Tag Archives: Afilias

Fri 19th February 2016
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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 ...
Tue 16th February 2016
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$32 million .Org agreement adult for bids - Public Interest Registry asks for proposals to run its backend registry. Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs the .Org top level domain name, just put out a request for proposal for its backend registry provider. Afilias currently runs the registry operations for .org, and has since .org was transitioned from Verisign to Public Interest Registry in 2003. The company is richly compensated for managing the registry. According to Public Interest Registry’s 2013 tax return, Afilias was ... read more ...
Sun 14th February 2016
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.Club Passes 9 Year Old .Mobi In Numbers of Domain Registrations - .Club has just passed .mobi in terms of domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com .club has 691,522 domain registrations while .mobi is at 691,342 .Mobi become available to be registered in 2006. .Club was 1st available for general availability on May 7th 2014 making it less than 2 years old. According to registrarstats.com, .club becomes the 9th most registered TLD, including .com, .net and .org ... read more ...
Fri 12th February 2016
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.Pro Domain Extension Hits All Time High Number of Domain Registrations - On November 15th, 2015 the restrictions on the TLD .Pro were lifted. Since it was approved in 2000, .Pro domain names had been restricted to to three classes of professions; lawyers, doctors, and accountants. According to Domainincite.com, “.pro started this July with about 122,000 registrations.” According to RegistrarStats.com, .Pro never hit 150,000 registrations when it was restricted but as of today according to .Pro domain registration sits at almost 170K domains, most of us wish we owned ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2015
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3 Applicants For New gTLD .Radio File For Independent Review Process - According to a press release out today, BRS Media, has filed, in conjunction with two other applicants, an Independent Review Process in accordance with Article IV, section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws re: The .RADIO gTLD and .RADIO Community Priority Evaluation Results. Although not mentioned in the press release the other two applicants are Afilias and Donuts. “”On Sept. 10, 2014 ICANN announced that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Results “Prevailed” ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2015
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Afilias is Likely "One and Done" with 101Domain Acquisition - Company doesn’t expect to acquire other domain name registrars any time soon. Last Friday, domain name registrar 101Domain disclosed that it had been acquired by domain name registry Afilias. It’s Afilias’ first acquisition of a domain name registrar. An Afilias spokesperson told Domain Name Wire that the company does not plan to acquire any other registrars in the near future, so don’t expect a big roll up from the company. Although it is the company’s first acquisition, Afilias already ... read more ...
Fri 16th October 2015
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Afilias acquires 101Domain - Hello, vertical integration. Domain name registry Afilias has acquired domain name registrar 101Domain. Afilias, which manages the .info and .mobi domain names as well as a bunch of new TLDs, now owns a registrar known for carrying every domain name under the sun. 101Domain made a name for itself by carrying just about every domain name, regardless of how challenging their requirements. One of the reasons I quote pricing for new TLDs at 101Domain is because I can be sure they’re carrying it; I ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2015
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Afilias wins auction for .Promo tip turn domain name - Domain name is second to sell through Innovative Auctions’ Top Level Auction service. Domain name registry Afilias has won rights to the top level domain name .Promo in an auction organized by Innovative Auctions. Phenomena Group Oy was the only applicant with ICANN for the .promo domain name, but the company decided it made more sense to sell the domain name to another party rather than run it itself. Innovative Auctions sold the domain name through its Top Level Auction offering, a service ... read more ...
Tue 6th January 2015
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Domain name registry Afilias dumps designed IPO - Registry had planned to float in November. Domain name registry Afilias has pulled plans for a $100 million initial public offering, as reported by Domain Incite this morning. A company spokesperson told Domain Incite, “The final decision to cancel the IPO was based on market conditions at the time.” Given that stock markets are at record highs, that’s a euphemism for “investors weren’t interested in our IPO”. While stock markets are doing well, the same ... read more ...
Wed 31st December 2014
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What Is Going On With The Huge Increase In Registrars In The Color New gTLD’s .Red; .Pink; .Blue? - There has been a sudden and huge boost in domain registrations for all the color new gTLD’s extensions in the past few days, .Red, .Blue, .Pink each increasing around 25% from its previous totals Each new domain extension that are operated by Afilias, have added thousands of registrations in the 2-3 days. .Blue has added over 2,000 registrations in the last 2 days going from less than 7,000 registrations to just under 9,000. .Red has added over 2,000 registrations going from under 18,000 to over ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2014
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New Poll Says 25% Think Organic Co. Should Have .Organic Domain: But Only 396 Have Been Registered - .ORGANIC domain operator Afilias today announced the results of a poll in which “nearly 70% of respondents believe that some companies are misrepresenting themselves as “organic” to command a premium price, and 60% would like a reliable way to distinguish real organic providers online from the pretenders. That’s why almost 60% of respondents claimed they would be more inclined to visit a site on .ORGANIC, which is restricted to verified organic entities, than legacy .COM sites when searching ... read more ...
