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NetFlix Inc has registered the 13 x domain names below, noting that instead of acquiring domains, it often chooses to use “-” hyphen instead, if you look at mathilda-movie.com non-hyphen registered since the year 2021. shirley-movie.com non-hyphen registered since the year 2021, wendellandwild-movie.com non-hyphen registered since the year 2022 & thewonder-movie.com non-hyphen registered since the [...] Continue reading
A little over a year ago, Hallmark filed a UDRP against the Mahogany.com domain name. Not surprisingly, the domain registrant prevailed in the UDRP and was able to retain the domain name. Though I was expecting to see a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, the outcome would have been the same. I just noticed [...] Continue reading
We talk about the fundamental use cases for domain, DNS, and related data, but what we don’t typically spend as much time on is how we can actually spot potentially risky traffic flows. [...] Continue reading
The domain name Plumber.com has been registered since 1995, being created on the 3rd of January 1995, it appears to have been in the ownership of Roto-Rooter since at least 1998, where we can see the first developed website on Plumber.com archived online by archive.org. Who is Roto-Rooter, well they can trace their history back [...] Continue reading
NamesCon, the domaining conference, has revealed that “adult” domain names will be the focus of one its sessions at its next event, hosted by a former dominatrix. The conference has recruited Monte Cahn of RightOfTheDot (not the former dominatrix) and investor Krista Gable of Domain Domme to run a session on “Adult Domain Names”. Organizers [...] Continue reading
A small pizza company from the UK has attracted national headlines this week after its choice of domain name caused mirth on social media. The Welsh Italian Pizza Co uses welshitalianpizza.co.uk, but when it showed up at a festival with signage that did not display the domain in camel-case, attendees had to double-take to make [...] Continue reading
Discount Tire Company is an independent tire and wheel retailer. Discount Tire operates in most of the Lower 48 states in the United States and is the largest independent tire and wheel retailer in the world. The company is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. How do we find out which domain names are owned by Discount [...] Continue reading