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[ICANN @ICANN]

The #ICANN86 Policy Outlook Report is now available, offering a high-level overview of the planned work and activities of the Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees.

🔗 Stay informed on key internet policy discussions by accessing the report here >> https://t.co/lqI2dkWCbV #ICANN

[Bob Hawkes @AGreatDomain]

This is one of the best deals on .co we have seen lately from a registrar popular with domain investors. The lowest price only lasts until May 20 if you are looking to pick up some.

[ICANN @ICANN]

Fresh drop 🚀 The #APAC May 2026 newsletter just landed!

Check out #ICANNAPAC’s Technical Engagement team’s activities in Malaysia, wrap up of the Local APIGAs, and summary of the ICANN85 Readouts.

Read it here: https://t.co/YjCxRKNK4M

#ICANN #Newsletter

[Youssef @Aladey]

💡 Today's Domaining Tip 💡

I’ve sold many trend domains in my life. Trends move fast, but when you understand news tracking AND pricing, that’s where the real money is made.

Everyone knows how to follow the news. Very few know how to properly price trend domains.

A trend can be:
- a breaking event
- a new AI product
- a virus
- a meme
- or a sudden global topic

The latest example is Hantavirus.

Hantavirus is not new, people in the medical and domain industry already knew the term. But lately, “Hanta” and “Hantavirus” registrations exploded. You can’t imagine how many domains were registered in just in the last days.

With AI, people are already launching websites instantly around these trends.

Here’s the real hint:

PRICE SMART.

For most trend domains, the sweet spot is usually between $2,999 and $4,999.

If you price too high:
- you may get lucky once…
- or you may never sell and end up renewing the domain forever while waiting for a dream buyer that never comes.

Fast trends reward smart exits, not fantasy pricing.

[ICANN @ICANN]

📢 Have questions about the #ICANN New gTLD Program: 2026 Round?

Join the webinar on 12 May to get up to speed on the TLD Application Management System and other aspects of the application and evaluation process.

🔗 Submit your questions by 6 May. Pre-submitted questions will be prioritized during the session >> https://t.co/WCoIplulYK

[Bob Hawkes @AGreatDomain]

Don't forget to renew in advance .org names that you plan to keep long term before the prices go up June 1. The 10.8% wholesale price increase is the first increase for .org since 2016. https://t.co/Gi6BnTCARR

[Kannan @reddomain]

Valid concerns

[4L.com @4Ldotcom]

Today I sold a domain on @Sedo for $3,000. Only after the sale, Sedo triggered "seller verification" through Adyen at https://t.co/EO7KKc5lsO.

The verification form asks for my legal first and last name exactly as on my ID, date of birth, country of residence, email, phone number, full residential address, postal code, city, and a copy of a passport, national ID, or driver’s license.

This is the kind of document set a bank asks for when opening an account. But I am not opening a bank account, taking a loan, requesting credit, or initiating a suspicious payment. I am simply receiving proceeds from a domain I already owned and sold.

If there are concerns about the origin of the funds used to buy the domain, then this level of verification should be applied to the buyer and the buyer's payment method - not to the seller. The buyer is the party sending money into the transaction. I am the existing domain holder receiving a payout.

Sedo already required me to confirm control of the domain through DNS using a TXT record. For a domain marketplace, that should be enough to establish that I control the domain and am authorized to sell it.

Sedo also already has my SEPA payout bank account in the account settings. The bank beneficiary name matches the first and last name in my Sedo account. For a payout to my own bank account, that should be the privacy-respecting verification method: bank beneficiary/name match, payout details, account history, domain ownership, and, if really needed, bank confirmation - not passport upload by default.

The timing is the worst part. I spent a lot of time listing 22,000+ 4L .com domains on Sedo and changing DNS records to prove ownership/control. Then, after the first sale, I am suddenly told that to receive a relatively small $3,000 payout I need to provide the same level of personal information usually required to open a bank account.

If bank-level KYC is mandatory for seller payouts, it should be disclosed clearly before sellers onboard thousands of domains, not after a sale has already happened and the platform owes the seller money.

Sedo's own terms say that "data protection cannot be universally guaranteed" when data is transmitted through public networks, and that Sedo makes no warranty that its services will be "uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free":
https://t.co/F2wuDg6SLq

Adyen's own privacy materials say that sensitive personal information such as a passport, ID document or driver’s license may be disclosed to identity verification providers, including credit reference agencies. Their compliance materials also mention third-party identification, screening and verification services, including credit reporting agencies and open banking providers, automated systems such as machine learning models, and analysis for statistical, strategic and scientific purposes. Identity documents and biometric identifiers may typically be stored for 5 years, and business relationship data for 7 years:
https://t.co/2LD7XdXaai
https://t.co/AlnPddTz8Y

So no, I am not going to feed a third-party financial verification/scoring ecosystem with my passport just to receive a $3,000 domain payout. If their terms give them the legal right to disclose and use this data across such providers and systems, I have to assume they may use that right. That does not motivate me to share my documents. It does the opposite.

