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Top domain name stories from June: .Co, Tesla, Spaceship and more  123
A change for .co domains, a surging domain registrar, and more top stories from last month on Domain Name Wire. Here’s what happe...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 9:50
ICANN eats its own dog food with Universal Acceptance  111
The organization takes another step to enable all domains to work with its systems. More than a year after ICANN staff gained the abili...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, July 3, 2025 - 8:33
Meta Platforms gets contempt sanctions against former Chinese domain registrar  108
Company will have to pay $1,000 a day, but it will be an uphill battle for Meta to collect. A federal judge has imposed contempt sancti...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 14:29
Piers Morgan wins domain name dispute over PiersMorgan.com  92
Famous journalist and former CNN talk show host wins cybersquatting dispute over his personal name. A World Intellectual Property Organ...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 11:32
Judge allows expired domain clawback lawsuit to proceed against GoDaddy  129
GoDaddy clawed back two domain names that companies had won in expired domain auctions. A federal judge has denied (pdf) much of GoDadd...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 8:28
End user domain sales led by €100,000 .ai domain  159
Company that runs AI product directory forks over six figures for mini.ai. Sedo had a solid sales week, led by the €100,000 sale of min...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 12:11
Legal tech firm ContractPod tries to reverse hijack leah.ai  92
Panelist says it’s a classic “Plan B” reverse domain name hijacking case. A World Intellectual Property Organization ...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 11:22
Top four selling keywords remain unchanged at Afternic  111
Yes, AI is still #1. Afternic has released a list of the top 20 keywords in domains that sold at Afternic in April. The top four keywor...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, June 30, 2025 - 14:30
ICANN moves conference from Oman to Dublin due to Middle East conflict  79
Potential for more airspace closures and travel delays push ICANN to relocate October meeting. ICANN announced today that it has moved ...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, June 30, 2025 - 13:13
Ancestry.com files cybersquatting suit over AI-powered genealogy site using similar domain  97
Ancestry.com has filed a lawsuit under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act against the domain name MyAncestryAi .com. The co...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, June 30, 2025 - 12:31
Domains in the Middle East – DNW Podcast #541  85
Understand which domains are popular in the Middle East and learn about Domain Days. What’s the domain scene like in Dubai and the Midd...

Domain Name Wire - Monday, June 30, 2025 - 11:30
A second bite at the apple? WIPO panel allows refiled case  68
A WIPO panel decided to rehear a prior dispute based on new information, but the result was the same. A World Intellectual Property Org...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, June 30, 2025 - 11:23
Judge orders Monster to pay $350k stemming from failed escrow transaction  234
Final judgment will incur interest until it is paid.  A King County judge has ordered (pdf) Rob Monster to pay a former Epik customer $...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, June 27, 2025 - 13:16
Hiking app tries to reverse hijack its way from .org to .com  116
Company operating at MyHikes.org tried to get the matching .com, which was registered well before it existed. A UDRP panelist has found...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, June 27, 2025 - 11:40
Here’s my two cents: renew your domains this month to save a couple pennies  177
Domain investors with large portfolios may want to renew domains in bulk before July to lock in the current rate. The so-called ICANN t...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 17:5

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