One domain industry veteran is selling off his 500-domain portfolio in this week’s auction. GoDaddy’s first-ever “liquidation” auction kicked off today. The idea is to let domain investors exit or downsize their portfolios. There are about 2,100 names in the auction, which will run through Thursday. While I’m sure many of the names in the […]

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Twenty-seven end user domain name sales. This week, as Sedo continues its respite from sending sales lists, we’re turning to Afternic. I reviewed all Afternic sales over $1,000 reported on Namebio from July 1-15. Here are 27 domains that appear to have been purchased by end users. (See more end user sales reports here.) Symphony.co […]

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A $1,000 purchase would have been cheaper and avoided a reverse domain name hijacking finding. A UK man filed a cybersquatting claim that didn’t make sense, especially financially. Callum Charnock, who runs a business selling extreme sports apparel at LoyalSoldiers.co.uk, filed a UDRP (pdf) against the domain LoyalSoldiers.com. There was a lot wrong with his […]

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A look at what to expect at this year’s show. Last year, NamesCon moved to Miami for its first conference under new ownership. There were a lot of cool changes to the conference…as well as some things that could be improved. Today, I’m joined by Anthony Pomball, managing director of NamesCon and CloudFest Americas, and […]

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Top four registrars had month-over-month declines in .com registrations. 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 April 2026. Some observations for the latest numbers: Verisign had a great second quarter, […]

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