Once an ID document leaks, you cannot simply "change" it like a password. The risk is permanent. We still do not live in a digital prison where every marketplace can demand passport scans by default for a basic payout.

This is bad practice and unfair timing. @Sedo should either disclose mandatory KYC before sellers invest time listing and verifying domains, or offer a privacy-respecting alternative for legitimate sellers: DNS ownership/control proof, bank beneficiary verification or bank confirmation - without forcing government ID upload as the default path.

Want to build risk models, scoring systems or analytics using my personal documents? Pay me directly for that data. Do not hide it behind forced "seller verification" after my domain has already been sold.

[Kannan @reddomain]

😂😂

[Elliot Silver @DInvesting]

Have you ever accidentally priced a name 500x what you planned to price it at and then it sold?

No?

Me neither.

[Kannan @reddomain]

Useful not only for newbies

[Bob Hawkes @AGreatDomain]

Usually just a handful of single dictionary word .xyz drop each day, but today 335 (mostly uncommon words). I only got to list hours after drop, and best already gone – I took 4.

See ⤵️ on how to set up your own filters with ExpiredDomains. 1/3

[Youssef @Aladey]

💡 Today's Domaining Tip 💡

Want to register domains where real demand is going?

Study YC’s latest startup requests. https://t.co/tOI2T40hqO

They’re literally telling you where billion-dollar companies will be built next.

Here are the hottest domain opportunities from Summer 2026 👇

AI + Agriculture → Low pesticide farming
→ domains like: AgroAI, SmartFarmingTech, BioFarm

AI-Native Services (insurance, accounting, healthcare admin)
→ domains like: AIAccountingPro, AutoCompliance, HealthOpsAI

Personalized AI Medicine
→ domains like: GenomicAI, PrecisionCareAI, MyHealthAgent

“Company Brain” (internal knowledge AI)
→ domains like: CompanyBrain, OrgAI, KnowledgeOS

Counter-Drone / Defense Tech
→ domains like: DroneDefenseAI, SwarmShield, SkyInterceptor

AI Interfaces (users build software with agents)
→ domains like: AgentBuilder, PromptUI, DynamicApps

Space + Chips
→ domains like: SpaceChips, OrbitalCompute, AstroAI

Hardware Supply Chain
→ domains like: RapidManufacture, BuildChain, PartsAI

Moon / Space Industry
→ domains like: LunarMining, SpaceFactory, RegolithTech

AI Chips for Agents
→ domains like: AgentSilicon, InferenceCore

SaaS Killers (AI replacing legacy software)
→ domains like: ERPNextAI, LegacyAI

Software for AI Agents
→ domains like: AgentTools, AgentStack, AIDeveloperKit

Selling to Enterprises (F100)
→ domains like: EnterpriseAI, BigCoTools, B2BAgent

Semiconductor Supply Chain
→ domains like: ChipChain, SemiTrack, FabAI

AI Operating System for Companies
→ domains like: CompanyOS, BusinessAIOS, OrgSystem

👉 Insight: YC is betting that AI becomes the default layer of every industry, not just software. (VC Cafe)

That means the best domains are no longer generic — they sit at the intersection of AI + real-world industries.
Register where the future is obvious.

[Elliot Silver @DInvesting]

Yesterday, I sold 2 domain names on @Afternic that were less than 60 days old. James Iles showed me how to obtain the authorization codes at @GoDaddy when the ICANN-mandated 60 day transfer lock is in effect:

https://t.co/Fi8aSV6mG9

Thanks for the help, @jamesiles.

[DomainJames | james.ad @DomainJames]

I have always been transparent and so here’s one to share. Today I made a mistake applying price changes to my afternic listings. I applied $100 to ALL names instead of the single page I meant to update. A high quality name sold within one minute even as I immediately removed all names from afternic. Not their fault, it was mine, but annoying that you have zero time to correct this. It was fast track so the name has gone. FYI there are domainers with tools ready to pounce on mistakes.. be careful out there. I just lost a name I paid 5k for 🙄

[Kannan @reddomain]

Now this is 🐍 🫡

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

INTRODUCING: https://t.co/nn42Az3rY1! 🐉📺

this one's a little different than my usual project, but i hope you enjoy this foray! 🫶

the idea? AI-curated content... straight from the latent space!

as it turns out, LLMs have been training on lots and LOTS of embedding links 🧐

so in the Pliny TV backend, there is no search API. no YouTube Data API key. no vector DB. no scraper.

