On May 19th, international cryptocurrency exchange Gate announced a major brand upgrade, centered on the adoption of the global top-level domain Gate.com.
Registrar Hexonet announced that it will close its business by the end of June, and customer accounts and domain names will be migrated to the Moniker platform. The migration has now entered the substantive stage.
In May 2025, WIPO ruled that the US domain name investment company HugeDomains won the Zaddy.com dispute case, and determined that the complainant Zaddy, LLC had engaged in "reverse domain name hijacking."
In the latest DNJournal report, Rush.ai led the sales list with a price of $300,000, confirming the continued strong performance of .AI domains. Short .com domains such as UIG.com also achieved significant prices.
A domain name dispute caused by the seller temporarily raising the price tenfold ended with the buyer winning the case. After legal intervention, the ownership of PayRewards.com belonged to the Australian company Pay.com.au.
On May 13, 2025, domain investor Andrew Miller announced on X that he sold the domain Seed.ai for $225,000. This is currently the second highest .ai domain transaction record in 2025.
Recently, WIPO made a ruling on the two-letter domain name KS.com, determining that the domain name dispute request filed by the complainant in this case lacked factual basis and ruled that it was a reverse domain name hijacking.
According to NameBio's public data, there have been many high-priced transactions in the domain name trading market in the past few weeks, among which icon.com changed hands for US$12 million, the highest price disclosed so far this year.