Organization says community member violated Expected Standards of Behavior. ICANN is debating what to do after someone deeply entrenched in the domain name ecosystem made highly controversial remarks about Jews. The issue came to light after ICANN community member Jeffrey Neuman sent a letter (pdf) (and follow up) highlighting comments made by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh. In…
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3 end user domain buyers tell their stories – Domain Name Wire
Three end users explain why and how they acquired their domain names. Many domain name investors have difficulty getting into the heads of domain name buyers. They don’t fully understand where they are coming from, and this makes it hard to negotiate and price domains. I connected with three end users to hear their stories.…
14 things you can’t do with .AI domain names – Domain Name Wire
Beyond the obvious, there are rules about faking it til you make it and many more. The growth of artificial intelligence has led to a surge in .AI domain name registrations. .AI isn’t like .com, .net, or .org, though. It’s a country code domain, and these can be a wild west. It’s up to each…
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by 789.win
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and 789.win YES a .win led the way at $78,900 (Cue the chatter on X this is a fake sale). Matched.com was second at $62,380. 27 .com sales 24 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: 789.win at 78,900 USD ornithology.com at…
It’s been 8 years since Michael’s portfolio sale to GoDaddy, how has it aged in your opinion?
It has now been 8 years since Mike sold his portfolio of approximately 70,000 domain names. The sale price came in at $35.5M. 4 years ago we asked what readers thought of the sale? Another 4 years have passed, we have had a pandemic, NFTs, extensions like .IO and .xyz make some moves and now…