Domain News
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Covid surge scuppers ICANN LA meetings
ICANN has lost out on a chance to test a return to in-person meetings ahead of ICANN 74, due to…
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Vox Pop defends its favorite cybersquatter
The .sucks registry, Vox Populi has complained to ICANN about the fact that its biggest customer keeps losing cybersquatting cases.…
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NamesCon calls for submissions for upcoming conference
Want to present at NamesCon Global 2022? Do you want to speak about domain names in front of a real…
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NFT company Dapper Labs registers hundreds of domain names
The company behind NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties registered domains to keep them out of the hands of others. Dapper…
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Monthly rebrands to Studio.com and raises $50 million
It had a good (but limiting) domain before. Significant funds have poured into the education industry in the past few…
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ICANN picks recipient of $1 million Ukraine aid
ICANN has decided to donate $1 million to the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, an international organization that helps people stay connected…
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Reminder: there’s no Whois privacy for .us domain names
Don’t expect to remain private if you register a .us domain name. Last July, Chaya Raichik registered the domain name…
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Your Google Analytics account is going to brick in 14 months
Now is the time to upgrade your Google Analytics account. Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics tool available.…
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More friction over closed generics
ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization and Governmental Advisory Committee seem to be headed to bilateral talks on the thorny issue…
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End user domain sales up to €150,000
A drone marker, a geoscience research institute and a water plan builder bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this…
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Sedo weekly sales led by Termin.de
Sedo released their weekly sales and Termin.de led the way at 150,000 Euro, ($161,859). Zexa.com was second at $25,000. PlayMatrix.com…
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ICANN’s Covid-19 waiver formally appealed
Two reliably regular ICANN meeting attendees have formally asked the Org to change the legal waiver it’s asking everyone to…
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GoDaddy and XYZ sign away rights after UNR’s crypto gambit
ICANN has started asking registries to formally sign away ownership rights to their gTLDs when they acquire them from other…
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Verisign wipes free TLDs from the world stats
The number of domain names registered globally dropped by over 25 million in the first quarter, but only because Verisign…
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The .SEXY registry increases drastically its prices
The registry that owns .SEXY will drastically increase the price of new registrations under this extension from April, the 30th…