OpenAI is at it again. According to Bloomberg, the AI giant is in talks to acquire AI programming startup Windsurf for about $3 billion. Less than a year ago, the company was valued at $1.25 billion.
Google recently announced that it will gradually stop using local Google websites in the form of country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) around the world and redirect them to google.com. This change will take effect in the next few months.
Recently, the domain name Weaverobotics.com was sold at a high price of 100,000 euros (about 113,292 US dollars), attracting widespread attention in the domain name circle.
Unlike traditional domain names that are managed by centralized organizations, Web3 domain names use decentralized blockchain technology, making them more secure and difficult to tamper with.
Recently, Pickle, a startup company focusing on artificial intelligence video generation technology, announced the completion of its brand upgrade and officially launched the domain name Pickle.com.
A freight financing company called Freightos Limited was found by the WIPO arbitration body to have committed "reverse domain name hijacking" when it attempted to fight for the "freighttrust.com" domain name through UDRP procedures.
Recently, Sullivan & Cromwell law firm (SullCrom) filed a UDRP complaint against two domain names related to its brand, sullcrom-uk.com and sullcrom-ny.com, but the results of the case were completely different.
In the first quarter of 2025, the public transaction volume of mobile domain names increased by 121.61% year-on-year, among which the two-letter (LL) .com domain name transactions performed outstandingly.
Recently, the tariff policy of the global trade war has caused dramatic market fluctuations, stock market ups and downs, and investor sentiment is tense. So, will the tariffs affect the domain name industry? Let's analyze it.