Verisign’s plans to shut down a bunch of legacy services in the .name gTLD has been challenged by a registrant who believes he will lose his domains and email addresses if the registry goes ahead.

Google seems to have accelerated its launch plans for .fly, one of the 2012-round gTLDs it’s been sitting on for over a decade. The company’s registry division has notified ICANN that it plans to open ...

ICANN’s Ombuds dealt with 50% more cases in its last-reported year, with most of the growth attributable to community members who just can’t seem to get along. In a recently published annual report ...

Team Internet expects to be able to announce the sale of its domains business in the next several weeks, coming at the end of a turbulent 2025 that saw revenue, and its share price, tumble. The ...

Blacknight Solutions, Ireland’s first ICANN-accredited registrar, has been bought by Your.Online for an undisclosed sum. The registrar joins dozens of brands, mainly but not exclusively in the hosting ...

ICANN has slapped an intensely privacy-focused registrar that compares its stance on takedowns to Elon Musks with a lengthy breach-of-contract notice, claiming that the company is disregarding ...

Panel: A “Textbook” Case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking This decision is noteworthy for two reasons. First, the Panel reaffirmed that neither the renewal of a domain name registration nor its ...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 34:07 mark) where they guess what certain domains were ...

As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains! And today we have a Sherpa Shorts segment hosted by JT and Drew, who are also joined by Matthew Gould of UnstoppableDomains.com. The Sherpas ...

Contract anniversary will hit late next year, giving Verisign the option to raise prices. I’ve long assumed that Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) couldn’t raise the .com wholesale price in 2026. The thinking ...

Dynadot’s appraisals weren’t as objectionable as some other services, but they are fairly basic. This is part of Domain Name Wire’s review of automated domain appraisal tools. Dynadot is a popular ...

Buyers of the Handshake-based platform haven’t been identified. Domain name registrar Namecheap has sold Namebase, a marketplace for buying and selling Handshake names. The new owners haven’t been ...