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Domain Name Wire
Here’s what likely happened with eth.link
No one played dirty, but the expiration process can appear that way. Ethereum Name Service and Virgil Griffith, the registrant of eth.link, recently filed a lawsuit against GoDaddy, Dynadot, and a company that “bought” eth.link in a domai...
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Here’s what likely happened with eth.link
No one played dirty, but the expiration process can appear that way. Ethereum Name Service and Virgil Griffith, the registrant of eth.link, recently filed a lawsuit against GoDaddy, Dynadot, and a company that “bought” eth.link in a domai...
Discussion
September 23, 2022, 12:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lawsuit alleges zow.com is a stolen domain name
Person who registered the domain in 1996 says it’s stolen. A California resident has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that the valuable domain name zow.com is stolen. Yesterday, Marci Seely filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern ...
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Lawsuit alleges zow.com is a stolen domain name
Person who registered the domain in 1996 says it’s stolen. A California resident has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that the valuable domain name zow.com is stolen. Yesterday, Marci Seely filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern ...
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September 22, 2022, 6:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lawmakers push for Whois privacy on .us domains
10 Democrats ask NTIA to add Whois privacy to .us domain names. While Whois records in most top level domains are now private, .us remains an outlier: the U.S. government specifically forbids Whois privacy on .us domain registrations. It has enforced...
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Lawmakers push for Whois privacy on .us domains
10 Democrats ask NTIA to add Whois privacy to .us domain names. While Whois records in most top level domains are now private, .us remains an outlier: the U.S. government specifically forbids Whois privacy on .us domain registrations. It has enforced...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 5:41 pm
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa – Off The Market Forever – September 22, 2022: Everybody Wins: Strive.com, Fetch.com, and Crunchbase Unicorns
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And this is a new show related to domains called "Off The Market Forever", starring Chris Zuiker and James Iles! In this show we focus on the domain space from the lens of end-user ac...
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DomainSherpa – Off The Market Forever – September 22, 2022: Everybody Wins: Strive.com, Fetch.com, and Crunchbase Unicorns
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And this is a new show related to domains called "Off The Market Forever", starring Chris Zuiker and James Iles! In this show we focus on the domain space from the lens of end-user ac...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 5:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Which top level domains are truly popular, part two
Which domains get used the most? Last week I wrote about DataProvider.com’s analysis of new top level domains and which ones are popular. As I mentioned in that post, there are lots of ways to measure new TLD popularity and none of them are per...
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Which top level domains are truly popular, part two
Which domains get used the most? Last week I wrote about DataProvider.com’s analysis of new top level domains and which ones are popular. As I mentioned in that post, there are lots of ways to measure new TLD popularity and none of them are per...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 4:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
What’s wrong with this UDRP?
If you think something is fishy about the dates cited in the decision, you’re right. I was reading through a UDRP decision (pdf) for snugg.com today when something caught my eye. The first two paragraphs of the “factual background” ...
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What’s wrong with this UDRP?
If you think something is fishy about the dates cited in the decision, you’re right. I was reading through a UDRP decision (pdf) for snugg.com today when something caught my eye. The first two paragraphs of the “factual background” ...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 3:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
16 new end user domain name sales
A mastermind facilitator, an NFT business, and Cisco bought domain names. Sedo reported some nice four and five-figure domain name sales for the past week. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo for which I coul...
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16 new end user domain name sales
A mastermind facilitator, an NFT business, and Cisco bought domain names. Sedo reported some nice four and five-figure domain name sales for the past week. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo for which I coul...
Discussion
September 21, 2022, 1:18 pm
The Domains
Verisign DNIB Q2 2022 – 174.3m .com and .net registrations
Verisign (Nasdaq: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2022. You can download the full report here. Highlights of the report show 351.5 million domain registrations. .Com and .Net registrations were up 2.2% from Q2 2021. EXECUTIVE S...
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Verisign DNIB Q2 2022 – 174.3m .com and .net registrations
Verisign (Nasdaq: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2022. You can download the full report here. Highlights of the report show 351.5 million domain registrations. .Com and .Net registrations were up 2.2% from Q2 2021. EXECUTIVE S...
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September 20, 2022, 9:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets patent for registering domains through Amazon Alexa
Patent covers using your voice to register domains, do Whois lookups, etc. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 11,451,511 (pdf) to Verisign for “Audio-based systems, devices, and methods for domain services.” Ye...
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Verisign gets patent for registering domains through Amazon Alexa
Patent covers using your voice to register domains, do Whois lookups, etc. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 11,451,511 (pdf) to Verisign for “Audio-based systems, devices, and methods for domain services.” Ye...
Discussion
September 20, 2022, 4:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Some things you should know about Dan/GoDaddy brokerage commissions
Here’s how commissions work on payment plans and how Dan.com’s commissions are higher than Afternic’s. Yesterday, Dan.com emailed its users to let them know about a new brokerage feature. Now that Dan.com is part of GoDaddy, Dan.com...
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Some things you should know about Dan/GoDaddy brokerage commissions
Here’s how commissions work on payment plans and how Dan.com’s commissions are higher than Afternic’s. Yesterday, Dan.com emailed its users to let them know about a new brokerage feature. Now that Dan.com is part of GoDaddy, Dan.com...
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September 20, 2022, 4:00 pm
