New domain marketplace is dedicated to just 17,576 possible domains. Giuseppe Graziano, a domain broker who runs GGRG.com, has launched a new marketplace for buying and selling three-letter .com domain names. GGRG.com has always specialized in short domain names, so Liquid Domain Market Exchange is right up its alley. Still, can a marketplace dedicated to […]

Sinkholes are why you see companies register a bunch of weird domain names. Palo Alto Networks Inc was granted a patent today related to domain sinkholing, and it’s a continuation patent of one that was granted in 2016. It reminded me of times I’ve seen companies (notably Microsoft) register a bunch of nonsensical domain names. […]

Attempts to get an injunction forcing a German registrar to collect certain Whois data are failing. ICANN has yet again failed to convince German courts that an injunction is needed to force domain name registrar EPAG to continue collecting certain information for Whois. The non-profit domain name overseer sued EPAG, part of Tucows, the day […]