The ICA hosted a webinar to discuss the Initial Report of the WIPO–ICA UDRP Review Project Team. The joint project between the two organizations aims to explore ways to strengthen the UDRP with incremental improvements.
The primary topics of discussion were related to the following:
Spaceship, the rapidly growing domain registrar and sister company of Namecheap, just surpassed 3 million domain names under management milestone. Less than a year ago, Spaceship hit the 1 million DUM milestone. I think this underscores the company’s momentum and growing influence in the domain space, particularly as it relates to domain investors.
🎉 Today is the day!
3,000,000 domains under management in just 2 years – and counting.That’s 3 million of your ideas, ambitions, and stories.
We’re proud to be part of your journey💙
To the stars – together🚀#Spaceship #3MDomains #Domains pic.twitter.com/j7KThCWSid
— Spaceship (@spaceship) May 28, 2025
Over the past several years, Hubspot Co-Founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah has emerged as a prominent figure in the domain name space. Dharmesh has acquired high-value domain names like Chat.com, Prompt.com, and Agent.com for millions of dollars. He later famously sold Chat.com to OpenAI for more than $15 million, including equity in the privately-held company.
In addition to these acquisitions, Dharmesh recently built an AI-driven domain name valuation agent on his Agent.ai platform. It can probably be billed as a work in progress, but it provides users with both a quantitative valuation along with a qualitative aspect as well. It doesn’t hurt that values tend to be on the sunny side of the garden.
To make it easier for users to navigate to the domain valuation agent, Dharmesh shared that he acquired the DomainValue.com domain name:
According to a post on X, the Slash.com domain name was acquired for $1 million. I understand the domain name was acquired with the help of Rob Schutz from Snagged.com:
Pumped we could help you snag https://t.co/sjm2HiiqIp. Epic domain upgrade.
— Rob Schutz (@rob) May 22, 2025
I was told the domain name was acquired in an all-cash deal. The full payment was already made by the buyer.
Our customized domain industry Pan-Mass Challenge jersey raises a substantial amount of money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute each year. The company that produces the jersey just sent me an update of our design with the logos of our current jersey sponsors, and I think it looks great.
We can feature 18 domain industry logos on the back of our jersey. We have room for two additional logo All logo spots are now reserved. I’d also move my Embrace.com logo if we can get two additional sponsors. John and I would also offer a white horizontal logo on each rib cage for a $1,000 donation to our PMC fundraiser.
Paul Rubillo shared some details about a deal he struck for the Diversification.com domain name. When the deal concludes, it will be valued at more than $1 million. Paul shared that the buyer paid some cash and will be paying for the domain name via future payments and revenue share. In addition, Paul also retained some equity in the new business and could capitalize on future sale proceeds.
When sharing the news with me, Paul mentioned that it was a “Rick Schwartz-inspired deal.”
Paul commented on the sale of this domain name via LinkedIn:
