It’s easy to be caught up in the bustle of the holidays with gift shopping, vacation preparations, and festive baking projects. But it is also a time to be thankful for what you have and give back to the community if you can. Here at Name.com, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be supporting a [...] Continue reading →

This doesn’t bode well for its lawsuit. Earlier this week I wrote that Weeds, Inc. filed a cybersquatting lawsuit over the domain name Weeds.com. The lawsuit was filed despite a pending UDRP it filed with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). WIPO just handed down its decision in that case. Unsurprisingly, it found that Weeds, Inc [...] Continue reading →

In early August, a UDRP was filed against Weeds.com, Weeds.net, and Weeds.org. As I noted when I first saw the filing, the domain names did not appear to be owned by one single entity. As a result, it seems that Weeds.net and Weeds.org were removed from the UDRP filing, so WIPO Case D2017-1517 is now showing [...] Continue reading →

  In my new blog I have just posted “This Time Is Different” Part I: What Bitcoin Isn’t where I examine the substance of numerous arguments against Bitcoin. Tulipmania is a favourite, and after I looked at it I realized what happened with Tulipmania was much closer to what happened with domain names than with [...] Continue reading →

An exciting announcement about my PodcastGuests.com service. Over a year ago I created PodcastGuests.com, which is billed as “The HARO for podcasts”. This month I added new features to make it easier for podcasters to find new guests and for experts to get booked on podcasts. PodcastGuests.com sends a weekly email to over 3,000 podcasters [...] Continue reading →

Two-letter .COM domain names are an extremely rare class of domain names. With just 676 in existence, their value has risen sharply over the past few years, thanks largely to participation from Chinese domain investors. What’s rarer than a two-letter .COM? Perhaps a two-letter .COM that is also a common English word. It seems [...] Continue reading →

Andrew Rosener, CEO of Media Options domain brokerage, tweeted about a major domain name acquisition Internet Real Estate Ltd. recently made: Just bought possibly the biggest domain we have ever owned. Huge! — Andrew Rosener (@andrewrosener) November 25, 2017 Subsequent to this tweet, Andrew reached out to Hover via Twitter for some help with the [...] Continue reading →