ICANN’s response leaves room for competing interpretations of the Applicant Guidebook. Yes? No? Grey area? On Sunday, after getting conflicting thoughts from sources, I reached out to ICANN to ask whether applicants for the same string are allowed to strike deals before Reveal Day. The issue is that the guidebook says you can’t use private [...]
zooll.com Estimated end time: 2026-08-26 15:44 ESTCurrent Bid: 500 EUR Reserve met Bids: 1 Domain Language: --
zooll.com Estimated end time: 2026-08-26 15:44 ESTCurrent Bid: 500 EUR Reserve met Bids: 1 Domain Language: --
Domain broker invests to the right of the dot with .grit domain application. Brian Harbin has years of experience selling second level domains through his brokerage. But a recent experience turned him on to the idea of applying for his own top level domain: .grit. About 18 months ago, he was asked to broker an [...]
Mark Ghoriafi's boundary breaking travel adventures have always been eye-catching, but what is really amazing is how much work he gets done during his "breaks". On a vacation trip to Alaska this month he negotiated and closed two previously unreported six-figure sales being revealed here for the first time.
Gerardo Aristizabal, who applied in the 2012 round, is participating in the 2026 new TLD round. Name Space LLC, a company backed by investors in Latin America, has applied for ten domains in this year’s new top level domain name expansion. Its primary strings are: mars sound hello fest aura yam ify iii yyy brain [...]
Getting the domain won’t be .easy. easyGroup, the company famous for easyJet, easyCar, and a host of other companies using the easy name, announced that it has applied for the .easy top level domain name. The company applied as a dot-brand, meaning the domain would be used exclusively by the company. easyGroup said its plan [...]
Company hopes to offer second level domains to Telegram users. Communications platform Telegram has applied for the .gram top level domain name. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov announced the company’s application today on X. Durov said obtaining the domain would mean “a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains–yourname.gram”. He also wrote [...]
Sedo resumes its end user domain sales reports. Sedo is back from summer vacation, and that means we can resume end user sales reports for its domains. The company dropped four weeks’ worth of sales yesterday. We’ll break it down by week, starting with sales completed by July 26. There were no huge sales that [...]
Registrar has launched Starlight Registry and applied for 40 TLDs. Domain name registrar Namecheap is getting into the top level domain name business. The company has set up Starlight Registry and applied for 40 top level domain names. Hillan Klein, CEO of Namecheap and Spaceship, told Domain Name Wire, “For us, moving into the registry [...]