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DENIC Board Member Thomas Keller Elected Chair of CENTR Board

Thomas Keller, a board member of Germany’s DENIC eG, has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of CENTR — the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries. His e…

Domain-Recht
April 25, 2025
Policy&Law

DENIC Announces New Protocol for Domain Provisioning

By RA Florian Hitzelberger The .de registry, DENIC eG, has announced plans to lay the foundation for the next generation of domain provisioning with the introduction of the RESTful…

Domain-Recht
December 23, 2024
Security

Domain pulse 2025: Agenda Announced, Registration Open

The DENIC eG invites participants to Domain pulse 2025, themed “Stable, Secure, Responsible – Shaping the Digital Future Together!” This premier conference on domain names in the G…

DomainPunk
November 26, 2024

Chem-Dry tried to get kimsdry.com via the UDRP process—What happened?
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DomainGang.com: The domain kimsdry.com was challenged in a UDRP by CHEM-DRY, INC., a carpet cleaning franchise claiming rights in the CHEM-DRY trademark. The Complainant alleged the domain is a misspelled, phonetically similar version of its mark and that the Respondent’s website copied its branding and design. The Respondent, Desert Carpet Cl… [Read More]
$1.33m in Sales on June 16th – Dollars.com sold for $500,000 – Daily Market Report
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NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was Dollars.com which sold for $500,000 at Sedo. NameBio recorded 591 sales $100+ for a total of $1,301,526 with an average sale price of $2,202. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 39% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount increased by 359%. We also recorded an additional 1,908 … [Read More]
365 Domain Discoveries for June 16th
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NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise to the top. Today’s list has 365 domains for sale with histo… [Read More]
One of the dumbest gTLDs just switched back-ends
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DomainIncite.com: Why does .blockbuster still exist, seriously? Old-timers such as your humble correspondent will recall Blockbuster as the once world-conquering video rental chain that spectacularly failed to adapt to adapt to the era of Netflix and streaming and went almost completely out of business. I say almost because, as was widely reported a [Read More]
Nigeria’s domain registry redacts Whois data across namespace
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Domain Name Wire: Whois privacy was implemented for all domain names today. Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the registry that manages Nigeria’s .ng country code domain, implemented Whois privacy on all .ng domain names today. Previously, Whois for .ng domains included details about registrants, including names, physical address… [Read More]
Dollars.com Sells for $500,000 and Provides Another Example of Why Sedo’s Mark Ghoriafi is Known as Mr. Premium
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Sedo Premium Outbound 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 just struck gold again by selling Dollars.com at $500,000. As a result he now has three of the top ten publicly recorded sales of the year to date (Dollars.com will be added to the YTD Top 100 when we publish our next bi-weekly domain sales report June 25). [Read More]