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ICANN’s answer on pre-Reveal Day deals doesn’t settle debate  73
ICANN’s response leaves room for competing interpretations of the Applicant Guidebook. Yes? No? Grey area? On Sunday, after getting con...
Domain Name Wire - 11 hr 5 min ago
Brian Harbin hopes to spread grit with .grit top level domain name  89
Domain broker invests to the right of the dot with .grit domain application. Brian Harbin has years of experience selling second level ...
Domain Name Wire - 13 hr 24 min ago
Exclusive: Namecheap applies for 40 top level domains  131
Registrar has launched Starlight Registry and applied for 40 TLDs. Domain name registrar Namecheap is getting into the top level domain...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, August 19, 2026 - 11:15
Blackjack! Twenty-one recent end user domain sales  139
Sedo resumes its end user domain sales reports. Sedo is back from summer vacation, and that means we can resume end user sales reports ...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, August 19, 2026 - 9:11
Telegram applies for .gram top level domain name  89
Company hopes to offer second level domains to Telegram users. Communications platform Telegram has applied for the .gram top level dom...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, August 18, 2026 - 16:41
easyGroup applies for .easy top level domain name  98
Getting the domain won’t be .easy. easyGroup, the company famous for easyJet, easyCar, and a host of other companies using the ea...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, August 18, 2026 - 11:36
Name Space applies for 10 top level domains  106
Gerardo Aristizabal, who applied in the 2012 round, is participating in the 2026 new TLD round. Name Space LLC, a company backed by inv...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, August 18, 2026 - 11:8
Chinese company applies for over 100 new top level domains  148
Company’s website lists over 300 top level domain strings. A Chinese company says it has applied for more than 100 top level doma...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, August 17, 2026 - 13:1
Two more applicants disclose their top level domain strings  117
Suffix Domains and Phoenix Domain Partners disclose some of their applications. Over the weekend, I posted stories about a couple of ap...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, August 17, 2026 - 12:34
Inside LFG’s big bet on top level domains – DNW Podcast #600  111
ICANN received 1,600 TLD applications, and one company was behind a lot of them. The company was founded by a domain investor. Learn mo...

Domain Name Wire - Monday, August 17, 2026 - 11:30
Confusion reigns about new TLD resolution prior to Reveal Day  107
Applicant Guidebook interpretations vary among top level domain applicants. In the 2012 round of new top level domain expansion, ICANN ...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, August 17, 2026 - 10:32
Atom and Whois API make Inc. 5000 list  102
Atom and Whois API made the list, but Identity Digital is missing. Two domain name industry companies made the Inc. 5000 list this year...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, August 17, 2026 - 9:22
Michael Blend, Josh Jones team up for new top level domain names  138
Industry veterans join forces to apply for top level domains, announce eight of their applications. Two familiar faces in the domain na...
Domain Name Wire - Sunday, August 16, 2026 - 17:46
Exclusive: Oinkadot applies for 25 top level domains  175
Partnership brings together two longtime registrar CEOs. A new partnership has applied for 25 top level domain names in this year’...
Domain Name Wire - Saturday, August 15, 2026 - 15:7
Namecheap says services are back online after major outage  176
Cooling system failure in Phoenix caused hosting and email services to go down. Domain registrar and hosting company Namecheap said thi...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, August 14, 2026 - 17:52

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