Panelist admonishes musician’s company and lawyers for filing cybersquatting case. Mexican-American singer and songwriter Ivan Cornejo has risen to fame in the past few years. Unfortunately for him, another person named Ivan Cornejo registered the domain name IvanCornejo.com before he did. That didn’t stop his company, Ivan Cornejo LLC, from filing a cybersquatting complaint against […]

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Stories about the state of web3 domain names and two humongous cybersquatting disputes were among the top stories in March. These were the top five stories on Domain Name Wire in March, ranked by views: 1. Web3 “domains” are dead – The web3 domain experiment is over. 2. Will AI kill the domain industry? – […]

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See the fastest-growing and fastest-shrinking domain registrars. ICANN has published the latest registrar-by-registrar data for the .com namespace using official data Verisign provides to ICANN. The data is always three months in arrears; the newest data provided is for December 2025. Because December was the end of the year, it provides an interesting look at how […]

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The registrars were late on accreditation payments, and don’t appear to have been active. ICANN has sent termination notices to seven domain name registrars. The organization sent breach notices to HaveaName, Netestate, TopSystem, OpenName, NeuDomain, MisterNic, and InstantNames in February, informing them that they were late on accreditation fees. (InstantNames is not affiliated with Instant […]

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Domain was registered before Complainant existed.  A company that connects college athletes with endorsement deals tried to reverse hijack a domain name, a UDRP panelist has decided. NOCAP Sports, Inc., which uses the domain name nocapsports.io, filed the dispute against the domain name nocapsports.com. The .com is registered to Peter Liberatore in Florida and resolves […]

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