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Domain sales

Sedo weekly domain name sales led by TotalRx.com

Sedo's weekly ledger shows the secondary market still runs on scarce generics and quiet category bets.

Top USD sale totalrx.com $75,000 74 sales cited

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Law & policy

India’s .IN domain registry threatens domain investor crackdown

India's .in registry has decided that domain investing is a problem it can solve with threats.

Domain Name Wire

Domain sales

GoDaddy domain auction ends Tuesday & Wednesday this week

The clock is the only bidder GoDaddy can't outwait.

Top sale mortgagecalculators.com $367,000 3 sales cited

Domain Name Wire

Domain sales

Michael Cyger's New Notify.Domains Service Aims to Help Move Investors to the Head of the Acquisition Line

The seller of DomainSherpa has turned his own impatience into a mechanism for buying domains before anyone else knows they are actually for sale.

Domain Name Journal

Law & policy

Damming a river to catch a fish – DNW Podcast #590

A domain name is not a platform; it is a switch. Governments are learning how quietly that switch can be thrown.

Domain Name Wire

Brand protection

“CEO Athlete” tries to reverse hijack domain name

A UDRP complaint built on a trademark that came after the domain has collapsed into a finding of reverse hijacking.

Domain Name Wire

Registrars

So Many Spam Inquiries Done via Whois

The WHOIS record was meant as a directory, not as an inbox; spammers never got the memo.

DomainInvesting.com

Trend watch

How Nordic Domain Days 2026 Established the Event as a North Star in the Conference Constellation

A conference becomes a landmark not by moving the market, but by becoming the place where the market checks its bearings.

Domain Name Journal

Brand protection

An app builder tried to reverse hijack com.app

Buying a strong .app name during early access is legitimate strategy; filing a losing UDRP over it is something else.

Domain Name Wire

Marketplaces

Afternic Should Identify “Hot” Names in Seller Portfolios

Search numbers are the closest thing a domain has to a heartbeat.

DomainInvesting.com

Domain sales

And the best automated domain name appraisal tool is…

An appraisal is a guess with a spreadsheet attached.

Domain Name Wire

Brand protection

May’s top 5 domain name news stories

May’s biggest domain story wasn’t a sale; it was the trust layer showing its seams.

Domain Name Wire