DomainSherpa Review – June 12, 2025 – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 50:40 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 MountainHigh.com, ExploreAI.com, and CloudBank.io.• They review [...]

Thermomix food processor maker tries reverse domain name hijacking

Company’s cybersquatting complaint blends in irrelevant arguments. Vorwerk International AG, maker of the Thermomix line of food processors, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (pdf). The company filed a cybersquatting dispute with World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain name TM7.com. Vorwerk is releasing the latest Thermomix product, dubbed the TM7, later [...]

Big news: GoDaddy loses .co contract to TIG partnership

Registry contract will transition to Team Internet’s registry backend in partnership with Colombian domain registrar. After 15 years, the rights to operate Colombia’s .co domain name extension is changing hands. The country has awarded a 10-year contract to manage the popular domain to Equipo PuntoCo, a newly formed joint venture between Team Internet (AIM: TIG, [...]

D3Serve Labs files patent application for blockchain-based domain transfer system

Proposed system bypasses registrar pre-approval and enables features like fractional ownership. D3Serve Labs (no relation to D3 Global Inc.) has filed a patent application (pdf) for Method and system for enabling the transfer of domain. The patent application (18/978071) describes a blockchain-based method and system for securely transferring “beneficiary-ship” of domain names while maintaining compliance [...]

Indian ride sharing app Rapido files stupido cybersquatting complaint

Indian ride-share and delivery app company fails to snag valuable domain through UDRP. Roppen Transportation Services Private Limited, which operates the Indian ride-hailing and delivery platform Rapido, has lost (pdf) a cybersquatting dispute it filed against rapido.com. The registrant of rapido.com acquired the domain name in 2014. That was before Roppen Transportation existed and used [...]