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The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
GORGONZOLA AND CYBERSQUATTING: IT DEPENDS Why the Italian cheese consortium is winning some cases and losing others. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ordered the domain name gorgonzola.blue to be transferred to Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola. Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola is the consortium in Italy tasked with controlling the use of the name BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register theDOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
GORGONZOLA AND CYBERSQUATTING: IT DEPENDS Why the Italian cheese consortium is winning some cases and losing others. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ordered the domain name gorgonzola.blue to be transferred to Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola. Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola is the consortium in Italy tasked with controlling the use of the name BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the MORE THAN 60 PARTIES INQUIRE ABOUT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS 23 hours ago · Domain name and website auction delayed to give bidders more time to evaluate assets. More than 60 parties have expressed interest in acquiring the assets of the defunct business The Income Store, a court filing (pdf) reveals.. The SEC alleges that The Income Store, which took investor money to create income-generating websites, was a Ponzi scheme. GOOGLE CHROME BRINGS BACK THE FULL URL 7 hours ago · The full URL has won, at least for now. Android Police reports that Google has nixed an experiment that showed some Chrome users only part of the URL rather than the full string.. The thinking behind the test was that users who only saw the domain name and not the entire URL would pay more attention to the domain and consider if the site was suspect. NEW DATA EXPLAINS THE CHINESE DOMAIN NAME MARKET Kassey Lee examines data about domain registrations and web usage in China. The 45th China Statistical Report on Internet Development (in Chinese) has just come out. It is an important survey because it gives us the big picture of the Chinese internet economy in general and domain market in particular. This article is an update UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS FILES TRADEMARK APPLICATIONS FOR .NFT Company that provides alt-root domain names filed trademark applications for new extensions. Unstoppable Domains, a company that sells alt-root domain names that use blockchain technology, recently filed trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for future namespaces. The company filed applications for .nft, .doge, .web3, .dao, .bch, .blockchain, .go, SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANY ACQUIRED GF.COM DOMAIN FROM RETAIL 1 day ago · Goebel Fixture Company sells GF.com to GlobalFoundries. Semiconductor company GlobalFoundries appears to have acquired the two letter domain name GF.com earlier this year. Historical Whois records show the domain transferred in late March or early April. Goebel Fixture Company, a company that sells fixtures and displays for luxury retail, owned the domain for at least DNS USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY A discussion on the merits and challenges of a DNS built on blockchain technology. Would a DNS using blockchain technology be better than the current DNS? Andrew Rosener thinks so, although he admits there are some challenges to overcome. On today’s show, Andrew and I discuss the benefits of a decentralized DNS using blockchain technology, BIRD.COM AND FISH.COM BIDDER COUNTERSUES RIGHT OF THE DOT Bidder says he didn’t think he won the domains, and he shouldn’t have been allowed to bid more than $2,000. The person who bid nearly $5 million in February’s Right of the Dot domain name auction is countersuing the auctioneer. Right of the Dot sued David Lizmi when he ANOTHER GORGONZOLA DOMAIN DISPUTE HAS ME BEWILDERED I can’t figure out what these lawyers are doing. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has decided the latest case involving a Gorgonzola domain name. It has me questioning the legal approach taken by Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola, the organization that defends the Gorgonzola trademark for cheese. Last week I wrote about CRYPTO COMPANY LUKKA LOSES CYBERSQUATTING DISPUTE (AGAIN Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech. It has raised nearly $75 million from investors over the past year. The company filed the first420.COM ARCHIVES
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The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraphDOMAIN NAME WIRE
