Domain News
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February’s top domain name news stories
GoDaddy and Verisign were in the news last month. With February in the books, let’s take a look at the…
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Whois disclosure system coming this year?
ICANN has approved the creation of a Whois Disclosure System, almost six years after Europe’s GDPR rules tore up the…
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Euro registrars merge to form Your.Online
French registrar Gandi and Dutch registrar holding group Total Webhosting Solutions have announced they have merged to form a new…
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Total Web Solutions acquires domain registrar Gandi, forming new entity
Gandi will now be part of Your.Online. Domain name registrar Gandi is part of a new corporate entity. Officially, Gandi…
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Escrow.com Domain Investment Index Q4 2022
Escrow.com published their Domain Investment Index for Q4 2022. You can view the full report here. Year-on-year, Escrow has seen a…
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Escrow.com reports signs of life in high end of domain aftermarket
There are some “green shoots” in the domain aftermarket. Escrow.com released its Q4 Domain Investment Index (pdf) today. Its Q4…
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LawCloud tries to upgrade its domain by reverse domain name hijacking
Panel admonishes company for failing dispute in bad faith. LawCloud BV, a company that provides services to law firms, has…
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.To registry assures Register.to customers that their domains are safe
Tonic can provide access to customers’ .to domains. According to Tonga Network Information Center (Tonic), Register.to is no longer a…
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This is why ICANN is worried about new gTLDs right now
ICANN’s board of directors yesterday laid out a whole bucket list of concerns it has about the next round of…
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Interesting aftermarket data from Global Domain Report
IONOS companies release in-depth report on the domain name market. Sedo and InterNetX, both part of publicly-traded IONOS, released their…
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18 end user domain sales up to $400,000
A second-hand furniture site, a school in Honduras and a taxi app bought domain names. Sedo had a heck of…
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Identity Digital to launch .watches this month
Identity Digital has announced the launch timetable for its .watches gTLD. Sunrise will kick off on March 28, running for…
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Typo .com on sale for $94 million
Somebody has listed what they call the “Saudi National Domain” for sale for a laughable $94 million, despite it apparently…
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InternetX/Sedo Global Domain Report 2023
InternetX and Sedo (advertisers here) released their Global Domain Report for 2023. This really is the most thorough deep dive…
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Verisign awarded domain valuation patent
Patent covers way to value domains and present those to domain registrants. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted…