In a recent UDRP decision, global sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion plc’s attempt to recover the domain name JDSport.com was rejected despite its established brand presence and ownership of the plural form, JDSports.com.
Verisign released its Q1 2025 financial report, with the total number of .com/.net domain names increasing by 778,000, ending the quarterly decline trend of nearly two years.
Recently, Canadian domain name registrar Tucows announced its withdrawal from ICANN's Registration Data Request Service (RDRS), a decision that casts a shadow on the future development of RDRS.
In order to strengthen brand protection, Google recently registered a large number of misspelled domain names related to its brand names, covering many well-known brands such as Alphabet, Android, and Chrome.
Recently, the well-known hosting service brand A2 Hosting announced its official upgrade to Hosting.com. This name change marks the brand's entry into a new stage of global development.
On April 28, the premium English domain name Mine.com was auctioned and sold for $680,000. The buyer's account was "17excom". The auction attracted fierce competition, and three bidders continued to bid after the price exceeded $500,000.
Earlier this week, Mine.com entered the pending deletion auction phase. Currently, the bid has reached $497,500 and is still rising. As a high-quality English word domain name, Mine.com naturally has huge advantages.
Virgil Griffith, who was imprisoned for helping North Korea evade sanctions, was released after serving 36 months in prison, accidentally pushing the Eth.link domain name, which had attracted widespread attention, back into the public eye.
VeriSign has released its latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB), with registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs) reaching 368.4 million in the first quarter of 2025, an increase of 1.7%.