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CENTR TLD Market Report 2024
CENTR released their latest TLD report. One of the things I thought that was interesting in the report was toward the bottom as it discussed…
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Domain News
Squarespace revenue tops $1 billion in 2023
Company reports robust growth in 2023 and says its Google Domains acquisition is performing well. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) reported Q4 and full-year 2023 earnings today.…
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GoDaddy wants to cut the bullshit from .xxx
GoDaddy Registry wants to drop a big chunk of nonsense from the contract governing its .xxx domain, some 20 years after it was applied for…
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Hub.xyz
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Hub.xyz led the way at $31,900. The top .com sale was WorthScore.com at $20,000. Only 4 five…
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Domain News
Judge dismisses TRX.com cybersquatting claim
Lawsuit against domain name is dismissed but domain owner’s suit to stop UDRP transfer is still pending. I said the judge was going to be…
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Dueling domain blocking services to launch at ICANN 79
Norwegian startup NameBlock is set to launch its suite of brand protection and domain security services later this week, with a somewhat different take on…
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Domain News
Domain forums and conferences – DNW Podcast #474
Helmuts Meskonis discusses Domain Summit and how he hopes to bring DNForum back to its former glory. This week, I interview Helmuts Meskonis, who organizes…
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A.I. Girlfriends, image engines and the purchase of Porn.ai
Tatum Hunter at The Washington Post wrote a very in depth article on the world of porn, ai and even touched upon a couple unreported…
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Freename tries to bridge DNS and blockchain
Swiss blockchain naming startup Freename has released a service it says it hopes will help make blockchain-based naming systems easier to integrate with the traditional…
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Domain News
Ethereum Name Service community approves eth.link settlement
ENS plans to pay auction bidder $300,000 to settle dispute. Short numeric .eth domains are hot right now. The results are in, and the Ethereum…
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Domain News
Trader Joe’s loses cybersquatting complaint against “Trader Joe”
Company waited 25 years to file cybersquatting allegations. Grocery store chain Trader Joe’s has lost a cybersquatting claim it filed against the domain name TraderJoe.com.…
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Olive retires from ICANN
David Olive, senior VP of policy development and support, will retire from ICANN at the end of May, the Org announced today. Olive joined ICANN…
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Whois policy published without life-saving disclosure rule
ICANN has updated its Registration Data Policy, the rules that govern what data registries and registrars need to collect from registrants and when to publish…
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Domain News
Domain business remains strong at Tucows
Slow and steady… Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported Q4 2023 earnings after the market closed yesterday. The company posted total Q4 revenue of $87.0 million, up…
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UK gov takes its lead from ICANN on DNS abuse
The UK government has set out how it intends to regulate UK-related top-level domain registries, and it’s taken its lead mostly from existing ICANN policies.…