Today: Domain Registration Trends in 2021: gTLD, ccTLD, and ngTLD Domain Distribution / InstaWidget.net sold for $54,500 / Buying Tech, Finance, Health .com two word’s ($50-$500) / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: [...] Continue reading →

Clubhouse has announced that it will be undergoing a rebranding due to brand confusion with the other Clubhouse. The company that operates its website on the Clubhouse.io domain name announced that it will be rebranding as Shortcut. The company appears to have been able to acquire Shortcut.com in advance of the rebranding news (Whois is [...] Continue reading →

A 7x return in a matter of weeks. Sales slowed at Web.com’s aftermarket sites, NameJet and SnapNames, in June. The pair combined for 106 sales of $2,000 or more, totaling just under $400,000. One of the names on the list will look familiar: OneGoal.com at $4,601. This domain was also on the Sedo end [...] Continue reading →

Domain names in my Network Solutions account show a status of “Pending Transfer” even though they transferred to GoDaddy. More than two years ago, I wrote about the problem of ghost records at Network Solutions. Although the back-end and control panel at Network Solutions seems to have been updated and possibly modernized since I wrote [...] Continue reading →

By owning your own domain name, you have independence from social media giants. Nevertheless, some potential purchasers of your domain names may prefer to also control the matching term in social media accounts. This can be a defensive ploy, or simply the advantage of consistent branding across multiple platforms. Does this mean that domain [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on July 28, 2021. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve.  I’m only showing [...] Continue reading →

A domain owner shouldn’t have to prove the second element of UDRP to get a finding of reverse domain name hijacking. Semiconductor company ARM has filed a handful of UDRP cases against arm.tld domains this year. It won cases for arm.click and arm.co. It lost cases for arm.world and arm.app. The company is well-known [...] Continue reading →