Tue 10th November 2015
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When a burble bursts… - What will drive the long-term value of short domain names? I’m ecstatic that Chinese buyers are snapping up short domain names. It’s great for the resale market, it’s great for registries (new and old) that are suddenly selling lots of registrations, and it’s great for the registrars. But I also give pause. After all, there are basically two things that give a domain name value: traffic and resale potential. Some of these short domain names get traffic. But not hundreds of thousands of them ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Says Domains Registered Surpasses 2 Million Mark - LONDON (Alliance News) - Internet domain names seller CentralNic Group PLC on Tuesday said it is currently the leading company in its field, sending its shares higher.The group said it had 2.0 million domains registered using its platform as of 0700 GMT this morning, representing 21% of all domains registered globally using new TLD domain names."For CentralNic as a London-based AIM listed company to achieve the number one position globally in new TLDs, and to be the first to cross the two million ... read more ...
 
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.News rings adult $1.4 million for Rightside - Rightside reveals numbers behind successful TLD, plus renewal rates. Less than 4 months after its general release, the .News domain name has generated $1.4 million in cash sales for Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME). On yesterday’s investor conference call, Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu reported that there are about 34,000 names registered in .News. The average wholesale price — which includes premiums — is $41. This brings the total to $1.4 million cash. (Revenue is recognized over time.) 1,000 of the ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Passes 2 Million Registrations of New gTLD - CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names. Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names.  The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+  is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names. CentralNic passed Rightside (NAME), which not only has its own new gTLD extensions as a registry but also performs the back end provider ... read more ...
 
 
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CentralNic becomes first wholesaler to top 2mln domain sales - --UPDATES SHARE PRICE, ADDS BACKGROUND-- CentralNic (LON:CNIC) shares advanced around 10% Tuesday after it told investors it had become the first web domain wholesaler to sell 2mln new top-level domain (TLD) names. In London, the shares were up 5.5p or 10.2% closing Tuesday’s session at 59.5p. The firm is the top “registry back-end” company, with more than 2mln web pages registered, representing 21.2% of the global market, according to market data. This was boosted ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic First Company to Achieve Two Million New TLD Registrations - CentralNic Group plc (LON:CNIC), the internet platform business which derives revenues from the global sale of domain names, is pleased to announce that it is the first “registry backend” (ie. Wholesaler) to achieve sales of two million new TLD domain names, according to the domain industry statistics website www.ntldstats.com As at 0700hrs on Tuesday 10th November, CentralNic is ranked in the top position, with 2,002,507 domains registered using CentralNic’s registry ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2015
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Rightside Announces Third Quarter 2015 Financial Results – Virtual - Third Quarter Total Revenue Increases 11% Year-Over-Year KIRKLAND, Wash., Nov. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015. "In the third quarter, we, delivered record quarterly revenue and margins continue to increase year-over-year due to the impact of the new ... read more ...
 
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Bradesco usa domínio .bradesco - O Bradesco começa a utilizar a partir desta semana o endereço banco.bradesco tornando-se uma das poucas empresas brasileiras a ter um domínio de primeiro nível ou generic top-level domains (gTLDs) do ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned and Numbers), órgão responsável pelos protocolos de internet e que regulamenta os endereços na web mundial.  Bradesco é pioneiro dos novos domínios. Foto: divulgação. ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Should Clear Up the Paid "Analysts" Controversy - In recent days it was revealed that analyst Zeus Kerravala, who had written a dozen-some articles, over many years, for Network World promoting Verisign's pro-.COM point of view and disparaging new top-level domains as a bad idea, was in fact a paid Verisign consultant. None of that was disclosed when Mr. Kerravala wrote these articles from January 2013 through October 2015. Articles Mr. Kerravala wrote for Network World included the headlines: .com is still the best choice (January 29, ... read more ...
 
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Rightside turns in record income in Q3 - Rightside posts record revenue, positive adjusted EBITDA. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME), parent company of eNom, Name.com and owner of dozens of top level domain names, released earnings this afternoon. The company generated $54.1 million in Q3, a record for the company. It had a net loss of $(3.4) million for the quarter, but an adjusted EBITDA of $0.9 million. Rightside now expects an adjusted EBITA of $2.0-$3.0 million for the year, up from a break-even forecast. Rightside also received a net $1.7 ... read more ...
 
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I'M Calling It: The New Wholesale On Chinese LLL.com Is Around $50K - The new wholesale value of a Chinese three letter .Com domain name (LLL.com) is now $50,000. Having over 100 LLL.com,  58 of them which are those Favorited by Chinese domain investors, without vowels or the letter “v’ opens me up to a numerous offers all day long which I recently wrote about. When I talk about wholesale offers I’m talking about unsolicited email offers from investors and brokers who appear to live in China and are willing to buy a domain today in what is a very liquid market. Certainly ... read more ...
 
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11 Year Old BrooklynBeer.com Saved In UDRP By Company Who Filed 7 UDRP's - Larry Fischer just defended a UDRP on the domain name BrooklynBeer.com, which may not seem as first as a big deal but consider this is just one of 7 UDRP filed by The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation and the only one they lost. Of the other 6 UDRP filed by The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation, they won 2 (brooklynbrews.com, brooklynale.com) and got three others when the owners transferred them after receiving the UDRP (brooklynbeers.com, brooklynpilsner.com and brooklynlager.com).  There is one UDRP pending ... read more ...
 
