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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

Chinese company applies for over 100 new top level domains - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Company’s website lists over 300 top level domain strings. A Chinese company says it has applied for more than 100 top level domain names. Journey to the West Corporation’s website lists 323 primary and replacement strings related to China. It’s the
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domainnamewire.com 24/08/2026

Two more applicants disclose their top level domain strings - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Suffix Domains and Phoenix Domain Partners disclose some of their applications. Over the weekend, I posted stories about a couple of applicants and their strings. Here are two more. A founder of Suffix Domains posted on X about some of their applicat
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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

ICANN: 1,600 new top level domain applications submitted - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Applications down slightly from 2012 round. ICANN announced today that it received 1,600 applications for top level domain names by the deadline yesterday. That’s down about 17% from the total in the 2012 expansion round. Eleven hundred of the applic
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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

Exclusive: Oinkadot applies for 25 top level domains - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Partnership brings together two longtime registrar CEOs. A new partnership has applied for 25 top level domain names in this year’s ICANN TLD expansion round. Ray King, CEO of domain registrar Porkbun, and Todd Han, CEO of Dynadot, combined forces to
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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

James Booth successfully defends .ai domain in cybersquatting dispute. - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Combat sports gear company fails to take domain through cybersquatting claim. AI mega-investor James Booth has successfully defended one of his .ai domain names. Do or Die, Inc, d/b/a/ Hyperfly, filed a dispute (pdf) with World Intellectual Property
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domainnamewire.com 16/08/2026

.AI sales hit $37.7 million at Escrow.com last quarter - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

The party continues for .ai domain investors. Escrow.com released its Q2 Domain Investment Index (pdf) this week. It turns out the company had a bigger quarter than I thought. The company said it facilitated $160 million of domain transactions during
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domainnamewire.com 10/08/2026

Domain buyer balks at $1,000 price, spends more on losing UDRP - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

A $1,000 purchase would have been cheaper and avoided a reverse domain name hijacking finding. A UK man filed a cybersquatting claim that didn’t make sense, especially financially. Callum Charnock, who runs a business selling extreme sports apparel a
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domainnamewire.com 10/08/2026

Tucows posts lower domain revenue in Q2 - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Impact from large customer loss is mostly over. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported earnings yesterday. The company’s domain name business saw revenue decline 4% year over year to $65.0 million. It was up slightly quarter-over-quarter, however. Tucows said
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domainnamewire.com 10/08/2026

Docking station maker Plugable attempts reverse domain name hijacking - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Founder’s Reddit post hurt its case, but it would have lost anyway. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Leancode, Inc., maker of the Plugable (misspelling of Pluggable) brand of docking stations, guilty of reverse domain name h
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domainnamewire.com 05/08/2026

Welcome to the busiest month in the domain business - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

This August will be unlike any other. You probably read this headline and scratched your head. Isn’t all of Europe out of the office? Isn’t this the month that everyone is on the beach and no one is buying domain names? That’s true, but this August i
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domainnamewire.com 05/08/2026

University of Florida athletic group tries to reverse hijack TheSwamp.com - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Group relied on usage prior to domain owner’s acquisition of the domain. A UDRP panelist has found that The University Athletic Association, Inc., a nonprofit associated with the University of Florida, attempted reverse domain name hijacking. The org
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Lease-to-own domain sales are picking up. Here's my data - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

More and more of my recent sales have been LTOs. Lease-to-own transactions are becoming a bigger part of my domain sales, and they seem to be picking up: five of my last six domain sales are LTO transactions, compared to just three of the prior 15. I
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Panelist slams contradictory UDRP complaint with reverse domain name hijacking finding - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Self-represented Complainant couldn’t keep his story straight. A Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Centre (CIIDRC) panelist has found that Jeremy Labreche / Addison Electronique Entreprise Inc. attempted to reverse hijack the domain
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Colombian logistics company tries to reverse hijack domain name - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Company went after a common Spanish word registered nearly three decades ago. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found Agencia de Aduanas Pasar Ltda., a logistics company in Colombia, guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Fourteen end user domain names sales at Atom this month - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

A used car dealer, a freelancing platform, and an AI platform for kids bought domain names this month. Sedo is the only major domain marketplace to publish lists of domain sales. The company is taking a month-long break from reported sales as we head
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Afternic makes improvements to Request Price lander - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Visitors can get prices instantly, and the domains (finally) resolve to GoDaddy’s primary domain. Afternic has made a couple of enhancements to its β€œRequest Price” lander over the past few weeks that warrant attention. First, the platform has changed
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domainnamewire.com 30/07/2026

Internet tops 400 million domain names - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Surge in registrations pushes domain base over 400 million for the first time. There are now more than 400 million registered domain names, according to Verisign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The company calculated there were 40