Domain base grew at faster clip in most recent quarter. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced Q3 earnings after the market closed today. The company added 1.45 million domains to the combined .com/.net domain base during the quarter. It processed 10.6 million new registrations, compared with 9.3 million in the same quarter a year ago and 10.4 million in Q2 of this year.

Company went after singular version of descriptive domain name it owns. Online art marketplace and print-on-demand company Pixels.com, LLC, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which owns the domain metalposters.com (plural), filed a cybersquatting dispute against the domain metalposter.com (singular). You don't have to be in the art business to immediately wonder if metal poster is a descriptive term, not a trademark.

Lancer .com leads September's domain sales on NameJet and SnapNames. NameJet and SnapNames combined to sell 127 domains for $2,000 or more in September, totaling $743,000. Here are some of the sales that stand out to me. Lancer .com $63,000 - The top sale is a great domain. Lancer is registered in 105 extensions, and numerous brands appear on the first page of Google.

AI company registers or blocks hundreds of names related to its new web browser. The next battlefield for AI market share is the browser. Following the playbook of Google with search, consumer-facing AI companies are launching browsers to improve their stickiness with customers and hoover up more data. Perplexity launched Comet, and then OpenAI announced ChatGPT Atlas for Mac yesterday.

Platform will provide intelligence about other companies' application plans before reveal day. A big point of discussion about the last round of new top level domain expansion was settling contention sets. If more than one applicant applied for the same string, ICANN encouraged them to decide amongst themselves which applicant would get the domain. This led to private auctions between parties where the losers got paid by the winners.

Company files cybersquatting claim three years after negotiating to buy domain. A utility metering company attempted to reverse hijack the domain name EDMI.com, a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has ruled (pdf). EDMI Limited filed the dispute against the domain name, which is owned by a domain investor in India. The investor acquired the domain name in an expired domain auction in 2020 for $4,201…

A metalworking company, a European travel business, and a marketplace for Muslims bought domain names. Sedo's top public sale of the past week was allin .com for €625,000. It's not clear who bought the domain name. Here's a list of end user domain name sales that were recently completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here.

These are the correct answers to the latest domain trivia. Thanks to everyone who participated in the latest Domain Name Wire trivia contest. This month's winner was Leanne McMahon, who gets a $500 credit at Spaceship and a one-year Domainer membership at NameBio. Congratulations, Leanne! Here are the questions and answers for the latest contest. Which of the following are actual top level domains?

Reviewing my domain name sales through mid-October. We're over three-quarters of the way through 2025, so this week on the podcast, I'm going to talk about my sales results thus far. I'll share how many domains I've sold, where I've sold them, where I acquired them, my hold times, and much more. Also: New SnapNames option, new premium domain marketplace, interesting cybersquatting cases, and more.

Band cites parked page ads as proof of targeting. The heavy metal band Slipknot has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) for cybersquatting against the domain name slipknot.com. Slipknot.com was registered in 2001, and the band was formed in the 1990s. Of course, slipknot is also a dictionary term for a type of knot. But the band argues that the domain name owner has used the domain to profit from the band's name.

Use this tool to become a better domain investor. Understanding what domains end users are buying is critical to being a successful domain name investor. One area of focus is popular keywords. Afternic posts a list of the top 20 keywords in sales every month (albeit several months in arrears). Another good resource is NameBio, which has amassed a database of over 6 million domain name sales.

It's the second time the Australian company has tried to reverse hijack a domain name. An Australian company that provides male strippers has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for a second time. Last month, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist ruled that Magic Men Holdings Pty Ltd tried to reverse hijack MagicMen .com. In a new case…

Brazilian company claimed the domain infringed on its "Profit" trademark. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has, unsurprisingly, ruled (pdf) that the registrant of the dictionary term profit.com is not cybersquatting with its registration. Profit.com is a platform for financial trading. According to the decision, the domain was acquired in 2022 for €1.1 million. The Brazilian company Nelogica Sistemas de Software Ltda coveted the domain and filed a claim under the UDRP.

