The seed round for Julius AI was led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

Freename raised $6.5M in a Series A round to further their growth. It was co-led by Entrée Capital and Polymorphic Capital. Last month I interviewed Freename CEO Davide Vicini. Full release: Zurich, Switzerland – – Freename, the most advanced domain registrar for the decentralized Internet, has raised a $6.5 million Series A to expand its [...]

Company files with SEC to sell large portion of its holdings of .com registry. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has filed to sell about 1/3 of its holdings in .com/.net registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN). The company currently owns 14.2% of common shares of the company. It could sell between 4.3 million to 4.8 million shares. If [...]

Back in May I wrote about GNAME increasing their number of registrars to 501. The goal to catch more names. They caught a beauty and auctioned it off. Aqueduct.com. Archive.org has info on the site dating back as far as 1996. Here is a look at 2003 where they dubbed themselves, “The architects of selling [...]

sham24.com Estimated end time: 2025-08-04 16:43 ESTCurrent Bid: 500 USD Reserve met Bids: 1 Domain Language: English

sham24.com Estimated end time: 2025-08-04 16:43 ESTCurrent Bid: 500 USD Reserve met Bids: 1 Domain Language: English

meettonight.com Estimated end time: 2025-07-28 17:00 ESTCurrent Bid: 200 USD Reserve met Bids: 3 Domain Language: English

meettonight.com Estimated end time: 2025-07-28 17:00 ESTCurrent Bid: 200 USD Reserve met Bids: 3 Domain Language: English

Daniel Liss, co-founder of the social network Dispo and the dating app Teaser AI, is convinced he’s onto the next big thing: steelmaking.  It all started, incongruously, with a few op-eds he wrote for TechCrunch about anti-trust enforcement in social media. The commentaries apparently caught the attention of some folks in Washington D.C., Liss told [...]

Company fails to secure valuable domain through World Intellectual Property Organization. ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an Indian company that runs the ride-hailing app Ola, has lost (PDF) a cybersquatting complaint it filed against the valuable domain ola.com. The domain name registrant became the owner of the domain after lending money to the previous registrant. The [...]