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IndustryDomainNameWire

.Com rankings: Amazon sees a surge

ICANN's latest Verisign-sourced .com registrar data, released with its usual three-month lag, shows notable gains for Amazon, while Chinese registrars remain among the decliners.

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IndustryDomainNameWire

Identity Digital launches “domain options” for domain investors

Registry Identity Digital has launched a domain options product giving investors a two-year exclusive right to sell premium domains without paying the full registration price. *(25 words. The blurb was cut off at "exclusive right to sel…", so "sell" is inferred. Please verify it against the full article.)*

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IndustryDomainInvesting

Bret Miller Takes on a Growing Role at ATM Holdings

It gets me excited when one of my kids notices something unique about a domain name and shares that with me. I can’t imagine they’ll go on to become domain investors, but it would be great if they remain knowledgable about domain names as …

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IndustryDomainNameWire

Aftermarket propels GoDaddy in Q3

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported higher Q3 domain aftermarket revenue, driven by a large number of high-value transactions, contributing to results in its Core Platform segment.

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IndustryDomainInvesting

Nominations Open for 2027 Lonnie Borck Memorial Award

Nominations are now open for the 2027 Lonnie Borck Memorial Award, which is presented annually by the Internet Commerce Association (ICA). The award will be presented at the ICA Meeting in Las Vegas this January. This will be the tenth ann…

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IndustryDomainInvesting

Did Stripe Acquire Treasury.com?

Treasury.com recently moved from Namecheap to corporate registrar Com Laude, according to DomainTools and DomainIQ data, prompting unconfirmed speculation about a possible acquisition by Stripe.

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CompsDomainInvesting

Nor.com Sold for $700k via Atom

Nor.com sold for $700,000 through Atom.com, according to a LinkedIn post by Zack Gabor, Atom's Director of Sales and Partnerships; the buyer has not been identified.

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CompsDomainNameWire

End user sales: here comes .si

End users have begun buying .si domains, apparently mostly for defensive purposes, following investor interest sparked by Donald Trump's remark that the U.S. would call AI "SI."

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CompsDomainNameWire

Thirty-six end user sales from Atom

Thirty-six domains sold on Atom last month are being developed by end-user buyers, many of them AI companies, with September's self-reported sales indicating a strong month for Atom.

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IndustryDomainGang

The Domain King’s Super Intelligence domains

Domain investor Rick Schwartz says .com remains dominant but considers registering and acquiring quality .ai and .si domains sensible, pointing to recent activity around his Betty.ai side project. *(29 words. The blurb was cut off before explaining what happened with Betty.ai, so I kept that reference general. Share the full text if you'd like it stated precisely.)*

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IndustryDomainGang

ICANNT TLDs: Final decision on 1,616 applications revealed

ICANN has published the 1,616 paid applications in its 2026 new gTLD round, which will now proceed through the evaluation process. *Notes: I corrected "ICANNT" to "ICANN" and dropped "final decision," since the blurb describes applications advancing, not a final ruling.*

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IndustryDomainInvesting

.SI Domain Names Now on Namecheap

Namecheap now offers .SI domains, Slovenia's country-code TLD since 1992, which have drawn added interest as "SI" becomes shorthand for superintelligence, similar to .AI.

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IndustryDomainGang

Domain name jargon: Domainflexible

DomainGang adds "Domainflexible" to its Domain Name Jargon series, which it is continuing after five years and which collects domain industry terms, expressions, and trivia for domain investors.

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IndustryDomainGang

GoDaddy CTO leaves the company

Charles Beadnall has left GoDaddy after more than 13 years, having joined in August 2013 and risen from vice president of engineering to Chief Technology Officer.

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IndustryDomainNameWire

Spaceship rockets past 10 million domains

Spaceship, the registrar launched by Namecheap, has surpassed 10 million domains under management within a few years, aided by low pricing, a modern interface, and its domain-selling platform.

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IndustryDomainNameWire

ICANN heads down under for 2027 AGM

ICANN has selected Adelaide, Australia, to host ICANN90, its 2027 Annual General Meeting, scheduled for October 30–November 4, 2027, at the Adelaide Convention Centre. *(24 words. Assumes the truncated venue is the Adelaide Convention Centre; please verify before publishing.)*

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IndustryDomainNameWire

New TLD applicants impatiently wait for timeline

Reveal Day triggers a lot of deadlines, but applicants still don’t know for sure when it will be. One representative of UDRP applicants is urging ICANN to finalize the timeline for the next steps in the process. I doubt he’s the only one. …

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IndustryDomainInvesting

Fractionalizing a Domain Name is an “Encumbrance”

A couple of years ago, the valuable MJ.com domain name was offered up in fractionalized shares on the Rally platform. People could buy shares of the domain name at a $950,000 market cap via Rally in the hopes the domain name would one day …

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CompsDomainInvesting

Every Sales Negotiation is Different

Someone asked me for advice about negotiating the sale of a domain name he owns. I shared a few thoughts based on what I could quickly see, but one thing I think is important to remember is that every negotiation is different. Buyers come …

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IndustryDomainInvesting

Porkbun Hits 4 Million DUM

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.

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IndustryDomainGang

GoDaddy CEO backs open AI as Airo expands

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.

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IndustryDomainInvesting

Monitor Your Spam Folder

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.

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IndustryDomainInvesting

GoDaddy CTA: Someone Else is Interested

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.

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IndustryDomainGang

Domain sightings: CDS in Tampa

Commercial Design Services, out of Tampa, has been fitting out offices since 1988. Commercial furniture, workplace design, and still family-owned after all that.

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IndustryDomainInvesting

Pre-Check Premium Fit at Atom

Atom pairs brand concepts with the domains that fit them, which makes it a natural home for brandable listings rather than keyword inventory.

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IndustryDomainGang

Junot.com: UDRP denied with RDNH finding

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.

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IndustryDomainInvesting

2026 Pan-Mass Challenge

Attorney John Berryhill and colleagues have now pushed past $200,000 raised for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute across multiple Pan-Mass Challenge rides.

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IndustryDomainInvesting

I Prefer Escalating LTO vs. Rentals

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.

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IndustryDomainNameWire

June’s top stories

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.

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CompsDomainNameWire

Ten new end user domain name sales

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.

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CompsDomainNameWire

Wix releases data on LLM traffic, domains

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.

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CompsDomainNameWire

Sixteen domain names end users bought

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.

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IndustryDomainNameWire

Panel: UK company’s name isn’t so special

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.

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