Skip to content

The domain edition

Domain news.

stories in 7 days
19−5% on the 7 days before
publishers in 30 days
3
sales cited in 30 days
488 sales cited: keep the stories that cite them

Registrars

nTLDData fills gap for top level domain and registrar data

A registrar just turned its back-end data into a public utility — and a quiet marketing asset.

Domain Name Wire

Read the full story
Law & policy

TrustName customer files new lawsuit in Verisign’s home court

A stolen domain is back in court, and the venue says more about Verisign than about the victim.

Domain Name Wire

Domain sales

Cyber.com Sold for 7 Figures via Sedo

Cyber.com just changed hands for seven figures, and the only reason we know is a DNS monitoring report.

1 sale cited

DomainInvesting.com

Law & policy

Antitrust lawsuit filed against Verisign and ICANN over .com pricing

A California plaintiff just did what years of registrar grumbling could not: put the .com pricing machine in front of a judge.

Domain Name Wire

Brand protection

A troubling dissent in a cybersquatting dispute

A cybersquatting case just ended with the trademark owner losing — and a panelist publicly disagreeing with how the majority got there.

Domain Name Wire

TLD policy

August’s top domain name stories

The industry’s real August headline was not a sale—it was a deadline.

Domain Name Wire

TLD policy

nameDesk publishes The 2026 new TLD round, explained

The next new gTLD round now has a manual — and the 2012 lessons are written into it.

TheDomains.com

Registrars

Discontinuation of third-level .name domains leaves some in a lurch

Verisign is sunsetting the third-level .name tier, and the registrants who built email and websites on it are discovering how little of the namespace they actually controlled.

Domain Name Wire

Domain sales

Sedo end user domain sales up to $75,000

Sedo's latest end-user sales list: unglamorous buyers, quietly functional prices.

Top USD sale trade.io $75,000 18 sales cited

Domain Name Wire

Registrars

.Com rankings: Squarespace leaps Tucows

The .com order has changed: Squarespace is now the fourth-largest registrar, and Tucows is looking up.

Domain Name Wire

Law & policy

Dynadot Announces KYC Verification for Some TLDs

Dynadot is asking customers to prove who they are. The requirement was not Dynadot's idea.

DomainInvesting.com

Law & policy

Customer sues TrustName over stolen domains

When a registrar loses a domain, the customer's math gets loud: $70,000 a day.

Domain Name Wire