Nominet seems to have become the first major registry services provider to start to retire Whois across its portfolio, already cutting off service for about 70 top-level domains. Queries over port 43 ...

Look out below; the domain industry was just dealt another huge blow. In September 2024, Google informed advertisers that new Google ad accounts would automatically be opted out of serving ads on ...

Chinese company asks court not to issue contempt sanctions in long-running dispute. A Chinese company that once owned domain registrar 35.com has told a court that it shouldn’t apply contempt ...

This domain investor boosted his sales by changing his landing pages. On today’s show, I talk to a domain investor who has been very successful with .io and .ai domain names. He discusses how he’s ...

Hey, music and pub lovers—here’s a story that hits all the right notes (and maybe a few bittersweet ones too). On February 23, 2025, the domain “houndstoothpub.com” was snapped up for a cool $9,600 ...

A New Chapter for the Indonesian Travel Domain? Yesterday, February 22, 2025, the domain name PegiPegi.com changed hands in a notable transaction, fetching $51,000 USD at a GoDaddy auction. For those ...

A Humble Start in 2004 In the world of domain names, every great website has a backstory. Cursor.com is no exception. The domain first changed hands in 2004 for a reported $30,000—a significant sum at ...

Hey domain enthusiasts, welcome back to RobbiesBlog.com! Today, we’re stepping into the time machine to revisit a cool piece of domain history: the 2004 sale of Gray.com for $30,000 USD on the Great ...

Halliburton filed a cybersquatting case. The cybersquatter was ostensibly Halliburton itself. World Intellectual Property Organization has published an interesting cybersquatting case decision.

An Independent Review Process panel has thrown out a case filed by a failed new gTLD applicant because the applicant was found to have not existed for almost seven years. A Bahrain-based company ...

A 2004 Milestone for MLB’s Washington Nationals In 2004, Major League Baseball made a significant move in its ongoing quest to secure premium domain names for its teams by acquiring Nationals.com for ...

Square changed their name 4 years ago to Block,Inc. The company’s brands include Cash App, Square, Afterpay and TIDAL. One of the things that excited .xyz investors was the company started running ...