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Why did Reddit waste its money on these domains?

r/wastefuldefensivedomainregistrations One thing that baffles me about large companies is how much money they spend on defensive domain name registrations. These are domains that they’ll never use but decide to register to keep them out of the hands of people who might do nefarious things with them. This makes sense to an extent. Big companies […]

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Domain Name Wire turns 18 today

DNW is celebrating a birthday today. Domain Name Wire is now voting age, celebrating its 18th birthday today. I started Domain Name Wire on March 9, 2005, as the first blog covering the business of domain names. A lot has changed in the industry since then (back then, we were talking more about parking domains […]

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March 2023 Whois.ai auctions led by Merit.ai

The expired auctions at Whois.ai for March 2023 were led by Merit.ai. There were no five figure closing prices this month. 127 auctions in total for $97.4K. The average price was $767 The 25 four figure names: merit.ai 6,009 USD 2023-03-07 Whois.ai outlier.ai 5,951 USD 2023-03-07 Whois.ai chroma.ai 4,450 USD 2023-03-06 Whois.ai ladder.ai 4,200 USD […]

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Crypto.hosting what a difference a year makes

Crypto.hosting sold for $8,000 at Dynadot on Friday. Weird info from whois records that the name was transitioned to CentralNic and not available for registration. DomainIQ showed, Domain Name: crypto.hosting >>> This name is not available for registration: >>> This TLD has been transitioned to CentralNIC In 2016 a record showed the domain name was […]

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February’s top domain name news stories

GoDaddy and Verisign were in the news last month. With February in the books, let’s take a look at the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month ranked by views: 1. GoDaddy announces layoffs – GoDaddy let go of about 8% of its employees. 2. Roman Polanski fails to take down site about sex […]

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.To registry assures Register.to customers that their domains are safe

Tonic can provide access to customers’ .to domains. According to Tonga Network Information Center (Tonic), Register.to is no longer a reseller of .to domains following the death of its owner. A number of domain investors used Register.to, which was an advertiser on Domain Name Wire. The company said that customer’s .to domain names are not […]

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This isn’t the first time Afternic has offered a parking rebate

Afternic offered a “Park & Sell” rebate until GoDaddy acquired the business. I was looking through the Domain Name Wire archives last week when I came across an article I wrote in 2014 about changes GoDaddy made to Afternic after acquiring the company the prior year. One of the changes was discontinuing the “Park & […]

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eBay tries (and fails) to use UDRP in a cybersquatting complaint

eBay tried to shoehorn a trademark dispute into a cybersquatting dispute. eBay has lost a dispute it filed to get control of the domain name BillionaireBay .com in a UDRP cybersquatting case. National Arbitration Forum panelist Nicholas J.T. Smith correctly noted the limitations of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. It is a policy […]

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GoDaddy reports earnings, 2022 revenue up 7%

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) reported their fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022 earnings today. After hours 79.53 −1.51 (1.86%) 2022 Revenue up 7%; Cash Provided by Operating Activities up 18%; Free Cash Flow up 13%; Announced Partnership...
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January’s top domain name news

These were popular news stories in the domain business last month. 1. Sex/com is for sale again – It last sold for $13 million, and the current owner wants at least $20 million. But they think they’ve found a business model, so it’s not just the domain that’s for sale. 2. GoDaddy to change aftermarket […]

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