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Did this panelist let the Complainant off the hook? GDPR and the near-universal implementation of Whois privacy have changed the process of filing UDRP cases. Before GDPR, a complainant either knew ...
An effort by ICANN’s At-Large community to force the Org to stick to its bylaws commitments to periodically review its accountability and transparency has failed after nobody else supported it. As I ...
DirectResponse.com sold for $252,500 / Sealing the Deal: 20 Negotiation Moves for New Domain Investors and More… ...
Some somewhat-recent end user domain name sales. When a news story falls through the cracks… I think of that phrase when I go back and review domain sales lists from a couple of months ago. I’m able ...
Turmoil at Africa’s Regional Internet Registry is coming to a head. This site focuses on domain names, but there’s another part of internet real estate that is extremely valuable: IP addresses.
More data and an easier offer submission process come to self-brokering. When Afternic launched self-brokering in March, it was decidedly bare bones. Call it an alpha version. Although it still has a ...
Abuse rankings shift dramatically between open source and commercial blocklists, exposing blind spots in DNS monitoring. Many research organizations publish lists of top level domains and domain ...
A Japanese domain registrar has driven significant growth in .xyz domain registrations over the past twelve months. Depending on the month, .xyz ranks either first or second in terms of total domains ...
Domain registrar offers new auction opportunity with Premium User Auctions. Dynadot has launched a new option for domain investors to sell their domains through auctions. The company’s Premium User ...
Giuseppe Graziano released the Liquid Market Report for Q2 2025 A few insights from this quarter: • Disclosed sales exploded to $23.711M, largely driven by a spike in 4L .com activity (22M+).• Escrow.
I wrote about Michael Santiago hand registering ChatGPT.com and selling it for $85,000. Michael recently relaunched OnlineBusiness.com. He mentions on X that upon relaunch some were confused. He wrote ...
A review of keywords in aftermarket domain sales that have remained popular over time. Each month, Afternic posts a list of the top 20 keywords in domains sold on its platform. This is very helpful ...