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After advising clients on dot-brand domains for years, Fairwinds makes the move itself. Domain name and intellectual property consultancy Fairwinds Partners has moved its website to a dot-brand ahead ...
Have some panelists still not gotten the memo? Yesterday, I wrote about Whois privacy and UDRP complaints. I took issue with World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Warwick Rothnie’s ...
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Crypto.bot led the way at $250,000. Reve.com was the top .com at 79,000 Euro, ($91,842). 67 .com sales 33 cctld sales 13 other tld sales Domain name ...
A recent case raises questions about grace periods, buyer notifications, and balancing interests between sellers and buyers. I recently received an email from a distraught GoDaddy customer. He told me ...
Did this panelist let the Complainant off the hook? GDPR and the near-universal implementation of Whois privacy have changed the process of filing UDRP cases. Before GDPR, a complainant either knew ...
Use DotDB’s bulk tool to evaluate domains to buy or to evaluate your portfolio. Domain investors often look at how many top level domains a domain is registered in when evaluating domains to buy. An ...
An effort by ICANN’s At-Large community to force the Org to stick to its bylaws commitments to periodically review its accountability and transparency has failed after nobody else supported it. As I ...
DirectResponse.com sold for $252,500 / Sealing the Deal: 20 Negotiation Moves for New Domain Investors and More… ...
I wrote about Michael Santiago hand registering ChatGPT.com and selling it for $85,000. Michael recently relaunched OnlineBusiness.com. He mentions on X that upon relaunch some were confused. He wrote ...
Some somewhat-recent end user domain name sales. When a news story falls through the cracks… I think of that phrase when I go back and review domain sales lists from a couple of months ago. I’m able ...
Turmoil at Africa’s Regional Internet Registry is coming to a head. This site focuses on domain names, but there’s another part of internet real estate that is extremely valuable: IP addresses.
A Japanese domain registrar has driven significant growth in .xyz domain registrations over the past twelve months. Depending on the month, .xyz ranks either first or second in terms of total domains ...