It pressed forward with its case rather than buying the domain for out-of-pocket costs. Insurance giant AXA has lost another cybersquatting case over the domain axa.org. The company lost a dispute in 2018, which was filed against Advocates Across America, a group that advocated for people with learning disabilities. That organization, which had been dissolved, [...]

Business Divorce Dressed Up as Cybersquatting Ends in RDNH Finding The Panel denied the Complaint concerning <chainbridgeestates.com> and issued a strong finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (“RDNH”), emphasizing that the UDRP is designed to address clear cases of cybersquatting – not internal business disputes over control of a domain name associated with a jointly [...]

Just seven months after being launched by domain industry pioneers, OpusDNS has announced a key acquisition that adds fast growing domain monetization platform fruits.co to their suite of registration and management services. With this move, OpusDNS Co-Founder Hakan Ali noted "the future of the domain market lies in open, innovative platforms and not in closed, [...]

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NanoCo, the company behind OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised a $12 million seed after a viral launch, the founders tell TechCrunch. 

Two newer domain businesses tie up. OpusDNS, a domain reseller platform, announced today that it has acquired fruits.co, a domain sales platform. Fruits launched in 2022 as a marketplace for a wide range of digital goods. The company, which counts Team Internet co-founder Stefan Wiegard as an investor, pivoted to focusing solely on domain names. [...]

Using real but undisclosed domain sales, we tested how closely automated appraisal tools match market reality. This is the first in a series of stories about automated domain appraisal systems. Automated domain name appraisal services have been around for a while, and they’ve always been controversial. People like appraisal tools that tell them what they [...]

The Arlington, Virginia-based startup has raised $42 million to equip ships with sensors that blow the current AIS tech out of the water.

After hosting their landmark 10th anniversary show last year, Nordic Domain Days is embarking on a new decade next week. With its long track record, you might think you know what to expect but if we learned anything from NDD and Founder LG Forsberg, it's that standing still in unacceptable. To get the inside story [...]

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.