Here are some possible uses for these recent NNNN domain sales. When reading recent domain sales recently, I came across three interesting numeric domains ending with either 98 or 99, which are familiar to Chinese consumers as having the meanings of “being rich for a long time” or “for a long long time,” respectively. [...] Continue reading →

Data include sales from July and August. Newfold Digital released two months’ sales data from its aftermarket platforms today. The data include domains that sold for $2,000 or more on NameJet and SnapNames during July and August. All told, the report includes 200 domains for a total of $1.1 million. The top sales were [...] Continue reading →

A new Turkish car company tries a novel argument. Turkey’s car brand Togg tried reverse domain name hijacking. Photo from Togg.com.tr. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found Türkiye’nin Otomobili Girişim Grubu Sanayi Ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over togg.com. The Complainant plans to sell Turkey’s [...] Continue reading →

An ecommerce company, a blockchain company and a law firm bought domain names. Sedo had a strong week for end user domain sales, led by a company that just raised $6.7 million using some of the money to upgrade its domain name. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed [...] Continue reading →

Domain sales platform continues to iterate on payments, checkout and more. Dan.com published details about many improvements to its domain selling system today. While some of the updates may seem like small details, they show the company’s emphasis on faster payments and closing more deals. For example, the company says it has introduced more [...] Continue reading →

A group claims that it has hacked Epik and downloaded significant data. An anonymous group said it has hacked domain name registrar Epik and downloaded significant data. A group says it has hacked domain name registrar Epik and released a trove of data online. A posting (see PDF version) claims that the hackers gained access [...] Continue reading →

Verisign is tired of delays (as it should be).   Verisign is applying pressure to ICANN to delegate the .web top level domain name to it. Today, the company published a blog post that follows up to a letter (pdf) that Nu Dot Co sent to ICANN reviewing the saga and disclosing what it [...] Continue reading →