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John Berryhill to Ride the PMC

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My domain industry-sponsored Pan Mass Challenge kit arrived a couple of days ago, and I took it for a short spin yesterday evening. I think it looks great, and it raised quite a bit of money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Thank you again to all of the companies (listed below) whose logos are featured on the jersey and shorts.

Domain industry attorney John Berryhill let me know me is now able to ride in this year’s PMC. John is getting a bit of a late start on fundraising, but I bet he will hit his $8,500 fundraising goal.

John and I will both wear our industry sponsored jersey and shorts as we train for August’s ride, and we will also wear them on the ride.

2023  domain industry PMC kit sponsors (in ABC order):

.com Dominates YC Top Companies by Revenue

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Y Combinator, one of the top startup incubators, published a list of its top 50 companies by revenue. The list includes some well-known brands like AirBnB, Reddit, Stripe, Instacart, and quite a few others that are widely known.  The first thing I did when I looked at the list of companies is observe the domain names they use.

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Integrity.com UDRP Denied with RDNH

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Every once in a while, I see a UDRP filing that appears to be unwinnable. More often than not, the domain name in question is a one word or three letter .com domain name that is rightfully owned by someone but coveted by another party.

A complainant called Integrity Marketing Group, LLC filed a UDRP against the one word Integrity.com domain name at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). On appearance alone, I did not think the complainant stood a chance of winning the dispute for this high value dictionary word domain name.

The UDRP decision was published, and the three panelists ruled in favor of the domain registrant. In addition, the panel decided that this “Complaint was brought in bad faith and constitutes an abuse of the administrative proceeding.” This finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) was not surprising.

There were multiple reasons for why the panel ruled against the complainant. For one thing, the domain name was owned by the registrant before the complainant existed.

Here’s an excerpt from the decision:

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NameJet: “Big Changes are Coming”

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On Friday afternoon, NameJet announced that some major changes are coming to the auction platform. The changes were outlined on a splash page, and include the following:

  • New look and feel
  • New process to place backorders
  • New option to remove backorder if you lose an auction on specific domain
  • New download file type choice of CSV or TXT
  • New way to pull Last Minute Board
  • And many others
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Google Exiting Domain Registrar Business

Elliot Silver
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I received a press release this afternoon with some interesting domain industry news – Google is selling off its domain registrar business. According to the press release, “Squarespace will acquire the assets associated with the Google Domains business, which will be winding down following a transition period.”

This is surprising news to me. Google has become a top 5 domain registrar, and selling domain names to its vast base of customers seems like a pretty solid cross-sell opportunity. That said, domain names have a very low margin and it might be a high touchpoint business requiring considerable customer support.

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Video: Home.com Keynote from NamesCon

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One of the largest domain name sales in history was Fairway’s acquisition of Home.com. The deal was brokered by Andrew Miller (Hilco Digital Assets) and Larry Fischer (GetYourDomain.com), but terms of the deal were kept private.

At NamesCon a couple of weeks ago, Andrew, Larry, and Fairway’s David Lazowski had a conversation about the Home.com acquisition. The keynote discussion is embedded below:

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