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domainnamewire.com 10/08/2026

Domain buyer balks at $1,000 price, spends more on losing UDRP - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

A $1,000 purchase would have been cheaper and avoided a reverse domain name hijacking finding. A UK man filed a cybersquatting claim that didn’t make sense, especially financially. Callum Charnock, who runs a business selling extreme sports apparel a
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domainnamewire.com 10/08/2026

Tucows posts lower domain revenue in Q2 - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Impact from large customer loss is mostly over. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported earnings yesterday. The company’s domain name business saw revenue decline 4% year over year to $65.0 million. It was up slightly quarter-over-quarter, however. Tucows said
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domainnamewire.com 10/08/2026

Docking station maker Plugable attempts reverse domain name hijacking - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Founder’s Reddit post hurt its case, but it would have lost anyway. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Leancode, Inc., maker of the Plugable (misspelling of Pluggable) brand of docking stations, guilty of reverse domain name h
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domainnamewire.com 05/08/2026

Welcome to the busiest month in the domain business - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

This August will be unlike any other. You probably read this headline and scratched your head. Isn’t all of Europe out of the office? Isn’t this the month that everyone is on the beach and no one is buying domain names? That’s true, but this August i
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domainnamewire.com 05/08/2026

University of Florida athletic group tries to reverse hijack TheSwamp.com - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Group relied on usage prior to domain owner’s acquisition of the domain. A UDRP panelist has found that The University Athletic Association, Inc., a nonprofit associated with the University of Florida, attempted reverse domain name hijacking. The org
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Lease-to-own domain sales are picking up. Here's my data - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

More and more of my recent sales have been LTOs. Lease-to-own transactions are becoming a bigger part of my domain sales, and they seem to be picking up: five of my last six domain sales are LTO transactions, compared to just three of the prior 15. I
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Panelist slams contradictory UDRP complaint with reverse domain name hijacking finding - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Self-represented Complainant couldn’t keep his story straight. A Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Centre (CIIDRC) panelist has found that Jeremy Labreche / Addison Electronique Entreprise Inc. attempted to reverse hijack the domain
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Colombian logistics company tries to reverse hijack domain name - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Company went after a common Spanish word registered nearly three decades ago. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found Agencia de Aduanas Pasar Ltda., a logistics company in Colombia, guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Fourteen end user domain names sales at Atom this month - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

A used car dealer, a freelancing platform, and an AI platform for kids bought domain names this month. Sedo is the only major domain marketplace to publish lists of domain sales. The company is taking a month-long break from reported sales as we head
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Afternic makes improvements to Request Price lander - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Visitors can get prices instantly, and the domains (finally) resolve to GoDaddy’s primary domain. Afternic has made a couple of enhancements to its β€œRequest Price” lander over the past few weeks that warrant attention. First, the platform has changed
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Internet tops 400 million domain names - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Surge in registrations pushes domain base over 400 million for the first time. There are now more than 400 million registered domain names, according to Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The company calculated there were 40
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domainnamewire.com 23/07/2026

United States sues to seize Egypt.com domain name - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Government says creator of illicit Abacus Market is the ultimate owner of the domain. The United States Government has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to seize the domain name Egypt.com, alleging that it was purchased with illicitly obtained funds. In the suit
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domainnamewire.com 23/07/2026

Radix posts more premium domain growth led by .tech, .space - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

New TLD operator hits another record for new premium domain registrations. This week, Radix reported (pdf) high-level details of its premium domain sales for the first half of the year. The company said it hit another record for new premium registrat
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domainnamewire.com 23/07/2026

Wholesale .IO registration cost increasing to $56 - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

.IO and four other TLDs will see price increases in January. Renewing .io domain names continues to get more expensive. Identity Digital, the registry that manages the country code domain, just informed domain name registrars that it’s increasing the
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domainnamewire.com 23/07/2026

Cybersquatter regains domain after post-UDRP transfer blunder - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

After losing a UDRP, the cybersquatter managed to get the domain back when the complainant transferred the domain to another registrar. The Internet Commerce Association’s weekly UDRP Digest featured an interesting case today. Law firm Gibson, Dunn &
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domainnamewire.com 23/07/2026

Mining company tries to hijack four letter .com domain - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Company acknowledged the domain was registered before it existed. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) that Deepak Mining Solutions Limited, which provides mining chemicals and consulting, tried to reverse hijack the do
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domainnamewire.com 12/07/2026

Chicago.com domain donated to public media, to launch this fall - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

After changing hands a few times, Chicago Public Media is launching chicago.com. Chicago.com is about to get a new life. Josh Metnick sold the domain name to Wrapports LLC, the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, in 2013. In 2017, former Wrapports ch