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Sully's Blog
Efty Pay has made my day
Efty.com has consistently provided domain investors with innovative tools to streamline their operations and maximize their investments. In 2017, I had the pleasure of interviewing Doron Vermaat, co-founder of Efty, where we delved into the platform&...
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Efty Pay has made my day
Efty.com has consistently provided domain investors with innovative tools to streamline their operations and maximize their investments. In 2017, I had the pleasure of interviewing Doron Vermaat, co-founder of Efty, where we delved into the platform&...
Discussion
August 1, 2024, 11:05 am
Domain Name Wire
Squarespace explains what happened with crypto site hijackings
Company said weakness in OAuth caused domain hijackings. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) has posted a postmortem on a security incident that impacted mostly crypto/web3 company sites earlier this month. Several web3 companies reported that their domain name...
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Squarespace explains what happened with crypto site hijackings
Company said weakness in OAuth caused domain hijackings. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) has posted a postmortem on a security incident that impacted mostly crypto/web3 company sites earlier this month. Several web3 companies reported that their domain name...
Discussion
July 31, 2024, 7:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
AI and bet remain hot keywords in the aftermarket
These were the top selling keywords at Afternic in May. Afternic has revealed the top keywords in domain names sold on its platform in May. As the largest domain name marketplace and distribution network, this list is a fairly good representation of ...
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AI and bet remain hot keywords in the aftermarket
These were the top selling keywords at Afternic in May. Afternic has revealed the top keywords in domain names sold on its platform in May. As the largest domain name marketplace and distribution network, this list is a fairly good representation of ...
Discussion
July 31, 2024, 3:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
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...
Discussion
July 30, 2024, 11:50 pm
The Domains
Friend.com sells for $1.88M
404Media.co covered some big news on Friend.com. The sale of Friend.com for $1,887,843. Friend, an AI companion company announced today, spent $1.8 million out of a total of $2.5 million it raised to start the company on its domain name, friend.com, ...
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Friend.com sells for $1.88M
404Media.co covered some big news on Friend.com. The sale of Friend.com for $1,887,843. Friend, an AI companion company announced today, spent $1.8 million out of a total of $2.5 million it raised to start the company on its domain name, friend.com, ...
Discussion
July 30, 2024, 9:51 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...
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
