Thu 6th November 2014
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Will Web.com Hurt Godaddy’s IPO? - Web.com in reporting its earnings earlier today had a few comments on its earnings call that should be of concern to all domain name regisrtrars: CEO David L. Brown noted “the increased availability of [domain] names has had a near-term negative impact on domain-related revenue,” primarily related to “non-core domain-related revenue such as sales of premium domain names and bulk domain sales.” Non-domain businesses (do-it-yourself websites, hosting, etc.) have been hurt by the “unintended ... read more ...
 
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Web.com Is Down Over 22% & Hits a 52 Week Low After Earning Report - Shares Of Web.com (WWWW) hit a 52 week low of $14.89 today after reporting its earnings which missed expectations. The company reported a loss of $3.4 million, or 7 cents a share. Adjusted earnings came to 66 cents a share. Revenue totaled $137.4 million. The consensus estimate called for adjusted earnings of 63 cents a share on revenue of $147.42 million. More than 2.4 million shares had changed hands as of 10:51 a.m., compared to the average volume of 678,903. Shares are currently trading at ... read more ...
 
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Capetown 1,772; .Joburg 1,458; .Market 1,229; .Durban 985; .Mortgage 635 - 5 new gTLD extensions had their first day of general availability(GA)  yesterday including three Geo’s of cities in Africa (Tuesday Africa time) and two by Rightside (NAME) Including Sunrise registrations by trademark holders, those that paid an extra fee for earlier access through Landrush or the Early Access Program (EAP) here are the totals after the first day of GA: .Capetown 1,772 .Joburg 1,458 .Market 1,229 .Durban 985 .Mortgage 635 As far as Geo new gTLD domain names these are pretty disappointing ... read more ...
 
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cyclingtips.com.au Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On Cyclingtips.com - Wallace Media Pty Ltd of Balaclava, Victoria, Australia, which owns the domain cyclingtips.com.au, and was represented by Holding Redlich, Australia has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name cyclingtips.com The domain holder is CyclingTips CA of Quebec, Canada, was represented by ESQwire.com PC The three member panel of Luca Barbero, Andrew F. Christie and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. The domain name cyclingtips.com.au was registered on April 19, 2009 The disputed ... read more ...
 
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November 4: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification … - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out ... read more ...
 
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The first .capetown, .joburg, and .durban domains registered - The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) announced on Tuesday, 4 November 2014, that the new ZADotCities domains (.capetown, .joburg, and .durban) had become available to the general public. This followed parallel “sunrise” and “landrush” periods, which the ZACR said were designed to give intellectual property rights owners and other interested parties the opportunity to the apply for their city top-level domains (TLDs). With the launch of the ZADotCities general availability phase, ... read more ...
 
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TLD .swiss kommt nächstes Jahr - Per Ende März 2015 darf Switch keine Domain-Namen mehr verkaufen. Dies sieht die neue Verordnung über Internet-Domains (VID) vor, die eine Trennung der Funktionen der Registerbetreiberin und der Registrare bestimmt. Als Erstere ist Switch für die Verwaltung der Datenbank der Domain-Namen zuständig. Nun hat Switch informiert, dass das Unternehmen bereits ab Januar 2015 keine .ch-Domains mehr veräussert und die Kundenbetreuung schrittweise an die Geschäftspartner – die sogenannten Registrare ... read more ...
 
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.swiss kommt nächstes Jahr - Per Ende März 2015 darf Switch keine Domain-Namen mehr verkaufen. Dies sieht die neue Verordnung über Internet-Domains (VID) vor, die eine Trennung der Funktionen der Registerbetreiberin und der Registrare bestimmt. Als Erstere ist Switch für die Verwaltung der Datenbank der Domain-Namen zuständig. Nun hat Switch informiert, dass das Unternehmen bereits ab Januar 2015 keine .ch-Domains mehr veräussert und die Kundenbetreuung schrittweise an die Geschäftspartner – die sogenannten Registrare ... read more ...
 
