domain abuse

Policy&Law

Spamhaus Warns of High Abuse Rate in .Top Domains

The non-profit Spamhaus Project has raised serious concerns about the rising abuse associated with the .Top top-level domain (TLD), calling out its operators in a strongly worded w…

Domain-Recht
May 18, 2025
Security

Russian Disinformation Campaigns Exploit Domain Registrars and AI to Target Western Audiences

Domaintools ：A new DomainTools investigation reveals how Russian threat actors are leveraging domain registrars and AI tools to conduct sophisticated disinformation campaigns. Cybe…

DomainAuthor
April 10, 2025
Security

DNS Belgium Releases Study on Phishing in ccTLDs

DNS Belgium, in collaboration with SIDN and IE Domain Registry Limited, has published an international study analyzing phishing activities across .be, .nl, and .ie domains. The stu…

DomainPunk
November 25, 2024

Chem-Dry tried to get kimsdry.com via the UDRP process—What happened?
3 days ago
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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
3 days ago
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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
4 days ago
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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
4 days ago
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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
4 days ago
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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
4 days ago
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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]