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BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraph 14 RECENT END USER DOMAIN NAME SALES A cryptocurrency investment firm, a road construction company and an artificial intelligence business bought domain names. I had to put Google Translate and Chrome’s translator to work this week. Sedo always has a plethora of non-English domain sales, and this week it was in overdrive. Here’s a list of some of the end user domain DNS USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY A discussion on the merits and challenges of a DNS built on blockchain technology. Would a DNS using blockchain technology be better than the current DNS? Andrew Rosener thinks so, although he admits there are some challenges to overcome. On today’s show, Andrew and I discuss the benefits of a decentralized DNS using blockchain technology, BIRD.COM AND FISH.COM BIDDER COUNTERSUES RIGHT OF THE DOT Bidder says he didn’t think he won the domains, and he shouldn’t have been allowed to bid more than $2,000. The person who bid nearly $5 million in February’s Right of the Dot domain name auction is countersuing the auctioneer. Right of the Dot sued David Lizmi when he CRYPTO COMPANY LUKKA LOSES CYBERSQUATTING DISPUTE (AGAIN 1 day ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech. It has raised nearly $75 million from investors over the past year. The companyfiled the first
ANOTHER GORGONZOLA DOMAIN DISPUTE HAS ME BEWILDERED 1 day ago · A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has decided the latest case involving a Gorgonzola domain name. It has me questioning the legal approach taken by Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola, the organization that defends the Gorgonzola trademark for cheese. SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments HOW TO GIVE YOUR DEVELOPER ACCESS TO JUST ONE DOMAIN AT Here’s a tutorial on granting limited access to a developer to manage a single domain at GoDaddy. Letting your web developer register a domain on your behalf or have full access to your registrar account is a bad idea.. Unfortunately, not all domain registrars offer an easy way to grant access to a developer to make changes to one domain name. QVC NIXES .QVC DOMAIN PLANS Company famous for on-air product sales no longer wants .QVC. QVC is the latest business to nix plans to operate a branded top level domain name. The company has informed (pdf) ICANN that it wishes to terminate its contract to run .QVC. It never used the domain name. QVC, which is TUTORIAL: HOW TO UPDATE DNS RECORDS USING GODADDY API Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to use GoDaddy’s API to retrieve and update DNS records for a given domain with specified Type and Name. Lately I’ve been experimenting with listing domain names for sale from my GoDaddy account using Sedo, one of the domain industry’s largest marketplaces for buying and selling domains.While
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1 day ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech.DOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraphDOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraph 14 RECENT END USER DOMAIN NAME SALES 1 day ago · A cryptocurrency investment firm, a road construction company and an artificial intelligence business bought domain names. I had to put Google Translate and Chrome’s translator to work this week. Sedo always has a plethora of non-English domain sales, and this week it was in overdrive. Here’s a list of some of the end userdomain
DNS USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY A discussion on the merits and challenges of a DNS built on blockchain technology. Would a DNS using blockchain technology be better than the current DNS? Andrew Rosener thinks so, although he admits there are some challenges to overcome. On today’s show, Andrew and I discuss the benefits of a decentralized DNS using blockchain technology, BIRD.COM AND FISH.COM BIDDER COUNTERSUES RIGHT OF THE DOT Bidder says he didn’t think he won the domains, and he shouldn’t have been allowed to bid more than $2,000. The person who bid nearly $5 million in February’s Right of the Dot domain name auction is countersuing the auctioneer. Right of the Dot sued David Lizmi when he CRYPTO COMPANY LUKKA LOSES CYBERSQUATTING DISPUTE (AGAIN 1 day ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech. It has raised nearly $75 million from investors over the past year. The companyfiled the first
ANOTHER GORGONZOLA DOMAIN DISPUTE HAS ME BEWILDERED 23 hours ago · A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has decided the latest case involving a Gorgonzola domain name. It has me questioning the legal approach taken by Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola, the organization that defends the Gorgonzola trademark for cheese. SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments HOW TO GIVE YOUR DEVELOPER ACCESS TO JUST ONE DOMAIN AT Here’s a tutorial on granting limited access to a developer to manage a single domain at GoDaddy. Letting your web developer register a domain on your behalf or have full access to your registrar account is a bad idea.. Unfortunately, not all domain registrars offer an easy way to grant access to a developer to make changes to one domain name. QVC NIXES .QVC DOMAIN PLANS 1 day ago · Company famous for on-air product sales no longer wants .QVC. QVC is the latest business to nix plans to operate a branded top level domain name. The company has informed (pdf) ICANN that it wishes to terminate its contract to run .QVC. It never used the domain name.QVC, which is
