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Doma Protocol Launches Names Marketplace on Base to Bring Over 40 Million Domains Onchain
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Doma Protocol, the world’s leading DNS-compliant blockchain to tokenize the internet, today ann...
DEADLINE ANNOUNCED FOR 2026 NEW TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN APPLICATIONS
The 2026 application window is expected to be the only opportunity this decade for companies to obtain these uniquely valuable internet assets. Te last application window was in 2012, when Com Laude ...
Exact-Match Domain Names And Why Investors Value Them
Your website’s domain name is the digital real estate your entire brand is built upon. Great domains are easy to remember, type in and share. With thousands of domain extensions and more than 332 ...
Russia’s Roskomnadzor seizes domains including Moscowtimes.ru without court order
Russia’s state communications watchdog has started seizing .ru website domains without waiting for parliamentary approval of ...
The Roadmap to Securing Your Own Digital Domain is Now Available
The 2026 Round Applicant Guidebook is available in English; an HTML version will be available before the end of January 2026. ICANN will provide translations of the guidebook in Arabic, Chinese, ...
If the domain fits…wear it: 3 ways to build a stronger brand identity
As AI reshapes search, domain names are becoming even more important. AI tools rely heavily on clarity and semantic relevance ...
The Roadmap to Securing Your Own Digital Domain is Now Available
The 2026 Round Applicant Guidebook is available in English; an HTML version will be available before the end of January 2026.
Tag Archives: domain parking
Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired ...
.twin to Enter ICANN’s 2026 gTLD Application Round as Digital Twins Become Core to Global Infrastructure
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synergetics.ai, creator of the .twin top-level domain, and Unstoppable Domains, an ICANN-accred...
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: ...
MILLION-DOLLAR URLS: The Most Expensive Domain Names Of All Time
It is estimated that more than 500 URLs have been bought and sold for $1 million or more. We scoured domain name resource DN Journal and put together a list of documented million-dollar, domain-only ...
Smartynames uses AI to find you the perfect domain name
There’s a lot of weird and wonderful uses for AI applications. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen AI powering better marketing emails, more smartly understanding the context of video content and ...
This guy tried to sell Lambo.com for seventy-five million and guess how that ended
A domain investor who hoped to sell Lambo.com for an eye watering seventy-five million dollars found himself in a legal clash ...
This guy tried to sell Lambo.com for seventy-five million and guess how that ended
A domain investor who hoped to sell Lambo.com for an eye watering seventy-five million dollars found himself in a legal clash ...
This guy tried to sell Lambo.com for seventy-five million and guess how that ended
A domain investor who hoped to sell Lambo.com for an eye watering seventy-five million dollars found himself in a legal clash ...
Navigating dotBrand opportunities and mitigating fresh risks ahead of ICANN’s 2026 gTLD round
With a new round of gTLDs on the horizon, the domain name space is expanding. While the 2026 round will feel familiar, key changes to the process necessitate comprehensive awareness for brand owners. A strategy that secures a dotBrand TLD alongside defensive registrations in other TLDs will put brand owners in a strong position.
Go Daddy to stop registering .cn domain names
GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registrar, will stop registering .cn domains in China after the government there has demanded personal information about people who have purchased domain names from GoDaddy in the past, the company said Wednesday during a hearing in the U.S. Congress.
Man who wanted $75 million for Lambo.com domain is forced to hand it over to Lamborghini
In February 2018, Arizona resident Richard Blair paid $10,000 for the Lambo.com domain, likely hoping to make a tidy profit by selling it – Lambo ...
Registrars accused of hoarding 74,000 domain names
EURid, the organization that administers the .eu top-level domain, has suspended 74,000 domain names after launching a lawsuit against 400 American registrars for "breach of contract." The domains in ...