June’s top stories

A lawsuit, my experience testing domain appraisal tools, and Team Internet’s antitrust claim were top news on DomainNameWire.com last month. Here are some stories you might have missed last month on Domain Name Wire. 1. GoDaddy customer must pay $652k after suing over domain suspension – The customer sued after his domain was suspended due [...]

DomainSherpa Review – July 2, 2026 – Whatever It Takes

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 25:51 mark) where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss the reasons behind their evaluations. Today's domains are NXM.com, PermanentMoonBase.com, and BlockSend.com. • They [...]

Financial firm files a “poster child” reverse domain name hijacking case

Panelist admonishes company for complaint over creditGPT.com domain. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has determined (pdf) that CCP3 LLC filed a case that’s a “poster child for RDNH”. The company filed the dispute over the domain name creditGPT.com CCP3 has a pending trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for creditGPT. The USPTO [...]

.Com rankings: GMO surges in a banner month for .com

GMO nearly tripled its monthly registrations, and it was a good month for .com overall.  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 March 2026. Some observations for the latest numbers: [...]