WEEK IN DOMAINING # 07

HIGHLIGHTS

• ICANN Launches RDRS, Releases First Metrics Report. Read more

• ICANN NCAP Discussion Group Seeks Input on NCAP Study 2 Report. Read more

• James Booth Reports $150k .IO Sale. Read more

• Buckley Media Grows and Rebrands as Defining .com. Read more

• .ing doing way better than .meme. Read more

• ICANN bans closed generics for the foreseeable. Read more

• Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Tifo .com. Read more

LEGAL NEWS

• UDRP: Ecosavers .com was denied. Read more

• UDRP: Fiveguys .se was denied. Read more

• UDRP: Mmdsmart .info was denied. Read more

• Yelp drops lawsuit, gets Yelp .ai. Read more

• Media-com .com: A 26 year old domain was lost via the UDRP process. Read more

BLOGS

• Getting More From ExpiredDomains .net by Bob Hawkes. Read blog

• To WHOIS or Not to WHOIS: Decoding Domain Privacy by Maggi Ferguson. Read blog

• What you missed at the ICA meeting in Las Vegas by Andrew Allemann. Read blog

• ICANN Universal Acceptance Update: Support for Internationalized Email Addresses by Andre Abed. Read blog

• Common Brand Naming Mistakes and How to Avoid Them by Darpan Munjal. Read blog

• The Latest On .AI Domains Statistics by Sabina Ionescu. Read blog

• A Domain Investor’s Handbook for Elevating Sales in 2024 by Maggi Ferguson. Read blog

• Is a Registrar Landing Page Evidence of a Respondent’s Bad Faith? by Ankur Raheja. Read blog

• Guide to Domain Backorders by Kean Ong. Read blog

• GoDaddy topped $60M at Namebio for the first time ever in 2023 by Raymond Hackney. Read blog

• You can’t use money to buy .box domains by Kevin Murphy. Read blog

PODCAST / INTERVIEW

• Mike Mann: from founding BuyDomains to Sex .com to DomainMarket and leveraging AI to grow business. Watch

• My 2023 domain sales results – DNW Podcast #470. Listen

• Dennis Tinerino on Domain Investing as a Successful Side Hustle. Read

UPCOMING EVENTS

• APTLD 85 : Feb 19-22, 2024 | Goa, India

• Domain Pulse : Feb 22-23, 2024 | Vienna, Austria

• Affiliate World Dubai : Feb 28-29, 2024 | Dubai, UAE

• NASIG 2024 : Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2024 | San Juan, Puerto Rico

• ICANN79 Community Forum : Mar 2-7, 2024 | San Juan, Puerto Rico

• CloudFest 2024 : Mar 18-21, 2024 | Europa-Park, Germany

• Middle East DNS Forum 2024 : Apr 24 - 25, 2024 | Rabat, Morocco

• Nordic Domain Days : May 13-14, 2024 |  Stockholm, Sweden

• CloudFest USA : Jun 5-8, 2024 | Austin, USA

• NamesCon Global : Jun 5-8, 2024 | Austin, USA

• Collision Conf : Jun 17-20, 2024 | Toronto, Canada

• APAC DNS Forum : Jul 23-24, 2024 | Bali, Indonesia

• Affiliate Summit East : Jul 29-30, 2024 | New York, USA

• Domain Summit 2024 : Aug 19-21, 2024 | London, UK

• APrIGF 2024 : Aug 21-23, 2024 | Taipei, Taiwan
  

ALERT

• New scammer pretending to be @DInvesting Elliot Silver. Read more

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