WEEK IN DOMAINING # 61

[Sarfraz S]

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HIGHLIGHTS​

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  BrandBucket Acquires Novanym. Read more​
  
  
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  ICANN’s Organizational Objectives for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more​
  
  
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  Liquid Market Report for Q2 2025 come in at $23.7M. Read more​
  
  
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  ICANN Announces NextGen@ICANN84 Participants. Read more​
  
  
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  Lovable Becomes “Unicorn” on a .Dev Domain Name. Read more​
  
  
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  ICANN Seeks Feedback on FY26–30 North America Regional Plan. Read more​
  
  
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  OS .ai Acquired by Perplexity. Read more​
  
  
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  BlueHost and HostGator to send expired domains to NameJet/SnapNames. Read more​
  
  
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  ICANN Announces Publication of Continuous Improvement Program Framework. Read more​
  
  
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  DreamHost Is Giving Away Human-Made Sites for Free. Read more​
  
  
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  Sedo weekly domain sales led by Crypto .bot. Read more​
  
  
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  ICANN Announces Dispute Resolution Service Providers for the Next Round. Read more​
  
  
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  Dynadot May 2025 Aftermarket sales report led by Gorillas .io. Read more​

LEGAL NEWS​

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  UDRP: Beechjet .com was denied. Read more​
  
  
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  UDRP: Canfirst .net was denied. Read more​
  
  
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  UDRP: traubi .com was denied. Read more​
  
  
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  UDRP: ksuite .com was denied. Read more​
  
  
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  RDNH in Empireindustrialpark .com. Read more​
  
  
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  UDRP: Heritcoin .com was denied. Read more​
  
  
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  UDRP: Jaquelknight .com was denied. Read more​
  
  
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  UDRP: Sequent .com was denied. Read more​
  
  
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  RDNH in Advanced2000 .com. Read more​
  
  
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  UDRP: Voices .ai was denied. Read more​
  
  
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  AFRINIC under scrutiny as ICANN warns of compliance review. Read more​

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BLOGS​

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  How to Choose the Best Domain Name for a Blog by Evelin Clemens. Read blog​
  
  
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  The Rise of Micro-Brands: Visibility Fuels Growth by Eshan Pancholi. Read blog​
  
  
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  .Now Domain Extension Has A Great Week — What Now? by Bob Hawkes. Read blog​
  
  
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  Are Your Parked Domains Putting Your Brand at Risk? by Natalie Brownell. Read blog​
  
  
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  ChatGPT Recommendations Potentially Influenced By Hacked Sites by Matt G. Southern. Read blog​
  
  
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  Self-Brokerage Just Got Better: Lease to Own, Seen Status, and Upgrades by Prakash Sadarangani. Read blog​
  
  
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  What Is a WHOIS Lookup? How Does It Work for Domain Research? by Thom Davies. Read blog​
  
  
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  The Real Reason I’m Finally Building OnlineBusiness .com by Michael Santiago. Read blog​
  
  
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  Premium Domain Flipping: The Technical Investor's Guide for 2025 by Aleksandra Vukovic. Read blog​
  
  
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  Chair’s Blog: June Board Workshop and ICANN83 Recap by Tripti Sinha. Read blog​
  
  
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  Best Domain Name Strategies for Startups on a Budget by Achet Walling. Read blog​
  
  
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  How Choice of Reputation Blocklists Affects DNS Abuse Metrics by Carlos Hernandez Ganan. Read blog​
  
  

PODCAST / INTERVIEW​

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  IONOS Inside | InterNetX Domain Summit 2025. Listen​
  
  
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  From selling shoes to selling domains – DNW Podcast #543. Listen​
  
  
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  DomainSherpa Review – It’s A Jungle Out There. Watch​
  
  
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  Domain Name Investing with Industry Veteran Adel AlTerkait : The Middle East & Beyond. Watch​

UPCOMING EVENTS​

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  Domain Summit Europe 2025 : Sep 02-03, 2025 | London, UK​
  
  
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  TechEx Europe : Sep 24-25, 2025 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands​
  
  
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  Domain Days Dubai 2025 : Oct 22-23, 2025 | Dubai, UAE​
  
  
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  ICANN84 Annual General Meeting : Oct 25-30, 2025 | Dublin, Ireland​
  
  
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  CyberChess : Oct 29-30, 2025 | Riga, Latvia​
  
  
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  NamesCon Global : Nov 5-6, 2025 | Miami, USA​
  
  
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  CloudFest USA : Nov 5-6, 2025 | Miami, USA​
  
  
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  ICA Annual Member Meeting : Jan 15-17, 2026 | Las Vegas, USA​
  
  
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  TechEx Global : Feb 4-5, 2026 | London, UK​
  
  
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  Domain Summit Africa 2026 : Feb 23-24, 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya​

NEW LAUNCH​

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  ICANN Launching the New Five-Year ICANN Strategic Plan. Know more​
  
  
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  Atom has started accepting .now domains. Know more​
  
  
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  GoDaddy releases enhancements to Afternic self-brokering. Know more​
  
  
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  Atom launches new semantic search tool. Know more​
  
  
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  Unstoppable Domains Domainer Club. Know more​
  
  
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Keep Domaining. See you next week,​

Sarfraz Saleem
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Editor-in-Chief | WEEK IN DOMAINING​

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