Domain News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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ICANN swaps out Asia VP
Jia-Rong Low, VP of stakeholder engagement and managing director for the Asia Pacific region, has quit ICANN and will leave…
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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.…
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No .uk price hikes despite tumbling sales
Nominet said today that it has no plans to raise the price of .uk domains, even as registration volumes continue…
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Verisign lowers guidance again after domains shrink in Q2
Company now expects domain base to drop by 2.0-3.0 million this year. Verisign has lowered its forecast for the year…
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Domain world growth despite .com slide
In the fastest-published quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief in many years, Verisign last night reported that the world’s extant domain…
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Verisign predicts more gloom as registrars shun .com growth
Verisign has yet again massively downgraded its expectations for .com growth, after it lost almost two million domains in the…
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Verisign DNIB Q2 2024 – 362.4M domain regs across all tlds
Verisign (NASDAQ) VRSN released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q2 2024. The second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4…