There’s been a wave of withdrawals of new gTLD applications over the last couple of months after ICANN gave 15 companies their final notice that it was time to ask for a refund or lose their money ...

NameSilo and Tucows lead gainers; Team Internet and GoDaddy saw steep declines. With 2025 in the books, here’s a look at how domain name stocks performed for the year. For reference, the NASDAQ was up ...

Another panel finds that Google had common law trademarks shortly after launching Nano Banana AI model. Google has won another cybersquatting dispute involving its Nano Banana image-generation AI, ...

Domain King aka Rick Schwartz gave a rare look behind the curtain of his acquisition strategy. Reflecting on his activity, Rick noted that he typically acquires between 30 to 40 domains annually—and ...

GoDaddy’s registry arm wants to offer registrants the ability to block others from registering their brands in other TLDs, even if they don’t own a registered trademark. In what could be a ...

The .goo gTLD is among a pair of dot-brand gTLDs to recently self-terminate. goo was a 1990s-style search portal focused on the Japanese market and owned by local incumbent telco NTT. It eventually ...

Domain registrant acquired domains for a legitimate business. A company that provides water management solutions has been ...

In 2025, there was an explosion of UDRP cases filed in bad faith. 2025 was the year of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH). Before running the calculations, I had a sense that 2025 had many more RDNH ...

Premium Domain Auction Nears the Finish Line with Bids Over $80,000 One of the most valuable and recognisable domain names to hit the aftermarket in recent months is reaching a critical moment today.

ICANN’s revenue for 2026 is expected to be significantly above its earlier predictions, and it isn’t just because the Org cranked up its registry and registrar fees last year. The budget for fiscal ...

In the world of high-stakes digital real estate, few names carry as much weight as Rick Schwartz, widely known as the “Domain King.” For thirty years, Schwartz has treated the internet’s top-tier ...

Steal of the Century? Encyclopedia.org Sells for Under $15K The domain industry had its eyes glued to the screen today as one of the most authoritative .org assets on the market headed to the finish ...