Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde launched an anonymous domain name registration service. The new service is called Njalla and is located at njal.la. Njalla is run by a company named 1337 LLC based in Nevis. Njal.la is opening up today for beta testing, they are letting in a limited amount of customers to use their [...] Continue reading →

Inexperienced counsel can flub your case. The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) can be a good thing. Every week, brand owners use the service to recover domain names that are clear cases of cybersquatting. I review UDRP decisions almost daily, and one pattern emerges when an outcome is a bit surprising in favor [...] Continue reading →

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There are tons of domain name marketplaces out there with a solid track record selling .COM domain names. The vast majority of my domain investments are .COM and have been for the last 9+ years so this is really all that I know. While I’ve dabbled in new gTLDs like I’ve said many times before, [...] Continue reading →

Welcome to Domain Movers where DotWeekly keeps track of corporate domain name transactions and reports the early findings to you. Here is a sample of some of the recent movements: Microsoft Corporation registered the domain name MakeCode.org back in March 2017. The domain just came out of generic whois data to reveal Microsoft. MakeCode.com was [...] Continue reading →

The 38-year-old Pirate Bay co-founder and Swedish politician Peter Sunde has started a new business that allows almost anyone, anywhere to register domain names anonymously. Well, actually, you don’t register the domain name yourself. They register it for you and the domain name will be in their name. They claim if you want the domain [...] Continue reading →

ICANN has made it easier for registries and registrars to opt-out of Whois-related contractual provisions when they clash with local laws. From this week, accredited domain firms will not have to show that they are being investigated by local privacy or law enforcement authorities before they can request a waiver from ICANN. Instead, they’ll be [...] Continue reading →