Newlight has raised a $9 million seed round and completed an 8,500-nautical-mile test run from Singapore to Ghana.

Flashlight maker is among end user domain name buyers. We’re still catching up on end user reports at Sedo. This one covers sales in the week ending August 16. Let’s dive in. (You can view previous lists like this here.) WiseCasino .com $24,888 – This domain is, unsurprisingly, used for online gambling. CyberDeals.de €24,500 – [...]

A Default Is Not a Verdict: Panel Research Done Right Default cases are where the Policy’s discipline is particularly important, because there is no respondent to point out what a complaint fails to prove. This decision shows a Panel proceeding with conspicuous care in exactly that situation, and the result is a model of how [...]

brandscout.com Estimated end time: 2026-09-07 14:29 ESTCurrent Bid: 650 EUR Reserve met Bids: 1 Domain Language: --

A 10% price increase takes effect in March. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it is increasing the wholesale cost of .net domain names next year. On March 1, 2027, the company will raise the price by 10% from $10.91 to $12.00. With 12.6 million registered .net domains, this means an additional $13.75 million or [...]

Registrar that catered to registrants likely to receive DNS abuse complaints loses its accreditation. In the end, it wasn’t as bulletproof as advertised. ICANN has officially terminated the registrar accreditation of Fewmoretaps OU, d/b/a TrustName.com. The move comes after ICANN sent a flurry of breach notices to the Estonian domain registrar. It complained about how [...]

The numbers behind my record year. Two-thirds of the year is in the books, and what a year it has been. Technology is changing quickly, and this is impacting the domain business. On today’s show, I discuss my domain results so far this year and dig into some of the changes I’m making to my [...]

Popular vibe coding platform acquires the matching .com domain name. Earlier this month, vibe coding platform Lovable announced it raised a $400 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at a whopping $13.3 billion. It also made a big improvement to its web presence. Despite all of its success, Lovable had an embarrassing problem. [...]

Wal-Mart Mexico tried to get domain related to its mobile phone service. Wal-Mart de México, S.A.B. de C.V., Wal-Mart’s Mexican arm, has lost a cybersquatting complaint against the domain bait.mx. The retailer offers a mobile phone service in Mexico and Central America called BAit, short for Bodega Aurrera Internet y Telefonía. Unfortunately for the company, [...]

Magna's investment in Yuma Energy has reached $87 million as the Canadian auto supplier increases its majority stake in the Indian battery-swapping firm.