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DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review – July 3, 2025 – Live By The Sword
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 26:41 mark) where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss th...
Discussion
DomainSherpa Review – July 3, 2025 – Live By The Sword
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 26:41 mark) where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss th...
Discussion
July 3, 2025, 11:49 pm

Domain Name Wire
Top domain name stories from June: .Co, Tesla, Spaceship and more
A change for .co domains, a surging domain registrar, and more top stories from last month on Domain Name Wire. Here’s what happened in the domain business last month: 1. GoDaddy loses .co contract to TIG partnership – The “original...
Discussion
Top domain name stories from June: .Co, Tesla, Spaceship and more
A change for .co domains, a surging domain registrar, and more top stories from last month on Domain Name Wire. Here’s what happened in the domain business last month: 1. GoDaddy loses .co contract to TIG partnership – The “original...
Discussion
July 3, 2025, 1:50 pm

Domain Name Wire
ICANN eats its own dog food with Universal Acceptance
The organization takes another step to enable all domains to work with its systems. More than a year after ICANN staff gained the ability to send and receive emails from internationalized domain names (IDN), the organization has taken another step on...
Discussion
ICANN eats its own dog food with Universal Acceptance
The organization takes another step to enable all domains to work with its systems. More than a year after ICANN staff gained the ability to send and receive emails from internationalized domain names (IDN), the organization has taken another step on...
Discussion
July 3, 2025, 12:33 pm

Domain Name Wire
Meta Platforms gets contempt sanctions against former Chinese domain registrar
Company will have to pay $1,000 a day, but it will be an uphill battle for Meta to collect. A federal judge has imposed contempt sanctions against Chinese company Leascend Technology (formerly 35.CN) in a long-running cybersquatting lawsuit brought b...
Discussion
Meta Platforms gets contempt sanctions against former Chinese domain registrar
Company will have to pay $1,000 a day, but it will be an uphill battle for Meta to collect. A federal judge has imposed contempt sanctions against Chinese company Leascend Technology (formerly 35.CN) in a long-running cybersquatting lawsuit brought b...
Discussion
July 2, 2025, 6:29 pm

Domain Name Wire
Piers Morgan wins domain name dispute over PiersMorgan.com
Famous journalist and former CNN talk show host wins cybersquatting dispute over his personal name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled in favor of Piers Morgan in a cybersquatting dispute over the domain name PiersMorgan.com. ...
Discussion
Piers Morgan wins domain name dispute over PiersMorgan.com
Famous journalist and former CNN talk show host wins cybersquatting dispute over his personal name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled in favor of Piers Morgan in a cybersquatting dispute over the domain name PiersMorgan.com. ...
Discussion
July 2, 2025, 3:32 pm

Domain Name Wire
Judge allows expired domain clawback lawsuit to proceed against GoDaddy
GoDaddy clawed back two domain names that companies had won in expired domain auctions. A federal judge has denied (pdf) much of GoDaddy’s (NYSE: GDDY) motion to dismiss a lawsuit over two revoked domain names, allowing several of the plaintiff...
Discussion
Judge allows expired domain clawback lawsuit to proceed against GoDaddy
GoDaddy clawed back two domain names that companies had won in expired domain auctions. A federal judge has denied (pdf) much of GoDaddy’s (NYSE: GDDY) motion to dismiss a lawsuit over two revoked domain names, allowing several of the plaintiff...
Discussion
July 2, 2025, 12:28 pm

Domain Name Wire
End user domain sales led by €100,000 .ai domain
Company that runs AI product directory forks over six figures for mini.ai. Sedo had a solid sales week, led by the €100,000 sale of mini.ai. The company publishes twelve sales of five figures or more, and there might be others that are private. ...
Discussion
End user domain sales led by €100,000 .ai domain
Company that runs AI product directory forks over six figures for mini.ai. Sedo had a solid sales week, led by the €100,000 sale of mini.ai. The company publishes twelve sales of five figures or more, and there might be others that are private. ...
Discussion
July 1, 2025, 4:11 pm

Domain Name Wire
Legal tech firm ContractPod tries to reverse hijack leah.ai
Panelist says it’s a classic “Plan B” reverse domain name hijacking case. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found ContractPod Technologies Ltd. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over the domain ...
Discussion
Legal tech firm ContractPod tries to reverse hijack leah.ai
Panelist says it’s a classic “Plan B” reverse domain name hijacking case. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found ContractPod Technologies Ltd. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over the domain ...
Discussion
July 1, 2025, 3:22 pm

The Domains
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Mini.ai
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Mini.ai led the way at 100,000 Euro, ($117,943) MrBet.com was the top .com sale at 50,000 Euro, ($58,932). Zama.org sold for 35,000 Euro, ($41,267). 51 .com sales 18 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Domai...
Discussion
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Mini.ai
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Mini.ai led the way at 100,000 Euro, ($117,943) MrBet.com was the top .com sale at 50,000 Euro, ($58,932). Zama.org sold for 35,000 Euro, ($41,267). 51 .com sales 18 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Domai...
Discussion
July 1, 2025, 2:08 pm

Domain Name Wire
Top four selling keywords remain unchanged at Afternic
Yes, AI is still #1. Afternic has released a list of the top 20 keywords in domains that sold at Afternic in April. The top four keywords remained unchanged from March. Here’s the list of keywords for April, including their rankings from the pr...
Discussion
Top four selling keywords remain unchanged at Afternic
Yes, AI is still #1. Afternic has released a list of the top 20 keywords in domains that sold at Afternic in April. The top four keywords remained unchanged from March. Here’s the list of keywords for April, including their rankings from the pr...
Discussion
June 30, 2025, 6:30 pm