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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...
Discussion
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
The Domains
The Fading Importance Of ccTLDs when it comes to SEO
Could the SEO value of cctld’s being going away? SearchEngineJournal.com published an article this morning that talks about just that. In a recent episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast, the company’s Search Relations tea...
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The Fading Importance Of ccTLDs when it comes to SEO
Could the SEO value of cctld’s being going away? SearchEngineJournal.com published an article this morning that talks about just that. In a recent episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast, the company’s Search Relations tea...
Discussion
July 29, 2024, 3:42 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
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review – July 25, 2024 – Politics as Usual
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 13:10 mark), where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss t...
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DomainSherpa Review – July 25, 2024 – Politics as Usual
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 13:10 mark), where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss t...
Discussion
July 26, 2024, 1:52 am
The Domains
Verisign DNIB Q2 2024 – 362.4M domain regs across all tlds
Verisign (NASDAQ) VRSN released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2024. The second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), unchanged compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domain ...
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Verisign DNIB Q2 2024 – 362.4M domain regs across all tlds
Verisign (NASDAQ) VRSN released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2024. The second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), unchanged compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domain ...
Discussion
July 25, 2024, 11:43 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...
Discussion
July 25, 2024, 4:27 pm
The Domains
Andrew Rosener GBM Auctions close today
GBM Domains has a very unique platform, their co-founder and CEO Hugo McDonaugh was on Domain Sherpa back July 18. Andrew Rosener placed some names on auction and they close today. I have provided the links to Andrew’s auctions below: – B...
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Andrew Rosener GBM Auctions close today
GBM Domains has a very unique platform, their co-founder and CEO Hugo McDonaugh was on Domain Sherpa back July 18. Andrew Rosener placed some names on auction and they close today. I have provided the links to Andrew’s auctions below: – B...
Discussion
July 25, 2024, 10:45 am
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...
Discussion
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
