Company filed cybersquatting dispute against domain registered before it existed. A UDRP panel has determined that the hat company MOVI, LLC tried to reverse hijack the domain name movi.com in a cybersquatting dispute. MOVI launched on Kickstarter in 2019 and sells hats at movihats.com. It was perturbed that the owner of movi.com asked $350,000 for [...]
Patent describes way to suggest domain names based on text inputs. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted patent number 12,399,944 (pdf) to GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) for “Recommending domains from free text”. GoDaddy filed a similar application in 2018 but abandoned it. It filed the new application in 2020. The concept is straightforward: use [...]
Warner Bros. successful in cybersquatting dispute against DirtyHarry.com/ Warner Bros. has won a cybersquatting dispute it filed against the domain name DirtyHarry.com. Dirty Harry is one of a few popular movies from the era that haven’t been made into a reboot, and the timing begs the question of whether one is on the horizon. Thomas [...]
Answer 10 questions correctly to win prizes. Have you completed this month’s Domain Name Wire domain trivia? You have just a few more days left. The August DNW trivia contest closes on August 31. Answer 10 questions correctly, and you’ll be eligible to win this prize basket worth over $1,000: $150 to spend anywhere on [...]
In the recently published "Top 10 Malware Q2 2025," the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Team named the top 10 malware for the quarter, along with their corresponding indicators of compromise (IoCs).
Mitti Labs is working with The Nature Conservancy to expand the use of climate-friendly rice farming practices in India. The startup uses its AI to verify reductions in methane emissions.
In a striking admonition issued on August 21st, Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), cautioned over a dozen major technology firms against bowing to foreign demands that compromise American users' data security or freedom of speech.
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Haggle.com led all domain sales at $150,000. Versatile name for a negotiation platform. MCGA.com was second at $62,000 and Tacit.ai sold for $47,998. 45 .com sales 18 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Domain name Price Currency .COM haggle.com [...]
OpenVault recently published its Broadband Insights Report for the end of the second quarter of 2025. OpenVault is documenting the continued growth in broadband usage by U.S. households. One of the most useful statistics from OpenVault is the average monthly broadband usage per household in gigabytes. Below is the trend in average monthly U.S. download [...]
This vision care startup secures $20M Series A for 90-second prescription kiosk.