Initially, I did not plan to attend NamesCon in November. We have quite a few family things going on in November, and it’s an inconvenience to ensure our kids get where they need to be – and I hate missing their events. After some further thought, I decided I will most likely attend for at least a day.
I received an email this morning reminding me that the price for a NamesCon ticket will increase tomorrow. The standard pass is listed at $499 and apparently increases to $649 tomorrow. The vendor pass increases from $799 to $999.
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.
