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Applicants will get about $24,000 back for each application. Companies that applied for new top level domain names this year are getting a portion of the application fee back. The standard application price was $227,000 per application. Part of that fee was earmarked to cover about $70 million in ICANN’s implementation costs for the program, […] Post link: New top level domain applicants to get $41 million in refunds © DomainNameWire.com 2026. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.
Domain sale sets record for publicly known domain transactions. Shopify (NASDAQ: SHOP) released earnings today, and its quarterly SEC filing discloses how much it paid for the shop.com domain name. It confirms what Drew Rosener said previously: the company paid a staggering amount for shop.com. In late September, news broke that Shopify acquired the domain. […] Post link: Shopify filing confirms $99 million acquisition of shop.com domain name © DomainNameWire.com 2026. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.
Another UDRP complaint tries to turn a trademark dispute into a cybersquatting case. Lawyers, repeat after me: the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is designed to handle cases of cybersquatting, not trademark infringement. Yet another company has misunderstood this or decided to ignore the purpose of UDRP. Technical Communities, Inc., which runs TestMart.com, […] Post link: Hey lawyers, UDRP isn’t a shortcut for trademark litigation © DomainNameWire.com 2026. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.
Brands railed against .sucks in the 2012 round. How will they feel about some of these 2026 applications? Trademark holders threw a fit in the 2012 round due to an application for .sucks. They argued the extension was created solely to force them to fork over cash to keep their brand.sucks from landing in someone […] Post link: Are these TLDs this round’s .sucks? © DomainNameWire.com 2026. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.
Sean Markey goes down many rabbit holes looking at what happened to expired domain names. Hello, back with you from a little COVID-19 hiatus with the most interesting SEO-related domain sales from NameJet and SnapNames in September. I usually try to cover five domains in a piece, but the combination of COVID-19 destroying my mitochondria […] Post link: The fascinating afterlife of expired domains © DomainNameWire.com 2026. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.
