Tucows is putting pressure on its outside bankers, lawyers and accountants to come clean about their relationships with Russian oligarchs. In a series of tweets on Saturday, CEO Elliot Noss said he’d emailed these longstanding partners to ask them about their policies with regards with regard oligarchs’ “essentially laundered” money. The implication of course is [...] Continue reading →

Ukraine’s ccTLD registry has moved its servers out of the country to avoid disruption due to the Russian invasion. Hostmaster said that servers responsible for “the operability of the .ua domain” have been moved to other European countries, seemingly with the assistance of other registry operators. The company’s technical operations were based in Kyiv, which [...] Continue reading →

BigMama, operating from the domain BigMama.com, was a Russian internet services provider. The company was providing web hosting, VPN access, and DDoS protection for attacks of “up to 350 Gps” with the following message: “Services are resistant to various kinds of provocations of your enemies and other idlers.” The original message in Russian was “Услуги [...] Continue reading →

The domain name 5310.com previously sold at NameJet for $30,200 USD in 2015. Seven Years later the domain name has now expired and is in auction at GoDaddy however it doesn’t appear it will reach its previous sale price. Bids show it at $5,401 USD with only a few hours left where will it close? [...] Continue reading →

Today: 9892.com sold for $14,510 / What you learned about domain investing this month / Which extension performs better than the others in your portfolio? / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Buying [...] Continue reading →

According to a tweet posted by Alex Verdea this afternoon, GoDaddy is now allowing customers use Klarna to purchase GoDaddy products and services. Klarna is buy now pay later (BNPL) financing service that has become very popular and more mainstream over the past couple of years. You can see a screenshot of the BNPL offering [...] Continue reading →

Two Chinese former partners that acquired the domains 0456.com and 9527.com ended up battling for them via the UDRP process. The case involves the following claims: Complainant was the registrant and user of the disputed domain names, Complainant and Respondent were partners in business.  That partnership dissolved, and Respondent seized registration of the disputed domain [...] Continue reading →