In 2020, a startup called Luma quietly launched in San Francisco, USA. With limited resources, the team opted for a short and playful domain name: lu.ma.
According to Reuters, digital identity verification platform ID.me announced that it has successfully raised US$340 million in its Series E financing round. After the financing was completed, ID.me's valuation has exceeded US$2 billion.
Freename, a Web3 naming platform, is now an ICANN-accredited registrar, offering both traditional domains and blockchain names that can be used for websites, email, and Web3 functions.
An Italian crane manufacturer attempted to seize the omis.com domain name through a domain name dispute procedure but ultimately failed, despite the domain name holder's request for transfer of the domain name for $120,000.
India's National Internet Exchange (NIXI) recently announced plans to apply to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to launch country-named top-level domains .india and .bharat.
Recently, the domain name investment community received another piece of good news: Scoop.ai successfully sold a domain name for $75,000. The seller was well-known domain name investor Andrew Rosener, and the buyer was Apex Moon.
According to news shared by well-known domain name investor @360, the domain name Shiny.com has been sold. The transaction receipt issued by the platform shows that the domain name itself was transferred for $280,000.
In the Hime.eu domain name dispute, the Dispute Resolution Panel dismissed a complainant's complaint based on surname rights and ruled that the disputed domain name continued to be held by an experienced domain name investor.
The domain name Super.xyz was successfully sold for $287,607. More notably, this transaction wasn't completed through negotiation or discounts; rather, the buyer simply recognized the value of Super.xyz's brand and paid the full price.
WIPO ruled against a complainant who submitted forged USPTO documents in a bid to seize the domainChafeZero.com.The panel found reverse hijacking in one of the most egregious attempts they had ever seen.