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URS respondent shoots himself in the foot -

In a new domain name brawl brought underneath a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) before a National Arbitration Forum, a row has systematic a cessation of a domain name underneath a ‘.online’ new general top-level domain (gTLD) following a registrant’s filing of a response after a default integrity grouping a cessation of a domain name.

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Donuts CEO Paul Stahura – DNW Podcast #58 - With close to 200 TLDs, Donuts is trying to bring choice to the domain name market. Paul Stahura is co-founder and CEO of Donuts, the company that runs more top level domain names than any other company…by far. It currently has nearly 200 domain names available. On today’s show, Paul discusses how the company picked the 307 domains it applied for, the $150M+ it raised, pricing strategies for new domains an how he thinks the market for these domain names will unfold. Also: .Sony, GoDaddy earnings, ... read more ...
 
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Web.com changing ticker pitch from WWWW to WEB - 10 years after listing, Web.com gets matching ticker symbol. Web.com is ringing the closing bell on the NASDAQ today to celebrate its 10 year listing anniversary. The company is also making a big change to its stock — its changing its ticker symbol from WWWW to WEB. The symbol change will be effective tomorrow morning. While Web.com isn’t a household name to many in the domain name investing community, you’ve probably used its products and services. The company acquired SnapNames last year ... read more ...
 
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If You're In NYC Today You Should Check Out "CoInvent Plus" Conference - CoInvent Pulse is a business technology festival that’s scheduled to take place in today in New York City . This event will be featuring 150 exhibitors and an array of business workshops. It’s estimated to be one of the largest technology gatherings with thousands of attendees. The mission of the conference is to help founders, startups, and entrepreneurs grow and thrive in the New York tech and startup ecosystem. There are expected to be around 8,000 people at the conference and many workshops ... read more ...
Sun 8th November 2015
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Farmers Bank & Trust Switches From .Com To .Bank Domain - Farmers Bank Trust which has branches in Arkansas and Texas and approximately $1.2 billion in assets has changed its domain name from .com to a .bank Farmers Bank which was using myfbtbank.com at it’s website has switched to  myfarmers.bank. At this time, visitors can still access the Farmers Bank Trust website through the old web address, myfbtbank.com. The bank encourages frequent visitors to change their bookmarks to the new, more secure myfarmers.bank to optimize secure banking. Farmers ... read more ...
 
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Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday - The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it’s not unusual to see the number of  .Com deleted,  exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative number. Well not yesterday. The total number of new domain registrations Saturday was over 460,000. .Com had over ... read more ...
Sat 7th November 2015
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RightoftheDot/ 4.CN Auction Sells Over $871K in Domains - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction on the 4.cn platform as part of the Domainfest.asia conference generated over $871,000 in sales. All sales were led by a three number .com, 586.com which sold for $416,000 The two next highest sales, zhou.com and 8.xyz were both listed at no reserve. Several of the domain name sales occurred, as they often do after the domain auction concluded which is why it took RightoftheDot.com some time to wind up the auction and first publish the results. To note, the ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
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Last Call: 6 Number .Com's: Less than 8K Left Out of 1 Million - If you’re considering registering any 6 number Ccom domains (NNNNNN.com) I’m going calling “Last Call’. As of publication less than 8,000 NNNNNN.com remain available for registration. The possible number of 6 numbered .com domains is 1,000,000 including the dreaded number 4 and zero. We would expect all of these domain name to be registered by the end of the weekend. There is a huge run on numbered and Letter domains in .com, .net, .xyz, .top and .win over the last couple of months. .Com, ... read more ...
 
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Bloomberg: "Candidates Continue to Miss Obvious Domain Registrations" - Bloomberg just published another post on presidential candidates and the domain names they failed to register. In a post BNA.com calls out Jeb Bush for failing to register the matching domain of his  “new campaign slogan–“Jeb Can Fix It!” “Jimmy Flanagan, a 2014 candidate for the Austin, Texas, City Council, had registered the domain name out from under the candidate.” “Bush isn’t alone. While no startup company nowadays would launch without making sure it owned its own name online, ... read more ...
 
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IPC president slams registry’s pricing model for new criticism TLD (updated) - Trevor Little (This article has been updated to include comment from Jay Westerdal, CEO of ‘.feedback’. The changes are presented in italics). The ‘.feedback’ TLD, which aims to “solidify a positive and recognisable reputation as the best TLD for finding product information, whether it is positive or negative”, is currently in sunrise. ... read more ...
 
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DHgate.com Deploys Austreme’s Transaction Laundering Detection Solution - Hong Kong, Nov. 6, 2015 /satPRnews.com/ – DHgate, the first and largest cross border B2B e-commerce transactional platform in China, has implemented Austreme’s Transaction Laundering Detection solution. DHpay, the payment platform Provider under DHgate, has a vision to offer a global payment platform for worldwide e-commerce users with multi-channel payment services. Working closely with major card schemes like Visa and MasterCard, DHpay has been following Payment Card Industry Data ... read more ...
 
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URS to ‘.travel’, puts ‘.cat’ among the pigeons and results in ‘.pro'(test) -

Earlier this year 3 bequest general top-level domains (gTLDs) concluded to exercise a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) as partial of a renovation of their registry agreements. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) came in for critique amid claims that it had forced a 3 gTLD registries, ‘.pro’, ‘.travel’ and ‘.cat’, to…

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