TUTORIAL: HOW TO UPDATE DNS RECORDS USING GODADDY API Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to use GoDaddy’s API to retrieve and update DNS records for a given domain with specified Type and Name. Lately I’ve been experimenting with listing domain names for sale from my GoDaddy account using Sedo, one of the domain industry’s largest marketplaces for buying and selling domains.While
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1 day ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech.DOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraphDOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraph 14 RECENT END USER DOMAIN NAME SALES 1 day ago · A cryptocurrency investment firm, a road construction company and an artificial intelligence business bought domain names. I had to put Google Translate and Chrome’s translator to work this week. Sedo always has a plethora of non-English domain sales, and this week it was in overdrive. Here’s a list of some of the end userdomain
TOP 5 DOMAIN NAME STORIES IN MAY Here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by views. 1. Frank Schilling new TLD auction grosses more than $40 million – Schilling’s UNR sold 23 top level domains to 10 different buyers. 2. Lawsuit: Bird.com and Fish.com domain buyerfailed to
DNS USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY A discussion on the merits and challenges of a DNS built on blockchain technology. Would a DNS using blockchain technology be better than the current DNS? Andrew Rosener thinks so, although he admits there are some challenges to overcome. On today’s show, Andrew and I discuss the benefits of a decentralized DNS using blockchain technology, BIRD.COM AND FISH.COM BIDDER COUNTERSUES RIGHT OF THE DOT Bidder says he didn’t think he won the domains, and he shouldn’t have been allowed to bid more than $2,000. The person who bid nearly $5 million in February’s Right of the Dot domain name auction is countersuing the auctioneer. Right of the Dot sued David Lizmi when he CRYPTO COMPANY LUKKA LOSES CYBERSQUATTING DISPUTE (AGAIN 1 day ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech. It has raised nearly $75 million from investors over the past year. The companyfiled the first
ANOTHER GORGONZOLA DOMAIN DISPUTE HAS ME BEWILDERED 21 hours ago · I can’t figure out what these lawyers are doing. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has decided the latest case involving a Gorgonzola domain name. It has me questioning the legal approach taken by Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola, the organization that defends the Gorgonzola trademark for cheese. Last week I wrote about SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments HOW TO GIVE YOUR DEVELOPER ACCESS TO JUST ONE DOMAIN AT Here’s a tutorial on granting limited access to a developer to manage a single domain at GoDaddy. Letting your web developer register a domain on your behalf or have full access to your registrar account is a bad idea.. Unfortunately, not all domain registrars offer an easy way to grant access to a developer to make changes to one domain name. TUTORIAL: HOW TO UPDATE DNS RECORDS USING GODADDY API Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to use GoDaddy’s API to retrieve and update DNS records for a given domain with specified Type and Name. Lately I’ve been experimenting with listing domain names for sale from my GoDaddy account using Sedo, one of the domain industry’s largest marketplaces for buying and selling domains.While
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1 day ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech.DOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraphDOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY No surprise in mahogany.com decision. Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionarymeaning. Indeed, it
BREAKING: VERISIGN ANNOUNCES .COM PRICE HIKE TO $8.39 The price of .com domains is going up in September. .Com domain name registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it will increase the wholesale price it charges registrars for .com registrations and renewals from $7.85 to $8.39. The price hike will go into effect on September 1, 2021. It’s the first year Verisign has ICANN SENDS BREACH NOTICE TO PHEENIX Domain name registrar has gone M.I.A. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to domain name registrar Pheenix, giving it until May 14 to shape up or face losing its accreditation.. Pheenix was a popular registrar for domain name investors because of a drop catching serviceit ran.
CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. THE CHINESE TRADEMARK DOMAIN NAME SCAM IN ITS ENTIRETY An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your existing domain). The scammer’s goal is to get you to pay them to register the DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraph 14 RECENT END USER DOMAIN NAME SALES 1 day ago · A cryptocurrency investment firm, a road construction company and an artificial intelligence business bought domain names. I had to put Google Translate and Chrome’s translator to work this week. Sedo always has a plethora of non-English domain sales, and this week it was in overdrive. Here’s a list of some of the end userdomain
DNS USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY A discussion on the merits and challenges of a DNS built on blockchain technology. Would a DNS using blockchain technology be better than the current DNS? Andrew Rosener thinks so, although he admits there are some challenges to overcome. On today’s show, Andrew and I discuss the benefits of a decentralized DNS using blockchain technology, CRYPTO COMPANY LUKKA LOSES CYBERSQUATTING DISPUTE (AGAIN 13 hours ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech. It has raised nearly $75 million from investors over the past year. The company filed the first ANOTHER GORGONZOLA DOMAIN DISPUTE HAS ME BEWILDERED 10 hours ago · I can’t figure out what these lawyers are doing. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has decided the latest case involving a Gorgonzola domain name. It has me questioning the legal approach taken by Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola, the organization that defends the Gorgonzola trademark for cheese. Last week I wrote about SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments QVC NIXES .QVC DOMAIN PLANS 1 day ago · Company famous for on-air product sales no longer wants .QVC. QVC is the latest business to nix plans to operate a branded top level domain name. The company has informed (pdf) ICANN that it wishes to terminate its contract to run .QVC. It never used the domain name.QVC, which is
HOW TO GIVE YOUR DEVELOPER ACCESS TO JUST ONE DOMAIN AT Here’s a tutorial on granting limited access to a developer to manage a single domain at GoDaddy. Letting your web developer register a domain on your behalf or have full access to your registrar account is a bad idea.. Unfortunately, not all domain registrars offer an easy way to grant access to a developer to make changes to one domain name. NUBANK WITHDRAWS ONE LAWSUIT ABOUT NUBANK.COM WHILE IT Last week I wrote about how Brazilian banking company Nubank filed an in rem lawsuit in Florida against the domain name Nubank.com. It filed the dispute after being found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP proceeding for the domain name.. Nubank (officially, Nu Pagamentos S.A.) abruptly dismissed the Florida lawsuit today, just six days after filing it. TUTORIAL: HOW TO UPDATE DNS RECORDS USING GODADDY API Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to use GoDaddy’s API to retrieve and update DNS records for a given domain with specified Type and Name. Lately I’ve been experimenting with listing domain names for sale from my GoDaddy account using Sedo, one of the domain industry’s largest marketplaces for buying and selling domains.While
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13 hours ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech.DOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionary meaning. EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments NEW DATA EXPLAINS THE CHINESE DOMAIN NAME MARKET Kassey Lee examines data about domain registrations and web usage in China. The 45th China Statistical Report on Internet Development (in Chinese) has just come out. It is an important survey because it gives us the big picture of the Chinese internet economy in general and domain market in particular. This article is an update DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraph NAMESILO ACQUIRES DOMAIN REGISTRAR AND EXPIRED DOMAIN Deal will give NameSilo more tools to target domain investors. Domain name registrar NameSilo (PINKSHEETS: NTCEF, URL:CSE) has acquired NamePal, a small domain name registrar with an expired domain backorder platform. The all-equity deal is for up to a 1.75% interest in NameSilo, with the equity payments not starting until 6 monthsafter completion of
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The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionary meaning. EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments NEW DATA EXPLAINS THE CHINESE DOMAIN NAME MARKET Kassey Lee examines data about domain registrations and web usage in China. The 45th China Statistical Report on Internet Development (in Chinese) has just come out. It is an important survey because it gives us the big picture of the Chinese internet economy in general and domain market in particular. This article is an update DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraph NAMESILO ACQUIRES DOMAIN REGISTRAR AND EXPIRED DOMAIN Deal will give NameSilo more tools to target domain investors. Domain name registrar NameSilo (PINKSHEETS: NTCEF, URL:CSE) has acquired NamePal, a small domain name registrar with an expired domain backorder platform. The all-equity deal is for up to a 1.75% interest in NameSilo, with the equity payments not starting until 6 monthsafter completion of
