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Group outlines possible path to “.Com-petition”
American Ecomomic Liberties Project says there are ways to pressure Verisign to lower .com prices. Last month, American Economic Liberties Project sent a letter to the U.S. government asking it to halt the renewal of the Cooperative Agreement with Ve...
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Group outlines possible path to “.Com-petition”
American Ecomomic Liberties Project says there are ways to pressure Verisign to lower .com prices. Last month, American Economic Liberties Project sent a letter to the U.S. government asking it to halt the renewal of the Cooperative Agreement with Ve...
Discussion
July 31, 2024, 12:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Friend.com didn’t spend 75% of its capital on its domain name
Friend bought friend.com on a payment plan rather than forking over most of its cash. There are a lot of stories going around today about Friend launching on the friend.com domain name. The maker of the AI product somewhat reminiscent of Her announce...
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Friend.com didn’t spend 75% of its capital on its domain name
Friend bought friend.com on a payment plan rather than forking over most of its cash. There are a lot of stories going around today about Friend launching on the friend.com domain name. The maker of the AI product somewhat reminiscent of Her announce...
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July 30, 2024, 11:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Your blockchain namespace will fail if it’s dependent on a bull market
Alt-root blockchain domains depend on resale value to survive. That’s a recipe for failure. The group behind .tez names recently made a proposal that I think encapsulates the problem with alt-root blockchain “domain” names. Tezos Do...
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Your blockchain namespace will fail if it’s dependent on a bull market
Alt-root blockchain domains depend on resale value to survive. That’s a recipe for failure. The group behind .tez names recently made a proposal that I think encapsulates the problem with alt-root blockchain “domain” names. Tezos Do...
Discussion
July 30, 2024, 5:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Abnormal.ai UDRP denied
Panel agrees that the domain investor likely bought the domain for its value as a dictionary word. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled against Abnormal Security Corporation in a dispute over abnormal.ai. Domain investor Narendra Ghimire purc...
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Abnormal.ai UDRP denied
Panel agrees that the domain investor likely bought the domain for its value as a dictionary word. A National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled against Abnormal Security Corporation in a dispute over abnormal.ai. Domain investor Narendra Ghimire purc...
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July 30, 2024, 4:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Descon Engineering hit with second reverse domain name hijacking finding
Company filed two cases against the same business. Both were doomed to fail. Descon Engineering Limited of Pakistan has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for the second time. Both UDRP cases involved the same domain name owner. Earli...
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Descon Engineering hit with second reverse domain name hijacking finding
Company filed two cases against the same business. Both were doomed to fail. Descon Engineering Limited of Pakistan has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for the second time. Both UDRP cases involved the same domain name owner. Earli...
Discussion
July 29, 2024, 4:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign lowers guidance again after domains shrink in Q2
Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name regis...
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Verisign lowers guidance again after domains shrink in Q2
Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year after domain registrations disappointed again in Q2. The company ended the quarter with 170.6 million .com and .net domain name regis...
Discussion
July 26, 2024, 1:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Republican lawmakers open inquiry into Verisign’s .com contract
Three Republican lawmakers have opened an inquiry into Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) contract to run the .com domain name registry. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Communications and Technolo...
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Republican lawmakers open inquiry into Verisign’s .com contract
Three Republican lawmakers have opened an inquiry into Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) contract to run the .com domain name registry. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Communications and Technolo...
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July 25, 2024, 4:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Latest .com data: GoDaddy down, Gname up
Digging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month’s report: GoDaddy registered o...
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Latest .com data: GoDaddy down, Gname up
Digging into the latest data about the .com namespace. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers March 2024. A few things stand out in this month’s report: GoDaddy registered o...
Discussion
July 24, 2024, 4:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
New phishing report names and shames TLDs, registrars
Phishers continue to like cheap domains. Interisle published its Phishing Landscape 2024 report today, naming top level domains and registrars commonly used in phishing attacks. The company analyzed 1.9 million phishing attacks that took place b...
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New phishing report names and shames TLDs, registrars
Phishers continue to like cheap domains. Interisle published its Phishing Landscape 2024 report today, naming top level domains and registrars commonly used in phishing attacks. The company analyzed 1.9 million phishing attacks that took place b...
Discussion
July 23, 2024, 9:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
13 end user domain name sales up to $28,333
A bank, a tax law firm, and an IT infrastructure company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from reporting domain name sales. But I don’t want readers to go hungry! So this week, I went back and looked at some of the sa...
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13 end user domain name sales up to $28,333
A bank, a tax law firm, and an IT infrastructure company bought domain names. Sedo is taking a two-week summer break from reporting domain name sales. But I don’t want readers to go hungry! So this week, I went back and looked at some of the sa...
Discussion
July 23, 2024, 5:08 pm
