Companies have about a month left to apply to provide backend registry services for new top level domains. New top level domain name applications are due on August 12, and that date is also the deadline to apply to be a Registration Service ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
ICANN’s second RSP application round ends August 12
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Atom inks distribution agreement with Dynadot
· ServicesTwo-way agreement will syndicate listings between the two platforms. Two years after announcing its Atom Distribution Network, domain sales platform Atom has landed a big fish. Starting today, Atom is syndicating Premium and Plus listings to ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Germany’s .de domain name crosses 18 million DUMs
· UncategorizedMilestone comes five years after hitting the 17 million mark. DENIC, the organization that runs Germany's .de domain name, announced today that there are now more than 18 million registered domains in the namespace. Like many top level domains, ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Thirty-nine domains end users bought at Atom last month
· Domain SalesMany AI businesses and several lead generation companies bought domain names last month. In May, I published my first Atom end user sales report. Let's take a look at some of the end user purchases from June. NameBio captured 124 sales from Atom ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Chicago.com domain donated to public media, to launch this fall
· Domain SalesAfter changing hands a few times, Chicago Public Media is launching chicago.com. Chicago.com is about to get a new life. Josh Metnick sold the domain name to Wrapports LLC, the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, in 2013. In 2017, former ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
French real estate firm tries to reverse hijack domain name
· Policy & LawCompany tried to get .com that matches its .fr domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has found (pdf) that K Holding, which owns the real estate firm Junot Investissements, attempted to reverse hijack the domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Seventeen new end user domain name sales
· Domain SalesA wound care company, a cold-pressed juice business, and an AI company in Africa bought domain names. It was a slow sales week overall at Sedo, thanks to the U.S. holiday, but there were plenty of sales that I could identify as end user purchases. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Gold, a cop, and domain shenanigans – DNW Podcast #594
· PodcastsRob Schutz went to great lengths to close this domain deal. We all have our war stories about trying to acquire domains from stubborn sellers. But Rob Schutz of Snagged has a story that might just top them all. Rob helped a company acquire a ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
June’s top stories
· UncategorizedA lawsuit, my experience testing domain appraisal tools, and Team Internet's antitrust claim were top news on DomainNameWire.com last month. Here are some stories you might have missed last month on Domain Name Wire. 1. GoDaddy customer must pay ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Financial firm files a “poster child” reverse domain name hijacking case
· Policy & LawPanelist admonishes company for complaint over creditGPT.com domain. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has determined (pdf) that CCP3 LLC filed a case that's a "poster child for RDNH". The company filed the dispute over the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