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In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion.. Extend, founded in February 2019 by serial entrepreneur Woody Levin, started life using 14 RECENT END USER DOMAIN NAME SALES 1 day ago · A cryptocurrency investment firm, a road construction company and an artificial intelligence business bought domain names. I had to put Google Translate and Chrome’s translator to work this week. Sedo always has a plethora of non-English domain sales, and this week it was in overdrive. Here’s a list of some of the end userdomain
TUCOWS GETS REVERSE DOMAIN NAME HIJACKING WIN AGAINST Company’s attempt to milk Tucows fails. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found (pdf) that Damstra Technology Pty Ltd filed a cybersquatting dispute in bad faith.. The Australian company filed a dispute against the domain name Damstra.com. Tucows owns the domain name as part of the surname portfolio that it acquired in the Mailbank.com acquisition in 2006. DNS USING BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY A discussion on the merits and challenges of a DNS built on blockchain technology. Would a DNS using blockchain technology be better than the current DNS? Andrew Rosener thinks so, although he admits there are some challenges to overcome. On today’s show, Andrew and I discuss the benefits of a decentralized DNS using blockchain technology, CRYPTO COMPANY LUKKA LOSES CYBERSQUATTING DISPUTE (AGAIN 12 hours ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech. It has raised nearly $75 million from investors over the past year. The company filed the first ANOTHER GORGONZOLA DOMAIN DISPUTE HAS ME BEWILDERED 9 hours ago · I can’t figure out what these lawyers are doing. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has decided the latest case involving a Gorgonzola domain name. It has me questioning the legal approach taken by Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola, the organization that defends the Gorgonzola trademark for cheese. Last week I wrote about BIRD.COM AND FISH.COM BIDDER COUNTERSUES RIGHT OF THE DOT Bidder says he didn’t think he won the domains, and he shouldn’t have been allowed to bid more than $2,000. The person who bid nearly $5 million in February’s Right of the Dot domain name auction is countersuing the auctioneer. Right of the Dot sued David Lizmi when he HE'S BACK: GUY SUES DOMAIN "KINGPINS" AFTER BEING "QUASHED Landcruise guy is back with a new lawsuit. Pro Se plaintiff litigant Graham Schreiber is at it again, suing* a bunch of people and companies over some alleged sleight about domain names. What that sleight is, I can’t quite understand even after reading his lawsuit. Something about kingpins and a cartel. Schreiber, sued ICANN,CentralNic
SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more momentsLUKKA ARCHIVES
12 hours ago · Company goes after domain registered before it existed. Lukka, Inc. has lost its second attempt to get the domain name Lukka.com through a UDRP. The company, which provides crypto asset software and data, uses the domain name Lukka.tech.DOMAIN NAME WIRE
The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionary meaning. EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments NEW DATA EXPLAINS THE CHINESE DOMAIN NAME MARKET Kassey Lee examines data about domain registrations and web usage in China. The 45th China Statistical Report on Internet Development (in Chinese) has just come out. It is an important survey because it gives us the big picture of the Chinese internet economy in general and domain market in particular. This article is an update DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraph NAMESILO ACQUIRES DOMAIN REGISTRAR AND EXPIRED DOMAIN Deal will give NameSilo more tools to target domain investors. Domain name registrar NameSilo (PINKSHEETS: NTCEF, URL:CSE) has acquired NamePal, a small domain name registrar with an expired domain backorder platform. The all-equity deal is for up to a 1.75% interest in NameSilo, with the equity payments not starting until 6 monthsafter completion of
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The top ten cities were unchanged from 2019 to 2020. Berlin led the pack with nearly a million registrations, followed by Munich at 630,000 and Hamburg at 587,000. Osnabruck has the most registrations per capita, with 1,563 .de domains per 1,000 in habitants. Interest outside of Germany remains high, too. REGISTERING NFT DOMAINS? SKIP THE TRADEMARKS Companies are filing cybersquatting disputes against people who register domains including their brands and NFT. As the NFT (non-fungible token) craze continues, it’s not surprising that domain name investors are registering NFT-related domain names. Some are profiting nicely with hand-registered NFT-related domains, too. But people should mind the line between being a domain investor RIGHTOFTHEDOT TO AUCTION DEFUNCT THE INCOME STORE ASSETS Domain broker tapped to liquidate remaining assets associated with ponzi scheme. Monte Cahn’s RightOfTheDot will auction the remaining assets of Today’s Growth Consultant, Inc. (d/b/a the Income Store) in an auction taking place June 10. The Income Store was a business in which people invested $50,000-$500,000 and the business promised to developed income-generating websites for HALLMARK LOSES CYBERSQUATTING COMPLAINT AGAINST MAHOGANY Hallmark Licensing, LLC and Hallmark Cards, Incorporated have lost a cybersquatting complaint they brought against the domain name mahogany.com. The decision shouldn’t surprise anyone, even Hallmark and its lawyers at Foley & Lardner LLP. The domain