in the 3 July 2026 auction results.
Read more →A store that never existed: AllenBradleyStore.com, registered in China, borrowed Rockwell Automation's trademark to look official. The panel ordered it transferred to Rockwell.
Read more →Warren Royal picked up the exact-match Semiquincentennial.com ahead of America's 250th anniversary, then pointed it at his bobbleheads marketplace. An unusual home for a very long word.
Read more →Domain Name Wire's most-read pieces in June: a lawsuit, results from a round of testing on domain appraisal tools, and Team Internet's antitrust claim.
Read more →BioRoom.com went for $4,801 in DropCatch's backorder auctions on 2 July 2026, one of the names picked off as registrations lapsed that day.
Read more →A WIPO panelist reached for strong language over creditGPT.com, calling the financial firm's complaint a poster child for reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →MarqFolio.com is heading to Marq Vision Inc. The panelist weighed the registrant's good-faith claim against a public trademark trail, and the trademark rights carried it.
Read more →The CreditGPT.com complaint failed at WIPO, the respondent's non-infringing use of the name establishing rights, and the panel added a poster child finding of reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →GMO came close to tripling its monthly .com registrations, according to the latest ICANN registrar data. A strong month for the extension generally, and a striking one for GMO.
Read more →After 25 years, Hasbro simply let OuijaBoard.com lapse. It surfaced at DropCatch auction shortly after, where somebody else was happy to take the exact match.
Read more →Automattic has bought WebHosting.com, adding a fairly literal front door to the hosting products it sells around WordPress.
Read more →Towd.com fetched $6,450 on 1 July 2026 through DropCatch's network of backordering registrars, topping the select results from that day's auctions.
Read more →Two barefoot shoe sellers, one domain. Bearfoot LLC took Bearfoot.com off rival BRFT Holdings LLC via UDRP, the exact match going to the complainant.
Read more →A panelist ordered a domain transferred in a case that looks less like cybersquatting than a plain trademark dispute, which the UDRP was never built to settle.
Read more →Texas used its age verification law to get a pornography site's domain suspended. Reinstatement carries a price: a bond of $9.14 million.
Read more →BumbuRum.com presented itself as the official site. Bumbu Rum Company showed infringement and bad-faith registration, and the panel ordered the domain transferred.
Read more →One investor's answer to a changed market: more hand registration, more repricing of what's already in the portfolio. Year-to-date numbers for 2026 are up on that approach.
Read more →Fractional ownership of domain names has been attempted on and off for twenty years. Doma, a blockchain platform, now makes buying and trading slices of a name workable.
Read more →Slop.com has moved from Above.com to Cloudflare, with the nameservers changed to match.
Read more →From the 30 June 2026 DropCatch auctions, UnTrack.com stood out at $6,500.
Read more →Ten end-user purchases this week, buyers drawn from networking, manufacturing and industrial firms. The headline figure belongs to sif.org, which sold on Sedo for $45,000.
Read more →Fort Lauderdale is under consideration as the host city for NamesCon Global 2027, organisers say, following the conference's 2026 outing in Miami.
Read more →SIF.org at $45,000 topped Sedo's weekly sales list for the seven days ending 30 June 2026. Three letters, and the .org, still doing the work.
Read more →Polyco Healthline came at CoShield.com armed with its SHIELD mark in personal protective equipment. The UDRP panel denied the complaint.
Read more →AI tools have flattened access to data analysis and the market itself, and the beneficiaries are the smaller domain investors who previously could not afford either.
Read more →DigitalCandy has opened as a domain management platform, with a bench of industry veterans behind it that includes Stevan Lieberman, thirty years in the business.
Read more →GetMed.com went for $10,500 in DropCatch's 29 June 2026 auctions, one of the selected results from the backorder platform that day.
Read more →From 1 July, the Castello Brothers are offering fractional domain ownership through Smoothie.com, letting smaller investors buy stakes in premium names rather than whole ones.
Read more →XeroxPaper.com, registered in 1999 and latterly parked on pay-per-click advertising, is going to Xerox Corporation after the company won its UDRP complaint.
Read more →ZeroSSL's free tier gives you a 90-day certificate, issued and renewed by hand. Want that automated? That is what the paid plans are for.
Read more →ShareShift analytics point to .AI picking up momentum as artificial intelligence changes how the web gets built. DNW Podcast episode 593 takes it up.
Read more →Dynadot has opened an auction category for .ai as the extension meets its first big renewal wave, having never been through a junk drop before.
Read more →Operation Offsides saw the Department of Justice seize close to 400 domains streaming World Cup matches illegally, among the largest sports piracy actions on record.
Read more →Just 164 three-letter .ai domains are still available to register. Against 17,576 possible combinations, that is 0.93% of the namespace, under one per cent for the first time.
