VaultPress drops it cost for WordPress confidence and backup - Must-have security service now costs less.
I was one of the first customers to sue Automattic’s VaultPress service, and it has saved my behind on multiple occasions.
VaultPress is a WordPress backup and security system created by WordPress.
The backup tool is nice, but plenty of other companies offer some type of backup. It’s the security that makes this system a no-brainer.
VaultPress scans your site for any potential security holes or hacking and alerts you when it finds something. It’s ... read more ...
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Mon 22nd February 2016
This week: Your dog can finally register a .Pet domain name - A new domain name for furry friends becomes available this week.
There’s one new top level domain name entering general availability this week: .Pet from Afilias launches on Tuesday.
The good news for pet lovers is that they won’t have to pay much to get Fido a domain name. Registrars I checked this morning are charging $12-$15 for .pet domains, about the same as a .com.
This isn’t the first opportunity for animals to register a domain name. Over 5,000 people have registered .dog domains and ... read more ...
A Domainer's Dashboard – DNW Podcast #72 - This service lets you get a handle on your domain name investing business.
Can Efty help domain name investors make more money? Co-founder Doron Vermaat explains how Efty creates a dashboard for your domain business, and how it can help you sell more domain names.
Also: Berkens’ big payday, Tesla gets Tesla.com, big .org contract out for bid, Rightside’s biz and .Cloud shoots up into the clouds.
Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your iPhone or iPad, or click play ... read more ...
Is this retreat domain name hijacking? - Cybersquatting case between vineyards should have never been filed.
A single-member UDRP panel has denied a California company’s attempt to get the domain name WilsonVineyard.com. I think the panelist should have also considered reverse domain name hijacking.
The complainant is Wilson Vineyards, a California vineyard that uses the domain name WilsonVineyards.com (plural). The respondent was Wilson Vineyard, a Pennslyvania vineyard that uses the domain name WilsonVineyard.com (singular).
Based on ... read more ...
Antony Van Couvering dismissed as CEO of Minds + Machines - Van Couvering out, Hall in as CEO.
Minds + Machines co-founder Antony Van Couvering has been ousted as CEO of the company by its board. He will be replaced by Toby Hall, who was named Chief Marketing Officer of the company just last month after working as a marketing consultant for the company.
Hall was worked for years with companies publicly traded on the London AIM exchange. Minds + Machines trades as MMX on the AIM.
In a press release issued today, the company wrote:
The Group is currently making ... read more ...
Sat 20th February 2016
UDRP Filed on Two Letter .Com Domain ZT.com -
A UDRP has been filed on a two letter .Com domain name ZT.com
It appears the domain name was owned in 2014 by Cincinnati Bell Telephone/Fuse Internet then transferred into privacy in September 2014, then transferred to a Raymond Liu in August 2015 and then was transferred to another Chinese buyer in October 2015, and transferred once again to another Chinese registrant in December 2015.
The domain name is currently going to the site in the screenshot above.
The complaint was filed at this point ... read more ...
Fri 19th February 2016
Market Recap 2/19/16 GoDaddy finishes a week adult strong - Market Recap 2/19/16
Go Daddy (GDDY) was up close to 5% on the day. The stock finished the week up over 10%.
Tucows (TCX) was up 1% on the day.
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Domain Registration on Record Pace? Over 750K Added Yesterday Alone - Registrations of domain names seem to be going on at a record pace.
Yesterday saw the number of domain registrations across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names have a net add of over 750,000 domains according to registrarstats.com
“Net Add” mean its the amount of domains registered less the number of domain names deleted.
The gross numbers of domain names registered yesterday were close to 900,000.
These total include all legacy domain names extensions like .com, .net and .org (22 in total) and ... read more ...
Expired Domain Report: KeyPoint.com, SellOff.com and more - A weekly roundup of expired domain name sales.
February 8 marked the Chinese New Year. Yes, 2016 is to be the “Year of the Monkey”. After the amazing surge in prices we saw during 2015 – the “Year of the Sheep”, it amuses me to say – the Chinese domain sector went through a predictable downturn that has lasted 2 months so far.
