.Com registry says data shows short sellers were way out of line about impact of AdSense for Domains. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) published a blog post this week stating that data shows short sellers were wrong about the impact AdSense for Domains (AFD) would have on .com registrations. Google effectively shut down its AdSense for Domains […]

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College filed case against a man whose last name is Davidson. Davidson College, a prestigious school in North Carolina, has lost a cybersquatting dispute it filed against the domain name davidson.one. Dominic Davidson, a New Zealand man, registered the domain name and others with his surname in them for his personal and business use. The […]

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Google’s decision to effectively sunset AdSense for Domains is having a significant impact on the domain industry. Perhaps the writing was on the wall. In 2023 and 2024, Google made several changes to AdSense for Domains (AFD) that curtailed revenue. First, it implemented new consent requirements for visitors from the EU before they’d be presented […]

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Group hopes to raise €80,000 through Kickstarter to help fund .meow top level domain. In what I believe is a first for top level domain names, a potential applicant in the next round has turned to Kickstarter to raise funds for its application. dotMeow Foundation is a Belgian nonprofit that wants to promote social inclusion, […]

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WIPO panelist finds many faults in cybersquatting case. A French banking and credit firm has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking. La Banque Populaire Val de France filed a dispute (pdf) against the domain name vdft.com. It claimed that it has common law trademark rights to VDFT because it has marketed a […]

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