PIR receives over 600 nominations for this year’s awards. Public Interest Registry (PIR) received a record number of nominations for this year’s .ORG Impact Awards, the organization announced this week. 633 organizations applied for the awards, and this week the list was narrowed to 35 finalist organizations. Winners will be announced at an online event [...] Continue reading →

TenCent just deployed a couple of Chinese IDN domains. Kassey Lee examines if this is a sign of things to come. I was intrigued by the recent news of internet giant Tencent deploying two .中国 domains. Does it indicate a change in China and the start of a boom of launching Chinese websites complete with [...] Continue reading →

NamesCon.online will have an auction for everyone next week. Next week’s NamesCon.online event will feature three auctions, and pre-bidding is now open for the big RightOfTheDot Auction. On Wednesday, September 22, get ready for the RapidFire live domain auction. Born on Clubhouse, this auction will feature names with no or low reserves. The next [...] Continue reading →

What customers and other registrars should do to protect themselves until we know more. Hackers have infiltrated Epik. Domain name registrar Epik was hacked this week, and the hackers published reams of data online. A group saying it’s aligned with the hacker collective Anonymous posted a release about the hack earlier this week. It says [...] Continue reading →

This company built credibility with a great domain name. In 1952, just 4.2% of Americans were company shareholders. By 1990, that figure had risen to 21.1%, and by 2020, 55% of the population had invested money in the stock market. As time and technology move on, stock trading becomes more accessible to more of the [...] Continue reading →

You shouldn’t file a UDRP just because you’ve lost the keys to your domain name. Moana Pacific condos lost the keys to its domain and tried to get them back through UDRP. This screenshot is of the site in 2016, courtesy of Wayback Machine. The site currently resolves to a parked page. Companies try to [...] Continue reading →

Domain investor sets a new record for a non-numeric .xyz domain sale. Domain name investor Swetha Yenugula had another incredible week with .xyz domain name sales, including selling quest.xyz for $69,888. This is the most ever paid for a non-numeric .xyz domain name, at least that has been publicly reported and captured at NameBio. [...] Continue reading →