- Final judgment will incur interest until it is paid. A King County judge has ordered (pdf) Rob Monster to pay a former Epik customer $349,407.61, and the total will incur interest until it is paid. The order stems from a failed escrow...
- Company operating at MyHikes.org tried to get the matching .com, which was registered well before it existed. A UDRP panelist has found MyHikes, LLC, which uses the domain name MyHikes.ORG, guilty of trying to reverse hijack the domain...
- Domain investors with large portfolios may want to renew domains in bulk before July to lock in the current rate. The so-called ICANN tax is about to go up. On July 1, 2025, at 00:00 UTC, the per-domain fee that customers pay to ICANN...
- There can be easier ways to take down abusive websites. The Oklahoman published a story this week about how Oklahoma County is considering suing over the domain name OklahomaCountyCourt .org. The domain name is used for a website that...
- I added a domain to SellerHub today to see how the sales platform works. Here was my experience. There’s been some buzz about SellerHub, a domain sales platform that’s part of Namecheap’s Spaceship domain registrar....
- Summer used to be a slow time in the domain aftermarket but this year an inferno of high end sales have been lighting up our charts in a way we seldom see in a season usually thought of as time to take a vacation. Instead buyers and...
- The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has opened early bird ticket sales for their 2026 Annual Las Vegas Meeting to all members (and any industry participant who wants to join now). Here is how being an ICA member can help both you and...
- ICANN will be launching a second round of new gTLDs) next year and once again millions of dollars will be spent by entrepreneurs who dream of running their own TLD. However, there is ANOTHER WAY to run an entire extension - the same way...
- Sedo Outbound Premium Broker Mark Ghoriafi has just wrapped up yet another trip to the domain sales mountain top. Mark started the year with a $600,000 sale of Pack.com in January, followed it up with a $980,000 sale of Double.com and...
- ICANN is preparing to open the door to another round of new gTLDs next year and a lot of people are getting ready to make a run at acquiring and administering a new top level domain of their own. The process of launching new TLDs now has...
- NamesCon Global is going all in on networking for their next conference. Plans include a Wynwood Buggies Tour of Miami's famous grafitti-art district. and the Namescon Welcome Party at The Deck. They'll also hold the first-ever Namescon...
- Over the past two weeks, two of the year's five biggest publicly reported sales of the year to date were posted with both ringing the 7-figure bell with a combined total of more than $3 million. The hits just kept on coming with a pair...
- Anticipation continues to build for the NamesCon Global conference's move to Miami that is now just a few months away. The domain industry's big event will be held in Florida for the first time November 5-6, 2025 at the Ice Palace...
- Two of the most successful guys to ever do it teamed up to complete a 7-figure sale of Fuse.com. Andrew Miller at Hilco Digital had the exclusive listing of this gem from Braden Pollock's world class portfolio and once again made the...
- Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit stewards of the .ORG domain has issued a call for nominations for their 7th annual .ORG Impact Awards. The awards program was created to recognize outstanding mission-driven individuals and...
- ICANN will be launching another massive wave of new gTLDs next year and a lot of people will join the race to run their own top level domains. Thanks to a new book that has just been released by industry experts Joe Alagna and Andrey...
- Since its launch, .ART has become a digital home to nearly 300,000 creatives in over 170 countries. They have gotten there by constant community building efforts both online and off. For this year's anniversary the registry is putting...
- Buyers have always placed a premium on short domains. Their popularity is evident on our last bi-weekly Top 20 Sales Chart with 11 entries weighing in at 5 letters or less. The other continuing trend was the dominance of .com and .ai....
- For the past nine years, Escrow.com has been shining a light on many of the top domain brokers in the industry through their annual Master of Domains Awards program. The honors go to the top ten brokers, based on total dollar value of...
- The Internet Commerce Association), the non-profit organization that fights to protect domain registrant's rights, has announced some major changes for their next Annual Member's Meeting in Las Vegas. Those include a new venue for the...
- A few weeks ago the annual 2025 Global Domain Report from InterNetX and Sedo was released. Now, the two industry leaders are taking this outstanding resource up another level with a free webinar that will feature two of the key experts...
- Summer is still a couple of months away but things are already red hot in the domain aftermarket. Since our last bi-weekly update one of the biggest sales of all time was recorded. That one gave our YTD Top 100 Sales Chart a new leader...
- The 2025 Nordic Domain Days conference concluded its three-day run this evening in Stockholm, Sweden. This was the 10th anniversary edition of the popular event that LG Forsberg created back in 2015 to focus on the domain industry in the...
- I just had a chance to look through a recently released GoDaddy Consumer Pulse Survey that provided some interesting insight into what customers of the world's biggest registrar look for when they start searching for a name. It can be a...
- VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the the 1st quarter of 2025. This update showed that the total number of domain registrations across...
- In a post on LinkedIn today Icon CEO Kennan Davison revealed that his company paid $12 million dollars to acquire the exact match domain for their artificial intelligence based startup. The sale was made by Andrew Miller (ATM Holdings...
- 19 solid domain sales blossomed and took places on our Year to Date Top Sales Chart - an extraordinarily high number for a single reporting period. The most beautiful rose in that sales garden was a $699,999 eye-catcher, That sale is one...
- As you would expect, the .ART domain registry goes all in on World Art Day, as do many registrars who are running sales on .ART domains today (that makes this a good time for artists and creatives to get their .ART identity). The...
- Several companies are making legacy Web2 domain names work together with blockchain-based Web3 domains with each taking their own approach to getting the job done. WebUnited's strategy is partnering with registrars to offer customers...
- A new Cover Story is out at DNJournal.com. It about one of the nicest guys - and most successful investor/brokers in domain industry history - Larry Fischer. The mild-mannered Brooklyn native reminds us a lot of Clark Kent. Easy going...
- DNJ's latest chart gives everyone something to celebrate. A $500,000+ .com led the pack, .ai took two more places among the five biggest ccTLD sales of the year to date and the non. com gTLDs posted the biggest sale in that category thus...
- At the time of writing this, there are more than 1.8 billion live websites in the world. Back in 1985, when the world's first .com domain was registered, there were merely six . Such an exponential increase in just 36 years doesn't quite...
- Pride month is celebrated worldwide. While it's meant to be a time of celebration for members of the LGBTQ community and their families and supporters, its popularity has also made it a possible target of cyber threats. In this post, we...
- Ranking Digital City Brands / 2021 DOTZON GmbH DOTZON presents the fifth edition of the Digital City Brands study. After introducing the study in early 2017, DOTZON expanded further and enhanced the data to display how cities...
- While Office 365 is one of the most prevalent office suites out in the market today, its users can't rest easy. Cybercriminals and threat actors will always find ways to abuse the most popular brands in various ways. Office 365 has...
- It has been months after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office as president and vice president of the U.S., respectively. And since that time, they were naturally featured in most news outlets. What we wanted to know, though, is how...
- Ramiro Valdés Menéndez "The Internet could and should be controlled and used to serve peace and development." — Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Cuban Minister of Informatics and Communications, 1997 As a result of Internet service...
- On Sunday, July 11, thousands of Cubans, took to the streets in anti-government protests triggered by COVID, the faltering economy, and an overwhelmed healthcare system. In three days, 110 protests took place across the island. The...
- DENIC (the registry of .DE and the top-level domain name extension of Germany) has just recently announced that it has cracked the mark of 17 million domain names registered. As one of the most successful ccTLD's (country-code top-level...
- During ICANN71, the Brand Registry Group (BRG) openly asked potential future applicants what ICANN can do to help prepare them for the next gTLD round (Recording here) . The answer was very clear — commit to opening the next round...
- The U.S. government released the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity in May 2021, highlighting the rationale of a zero-trust security approach. While the order only covers the government's digital infrastructure, this...
- Download the best practice guide here . Over the past few months, the Western world has begun to slowly recover from the economic disaster COVID caused. Many countries have been able to speed up their vaccination program and abandon...
- The release of a new application or operating system (OS) is typically greeted by enthusiasm, diverse opinions, and potential threats. Windows 11's case is no different as we identified various assets that could be misused on the...
- A recent study carried out by Governance Primer on behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) identified trends in the acceptance of all domain names in software hosted at Github, the largest open-source repository...
- Web categorization engines and related tools are built to help organizations classify websites they do business or generally interact with. WhoisXML API's Website Categorization API and Website Categorization Lookup used to classify...
- A recent report " Domain Security: A Critical Component of Enterprise Risk Management ” published by the Interisle Consulting Group highlights why domain security should be a critical component of enterprise risk management, a...
- Co-authored by David Barnett, subject matter expert, Brand Monitoring and Pascal Rodax, manager, Business Development Following our previous article on the Euro 2020 football tournament that looked retrospectively at domain name...
- Liberty Front Press is a fake news network that has been operating since Trump's administration and was said to be designed to leverage liberal resentment against the former U.S. president while promoting pro-Iranian foreign policy...
- During last week's ICANN71 Virtual Policy Forum, the Brand Registry Group (BRG) held a very informative session about how ICANN can help potential applicants prepare for the next new gTLD round. Speakers during the session provided...
- Afnic, the French Network Information Centre and manager of the .fr TLD, Has just published its Afnic's Global Domain Name Market in 2020 Report on the global domain market in 2020. The study is based on ICANN statistics, information...