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ICANN sends breach notice to GKG.net
Registrar has not been responsive to ICANN’s requests and hasn’t paid its bills. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to accredited registrar GKG.net. Officially, the breach notice is for three issues: Failure to implement a transfer due ...
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ICANN sends breach notice to GKG.net
Registrar has not been responsive to ICANN’s requests and hasn’t paid its bills. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to accredited registrar GKG.net. Officially, the breach notice is for three issues: Failure to implement a transfer due ...
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September 25, 2023, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top 3 selling keywords unchanged at Afternic
Afternic reveals top keywords in aftermarket sales in July, including the same top three as last month. Afternic has revealed the top 20 keywords in domain names sold in July through its platform, with filler words removed. Some terms on the list thi...
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Top 3 selling keywords unchanged at Afternic
Afternic reveals top keywords in aftermarket sales in July, including the same top three as last month. Afternic has revealed the top 20 keywords in domain names sold in July through its platform, with filler words removed. Some terms on the list thi...
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September 25, 2023, 2:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Dynadot auctioning expired .AI domain names
Dynadot gets exclusive deal with .AI registry to auction expired domain names. Dynadot is now auctioning expired .AI domain names in an exclusive partnership with the .AI registry. .AI is the country code for Anguilla but has become popular as a shor...
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Dynadot auctioning expired .AI domain names
Dynadot gets exclusive deal with .AI registry to auction expired domain names. Dynadot is now auctioning expired .AI domain names in an exclusive partnership with the .AI registry. .AI is the country code for Anguilla but has become popular as a shor...
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September 22, 2023, 5:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon registers over 100 domains for new product launches
Amazon registers domains for Eye Gaze, Right Pet Tags, and more. Amazon held a product launch event earlier this week. And as it always does when it launches products, it undertook a seemingly futile effort to protect the product names in second leve...
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Amazon registers over 100 domains for new product launches
Amazon registers domains for Eye Gaze, Right Pet Tags, and more. Amazon held a product launch event earlier this week. And as it always does when it launches products, it undertook a seemingly futile effort to protect the product names in second leve...
Discussion
September 22, 2023, 4:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN sends breach notice to Freenom’s accredited domain registrar
ICANN has sent a breach notice to the registrar for the third time. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to OpenTLD B.V., an accredited registrar that’s part of the Freenom group of companies. Freenom is best known for giving away free domain r...
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ICANN sends breach notice to Freenom’s accredited domain registrar
ICANN has sent a breach notice to the registrar for the third time. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to OpenTLD B.V., an accredited registrar that’s part of the Freenom group of companies. Freenom is best known for giving away free domain r...
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September 21, 2023, 3:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain auction bidder agrees to $842k settlement for not completing purchases
Settlement comes after sales of fish.com and bird.com in 2021 auction fell through. A recent lawsuit settlement should be a warning to domain auction bidders: don’t bid on something you can’t pay for. In February 2021, Right of the Dot he...
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Domain auction bidder agrees to $842k settlement for not completing purchases
Settlement comes after sales of fish.com and bird.com in 2021 auction fell through. A recent lawsuit settlement should be a warning to domain auction bidders: don’t bid on something you can’t pay for. In February 2021, Right of the Dot he...
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September 21, 2023, 3:17 pm
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Abbott Laboratories tries to use UDRP to settle a trademark dispute
UDRP isn’t meant to settle broad trademark usage disputes. Abbott Laboratories has tried — and failed — to settle a trademark usage dispute using UDRP. The company, which makes Ensure nutritional beverages, filed a UDRP against the ...
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Abbott Laboratories tries to use UDRP to settle a trademark dispute
UDRP isn’t meant to settle broad trademark usage disputes. Abbott Laboratories has tried — and failed — to settle a trademark usage dispute using UDRP. The company, which makes Ensure nutritional beverages, filed a UDRP against the ...
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September 20, 2023, 3:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Who had the better rebrand, Donuts to Identity Digital or CentralNic to Team Internet
Donuts and CentralNic changed their names. Who made the better rebrand? CentralNic (AIM: TIG) recently changed its brand to Team Internet Group, marking a big change for the large domain name and online advertising firm. It follows another major rebr...
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Who had the better rebrand, Donuts to Identity Digital or CentralNic to Team Internet
Donuts and CentralNic changed their names. Who made the better rebrand? CentralNic (AIM: TIG) recently changed its brand to Team Internet Group, marking a big change for the large domain name and online advertising firm. It follows another major rebr...
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September 20, 2023, 2:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Latest end user domains sales (and some unknown buyers)
An online billing platform, a fitness gym, and a chatbot company bought domains. Today is one of those days when I curse the name of GDRP. Only a handful of Sedo’s sales this past week resolved to an active website, and only a couple have publi...
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Latest end user domains sales (and some unknown buyers)
An online billing platform, a fitness gym, and a chatbot company bought domains. Today is one of those days when I curse the name of GDRP. Only a handful of Sedo’s sales this past week resolved to an active website, and only a couple have publi...
Discussion
September 19, 2023, 5:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
How to sell more domains – DNW Podcast #453
Listen to this show to sell more domains. On today’s show, Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal shares data and ideas for how to sell more domains. One of the datapoints was so impactful that I changed the prices on about 50 of my domains after reco...
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How to sell more domains – DNW Podcast #453
Listen to this show to sell more domains. On today’s show, Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal shares data and ideas for how to sell more domains. One of the datapoints was so impactful that I changed the prices on about 50 of my domains after reco...
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September 18, 2023, 3:30 pm
