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Andrew Allemann's coverage is heavily focused on domain names, with an emphasis on sales and marketing as well as legal policy regulation. His articles often cite data and press releases to support his content.
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By: Andrew Allemann
Board approves changes that would make it difficult, if not impossible, to register generic/dictionary word domains. auDA, the organization that oversees Australia’s .au country code domain, is implementing a radical change to registration requirements. The group is removing a clause in the registration agreement that enables people to register generic third-level .au and .net.au domain […]
By: Andrew Allemann
Aruba plans to expand beyond .cloud. Aruba S.p.A., which operates the .cloud top level domain, is expanding its domain portfolio. The company told Domain Name Wire that it applied for 39 top level domains in this year’s new TLD round. Aruba surprised many when it topped Amazon, Google, and others in a private auction for […]
A law firm, a food company, and a scaffolding lead generator bought domain names this week. Sedo’s top public sale this week was h2 for $240,000. A domain investor bought it and has relisted it for $3 million. The second-highest sale is an adult entertainment site for $125,000; I’m not sure if the site was […]
By: Andrew Allemann
Company goes after domain registered well before it adopted the matching brand name. NOOUS, SAS, a French human resources consulting company, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybersquatting claim against the domain noous. Noous was registered well before the consulting company changed its name to NOOUS in 2020. […]
By: Andrew Allemann
Brew some coffee; the drop is going to start early. Drop catchers, start your engines…a bit earlier. Domain registry Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) is changing the time at which and .net domain names drop after pending delete. Previously, domains dropped in the evening UTC. Effective October 1, Verisign is moving the drop time to start […]
Spaceship’s founder called out a fake sales post on X this week. Earlier this week, a user on X posted about a big domain sale on Spaceship. “Tom Adams” claimed to have sold thread .pics for $87,000, and even showed the sales email to prove it: It was a shockingly high sale…and it didn’t happen. […]
Major domain and hosting company to trim workforce by over 10%. Domain name and hosting company IONOS (ETR: IOS) today announced plans to reduce its headcount. The company, one of Europe’s larger domain providers with customers worldwide, said it will shrink its workforce from 3,800 to 3,350 full-time employees. The reduction will be split about […]
By: Andrew Allemann
Complainant omitted key parts of pre-dispute correspondence in its filing. A German building products company has been found (pdf) to have tried reverse hijacking a domain name. Otto Lehmann GmbH filed a dispute against the domain lehmann. The domain is registered to Tucows and is part of its surname portfolio. Tucows offers email addresses for […]
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It’s Booth’s second win in as many months. Domain investor James Booth has fended off a cybersquatting claim on the domain name semify.ai. SEO company Semify, LLC, which uses the domain name semify, filed the complaint. A three-person World Intellectual Property Organization panel found in Booth’s favor and determined the domain should not be transferred. […]
By: Andrew Allemann
Company filed cybersquatting complaint against domain registered well before it had trademark rights in the term Hudson’s Detroit. Bedrock Management Services, LLC has been found to have tried reverse hijacking the domain name HudsonsDetroit. The company developed Hudson’s Detroit, a mixed-use property on the site of the former J.L. Hudson Department Store. Bedrock uses the […]
