What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 25:51 mark) where they guess what certain domains were ...

Verisign’s plans to shut down a bunch of legacy services in the .name gTLD has been challenged by a registrant who believes he will lose his domains and email addresses if the registry goes ahead.

ICANN’s Ombuds dealt with 50% more cases in its last-reported year, with most of the growth attributable to community members who just can’t seem to get along. In a recently published annual report ...

Team Internet expects to be able to announce the sale of its domains business in the next several weeks, coming at the end of a turbulent 2025 that saw revenue, and its share price, tumble. The ...

Google seems to have accelerated its launch plans for .fly, one of the 2012-round gTLDs it’s been sitting on for over a decade. The company’s registry division has notified ICANN that it plans to open ...

Blacknight Solutions, Ireland’s first ICANN-accredited registrar, has been bought by Your.Online for an undisclosed sum. The registrar joins dozens of brands, mainly but not exclusively in the hosting ...

Panel: A “Textbook” Case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking This decision is noteworthy for two reasons. First, the Panel reaffirmed that neither the renewal of a domain name registration nor its ...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 34:07 mark) where they guess what certain domains were ...

ICANN has slapped an intensely privacy-focused registrar that compares its stance on takedowns to Elon Musks with a lengthy breach-of-contract notice, claiming that the company is disregarding ...

Two newer domain businesses tie up. OpusDNS, a domain reseller platform, announced today that it has acquired fruits.co, a domain sales platform. Fruits launched in 2022 as a marketplace for a wide ...

Company reports declining domain name revenue. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported earnings this afternoon. Tucows Domains revenue declined 2% year over year to $64.1 million. The Wholesale and Value Added ...

How ShortDot, which didn’t apply for any domains in the last round, became a big new TLD operator. Top level domain company ShortDot didn’t apply for any top level domains in the 2012 round, but it ...