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.xyz Is The First New gTLD to Surpass 700,000 Registrations - .xyz Is The First New gTLD to Surpass 700,000 Registrations .xyz is the first new gTLD to surpass 700,000 registrations with 701,495 today, according to nTLDstats.com. Last week, new gTLDs topped 3 million registrations, which .xyz accounts for nearly 23%. Even when subtracting the Network Solutions registrations, .xyz is still the largest with 324,000 domains. .xyz is doing especially well in China, pulling in 145k from Xin Net and 23k from Todaynic.com. On average, 2,000 registrations each day ... read more ...
 
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Rightside earnings: 15 TLDs beget $2.5 million, clever eNom performance - Rightside grows its eNom business, new TLDs generate $2.5 million in revenue as of end of Q3. Rightside released third quarter earnings after the bell today. Revenue for the third quarter came in at $48.8 million, up from $45.5 million in the same quarter last year and $46.7 million in the second quarter of 2014. The company swung to a profit with a $4.1 million bottom line. However, its adjusted EBITDA — which presumably is a key metric it wants to be valued on ... read more ...
 
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BuyDomains and a economics of vast domain portfolios - Should very large domain name portfolios be valued per domain or on sales and profitability metrics? The sale of BuyDomains.com this week, including a portfolio of close to a million domains for something less than $80 per domain, has raised eyebrows. On Tuesday, I wrote a bit about the BuyDomains’ business and how the valuation might make sense when viewed from a different perspective. This post will go into a bit more depth, and compare BuyDomains to other domain ... read more ...
 
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Web.com says new TLDs spiteful .com resales - Company lowers guidance on weaker demand from its domain portfolio. Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) reported earnings yesterday and lowered its guidance for the fourth quarter. One of the reasons for lowering the guidance is that the new supply of TLDs is causing domain investors to dial back large purchases of existing domain names. In prepared remarks, Web.com CEO David Brown said: First, in the domain business, while we continue to expect the recently expanded top-level ... read more ...
 
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EDR: GoDaddy’s 4 letter, $42,500 domain name auction - This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson. The gap between last week’s most expensive expired domain auction and the rest of the “stragglers” was roughly a factor of 10 – a full digit difference. Now, in a retail context, $42.5k is a respectable but hardly record-shattering sum to pay for a domain. As we all know, enough domain names sell for 6 and 7 figures each year that $42.5k is quickly overshadowed by the market overall. Even at ... read more ...
Wed 5th November 2014
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Nets.com hits $71,300 on Ebay But Does Not Meet Reserve Price - Nets.com was on auction at Ebay, Yes Ebay, the auction hit $71,300 but did not meet reserve. There were 9 bidders and 52 bids made. here is a look at the bidding. Link to the listing page Bidder Bid Amount Bid Time Member Id: h***f( 944)    US $71,300.00 Member Id: u***s( 2811)    US $71,200.00 Member Id: h***f( 944)    US $70,000.00 Member Id: u***s( 2811)    US $66,100.00 Member Id: h***f( 944)    US $60,000.00 Member Id: a***t( 25)    US $50,000.00 Member ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Reports & Sells $1.6 Million In Domain Names - Marchex, Inc. (MCHX), announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. Archeo its domain name division sold $1.6 Million dollars during the quarter. Q3 2014 Financial Highlights1 GAAP revenue was $49.2 million for the third quarter of 2014, compared to $40.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP revenue, which excludes domain sales recorded in revenue, was $47.6 million for the third quarter of 2014. GAAP net loss from continuing operations was $21.8 million ... read more ...
 
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gTLD : un meilleur référencement dans Google ? - Deux études récentes menées par des agences spécialisées dans le référencement, Searchmetrics  et Total Website, affirment que les sites enregistrés sous les nouvelles extensions personnalisées semblent être mieux référencés que les autres extensions. Les gTLD (comme .android, .work, .bio, .apps, .movie…) afficheraient un ranking supérieur dans Google à celui des autres extensions. Ainsi, selon The Register  qui rapporte les résultats de ces études, les domaines en .berlin ... read more ...
 