Partly to allay worries about stagnant or falling prices, domain investors in the West have clung to this New Year holiday like a life raft, assuring one ... read more ...
R.I.P. DNForum, 2001-2016 - DNForum has been offline for a week.
I’m calling it: DNForum is dead.
What was once the industry’s go-to place to discuss domain names has been down for a week. I’ve tried to contact forum owner Adam Dicker about it over Skype, but I have not heard back.
Dan Gessler founded DNForum in 2001. Domain name investor Greg Ricks purchased the forum from Gessler about a year later, and then Adam Dicker acquired it from Ricks.
DNForum used to be the place people went to get deals done, and there was ... read more ...
.Cloud finishes a clever entrance week - 26,000 names registered as of today.
The .Cloud top level domain name launched in General Availability on Tuesday, and had one of the most successful launches for a new top level domain name to date.
.Cloud crossed the 20,000 domain name milestone after about 24 hours of general availability. As of this morning, it has about 26,000 registrations.
Most of the names have sold for about $25 retail at registrars. Ten premium domains have also sold through the registrar channel as well, mostly at the ... read more ...
DNAcademy is a good authority for new domain name investors - Online course will help new domain name investors get up-to-speed in a hurry.
I’m always a bit wary when someone releases a course about investing in domain names. There are a handful of people selling domain names as a get rich scheme, and this ultimately harms the industry.
But I believe a new online course from Mike Cyger, publisher of DomainSherpa, is a good resource for people just getting their feet wet in domain name investing. It will save them many hours of research, teaching them the ... read more ...
Thu 18th February 2016
Market Recap 2/18/16 Endurance Intl adult tighten to 10% - Market Recap 2/18/16
Endurance Intl (EIGI) went on a ride today, trading as low as $8 and then closing at $10.28, up close to 10%. The company said they were buying Constant Contact earlier in the week and reported earnings today.
GoDaddy (GDDY) was off 3.75% as investors digested their earnings report from last night.
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Radix set to Launch .Store in April - Radix put out a press release today that they will be launching .Store in April. Dot store will start Sunrise on 6th April. The TLD will follow the same rollout as Radix’s last 3 launches. Sunrise will be followed by an Early Access Phase .store will enter General Availability on 14th June, 2016.
Full Press Release:
Dubai (18th February, 2016): Radix, the portfolio registry behind several new extensions including .site, .tech .online today announced they are gearing up for the launch of the first ... read more ...
New gTLD Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days - According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD’s domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days.
In terms of percentage of increase, the 1.1 million increase in new gTLD domain names, is close to a 9% increase in just 5 days.
On February 13th, there were a total of 12,675,000 new gTLD domain names registered.
Today on February 18th, ntldstats.com shows the total number of new gTLD’s domain name registrations at 13,782,837 meaning that the number of new gTLD domains ... read more ...
In Less Than 2 Years, .XYZ Passes 14 Year Old .BIZ to Become 5th Largest Domain Extension -
The new gTLD domain name extension, .XYZ is which won’t be two years old until, June of this year, just surpassed the domain extension .Biz which has been around since 2001 in the number of domain registrations.
According to RegistrarStats.com, .XYZ now has 2,369,039 domain name registered which passed .Biz which has 2,305,687 domains registered.
In passing .Biz, .XYZ becomes the 5th largest Top Level Domain (TLD) in terms of domain name registrations.
Only .com, .net. .org and .info have more ... read more ...
BrandShield takes a opposite plan in a universe of many TLDs - How should brands manage infringement in a world of many top level domain names? Brandshield suggests taking a common sense approach.
Brands face new challenges in a world of many new top level domain name options. Brand protection company BrandShield, spun-off from a registrar in 2013, recommends that companies focus on infringement that really matters.
In 2000, Yoav Keren and two colleagues launched a registrar reseller based in Israel called Domain The Net. Keren was a senior advisor in the Israeli ... read more ...