owner said it bought the domain name for its dictionary meaning. EXTEND RAISED $260 MILLION AT A $1.6 BILLION VALUATION In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Extend, founded in February 2019 CAR WARRANTY COMPANY UPGRADES TO OLIVE.COM Olive previously used the domain GoGetOlive.com for its olive brand of car service plans. It now forwards the long domain to olive.com. In a press release, olive CMO Paul Sherman explained why the company upgraded its domain name: We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of olive.com. This is a direct response to the olive brand growth. SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments NEW DATA EXPLAINS THE CHINESE DOMAIN NAME MARKET Kassey Lee examines data about domain registrations and web usage in China. The 45th China Statistical Report on Internet Development (in Chinese) has just come out. It is an important survey because it gives us the big picture of the Chinese internet economy in general and domain market in particular. This article is an update DEFENDANT’S ANSWER, AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES AND … 3 . 11. Defendant is without sufficient knowledge or information to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations. To the extent a response is required, the statements of that paragraph NAMESILO ACQUIRES DOMAIN REGISTRAR AND EXPIRED DOMAIN Deal will give NameSilo more tools to target domain investors. Domain name registrar NameSilo (PINKSHEETS: NTCEF, URL:CSE) has acquired NamePal, a small domain name registrar with an expired domain backorder platform. The all-equity deal is for up to a 1.75% interest in NameSilo, with the equity payments not starting until 6 monthsafter completion of
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In his first post for Domain Name Wire, James Iles writes about how Extend.com has helped the extended warranty provider. In May 2021, TechCrunch revealed that the extended warranty provider, aptly named Extend, raised $260 million in a Series C funding round that valued the company at over $1.6 billion.. Extend, founded in February 2019 by serial entrepreneur Woody Levin, started life using 14 RECENT END USER DOMAIN NAME SALES 13 hours ago · A cryptocurrency investment firm, a road construction company and an artificial intelligence business bought domain names. I had to put Google Translate and Chrome’s translator to work this week. Sedo always has a plethora of non-English domain sales, and this week it was in overdrive. Here’s a list of some of the end userdomain
TOP 5 DOMAIN NAME STORIES IN MAY Here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by views. 1. Frank Schilling new TLD auction grosses more than $40 million – Schilling’s UNR sold 23 top level domains to 10 different buyers. 2. Lawsuit: Bird.com and Fish.com domain buyerfailed to
TUCOWS GETS REVERSE DOMAIN NAME HIJACKING WIN AGAINST 1 day ago · Company’s attempt to milk Tucows fails. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found (pdf) that Damstra Technology Pty Ltd filed a cybersquatting dispute in bad faith.. The Australian company filed a dispute against the domain name Damstra.com. Tucows owns the domain name as part of the surname portfolio that it acquired in the Mailbank.com acquisition in 2006. REBOXED LIMITED ATTEMPTS REVERSE DOMAIN NAME HIJACKING 17 hours ago · UK mobile phone site went after domain registered before it existed. A UK firm has been found (pdf) to have attempted to reverse domain name hijack the domain name reboxed.com. Reboxed Limited offers a marketplace for buying and selling used mobile phones at Reboxed.co. Before founding the company in 2019, Reboxed’s founders attempted to buy QVC NIXES .QVC DOMAIN PLANS 16 hours ago · Company famous for on-air product sales no longer wants .QVC. QVC is the latest business to nix plans to operate a branded top level domain name. The company has informed (pdf) ICANN that it wishes to terminate its contract to run .QVC. It never used the domain name. QVC, which is known for live on-air BIRD.COM AND FISH.COM BIDDER COUNTERSUES RIGHT OF THE DOT 1 day ago · Bidder says he didn’t think he won the domains, and he shouldn’t have been allowed to bid more than $2,000. The person who bid nearly $5 million in February’s Right of the Dot domain name auction is countersuing the auctioneer. Right of the Dot sued DavidLizmi when he
SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR NFTS WILL PUSH PRICES DOWN Supply is growing really fast. Watch out below. Two months ago, I wrote about NFTs and how they are an example of manufactured scarcity. Each individual NFT is unique, but there are a whole lot of unique NFTs out there, which means that they aren’t really that rare. NBA Top Shots keeps printing more moments HE'S BACK: GUY SUES DOMAIN "KINGPINS" AFTER BEING "QUASHED Landcruise guy is back with a new lawsuit. Pro Se plaintiff litigant Graham Schreiber is at it again, suing* a bunch of people and companies over some alleged sleight about domain names. What that sleight is, I can’t quite understand even after reading his lawsuit. Something about kingpins and a cartel. Schreiber, sued ICANN,CentralNic
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COVID-19 DRIVES END USER DOMAIN NAME SALES by enduser — March 25,2020 Domain Sales
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COMPANIES ARE BUYING DOMAINS IN RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving end user domain name sales, it’s just not for garbage domain names people have registered in recentweeks.
