Domain News
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Blockchain and domains: hype vs. reality and what comes next
Previous efforts to mix blockchain with domains have failed. Will new ideas work? I spent a couple of days last…
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Internet Commerce Association Recap – DNW Podcast #520
Hear from 12 people who attended the ICA meeting in Las Vegas. Last week, Internet Commerce Association held its annual…
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$3,000 to do a Whois lookup?
ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service cost hundreds, maybe even thousands, of dollars every time it was used in its first…
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End user domain name sales up to £300,000
Company goes big on a .co.uk domain name. Sedo reported a blockbuster sale this week: tryes.co.uk for £300,000. That’s the…
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PIR to join GlobalBlock, but its crown jewel won’t
Public Interest Registry is set to join GlobalBlock, the multi-TLD trademark blocking network, following approval of a series of ICANN…
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LA wildfire victims get domain deletes delay
Victims of the recent wildfires in the Los Angeles area have been offered special relief from renewing their expiring domains,…
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.free domains to finally arrive as Amazon reveals three gTLD launches
Amazon Registry has revealed launch dates for three of its long-dormant gTLDs, and they have the potential to be the…
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Six more gTLDs shown the door, five may be auctioned
There are to be six fewer gTLDs on the internet, after ICANN terminated its registry contracts with two companies. Asia…
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Leaving Las Vegas
The domain name business convened in Las Vegas this week. I spent the past few days in Las Vegas, first…
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Registrar terminated after ignoring Whois transition
A registrar has lost its right to sell gTLD domains in part due to its failure to migrate from Whois…
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$10 million ICANN giveaway winners picked
ICANN has picked the beneficiaries of up to $10 million it plans to give away in the first year of…
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Company tries reverse hijacking domain registered in 2001
Complainant failed on all three elements of UDRP. There are times when you should hire a lawyer. Here’s one. STREXO…
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D3 raises $25 million Series A
Domain name company raises funds for its ambitious DomainFi ecosystem. Domain name company D3 Global announced today that it has…
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Blockchain companies need to focus on domain investors’ biggest challenge
Sales and liquidity, not payments, are the big challenge to overcome. I don’t spend much time on Twitter/X these days,…
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WHOIS is dead
The Whois system has been replaced with RDAP. It’s official. Starting today, Whois is no longer the definitive source of…