On Saturday Uniregistry announced their domain liquidity program. Frank added in the comment section of that post yesterday: This is a beta product which Uniregistry has developed to allow our buyer-pool to purchase investment quality names at wholesale clearing-house prices. Using our service, we expect sellers to be able to gain liquidity quickly without paying [...] Continue reading →

I was just made aware of a mind boggling UDRP filing. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has filed a UDRP for the ABC.net domain name. The filing was made at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and it is WIPO Case D2019-1181. ABC.net was created in 1995. It was probably one of the earliest .net domain [...] Continue reading →

DomainTools identifies malicious campaigns targeting HMRC and other organizations with the intent of capturing PII When people in the UK think of phishing scams, there’s a fair chance that the... [...] Continue reading →

Um, where do I go for more information? Take a look at this ad from the most recent issue of The Economist. What’s missing? Yep, no domain name. No way to find out more. It would be one thing if this company were a household brand, but most people haven’t heard of it. That’s [...] Continue reading →

Earlier today, I listed what I believe might be the top 10 dot-brand gTLDs with the most active web sites, but noted that it was probably a rubbish way to gauge the success of the dot-brand concept. As a follow-up, I thought I’d figure out which brands have taken the bold step of ditching the [...] Continue reading →

Note: The source code for this analysis can be found in the DomainTools GitHub repo here. In the beginning there were six top level domains (TLDs). Ok, technically seven, but... [...] Continue reading →

LINX, the London Internet Exchange, is one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world. For the past 18 years John Souter has served as the organisation’s CEO, but he will be retiring towards the end of 2019. So who will replace him? The new CEO for LINX is an internal [...] Continue reading →