Consider SchoolToGo.com, a domain purchased by an initiative to help educate kids who are at home due to school closures. Or MedVideo.de, which, for now, is gearing up to provide information about thepandemic.
Sedo sold WashYourHands.com for $17,500 this week. The domain sale is clearly because of the pandemic, but it’s not yet clear who bought it. VMeet .com is probably for an online conference service or something similar. It’s still pending transfer, but I suspect it’s an end user that bought this domain for $17,995. As a side note, Sedo has a 4 Letter .com auctionstarting Thursday.
Here’s a look at some of the domains end users bought at Sedo this past week. You can review previous end user sales lists here.
CICO.COM €45,000 – It seems that an individual in China bought this domain for his personal site. GIFTEE.COM $20,000 – Giftee, Inc. is a Japanese company that enables people to give gifts electronically, just as a Starbucks drink coupon. It uses the domain name Giftee.co. FTW.ORG $7,500 – The buyer is in the Arizona startup scene. AINOS.COM $5,000 – AI Nose is a Chinese company with a product for discovering smells for things like air quality and the presence of gases. Note that the domain it purchased is Ainos, not AInose. The latter domain is parked. SCHOOLTOGO.COM $5,000 – Forwards to SchoolToGo.de. This website launched as a result of recent school closures to provide educational activities to students 6-18 years old. UHR.ORG €5,000 – This domain is for Ultra HR, an online HR management tool. Companies can use this platform to manage and report on their various teams including administrative tasks like vacation time scheduling and time clock modules. VGCX.COM $3,500 – Victoria Gold Corp manages Victoria Gold’s Eagle Gold Mine, located in central Yukon, Canada. It forwards this domain to its website vitgoldcorp.com. DRAGER.COM.CN $3,000 – Forwards to Draeger.com. Draeger, Inc. is an international medical and safety products company. MEDVIDEO.DE €2,500 – This website is still in development but it will deliver daily updates and information regarding COVID-19. MEDINOW.DE €2,500 – Forwards to Savit.de, which sells store systems for pharmacies, labs and clinics. GOSWORDFISH .COM $2,499 – Swordfish Prime Services Ltd purchased this domain. It will provide financial information.*
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Tags: end user , sedo CHINESE REGISTRARS ARE VERY ACTIVE IN NEW TOP LEVEL DOMAINS by Kassey Lee — March 25, 2020 Domain Registrars0 Comments
KASSEY LEE ANALYZES HOW CHINESE REGISTRARS ACCOUNT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF NEW TOP LEVEL DOMAIN REGISTRATIONS. New top level domain names, such as .best, .rich, and .guru, began rolling out at the end of 2013. According to nTLDstats.com , there are about 34 million new top level domains registered across 1,187 new extensions at 372 registrars. The site also displays a list of the 372 registrars and their market shares. For our study, I have selected the top 10 registrars, as shown below.RANK
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Alibaba
5,426,279
15.90%
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GoDaddy
3,253,218
9.53%
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NameCheap
2,827,229
8.28%
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West263
2,742,342
8.04%
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GMO
2,150,271
6.30%
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West.cn
1,839,191
5.39%
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Eranet
1,717,788
5.03%
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WebNic.cc
1,435,744
4.21%
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NameSilo
800,547
2.35%
10
CentralNic
767,804
2.25%
Because West263 also belongs to West.cn, essentially two Chinese registrars — Alibaba and West.cn — together capture about 29% of the new extensions. Chinese domain investors have been active since the early launches of new extensions. This might have been because there was a feeling that they were late to the .com game, so they hoped to lead in the new frontier of the domain space. New top level domain registries also pitched new TLDs as an investment in China and often offered low-priced registrations in the region. While it is still debatable whether the new extensions are a success or not, there have been some great sales. In 2019, for example, Free.games was sold for $335,000, ZB.app for $91,000, and Business.club for $60,936. You can find more sales data at Namebio.
As years go by, it is becoming difficult to justify still calling these extensions “new.” Unfortunately, so far, there is no consensus on what to call them, so they’ll remain to be called “new” extensions.*
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BREAKING: VERISIGN WON’T RAISE .COM PRICES THIS YEARby Andrew Allemann
— March 25,
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EVEN IF ICANN GIVES THE COMPANY THE NOD, IT WON’T RAISE PRICES THISYEAR.