discovery happens entirely inside a language model's memory of the internet.

you describe a channel in plain English — "music videos from 200", "cozy 3am lofi rain", "cursed liminal space docs", — and an AI curator recalls real YouTube video IDs directly from its weights!

the system prompt literally says: "you have been trained on millions of YouTube videos — USE THAT KNOWLEDGE." we then hit YouTube's oEmbed as a reality check. survivors make it to the channel queue, hallucinations get filtered out.

the LLM is the search engine. the index is the model.

because there's no keyword index, no recency bias, no algorithm optimizing for watch time, the curator doesn't search. you give it a vibe and it navigates the probability space of that concept, pulling back whatever is most salient. which turns out to be, almost without fail, the most nostalgic, cultishly-loved, collectively-imprinted videos in that region of latent space.

the memes you forgot you'd forgotten!

you ask for a vibe, you get a tour of the collective unconscious, sorted by resonance. less search engine, more akashic record.

and one of the most fascinating elements is seeing how this effect differs between models! different curators produce vastly different generated playlists, even with the same prompt.

what's in the box?

📡 create channels & publish them to public so anyone can tune in, plus an option to have AI auto-generate an idea

🤖 AI curator auto-queues 15–20 videos per run, auto-shutoff at 20min to save API cost

👥 AI personas watch with you and chat live — custom personas generated from your channel's vibe

🎨 110+ preset themes — each one a full visual universe, chosen by the model based on your prompt

🎬 auto-skip on dead videos, shuffle, request queue, fallback tiers when the AI whiffs

📱 retro flip phone UI — dial channels by number, unlock secret speakeasy rooms with hidden codes (420, 1337, etc.), DTMF tones and all

you're not searching YouTube. you're asking an AI what it remembers. and what it remembers is what the internet collectively loved the most.

video streaming as dream logic.

https://t.co/Dg6zZvpqO1 🐉📺

[Kannan @reddomain]

Beautiful marble

[NASA @NASA]

Even in darkness, we glow.

In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.

[Bill Hartzer @bhartzer]

I've been a non-profit organization that helps Veterans and victims of domestic violence recover their stolen domain names.

We've literally tried just about everything possible. I've actually spoken to the domain thief several times. He's US-based. But won't give them back.

Now, we're trying to help raise enough funds to cover the legal costs to recover the domains, which includes UDRP domain name dispute filing fees.

Whatever you can donate would be great. If you can't, then even sharing this on social would be a great help!
https://t.co/JnOZqinpf1

#domains #domainnames #stolendomains #nonprofit

[Kannan @reddomain]

@DotWeekly Take care. Wishing you a speedy recovery

[Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing® @BettyAiProject]

I’ve only unveiled about 5% of my domain portfolio so far through https://t.co/U5Hg0rusPb and https://t.co/kL53SKtPH4

And only about 10% of those are spoken for.

Now it’s time to open the rest.

This next release includes most of my domains through 2021.

https://t.co/JNUUeBaa92

Adult Domains below:

https://t.co/tbrKl2PJzG

Just a reminder there may be 18 Founder seats but that doesn't guarantee that the first 18 get them.

The door for this year’s challenge closes April 30...possibly sooner.

I would suggest at least 3 to 5 alternates.

These are big and long term benefits and bonuses for those that qualify if something hits.

If you miss this… it won’t be because you didn’t have the chance.

This thing has legs.

Below: Just a small sample of what’s behind the curtain.

#BeanstalkChallenge
#Domains

[NamesCon @NamesCon]

#NamesCon Global is bringing the domain community together November 11–12 in Miami!

Here's a look at early confirmed sponsors getting their hands on the best branding opportunities before they are gone!

Gold Sponsors: @Dynadot , @PIRegistry

Domain Auction Sponsor: @RIGHToftheDOT

Silver Sponsors: @Escrow_com @itcomdomains

Exhibitors: @ICANN, @Roller_Ads

Want to get involved? Head to our site to learn more about sponsorship: https://t.co/4vPYv5PKB8

[Morgan @morganlinton]

The next issue of my newsletter is out.

🎩 tip to @GoogleResearch, @saranormous, @karpathy, @thestreamingdev, @sawyerhood, @aidenybai, @LLMJunky

[Abdu Tarabichi @AbduTarabichi]

Be cautious when learning from "educators" offering domain investment courses online. ccTLDs, such as .ae, have specific regulations regarding domain ownership and sales.

As outlined by the .ae registry, outbound marketing of .ae domains to potential buyers (whether exact match or related) is prohibited. Domains may only be parked or listed for sale, with investors required to wait for a buyer. Violating this policy can result in the seizure or deletion of the domain.

Although this information is not publicly posted, such details are conveyed verbally.

#Domaining