Tesla finally acquires Tesla.com domain name - Tesla.com now forwards to TeslaMotors.com.
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has finally acquired the Tesla.com domain name. It is now forwarding Tesla.com to TeslaMotors.com.
The domain name was registered in 1992, well before the company was formed. The earliest whois record at DomainTools shows that the same person has owned the domain name since at least 2002, and may have been the original registrant. The domain name was registered to Stu Grossman of SG Consulting in California. (I will call him at ... read more ...
Wed 17th February 2016
Market Recap 2/17/16 GoDaddy adult over 7% reports earnings - Market Recap 2/17/16
Go Daddy (GDDY) was up over $2 today or 7%, they received a buy recommendation from Deutsche Bank and reported earnings after the close.
Fourth Quarter Financial Highlights
Revenue of $425.4 million, up 14.4% year over year, or approximately 16.7% on a constant currency basis.
Total Bookings of $464.0 million, up 13.3% year over year, or approximately 16.7% on a constant currency basis.
Adjusted EBITDA of $73.5 million, up 30.3% year over year.
Unlevered free cash flow of $52.3 ... read more ...
Did GoDaddy compensate $35.5 million for Michael Berkens' portfolio? - Maybe…
GoDaddy released earnings today. Although the company doesn’t directly disclose how much the company paid for Michael Berkens’ Worldwide Media domain name portfolio, there’s a clue.
As of the end of September, the company’s cash flow reconciliation included $30.7 million used for acquisitions. At the end of the year, the number spiked to $66.2 million. That’s a $35.5 million difference.
This does not necessarily mean this was just for Berken’s portfolio. It could have included ... read more ...
GoDaddy roughly essential in Q4 - GoDaddy almost turns a GAAP profit in Q4.
Domain name and web hosting company GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) reported earnings after the bell today.
GoDaddy had a net loss of $(0.5) million and an adjusted EBITDA of $73.5 million. Total bookings hit $464.0 million and unlevered free cash flow came in at $52.3 million. (The latter two measures are important for a subscription-based business like GoDaddy’s.)
The company reported $425.4 million revenue in Q4, up 14.4% year-over-year and 3.5% over the Q3.
Revenue ... read more ...
.Me Passes 1 Million Domain Name Registrations +28% in 2015 - The .Me registry announced today that for the 1st time, the number of .Me domain registrations passed 1 Million domains.
.Me is the country code or ccTLD for Montenegro.
According to the Ministry for the Information Society and Telecommunications, the total number of registered domains amounted to 1,014,867, representing a whopping 28.36% annual growth in 2015.
For the country Montenegro it’s a special that they passed 1 million domain registrations, of in the year in which the country is celebrating ... read more ...
Name.com to heading a Bearglecorn - Don’t rip off the Bearglecorn or Statton Hammock will send you a cease desist.
Rarely seen in the wild, the Bearglecorn was just spotted in a trademark application filed with the USPTO.Perhaps fed up with people trying to rip off its Bearglecorn (you know you’re out there!), Name.com parent company Rightside has filed a trademark application covering the beast.
Wait–I’m sorry? You aren’t familiar with the bearglecorn!?!
Perhaps that’s because you’ve never landed on a Name.com 404 page. ... read more ...
Here's what's function during Rightside - Company will invest more in marketing to improve new top level domain name results.
Yesterday, Rightside released Q4 earnings. The good news is that it turned in record revenue and an adjusted EBITDA that topped guidance.
The bad news is that revenue growth over Q3 was nominal, especially for new top level domain names.
While it’s probably fairer to look at year-over-year revenue growth in most product lines, new TLDs are different. Rightside needs to show strong quarter-over-quarter growth in ... read more ...
Tue 16th February 2016
Market Recap 2/16/16 Go Daddy adult tighten to 9% day before gain report - Market Recap 2/16/16
Go Daddy (GDDY) up close to 9% the day before they release earnings. The company received an outperform rating from RBC Capital today.
Web.com (WWWW) the parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com was down close to 4%.
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