Afternic has published its monthly keywords list, showing the most popular keywords in domain names sold on its marketplace in February. My and AI remain the top two sellers this month. Here’s the full list, with the previous month’s ranking in parenthesis: my (1) ai (2) it (4) home (3) group (7) bet (6) your […] Post link: My oh my! Look at these hot keywords in aftermarket domain sales © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this m ..read more

Domain name was registered before the Complainant existed. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) Lifeware SA to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Lifeware SA filed a case against lifeware.com, which was registered in 1995. Lifeware wasn’t incorporated until 1998. Assuming that the current registrant was the original registrant, that means […] Post link: Lifeware SA tries reverse domain name hijacking © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be pub ..read more

His heirs alleged the domain names were stolen. Nissan.com is famous as an early test case in cybersquatting. The car company Nissan battled for years to take the domain name from its registrant, whose name was Uzi Nissan. It failed, but Uzi Nissan spent over $3 million fighting Nissan in an eight-year battle that began […] Post link: Judge orders Nissan.com transferred back to estate of Uzi Nissan © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you ..read more

Why SquadHelp’s rebrand to Atom makes sense. SquadHelp announced this morning that is has rebranded as Atom, using the domain name atom.com. Earlier this week I was a guest on a business podcast, where I talked about the importance of domain names. The host asked me about domain marketplaces where people can search for domains […] Post link: SquadHelp: when you outgrow your brand © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message o ..read more

An insurance company, a domain registration business, and a lingerie seller bought domain names. Sedo publicly reported 45 domain sales of $2,000 or more for the past week. There are some nice domains in this batch, but it’s difficult to figure out the buyer for most of them. The top two sales were xash.com for […] Post link: 13 end user domain name sales up to $25,000 © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website ..read more

Complainant previously owned the valuable domain name. OEE Ltd and Because Music SAS have lost a cybersquatting dispute (pdf) over the domain name because.com. The Complainant previously owned the domain name, which it bought at Sedo for $27,500 in 2007. According to the Complainant, the domain name expired in 2021 after it neglected to renew […] Post link: Because.com cybersquatting claim denied © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you s ..read more

Customers can no longer list domains on the platform as of April 29, but Afternic listings will still be syndicated. GoDaddy will no longer let customers list domains directly on GoDaddy Auctions, effective April 29. The company announced today that it’s ending so-called Member to Member listings on the platform. This includes seven-day public auctions, […] Post link: GoDaddy to nix customer listings on GoDaddy Auctions © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site with ..read more

Fred Hsu discusses some of his company’s plans for new top level domains tied to web3 communities. It’s been just six months since I had Fred Hsu, co-founder of D3, on the podcast. The company has made many announcements since then, and it’s becoming clear that it will be one of the more significant portfolio […] Post link: .Ape in to new TLDs – DNW Podcast #480 © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, conta ..read more

There’s no end in sight for the .ai domain name boom. The domain name registry for .ai domain names has released its latest domains under management figure. The registry disclosed that there are 425,060 registered .ai domains as of today. Here’s how this number has progressed over time: July 2, 2018 the total was 48,272 […] Post link: .AI adds another 70k domains in less than four months © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this m ..read more

The reason domain names are important has changed over time. A few readers have sent me an article published in The Atlantic this week titled “The Web Became a Strip Mall” with the subhead “Domain names once gave the internet a sense of place. Now they are meaningless.” Ian Bogost wrote about how domain names […] Post link: Domains aren’t important? That’s the wrong conclusion. © DomainNameWire.com 2024. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on ..read more