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Domain Name Wire
Six-figure sale leads strong start to year at NameJet and SnapNames
Samba.com auctioned for over $100,000 in January. Newfold Digital has published sales results on its NameJet and SnapNames platforms for January and February of this year. In January, the two platforms combined for 66 domains sales of $2,000 or more,...
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Six-figure sale leads strong start to year at NameJet and SnapNames
Samba.com auctioned for over $100,000 in January. Newfold Digital has published sales results on its NameJet and SnapNames platforms for January and February of this year. In January, the two platforms combined for 66 domains sales of $2,000 or more,...
Discussion
March 12, 2025, 9:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Snoop Dogg wins cybersquatting dispute
Person in Ukraine registered domain and used it to promote pet monitoring app. Calvin Broadus, more commonly known as Snoop Dogg, has won a cybersquatting dispute he filed against a person in Ukraine. The rapper filed the dispute (pdf) against the do...
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Snoop Dogg wins cybersquatting dispute
Person in Ukraine registered domain and used it to promote pet monitoring app. Calvin Broadus, more commonly known as Snoop Dogg, has won a cybersquatting dispute he filed against a person in Ukraine. The rapper filed the dispute (pdf) against the do...
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March 12, 2025, 4:45 pm
The Domains
GMO gets some of the best in the biz to come together to launch Taku
GMO Internet Group is pulling together an all star cast of domain industry veterans to launch a new registrar and marketplace. Taku. The likes of Birgit Berger, Frank Michlick, Christian Voss, Michael Piotrowski are just a few of those who will be wo...
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GMO gets some of the best in the biz to come together to launch Taku
GMO Internet Group is pulling together an all star cast of domain industry veterans to launch a new registrar and marketplace. Taku. The likes of Birgit Berger, Frank Michlick, Christian Voss, Michael Piotrowski are just a few of those who will be wo...
Discussion
March 12, 2025, 1:08 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name
Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030. ICANN has formally notified the operator of the legacy Soviet Union country code domain, .su, of its plans to retire the domain in five years, Domain Name Wire has learned. The .su namespace, which ...
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ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name
Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030. ICANN has formally notified the operator of the legacy Soviet Union country code domain, .su, of its plans to retire the domain in five years, Domain Name Wire has learned. The .su namespace, which ...
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March 11, 2025, 11:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
GMO launches new registrar Taku
New team launches domain registrar that will offer marketplace and monetization. I’ve been a bit bewildered by .shop suddenly hiring lots of industry talent many years after the top level domain launched. This week at the ICANN meeting in Seatt...
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GMO launches new registrar Taku
New team launches domain registrar that will offer marketplace and monetization. I’ve been a bit bewildered by .shop suddenly hiring lots of industry talent many years after the top level domain launched. This week at the ICANN meeting in Seatt...
Discussion
March 11, 2025, 6:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
14 domain names end users just bought
AI companies and web3 projects bought domain names this week. Sedo had a huge sales week, closing GX.com for $1.2 million and double.com for $980,000. Remarkably, gx.com sold through a buy now transaction. The marketplace also sold coches.es for EUR ...
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14 domain names end users just bought
AI companies and web3 projects bought domain names this week. Sedo had a huge sales week, closing GX.com for $1.2 million and double.com for $980,000. Remarkably, gx.com sold through a buy now transaction. The marketplace also sold coches.es for EUR ...
Discussion
March 11, 2025, 5:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets RDAP patent
Patent describes way to obtain information from “thick” RDAP records. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 12,250,217 to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for GTLD domain name registries RDAP architecture (pdf). The p...
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Verisign gets RDAP patent
Patent describes way to obtain information from “thick” RDAP records. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 12,250,217 to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for GTLD domain name registries RDAP architecture (pdf). The p...
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March 11, 2025, 4:06 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by 7 figure sale of GX.com
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and GX.com led the way at $1,200,000. WWWW.com sold for $120,000. Coches.es was the top cctld sales at 120,000 Euro, ($131,005). 47 .com sales 28 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Domain name Price Currency &n...
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Sedo weekly sales led by 7 figure sale of GX.com
Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and GX.com led the way at $1,200,000. WWWW.com sold for $120,000. Coches.es was the top cctld sales at 120,000 Euro, ($131,005). 47 .com sales 28 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Domain name Price Currency &n...
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March 11, 2025, 3:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
200 new top level domains – DNW Podcast #525
Nova Registry is going big with top level domains. At least one company is going big in the next round of new top level domain expansion. On today’s show, Yoni Belousov explains why his company Nova Registry plans to apply for around 200 new to...
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200 new top level domains – DNW Podcast #525
Nova Registry is going big with top level domains. At least one company is going big in the next round of new top level domain expansion. On today’s show, Yoni Belousov explains why his company Nova Registry plans to apply for around 200 new to...
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March 10, 2025, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain name Wire is 20 years old
Domain Name Wire launched 20 years ago today. Domain Name Wire turned 20 years old today. I look back at photos from early conferences and am left in shock. Aging happens slowly, but wow, how the years add up! So much has happened in the domain indus...
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Domain name Wire is 20 years old
Domain Name Wire launched 20 years ago today. Domain Name Wire turned 20 years old today. I look back at photos from early conferences and am left in shock. Aging happens slowly, but wow, how the years add up! So much has happened in the domain indus...
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March 8, 2025, 4:22 pm
