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Partnership between .xyz Domains and Ethereum announced for secure coin management and trading November 14, 2017
At Ethereum’s DevCon3 last week, the popular blockchain cryptocurrency announced a partnership with XYZ to allow users to pair their Ethereum wallets with .xyz domains for secure coin management and trading.
Radix Claims 77% Renewal Rates After Two Years November 14, 2017
New gTLD registry Radix says that three of its larger TLDs have seen a 77% renewal rate two years after launch. The company said today that .online had 75% renewals, with .tech at 78% and .site at 81%. It appears to have carved out these three from its portfolio for attention, ignoring the rest of…
Amazon and Google to Fight Over .kids at Auction November 14, 2017
Amazon, Google and a third applicant are scheduled to fight for control of the new gTLDs .kid or .kids at auction. It’s the first ICANN gTLD auction to be scheduled since a Verisign puppet paid $135 million for .web in July 2016. According to ICANN documentation, .kid and .kids will go to auction January 25,…
Hammock Swings From Rightside to Markmonitor September 5, 2017
Statton Hammock has joined brand protection registrar MarkMonitor as its new vice president of global policy and industry development. He was most recently VP of business and legal affairs at Rightside, the portfolio gTLD registry that got acquired by Donuts in July. He spent four years there. The new gig sounds like a broad brief…

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.id joins the million-domain club November 20, 2024
Indonesia’s .id appears to have become the newest ccTLD to be able to boast that it has passed the one million registered domains mark. PANDI, the local registry, is reporting on its web site that it currently has 1,073,779 registered domains. According to my database, it passed a million on November 14. At a time […]
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GoDaddy’s .xxx contract renewed November 18, 2024
GoDaddy’s .xxx gTLD will no longer be “sponsored”, following a vote of ICANN’s board of directors last week. At its ICANN 81 AGM in Istanbul, the board approved the renewal of GoDaddy subsidiary ICM Registry’s Registry Agreement. The new deal closely follows the text of the standard RA most other gTLDs use, scrapping restrictions that […]
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Twitter clone Bluesky has one feature domain people should like November 18, 2024
People are abandoning Twitter, and they seem to be largely gravitating towards a very similar clone that has one feature that should appeal to domain owners. Bluesky, available at bsky.app, was set up by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey five years ago. It’s adding about a million users a day right now, rapidly approaching the 20 […]
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ICANN confirms two bans on new gTLD gaming November 14, 2024
ICANN’s board of directors has just voted to approve two bans on practices in the new gTLD program that could be considered “gaming”. It’s banned applicants for the same string from privately paying each other to drop out of contention, such as via private auctions, and has banned singular and plural versions of the same […]
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eBay slogan domain no longer has a BIN price November 14, 2024
Looks like domain investor TopDomains is a DI reader. The domain people.love, which would be needed if eBay wanted to make its new Things.People.Love slogan a functioning call-to-action, no longer has a buy-it-now option, a few days after I first wrote about it. It had been listed with a $75,000 BIN price, along with a […]
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Will Donald Trump be .io’s white knight? November 14, 2024
US President-Elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration is reportedly looking into torpedoing a deal between the UK and Mauritius that raises serious questions about the future of the .io ccTLD. According to The Independent, Trump wants to veto the deal that would see the UK cede sovereignty over most of the Chagos islands, currently known as […]
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As customers flee legacy gTLDs, .org tops 11 million names November 12, 2024
Almost every legacy gTLD is shrinking, but .org is thriving and recently hit a major milestone. Public Interest Registry announced yesterday that it’s passed the 11 million registered names milestone, with CEO Jon Nevett calling it “a big moment for our organization”. Looking at zone file records, it appears that the 11 million mark was […]
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Company accidentally puts porn domain on kids’ toys November 12, 2024
Toy-maker Mattel has had to apologize after accidentally printing the domain name of a porn site on the packaging of dolls designed for little girls. The company mistakenly plugged the domain name wicked.com on boxes containing dolls of characters from the movie Wicked, which is based on the musical of the same name and set […]
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eBay’s new slogan looks like a $75,000 domain it doesn’t own November 11, 2024
eBay has launched a television and radio advertising campaign featuring a slogan that looks very much like a domain name that the company does not actually own. The campaign, reportedly eBay’s first global branding campaign in a decade, targets Gen Z customers looking for vintage and second-hand clothing and other goods. The new slogan is […]
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Americans are deserting .com October 30, 2024
Forget China, Verisign is now seeing most of its domain sales weakness coming from the US. The company revealed in its quarterly earnings call last week that .com and .net were down by a combined 1.1 million names in the third quarter, and 850,000 of those losses were from American registrars. CEO Jim Bidzos told […]
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Domain Industry Artists Included in New .ART Odyssey Book That Measures Success by Creativity, Resilience and Innovation November 19, 2024
The .ART Registry has released of the second annual issue of its .ART Odyssey publication: themed SUCCESS. This edition dives deep into the concept of success, reimagined through the lens of creativity, resilience, and innovation in today’s art world. It explores how creativity serves as a catalyst for personal and collective growth and features a […]
Domain Days Dubai Founder Munir Badr Reflects on Enthusiastic Industry Reaction to 2nd Annual Event November 18, 2024
It has been a very busy month for Domain Days Dubai Founder Munir Badr. As soon as the 2024 show ended he had to head off to Istanbul for the ICANN meeting. Now that things have finally settled down, Munir shared his thoughts on the groundbreaking event that has given the Middle East and Africa […]
Mystery of UFO Seen Over Dubai During 2024 Domain Days Conference Solved - Mark This One Up to Sedo! November 14, 2024
After 10 years of know him, I was starting to believe Mark Ghoriafi could actually fly and after his latest stunt as a Premium Broker with Sedo, I'm sure of it! The thing that confirmed my suspicion that he could defy gravity, happened at the recently concluded 2024 Domain Days Dubai conference. Mark was there […]
Domain Aftermarket Remains All in on AI - 8 of the Top 10 Sales on DNJournal's Latest Chart Are .AI Including the Top Two November 13, 2024
Just two years ago, if someone told you the ccTLD for the tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla (.AI) would be lighting up domain sales charts like fireworks on New Year's Eve within 24 months, you would have thought they were crazy. Yet here we are. In 2022 not a single .AI domain appeared on our […]

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