Friend bought friend.com on a payment plan rather than forking over most of its cash. There are a lot of stories going around today about Friend launching on the friend.com domain name. The maker of the AI product somewhat reminiscent of Her ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Friend.com didn’t spend 75% of its capital on its domain name
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Your blockchain namespace will fail if it’s dependent on a bull market
· UncategorizedAlt-root blockchain domains depend on resale value to survive. That's a recipe for failure. The group behind .tez names recently made a proposal that I think encapsulates the problem with alt-root blockchain "domain" names. Tezos Domains are ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Abnormal.ai UDRP denied
· Policy & LawPanel agrees that the domain investor likely bought the domain for its value as a dictionary word. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled against Abnormal Security Corporation in a dispute over abnormal.ai. Domain investor Narendra Ghimire ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Descon Engineering hit with second reverse domain name hijacking finding
· Policy & LawCompany filed two cases against the same business. Both were doomed to fail. Descon Engineering Limited of Pakistan has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for the second time. Both UDRP cases involved the same domain name ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Verisign lowers guidance again after domains shrink in Q2
· ServicesCompany now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Republican lawmakers open inquiry into Verisign’s .com contract
· Policy & LawThree Republican lawmakers have opened an inquiry into Verisign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) contract to run the .com domain name registry. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chair ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Latest .com data: GoDaddy down, Gname up
· Domain RegistrarsDigging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month's report: GoDaddy ... Continue Reading3 Comments
New phishing report names and shames TLDs, registrars
· Policy & LawPhishers continue to like cheap domains. Interisle published its Phishing Landscape 2024 report today, naming top level domains and registrars commonly used in phishing attacks. The company analyzed 1.9 million phishing attacks that took place ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
13 end user domain name sales up to $28,333
· Domain SalesA bank, a tax law firm, and an IT infrastructure company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from reporting domain name sales. But I don't want readers to go hungry! So this week, I went back and looked at some of the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Efty launches first iteration of Efty Pay
· ServicesPaying customers can now import leads to use Efty Pay. Domain name sales platform Efty has launched the first iteration of Efty Pay for sellers. For the initial launch, Efty customers with an active subscription can import leads to use Efty Pay ... Continue Reading1 Comment
