Seven domain name registrars are late on their ICANN fees

ICANN sends breach notices to seven domain name registrars with common ownership. ICANN has sent breach notices to seven domain name registrars, informing them that they are late on paying accreditation fees. All seven domain name registrars have a common contact: Alexey Gromov. The registrars are HaveaName, Netestate, TopSystem, OpenName, NeuDomain, MisterNic, and InstantNames. It [...]

By |February 12th, 2026|Uncategorized|

Application rejected: resume maker business tries reverse domain name hijacking

Panel finds seven reasons case was filed in bad faith. A company that provides a resume-making app is learning the challenges of using a descriptive brand. Employment Universe, Inc., which operates a resume builder site at ResumeMaker.com, filed a cybersquatting dispute against a competing business that uses ResumeMaker.online. Before filing the dispute, the Complainant sent [...]

By |February 12th, 2026|Uncategorized|

12 new end user domain name sales

A pet GPS tracking company, a business that sells tote bags, and a gold trading platform bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this week was paperboy.com, which sold for $75,000. Seeing this sale gives me major nostalgia for 1980s video games. The domain hasn’t been developed yet, and it’s not clear who bought the [...]

By |February 12th, 2026|Uncategorized|

Verisign Reports Domain Registrations Surged to Nearly 387 Million Worldwide in 4Q-2025 With .Coms, ccTLDs & New gTLDs All Contributing to Record High

VeriSign, (the administrator of the .com and .net TLDs) has released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) covering the 4th quarter of 2025. This update showed the total number of domain registrations across all TLDs worldwide ended the year at 386.9 million. That is a surge of 22.7 million domains compared to the [...]

By |February 11th, 2026|Uncategorized|