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Larry Fischer brokered domain for record-smashing price. The blockbuster 2025 sale of ai.com set a record, the broker confirmed today. In a LinkedIn post, Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain said the sales price was $70 million, paid in equivalent cryptocurrency. That’s more than double the previous...

A Netflix cybersquatting dispute was the most popular story on Domain Name Wire in January. Miss any domain news last month? Catch up now: 1. Netflix wins KPop Demon Hunters domain name – Netflix won a UDRP for a domain it probably should have registered before it released the hit movie. 2...

Domain registrars and registries will meet in England this April. ICANN’s annual Contract Parties Summit (CPS) will take place in Manchester, England, from April 27-29. Despite the somewhat off-putting name, CPS is one of ICANN’s more interesting events. The primary audience is domain name...

A look at the top 10 .com registrars for both new monthly registrations and total domains under management. ICANN has published the latest data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) covering the .com namespace. The data covers October 2025. Here are some takeaways from this month’s data: Dynadot crossed...

Company says it will launch its first new product in a long time, and suggests it will announce a .com price increase in April. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported earnings after the market closed today. Full year 2025 domain name revenue was $1.66 billion, up 6.4% from 2024. Q4 revenue wa up 7.5%...

Domain Hunter sifts through inventory to find best domains to register or bid on. Atom has rolled out its new Domain Hunter system on an invite-only basis. (Domain investors can get on the waitlist here.) Domain Hunter combines domain spinning, appraisal, and AI tools to generate domain names...

Man who let domain expire gives up on lawsuit. The former owner of blockchain.ai has voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit against Identity Digital, CentralNic, Namecheap, and OnlyDomains. The dispute began when the domain expired and went through the normal registry expiration cycle, including...

Parties voluntarily dismiss lawsuit involving Atom’s trademark search platform. Trademarkia and Atom have settled a trademark dispute involving the domain name trademark.io. The companies filed a notice of voluntary dismissal on Wednesday. Legalforce, the owner of trademark search site...

Super-cheap registrations to be replaced with still cheap registrations. I don’t usually write about domain registrars changing prices, but an update from Unstoppable Domains is newsworthy. The registrar has attracted significant attention from domain investors over the past year due to its low...

Squarespace Super Bowl commercial features iconic actress. Squarespace is returning to the Super Bowl this month with another ad. This one features actress Emma Stone, lamenting that emmastone.com is taken. In an extended version of the ad (embedded below), Stone gets really upset that the...

Dish DBS launches .mobile domains, and an SEO specialist says it’s already helped her a lot. It seems a bit odd to write about a new top level domain from the 2012 round going live this week, given that applications for the next round open in just a few months. And yet, Dish DBS is […] Post...

Six of 13 identified end user sales involve AI companies or technologies. Two things jumped out at me while reviewing Sedo’s sales list for the past week. First is how AI businesses continue to drive aftermarket sales. Six of the 13 end user buyers identified below are AI companies. Second, of...

Company files cybersquatting claim against domain registered well before it existed. A Russian company that makes gaming PCs has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Khaiper PK, aka Hyper PC, filed the dispute against the domain name hyperpc.com after first inquiring about buying...

Bank tried to reverse hijack one of GoDaddy’s domain names, shortly after another RDNH finding for a four letter domain. A French financial institution tried to reverse hijack a four letter .com domain name, a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel has found (pdf). It’s the second...

Conference takes place in Stockholm this May. Nordic Domain Days is gearing up for the eleventh anniversary of its original standalone event. This year’s conference will take place May 24-26 in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference originated in the late 90s as a domain-focused track within...