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Domain Name Wire
BigCommerce buys domain name for $2.4 million
Ecommerce business forks over seven figures for domain name. BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), the Shopify competitor that helps customers sell stuff online, purchased a domain name for $2.444 million in Q1. The company disclosed the purchase in its financ...
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BigCommerce buys domain name for $2.4 million
Ecommerce business forks over seven figures for domain name. BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), the Shopify competitor that helps customers sell stuff online, purchased a domain name for $2.444 million in Q1. The company disclosed the purchase in its financ...
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May 9, 2025, 3:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired domains lift Tucows results, despite customer defection
Expired domains revenue continues to lift results at Tucows. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported first-quarter earnings after the market closed yesterday. Overall revenue increased 8% year over year to $94.6 million, with the domain business growing 6% to ...
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Expired domains lift Tucows results, despite customer defection
Expired domains revenue continues to lift results at Tucows. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported first-quarter earnings after the market closed yesterday. Overall revenue increased 8% year over year to $94.6 million, with the domain business growing 6% to ...
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May 9, 2025, 2:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Plea deal resolves long-running Mugshots.com extortion case
Sahar Sarid and co-defendants sentenced to probation. The three remaining defendants in a California criminal case involving Mugshots.com have been sentenced after entering into a plea agreement. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced c...
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Plea deal resolves long-running Mugshots.com extortion case
Sahar Sarid and co-defendants sentenced to probation. The three remaining defendants in a California criminal case involving Mugshots.com have been sentenced after entering into a plea agreement. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced c...
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May 9, 2025, 12:07 am
The Domains
The Greatest Domain Stories of all time – Part 1
Today we are going to take a trip back to the past, a time before anyone knew Rosener, Berkens or Schilling. A time when many corporations, especially those outside of the tech sector did not know if they should even grab a domain name. According to ...
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The Greatest Domain Stories of all time – Part 1
Today we are going to take a trip back to the past, a time before anyone knew Rosener, Berkens or Schilling. A time when many corporations, especially those outside of the tech sector did not know if they should even grab a domain name. According to ...
Discussion
May 8, 2025, 9:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Latest domain sales: AI, insurance, crypto, and more
End users bought these domains at Sedo this past week. Sedo had a couple of nice sales this past week that are surely to end users, but for which the buyers’ identities are not yet known. Sollers.com sold for $50,000. The first Google result is...
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Latest domain sales: AI, insurance, crypto, and more
End users bought these domains at Sedo this past week. Sedo had a couple of nice sales this past week that are surely to end users, but for which the buyers’ identities are not yet known. Sollers.com sold for $50,000. The first Google result is...
Discussion
May 8, 2025, 8:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Alstom’s cybersquatting arguments did not compute
Panelist shows how train maker’s bad faith arguments didn’t make sense. A recent UDRP decision at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) raises interesting questions about complainant diligence and reverse domain name hijacki...
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Alstom’s cybersquatting arguments did not compute
Panelist shows how train maker’s bad faith arguments didn’t make sense. A recent UDRP decision at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) raises interesting questions about complainant diligence and reverse domain name hijacki...
Discussion
May 8, 2025, 3:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Registrar stats: GoDaddy rebounds and Namecheap surges
GoDaddy back above 600k monthly adds; Namecheap adds nearly 400k .coms. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers January 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: ...
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Registrar stats: GoDaddy rebounds and Namecheap surges
GoDaddy back above 600k monthly adds; Namecheap adds nearly 400k .coms. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers January 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: ...
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May 8, 2025, 1:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Retroactive bad faith argument leads to reverse domain name hijacking decision
Company went after domains that were registered in good faith by arguing retroactive bad faith. A UDRP panel has found Styleline Studios International Limited to have tried reverse hijacking two domain names. The case shows the limits of using UDRP t...
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Retroactive bad faith argument leads to reverse domain name hijacking decision
Company went after domains that were registered in good faith by arguing retroactive bad faith. A UDRP panel has found Styleline Studios International Limited to have tried reverse hijacking two domain names. The case shows the limits of using UDRP t...
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May 7, 2025, 3:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Saw.com discloses domain sales, including longest domain it’s ever brokered
Saw.com discloses recent sales, including the longest domain it has ever brokered. Every week, I post a report showing end user sales from Sedo. I appreciate that Sedo shares sales data because it helps all domain investors. Recently, Saw.com offered...
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Saw.com discloses domain sales, including longest domain it’s ever brokered
Saw.com discloses recent sales, including the longest domain it has ever brokered. Every week, I post a report showing end user sales from Sedo. I appreciate that Sedo shares sales data because it helps all domain investors. Recently, Saw.com offered...
Discussion
May 7, 2025, 2:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Cybersquatting dispute goes off the rails, ruled reverse domain name hijacking
Both companies have trademarks, and Respondent’s predate the Complainant’s. A UDRP panelist has found Quality Transportation Services, Inc. to have tried reverse domain name hijacking smartrail.com. It filed a cybersquatting case against ...
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Cybersquatting dispute goes off the rails, ruled reverse domain name hijacking
Both companies have trademarks, and Respondent’s predate the Complainant’s. A UDRP panelist has found Quality Transportation Services, Inc. to have tried reverse domain name hijacking smartrail.com. It filed a cybersquatting case against ...
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May 7, 2025, 12:38 pm
