Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Flat.fi

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Flat.fi led the way at 23,898 Euro, ($27,202). EightAm.com was the top .com sale at $26,000. DateGPT.com was third at $20,000. 34 .com sales 25 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:     Domain name Price Currency           [...]

UDRP panel unplugs electrician’s cybersquatting claim

Company went after descriptive and geographic domain name. A highly charged UDRP dispute has resulted in a finding of reverse domain name hijacking. The case involved two electrician companies in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city is commonly referred to as NOLA. Nola Electric and Maintenance Services LLC filed the dispute against Leiter Electric Services LLC [...]

Nearly 15,000 .med pre-registrations in May

.med launched pre-registrations on May 1 so I asked Ray Fassett of Medistry how this was going? Ray informed me nearly 15,000 .med domains have been pre-registered through May 31. The caveat is that the registry is not taking any money for pre-registrations. But they are limiting each domain to one pre-registration. So it’s not [...]

Elon Musk’s Neuralink closes a $650M Series E

Elon Musk’s brain computer interface startup Neuralink closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The Series E fundraise included investors such as ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital, among others. Neuralink last raised a $280 million Series D funding round in 2023, with an [...]