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ICANN publishes 2025 tax return, including salary info  44
ICANN’s latest tax return shows data on highly paid employees and contractors. ICANN has published its 2025 tax return (pdf) for ...
Domain Name Wire - 5 hr 59 min ago
Acquiring and building TLDs – DNW Podcast #586  45
How ShortDot, which didn’t apply for any domains in the last round, became a big new TLD operator. Top level domain company ShortDot di...

Domain Name Wire - 8 hr 44 min ago
A dentist, an affair, and reverse domain name hijacking  183
A dentist tried to use UDRP to take down a gripe site about an alleged affair. It backfired. When a dentist in Huntington Beach, Califo...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, May 8, 2026 - 12:38
German electronics company tries to reverse hijack katek.com  123
The company obtained trademark rights after the current owner acquired the domain. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist ...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, May 8, 2026 - 11:29
April’s top domain name stories  158
.Com price hike and new identity requirements for .de led last month’s stories. These were the top five stories on Domain Name Wi...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, May 8, 2026 - 9:45
Revenue down at Tucows Domains, but margin up  131
Company reports declining domain name revenue. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported earnings this afternoon. Tucows Domains revenue declined 2...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 17:26
Organization gives up fight for Prosecco.com domain name  132
Group that oversees DOC designation for prosecco tells court it is not seeking transfer of domains. Consorzio di Tutela della Denominaz...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 15:57
Test driving Notify.domains, “Google alerts for domains”  136
See how Notify.domains tracked a domain as it went through an auction. Last month, I interviewed Mike Cyger about his new business, Not...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 9:21
Domain names from Ponzi scheme are on auction  146
Domains registered to a real estate investment firm in receivership are on the auction block. A handful of real estate and financial th...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 17:37
Early Warning Report officially launches for new top level domains  99
Platform helps top level domain applicants resolve contention sets before applications are revealed. Early Warning Report, a system to ...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 14:23
UDRP decisions up 15% in Q1  80
More cases decided, including some involving hundreds of domains. The number of UDRP decisions in the first quarter of this year was up...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 9:3
Germany’s .de domain faces outage  122
Outage impacted all DNSSEC-signed domains. Germany’s .de namespace experienced an outage this evening. DENIC, the organization th...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - 0:25
That’s disturbing: web hosts take down site for trademark complaints  130
A lawsuit alleges that two web hosts took down a website in response to a trademark complaint. A Maryland man has filed a lawsuit (pdf)...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 16:40
Sixteen new end user domain name sales  163
A Claude skills management platform, a Polish bedding company, and a live streaming business bought domain names. Sedo’s top publ...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 13:48
Legal company tries to reverse hijack legally.io  109
Company that uses legally.co filed claim against legally.io. It previously lost a case against legally.com. A World Intellectual Proper...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 11:8

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