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All industry participants invited to survey for next year’s report. Each year, InterNetX and Sedo publish a Global Domains Report that’s full of interesting data on the primary and secondary domain name market. The report uses data collected by the registrar and the large domain marketplace. For...

Panelist doesn’t consider RDNH despite apparent false statement. A FORUM UDRP panelist has denied a cybersquatting complaint over the domain name boku.net, but I’m curious why he didn’t consider reverse domain name hijacking. Payments company Boku, Inc., which uses the domain name boku.com...

This startup chose a valuable .com over the matching .ai domain. Decades before today’s artificial intelligence boom, an MIT professor created a simple chatbot program called Eliza. Now, a new AI startup has adopted the historic name and secured the matching .com. Eliza founder Stephen Garden...

The top domain name sale of the day was Skins.com selling for $1,459,450.00 at QEIP.com. NameBio tracked 576 domain sales $100+ for a reported total of $1,938,719 with an average price of $3,365.83 per sale. Compared to the day before, there was an increase of 8% in the number of sales and the...

If you are not into gaming you may not be familiar with CS2 skins but if you are a Counter Strike 2 player, custom skins that you can use in the free-to-play tactical first-person shooter game from Valve Software, are a hot commodity. They are so popular that the market for them, while volatile...

Contract anniversary will hit late next year, giving Verisign the option to raise prices. I’ve long assumed that Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) couldn’t raise the .com wholesale price in 2026. The thinking was this: Verisign last increased the price in September 2024. That was the last price increase...

The top domain name sale of the day was MetaReels.com selling for $99,999.00 at LabelCrate . NameBio tracked 534 domain sales $100+ for a reported total of $633,688 with an average price of $1,186.68 per sale. Compared to the day before, there was a decrease of 23% in the number of sales and the...

Salesforce has become the most significant company to date to announce it plans to apply to ICANN for a new gTLD. Specifically, the company plans to apply for a dot-brand, according to a disclosure made by David Lawrence, software engineering architect at Salesforce and IETF liaison on ICANN’s...

Company files “Plan B” reverse domain name hijacking case. Insurance company Cake Insure, Inc. attempted to reverse hijack the domain name everpeak.com, a UDRP panelist has ruled. The company has an insurance business called EverPeak that uses the domain name EverPeakInsurance.com. That business...

A cybersquatting panel disagreed with a panel’s decision in a prior case. Last month, I wrote about how Google lost a UDRP it filed against the registrant of NanoBananaAI .com. In that case, the panel ruled that Google did not show common law trademark rights in the name Nano Banana. It had...

In 2004, a small group of visionary people came together in South Florida, most meeting in person for the first time, for the world's first major domain conference. They shared a belief that meaningful domain names had an inherent value that would multiply dramatically in the years ahead - and...

The top domain name sale of the day was MidlandsEngine.org selling for $36,500.00 at GoDaddy. NameBio tracked 627 domain sales $100+ for a reported total of $533,467 with an average price of $850.82 per sale. Compared to the day before, there was an increase of 25% in the number of sales and the...

What Actually Constitutes a Prima Facie Case? The Panel made the clear and unequivocal statement that, “If a domain name is legitimately held the registrant can ask whatever price it likes for it”. This is correct and is consistent with UDRP Perspectives at 3.5 (“Setting a Price and Offering for...

.Org manager paid a lot less to Identity Digital for managing its registry backend under new contract. Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit that manages the .org top level domain name, has posted its annual Form 990 (pdf) tax return for 2024. The company generated $104.2 million in...

Learn which landers to use and a tip to get more out of the lease-to-own. My guest this week is Wade Smith, Director of Aftermarket Sales at Afternic. Wade talks about the new DomainNames.com initiative and how it came to be. He also shares how Afternic brokers follow up on leads and provides...