Dynadot auctioning expired .AI domain names

Dynadot gets exclusive deal with .AI registry to auction expired domain names. Dynadot is now auctioning expired .AI domain names in an exclusive partnership with the .AI registry. .AI is the country code for Anguilla but has become popular as a short top level domain for artificial intelligence companies. Aftermarket sales for .ai domains have […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 22, 2023 1:35 pm

Amazon registers over 100 domains for new product launches

Amazon registers domains for Eye Gaze, Right Pet Tags, and more. Amazon held a product launch event earlier this week. And as it always does when it launches products, it undertook a seemingly futile effort to protect the product names in second level domain names. I say futile because, for every domain the company snapped […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 22, 2023 12:07 pm

ICANN sends breach notice to Freenom’s accredited domain registrar

ICANN has sent a breach notice to the registrar for the third time. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to OpenTLD B.V., an accredited registrar that’s part of the Freenom group of companies. Freenom is best known for giving away free domain registrations in a dwindling number of country code domain names as it […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 21, 2023 11:47 am

Domain auction bidder agrees to $842k settlement for not completing purchases

Settlement comes after sales of fish.com and bird.com in 2021 auction fell through. A recent lawsuit settlement should be a warning to domain auction bidders: don’t bid on something you can’t pay for. In February 2021, Right of the Dot held what seemed to be a massively successful domain name auction. A single bidder placed […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 21, 2023 11:17 am

Abbott Laboratories tries to use UDRP to settle a trademark dispute

UDRP isn’t meant to settle broad trademark usage disputes. Abbott Laboratories has tried — and failed — to settle a trademark usage dispute using UDRP. The company, which makes Ensure nutritional beverages, filed a UDRP against the domain name ensure-nest.com. A Vietnamese company uses the domain to sell bird nest-related products, which are food and […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 20, 2023 11:21 am

How to sell more domains – DNW Podcast #453

Listen to this show to sell more domains. On today’s show, Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal shares data and ideas for how to sell more domains. One of the datapoints was so impactful that I changed the prices on about 50 of my domains after recording this interview. We talk about domain pricing, how to get […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 18, 2023 11:30 am

Unstoppable Domains drops lawsuit against Handshake .wallet owner

Web3 naming company dismisses its lawsuit, but the issue will still be litigated in the courts. Blockchain naming company Unstoppable Domains has dismissed without prejudice a lawsuit it filed against Scott Florsck and Wallet Inc., which offered second level .wallet registrations in the Handshake system. But Florsck’s lawsuit against Unstoppable remains, meaning the saga isn’t […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 15, 2023 12:18 pm

I changed my domain prices after talking with Squadhelp’s founder

My discussion for Monday’s podcast prompted me to make a pricing change. My guest on next week’s podcast is Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal. Darpan shares a lot of data on the show that will be helpful to domain owners. One of these data points led me to reassess my domain prices this week and change […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 14, 2023 12:18 pm

20 end user domain sales up to €51,000

A magnet manufacturer, a legal recruiter and a furniture company bought domain names. Sedo had an excellent week for end user domain name sales, including several five figure sales. Here’s a list of end user sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here. Magnet.net €51,000 – Max Baermann GmbH is […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 13, 2023 9:05 am

Radix reports $4.64 million premium domain sales in H1

Premium revenue continues to grow for new top level domain operator. Top level domain name company Radix reported that its premium domains grossed about $4.64 million at the retail level in the first half of this year across its 10 TLDs. That’s up 22% compared to the same period a year before and about the […]

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Andrew Allemann No Comments September 12, 2023 3:06 pm