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, won’t raise prices for its domain names this year. In an announcement on its blog,
the company announced the price freeze in response to the COVID-19pandemic.
As of right now, Verisign can’t raise prices on .com anyway. However, ICANN is widely expected to allow Verisign to increase .com prices 7% this year. It’s not known if ICANN planned to delay its decision due to the pandemic. Freezing .com prices for the year won’t have much of an impact on Verisign’s bottom line for the current year. Even if ICANN decided next month to allow the company to raise prices, it would have to wait 6 months before implementing the change. At the earliest, it would be able to raise prices in October. What remains to be seen is if Verisign will ask for the right to increase prices twice (or double) next year due to this year’s freeze. That might require approval by the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The company is also rolling out a program to registrars that may help registrants keep their domains if they aren’t able to pay for them due to the pandemic.*
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VERISIGN GETS IDN HOMOGRAPH DETECTION PATENTby Andrew Allemann
— March 24,
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SYSTEM WOULD HELP DETECT HOMOGRAPH ATTACKS SHORTLY AFTER DOMAINS AREREGISTERED.
Examples of domains that could be used in homograph attacks. Image from Verisign patent. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number10,599,836 (pdf)
to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for “Identification of visual international domain name collisions.” The patent describes a way to detect a “homograph attack”. A homograph attack is when someone creates a mixed-script domain name that is visually similar to another domain name. Many top level domain names allow registrants to register domain names that include more than one script in an internationalized domain name. For example: > …a malicious entity could register the IDN “xn- -oogle-wmc > .com” via a registration service. When a web browser displays this > IDN, the punycode element “-wmc” would direct the web browser to > place a Latin small capital letter “G” in front of the > characters “oogle”—resulting in the domain name Googl e.com. > Users accessing Google .com would then be directed to the IDN > registered by the malicious user rather than to the expected home > page of google.com. To detect homograph attacks, the patent suggests turning the domain name into an image and then using optical character recognition to look for similarities. The patent is similar to one that Morgan Stanley recently applied for.
Homographs are a big issue with IDNs. Donuts, which operates over 200 top level domains, includes homograph protection in its Domains Protected Marks List product and plans to expand its homograph protections in the future.
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MMX SWINGS TO PROFIT IN 2019, 25% REVENUE GROWTHby Andrew Allemann
— March 24,
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MMX (MINDS + MACHINES) HAD A GOOD YEAR IN 2019, AND 2020 LOOKS SOLID BARRING COVID-19 IMPACT. Accounting wise, 2018 was a bad year for new top level domain name company MMX (London AIM: MMX). It wrote off $11.3 million related to a contract to run .London, had bad debt write-offs of $2.1 million, and one-off costs of $1.4 million. It lost $12.6 million for the year. The good news is that this pushed a lot of water under the bridge, making 2019 a stellar year for the company, as detailed in the company’s annual report.
In 2019, MMX reported a profit of $4.7 million, or 0.51 cents pershare.
Sure, that was helped by a couple of accounting gains, but anyway you look at it, 2019 was a much better year for the company. Revenue increased 25% to $18.9 million, helped in part by a full year of the contribution of ICM Registry, a business it acquired in 2018. Renewal revenue was $11.7 million, or 62% of the total. Operating EBITDA was up 79% to $6.4 million. And Adultblock, a new brand protection product related to the ICM Registry portfolio, generated $1.1 million in recognized revenue during the last two months of 2019. While ICM had a lot to do with MMX’s changed fortunes, the company also saw positive movement in some of its other top level domains. In Q4, .VIP grew by over 360,000 registrations. Importantly, 267,000 of these were standard sales at GoDaddy. (Read: not heavily discountedsales to China.)
In its annual report, the company notes that it is closely watching the impact of COVID-19. For now, it expects the immediate-term impact to be on one-off brokered sales but those account for less than 10% of the company’s sales. As it monitors the impact, the company has delayed its decision on a previously-announced dividend until September. In the meantime, it’s going forward with share buybacks of its (now cheaper) shares. MMX’s report is perhaps the first financial report by a publicly-traded domain name company in the wake of the spread of COVID-19. While the company is hopeful, it provides caution that everyone in the domain business should heed: “But to believe that we are fully insulated from the global crisiswould be unwise.”
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