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.ART Celebrates 10th Anniversary By Launching .ART Award Program With Prizes Valued at Over $50,000
A decade in, .ART is spending real money to stay culturally relevant—and reminding the market that a niche TLD lives on community, not just registrations.
Domain Name Journal
Read the full storyICANN publishes 2025 tax return, including salary info
ICANN's tax return is the closest thing the domain industry gets to a public audit of its own overhead.
Domain Name Wire
Acquiring and building TLDs – DNW Podcast #586
ShortDot's playbook wasn't to win the 2012 lottery; it was to buy the tickets afterward, at a discount.
Domain Name Wire
Using a Toll-Free Number on Landing Pages
A phone number is friction with a pulse.
DomainInvesting.com
A dentist, an affair, and reverse domain name hijacking
A California dentist tried to use the UDRP as a personal grievance weapon and ended up with a reverse domain name hijacking finding instead.
Domain Name Wire
Alternative TLDs Have Caught On
The new gTLD era stopped being a theory the moment it showed up on a storefront.
DomainInvesting.com
German electronics company tries to reverse hijack katek.com
A trademark obtained after the fact is not a backdoor into a domain someone already owns.
Domain Name Wire
April’s top domain name stories
April's most-read domain stories were not about blockbuster sales. They were about the machinery that sets renewal prices and verifies who owns a name.
Domain Name Wire
Revenue down at Tucows Domains, but margin up
Tucows is making more on fewer domain dollars.
Domain Name Wire
Organization gives up fight for Prosecco.com domain name
Prosecco's guardian body has stepped back from taking Prosecco.com, telling a court it will no longer seek transfer of the domain.
Domain Name Wire
Test driving Notify.domains, “Google alerts for domains”
A domain monitoring tool that quietly turns auctions into a spectator sport for buyers.
Domain Name Wire
Did GoDaddy Just Sell Hantavirus.com?
Fear is a pricing signal, and GoDaddy's marketplace is set up to hear it.
DomainInvesting.com