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Bloomberg Gives Back His .NYC Domain Name Registrations - According to Reuters, the former Mayor of new York City, Michael Bloomberg has “called off the purchase of a slew of website domain names that insult and belittle him and his work” “The move came a day after reports that two law firms working for Bloomberg had purchased about 400 such online domains. The domains included bloombergfail.nyc, mikethespoiler.nyc and kingmike.nyc, according to an online registry. Others were more insulting, such as mikeistoorich.nyc and michaelbloombergistooshort.nyc. The ... read more ...
 
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Yoyo.email, owners of 4,000 .email domain names, gets a “win” in court - Company reaches agreement with company that won URS case against it. Yoyo.email, the controversial company that registered over 4,000 .email domain names, got a win in court today after settling with one of the companies that filed a Uniform Rapid Suspension case against it. Yoyo registered thousands of .email domain names matching the monikers of big brands, such as 7eleven.email, Geico.email and Budlight.email. It plans to use the domain names for a certified email ... read more ...
 
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CyclingTips.com.au owners guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Company went after CyclingTips.com. Law firm ESQwire.com has scored yet another Reverse Domain Name Hijacking victory on behalf of a client. Wallace Media Pty Ltd, which operates the cycling website CyclingTips.com.au, filed the case against the owner of CyclingTips.com. Wallace Media complained that people looking for its site often leave off the .au, leading them to the respondent’s domain name. There were a lot of issues at play in this case, including when ... read more ...
 
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Moniker mislaid only 18,057 .com domains to transfers in July - Customer losses still fairly low after switch to new system. Last month I reported that Moniker only lost 17,506 .com domain names to transfers in June after its disastrous switch to a new registrar platform. I predicted that the number would shoot up in July, since it was easier to transfer domains out at that point. (Official .com registry reports are published three months after the end of the month). The July report is out, and Moniker’s losses in July were ... read more ...
 
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Should new TLDs be judged as startups or only tip turn domains? - How you view TLD companies frames how you view their success so far. This week I received a note along with a press release from a new top level domain name company. The note read: In less than 11 months, Internet users worldwide have registered more than 3 million addresses in new Internet domains (gTLDs), exceeding even aggressive early estimates. Cough. More like “coming in lower than even pessimistic early estimates”. Especially when you consider that about ... read more ...
 
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Cool site lets we see what new TLD domains were purebred yesterday - DomainPunch’s latest tool is eye-opening. There are a lot of new top level domain names out there. Most of them grow by a dozen or so registrations every day. Now that the brand protection and investor rush is over, who is registering these domains? Here’s a quick and simple tool from DomainPunch to see domain names that were added to the zone files the previous day. It’s pretty interesting. I used the tool this week to investigate what types of domains people ... read more ...
Tue 4th November 2014
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CSC Digital Brand Services Acquires IP Mirror - CSC Digital Brand Services announced today that it has acquired IP Mirror, a Singapore-based provider of corporate domain name registration and online brand protection services. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Recognized as “Asia’s Online Brand Expert,” IP Mirror was formed in 2000 and has grown into a regional leader on the strength of its corporate domain management and brand protection services. CSC provides a wide range of digital brand services to a majority of ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s Domain Name Transactions Total $1.4 Million - Over the past week, 542 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million Dollars 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: pager.com at 45,000 USD · Top ccTLD: koffer.ch at 17,822 EUR · Top “other” TLD: 6.biz at 12,637 USD Here are the public sales; RookiePoker.com which sold for $20,000 was our domain:     ... read more ...
 
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TitCoin Wants To Be Your CryptoCurrency For All Things Risque - Well we got Bitcoin, so it only makes sense that an adult version be called “TitCoin” A crypto solution for those in the adult business and those that want privacy when purchasing their adult material. When I mentioned this article to a friend today, his first response was, “Who the F*** pays for porn ?” TitCoin has been getting a lot of coverage lately, Cosmopolitan did an interview with the creators of the adult cryptocurrency. From the Cosmo article: How is it different from Bitcoin? Patrick: ... read more ...