Read more →SwissCredit.com fetched $17,200 in DropCatch's 26 June 2026 results. The platform catches expiring names at the moment of release, using a large network of ICANN-accredited registrars to improve its odds.
Read more →CORE will run the back end for .meow, the nonprofit behind the TLD has decided. The application was funded by Kickstarter, and new-TLD headaches have followed.
Read more →Planet Harvest LLC asked to buy PlanetHarvest.com, was rebuffed, and filed a UDRP instead. It has used the PLANET HARVEST name on produce, meal kits and food delivery since 2023.
Read more →A produce company's UDRP against the holder of planetharvest.com failed, and the panel went further, finding reverse domain name hijacking.
Read more →Twenty-two years of asking, then litigation. The developer behind free image editor Paint.NET now holds Paint.net, having run the software from GetPaint.net since 2006. The domain dates to 1996.
Read more →Newfold Digital's May figures for NameJet and SnapNames show 143 domains sold at $2,000 or above, $693k in total, with the top result reaching $83k.
Read more →Atom.com is running a site-wide sale from 21 to 30 July, with sellers able to opt in to automatic discounting for the duration. Black Friday, in summer.
Read more →A category-defining .com does quiet work before anyone reaches sales: less explaining, advertising that sticks, and the look of a natural leader rather than a challenger.
Read more →The strongest names are usually owned already. A structured acquisition approach means going after the name you actually want, rather than settling for a weaker extension or a bolted-on modifier.
Read more →Authority arrives with a premium domain. Whether it converts into trust, traffic and revenue depends on the brand system, the site and the marketing funnel built behind it.
Read more →The reported AI.com deal read as a signal well beyond the transaction itself: the shortest category names function as positioning, press attention and market authority, not merely addresses.
Read more →Few examples are cleaner than Cars.com. An exact-match category domain sitting at the centre of a public company's identity, and of the story it tells about its own value.
Read more →Buy the exact category term and you can present yourself as the obvious destination for the whole market. Crypto.com is the demonstration.
Read more →Cited constantly as a premium benchmark, Voice.com makes a simpler point: plain, powerful words matched to a large market can command serious money.
Read more →Trust, search intent and positioning, compressed into a single asset. That's the case for a category-defining name over a generic invented one, and leasing lets a company test it before buying outright.
Read more →Monthly leasing puts premium inventory within reach without locking up seven figures. Structured properly, the deal covers usage, renewal and a route to eventual purchase.
Read more →Short. Memorable. Easy to say, easy to spell, pointed at a market people already grasp. Founders who find all of that in one name have something rare and hard to attack.
Read more →Wix (NASDAQ: WIX) has published its first State of Websites Report, drawing on more than 300 million users in 2026. Real domains are increasingly the norm among site builders; LLM traffic remains slight.
Read more →Three six-figure sales opened the latest DNJournal chart, and .com took every one of the top six places, plus 13 of the 20 entries overall.
Read more →ITN.org fetched $4,160 in the 24 June 2026 DropCatch results. The backorder service catches expiring names at the moment of release, using a broad network of ICANN-accredited registrars to improve its odds.
Read more →SageSure, an insurer working catastrophe-prone states from SageSure.com, has sued the operators of SageSure.io, alleging cybersquatting and trademark infringement.
Read more →Second loss for NXC Corp., the Korean-founded owner of the NEXON gaming brand, this time over NexonPartners.com. Registrant Haytham Sabry of Egypt incorporated Nexon Partners L.L.C-FZ in Dubai shortly after registering it.
Read more →A soured business relationship sat behind CreMedia LLC's UDRP over CreMediaGlobal.com, held by Mahmoud Grant of SIA CreMedia in Latvia. The Egyptian complainant asserted common law rights; the dispute ran past what cybersquatting covers.
Read more →Zero-click monetisation still funnels visitors to scam destinations, tech support fraud among them. The wildcarded .ph namespace remains part of the problem.
Read more →Messi and Ronaldo displaced Pele's solitary claim to greatest-ever, and domain investors have found upside in both careers.
Read more →An ICA member coupon code takes 20% off NamesCon admission, putting tickets at roughly $400.
Read more →Mixed news from the conference circuit: NamesCon Global, in Miami on 11 and 12 November 2026, has added attendee perks before Friday night's price rise, while Domain Days Dubai's 2026 edition is postponed.
Read more →A fig tree seller, a personal trainer and a speakers bureau all bought names this week. Sedo's top public sale was nuq.com at $95,000. Bot.si went for $20,000, to a Chinese investor.
Read more →Especial Ltd, a food service products company, filed in bad faith and tried to reverse hijack especial.co.uk and especial.uk, a Nominet Domain Resolution Service panelist has found. The decision runs as a pdf.
Read more →A DomainIQ monitor alert flagged a status change on a well-known AI company's domain. Nothing came of it, but the detour prompted a look at which registrars the biggest AI firms actually use.
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