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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

Two more applicants disclose their top level domain strings - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Suffix Domains and Phoenix Domain Partners disclose some of their applications. Over the weekend, I posted stories about a couple of applicants and their strings. Here are two more. A founder of Suffix Domains posted on X about some of their applicat

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Name Space applies for 10 top level domains - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Gerardo Aristizabal, who applied in the 2012 round, is participating in the 2026 new TLD round. Name Space LLC, a company backed by investors in Latin America, has applied for ten domains in this year’s new top level domain name expansion. Its primar

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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

easyGroup applies for .easy top level domain name - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Getting the domain won’t be .easy. easyGroup, the company famous for easyJet, easyCar, and a host of other companies using the easy name, announced that it has applied for the .easy top level domain name. The company applied as a dot-brand, meaning t

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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

Telegram applies for .gram top level domain name - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Company hopes to offer second level domains to Telegram users. Communications platform Telegram has applied for the .gram top level domain name. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov announced the company’s application today on X. Durov said obtaining

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Blackjack! Twenty-one recent end user domain sales - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Sedo resumes its end user domain sales reports. Sedo is back from summer vacation, and that means we can resume end user sales reports for its domains. The company dropped four weeks’ worth of sales yesterday. We’ll break it down by week, starting wi

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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

Brian Harbin hopes to spread grit with .grit top level domain name - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Domain broker invests to the right of the dot with .grit domain application. Brian Harbin has years of experience selling second level domains through his brokerage. But a recent experience turned him on to the idea of applying for his own top level

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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

ICANN’s answer on pre-Reveal Day deals doesn't settle debate - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

ICANN’s response leaves room for competing interpretations of the Applicant Guidebook. Yes? No? Grey area? On Sunday, after getting conflicting thoughts from sources, I reached out to ICANN to ask whether applicants for the same string are allowed to

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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

Inside LFG’s big bet on top level domains - DNW Podcast #600 - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

ICANN received 1,600 TLD applications, and one company was behind a lot of them. Welcome to episode #600! The deadline to apply for a top level domain with ICANN was last Wednesday, and one company went big. Really big. Link Freedom Group (LFG), a co

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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

Chinese company applies for over 100 new top level domains - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Company’s website lists over 300 top level domain strings. A Chinese company says it has applied for more than 100 top level domain names. Journey to the West Corporation’s website lists 323 primary and replacement strings related to China. It’s the

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Exclusive: Namecheap applies for 40 top level domains - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Registrar has launched Starlight Registry and applied for 40 TLDs. Domain name registrar Namecheap is getting into the top level domain name business. The company has set up Starlight Registry and applied for 40 top level domain names. Hillan Klein,

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

.AI sales hit $37.7 million at Escrow.com last quarter - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

The party continues for .ai domain investors. Escrow.com released its Q2 Domain Investment Index (pdf) this week. It turns out the company had a bigger quarter than I thought. The company said it facilitated $160 million of domain transactions during

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

GoDaddy opens updated Auctions API to all users - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

All bidders can now access API to search, bid, and buy domains. GoDaddy has opened its Auctions API to all auction members. With the updated API, users will be able to bid on auctions and buy Closeouts programmatically. For example, rather than plac

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

James Booth successfully defends .ai domain in cybersquatting dispute. - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Combat sports gear company fails to take domain through cybersquatting claim. AI mega-investor James Booth has successfully defended one of his .ai domain names. Do or Die, Inc, d/b/a/ Hyperfly, filed a dispute (pdf) with World Intellectual Property

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

ICANN rejects request for new TLD application extension - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Applicant filed request for reconsideration over top level domain application deadline. ICANN’s Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee (BAMC) has denied a reconsideration request (pdf) from a prospective new TLD applicant who wanted extra time to

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

TLD1 applies for .etc., .bewell (updated) - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Founder of company has a close tie to a longtime fixture in the domain industry. TLD1 LLC, a new company based in South Carolina, announced today that it applied for two top level domains in the 2026 TLD expansion round: .etc. and .bewell. It chose .

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

.Factory becomes first known contention set - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Two people who previously ran .club are back at it, this time with .factory. USA Made in America Inc. announced today that it has applied for the .factory top level domain. Colin Campbell, who founded .Club, and Michele Van Tilborg, who was president

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

Exclusive: Oinkadot applies for 25 top level domains - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Partnership brings together two longtime registrar CEOs. A new partnership has applied for 25 top level domain names in this year’s ICANN TLD expansion round. Ray King, CEO of domain registrar Porkbun, and Todd Han, CEO of Dynadot, combined forces to

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

ICANN: 1,600 new top level domain applications submitted - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Applications down slightly from 2012 round. ICANN announced today that it received 1,600 applications for top level domain names by the deadline yesterday. That’s down about 17% from the total in the 2012 expansion round. Eleven hundred of the applic

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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

LFG! New top level domain applicant reveals hundreds of strings - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Link Freedom Group has revealed its strings. Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program. While the entity name is new, LFG owns Nova Registry

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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 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

Last month's top domain name stories - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Telegram’s domain suspension, the U.S. trying to seize a valuable domain name, and .web were top stories in July. These were the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by views: 1. Telegram’s t.me domain suspended, leading to outages

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domainnamewire.com 10/08/2026

.Com rankings: GoDaddy, Namecheap, Squarespace and more - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Top four registrars had month-over-month declines in .com registrations. ICANN has published the latest registrar-by-registrar data for the .com namespace using official data Verisign provides to ICANN. The data is always three months in arrears; the

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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

NamesCon is changing in 2026 - DNW Podcast #599 - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

A look at what to expect at this year’s show. Last year, NamesCon moved to Miami for its first conference under new ownership. There were a lot of cool changes to the conference…as well as some things that could be improved. Today, I’m joined by Anth

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domainnamewire.com 10/08/2026

Who recently bought .ai domains, and what they sold for previously - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

If only you could turn back the clock five years. Today, Namecheap founder Richard Kirkendall posted 30 .ai domain sales completed on the Spaceship Sellerhub platform. Richard said they were recent sales. Some were already publicly known. A large per

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Five interesting takeaways from Dynadot's Quarterly Intelligence Report - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Asia accounted for about half of Dynadot’s registrations, but its growth is slower than in other regions. Dynadot recently published its Q1 Quarterly Intelligence Report. With the second quarter already closed, it’s a bit dated. But digging through t

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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 05/08/2026

Porkbun hits 4 million domains, adopts DomainAttest - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Registrar has 750,000 domain customers. Domain name registrar Porkbun announced today that it hit four million domains under management. Unlike some registrars that grow mostly through discounted, low-cost TLDs, Porkbun is popular with end users, par

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Trust and identity with AI agents - DNW Podcast #598 - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Elliot Noss explains his vision for using DNS with agents. Is the DNS the perfect backbone for a future full of agents? I previously talked to GoDaddy about Agent Name Service and Identity Digital about DNSid. Former Tucows CEO Elliot Noss has anothe

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