A maker of iron supplements, a company that sells cocktail dresses, and an Icelandic biotech company bought domain names. Sedo's top sales this week were seo.co.uk and seo.uk for $75,000 each. It appears that an investor bought both of these domains, as they're now listed for sale for $950,000. Here's a list of end user domain name sales that were recently completed at Sedo.

New marketplace focuses on one word domains. GoDaddy today launched DomainNames.com, a marketplace focusing on what it calls "ultra-premium" domain names. It's one of the few marketplaces to use that description that actively delivers: the domains are single-word .com, single-word .ai, and short numeric domains. The site is designed for domains worth at least six figures. Current listings include harmony.com, marketplace.com, natural.com, assign.com, and compel.com.

Cruise operator relied on mark on the Supplemental Register. A cybersquatting dispute between two sightseeing cruise operators in Miami has resulted in a reverse domain name hijacking decision (pdf). Miami Skyline Cruises, which uses the domain name MiamiSkylineCruises.com, filed the dispute against a rival cruise company that uses the domain name SkylineMiamiCruises.com. The Complainant cited a U.S. Trademark Registration in its dispute.

UDRP Panel finds healthcare company tried to reverse hijack the domain prescriptive.com. In one of the most amusing UDRP filings I've ever read, a company with a made-up brand name owner argued that a correctly-spelled version of the word was typosquatting. Healthcare technology company Prescryptive Health uses the domain name prescryptive.com. It filed a dispute against the correctly spelled dictionary domain prescriptive.com, which is owned by domain investor Brent Oxley.

New program offers second chance at domains for a reduced price. Last week, I was searching domains on SnapNames when I saw an unusual price and tag next to a domain (see image). The auction was for only $19, and the tag showed I could buy the domain for $39. I reached out to the company to find out what this is.

A CEO behind a new reseller platform argues the industry needs a new competitor. My guest this week is Robbie Birkner, who has spent the better part of the last 25 years in the domain industry. He is now the CEO of North America of OpusDNS, a new domain reseller platform. Birkner explains why companies choose to use a reseller platform, how these platforms have evolved over the years, and why he thinks the market is ready for new competition.

Broadcaster's logo is for a domain name it doesn't own. A regional broadcaster in Germany has been found (pdf) guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. München Live TV Fernsehen GmbH, which uses the domain name muenchen.tv, filed a cybersquatting dispute against the domain münchen.tv (note the umlaut). Christian Reise registered the domain name in 2004, which was before the Complainant existed.

About a quarter of my sales this year are lease-to-own transactions. This year has been a bit slow for me for domain sales. As of October 10, I've sold 27 domains in 2025 (excluding wholesale/liquidation transactions). However, looking back at last year, I was actually a little behind this rate and finished with 41 sales, following a strong close to 2024.

Lawsuit alleges domain was renewed and should not have been auctioned off. A high-profile expired domain auction for blockchain.ai ended today, but the former registrant has filed a lawsuit claiming he renewed the domain. In the lawsuit, Howard Gould stated that he was the domain's registrant as of December 2017. The domain was set to auto-renew with OnlyDomains, but the auto-renewal failed, resulting in the domain expiring on July 19, 2025.

Domain owner has been fighting since losing a cybersquatting case in 2022. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a ruling that Automobili Lamborghini should get the domain name lambo.com. Lamborghini won a dispute it filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for the domain name in 2022. The owner of the domain, Richard Blair, …

Company says it's not too hard to transition to dot-brands. Google Registry published a blog post today promoting the idea that companies should apply for their own dot-brand top level domain name. The post explains that Google uses .google for some of its websites, and provides three lessons learned. First, it says .brand domains can be the "safer" option. It states that for "security considerations", Google couldn't launch its blog "The Keyword" on google.com, so instead it went with blog.google.

TPG Telecom Limited files dispute in abuse of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found TPG Telecom Limited, a major Australian telecommunications company, to have attempted reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybersquatting dispute against TPG.one. That domain points to the website for the German company The Platform Group. Its website is the-platform-group.com.