Wed 10th December 2014
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Which Domains Stand a Strongest Against Phishing Attacks? - On the Afilias blog there was a post by Ram Mohan on extensions and phishing attacks. He took a look at research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Key Findings 1.    Apple became the world’s most-phished brand in 2014 2.    The introduction of new top-level domains did not have an immediate major impact on phishing 3.    Chinese phishers were responsible for 85% of the domain names registered for phishing 4.    Malicious domains and subdomain registrations continue ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
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Afilias: Joins Minds + Machines & Centralnic To London AIM Exchange To Raise $100 Million - Afilias today announces its intention to apply for admission of its issued and to be issued Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”) to raise $100 Million dollars. “The $100 million will be used to: ·      Acquire contested nTLDs in the upcoming auctions; ·      Fund attractive acquisition opportunities including existing TLD assets and operating businesses in the Registry Operator and Registry Service Provider   areas; and ·      ... read more ...
 
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Afilias skeleton to lift $100 million, warchest will assistance in new tip turn domain auctions - Afilias will float its shares on the AIM next month, and use proceeds in part to fund upcoming new TLD auctions. Domain name registry Afilias announced today that it intends to trade on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM, raising $100 million. In doing so, Afilias will join fellow registries Minds + Machines and CentralNic on AIM. Afilias says its registry operations are second only to Verisign in size. It supports more than 20 million domain names; 6.6 million directly ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2014
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This week in new TLDs: $150k/domain? Plus .black, .hiv, and .creditcard - Pull out your .creditcard. This week will be an interesting one for new top level domain names: Afilias takes a different tact on .color domains, an EAP with a $150k price tag, Donuts raises the bar with .creditcard, and the first “social cause” TLD launches. Tuesday Following on the lackluster launches of .red, .pink and .blue, Afilias launches .black. .Red is its most successful color domain so far, but it has received fewer than 2,500 registrations. Afilias ... read more ...
Fri 18th April 2014
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Afilias’ new tip turn domain names have really delayed initial day - Color me surprised. Afilias launched its first six new top level domain names yesterday, and I’d rate it as the worst first day performance of any portfolio applicant. I’m basing this on changes to the zone files. Here are the six domains Afilias’ launched in general availability yesterday with how many domains they added to the zone and the current total: .red 289 to 341 .blue 205 to 270 .移动 142 to 231 (Chinese simplified for Mobile Phone) .pink 156 to ... read more ...
Thu 10th April 2014
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Next week is colorful for new TLDs: 5 Schillings, Afilias colors, and a bit of buzz - Lots of new domains enter general availability next week, and only two of them are from Donuts. Only two of Donuts’ new top level domain names enter their “true” general availability phase next week. It will still be a big week for new TLDs as other applicants launch domains. April 15 .Buzz gets buzzing on Tuesday with broad registrar support. GoDaddy is charging $49.99 and I’ve found other registrars charging as low at $37.99. Tax day is also Frank Schilling’s ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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.Green and .Wedding row sets staid in multi-million dollar auctions - Two three-applicant contention sets are resolved. The .green and .wedding new top level domain name contention sets have been resolved in private auctions. It’s unclear which company won the .green auction as applications have not yet been withdrawn. However, Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) announced today it was on the losing end of that auction. It used the proceeds from losing .green to spend millions on .wedding. After accounting for the proceeds ... read more ...
Thu 7th November 2013
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Independent Objector loses box for .health - Afilias successfully defends limited public interest objection against .health. There were a couple firsts in the new top level domain name program today, all involving one objection. An objection against .health was the first limited public interest objection to be decided, and also the first objection filed by the independent objector to meet its fate. A three person panel found in the favor of .health applicant Afilias. Limited Public Interest Objections were designed ... read more ...
Mon 4th November 2013
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Afilias loses combined fibre difficulty box opposite .mobile - Amazon, Donuts, and Dish DBS prevail in dispute over .mobile. Afilias, the registry that operates the .mobi top level domain name, has lost a consolidated string confusion objection against applicants for .mobile. This is, I believe, the first objection in which more than one applicant agreed to have the case heard on a consolidated basis. .Mobile applicants in the case included Amazon.com, Donuts, and Dish DBS. Panelist M. Scott Donahey determined (pdf) that .mobi ... read more ...
Thu 10th October 2013
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Afilias .Info Domain Auction Ends On SnapNames Today & Total Bids Are Under $5K - The domain name auction of registry owned .Info domains closes on SnapNames.com in a few hours and as of time of publication bids for all 25 domain names in the auction  total less than $5,000. The auction closes at 3:15pm EST in according with SnapNames.com closing procedure. All the domains are lead by Immo.info at $1,001. Immo is the French word for Real Estate. There are application for the new gTLD .Immo. Shipping.info is domain name with the 2nd highest bid at $925 Horse.info us only at $475.  ... read more ...
Thu 19th September 2013
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Donuts loses another conflict to .Pets domain name - Another panelist finds that .pet and .pets are too similar to both be delegated as top level domain names How many pets are there?Apparently two panelists agree: .Pets and .Pet should be in a contention set because they’ll cause confusion amongst internet users. International Centre for Dispute Resolution just posted a decision (pdf) by panelist Richard Page for Google’s objection to Donuts’ application for .pets. Google argued that having both .pet and .pets ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
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CREA loses conflict to Afilias’ .MLS new tip turn domain - Competing application loses objection over .mls top level domain name. The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has lost its Legal Rights Objection against Afilias’ application to run the .mls domain name. CREA is a competing applicant for the .mls string. It filed two applications for the string, one of which seeks community designation. Afilias tried to challenge CREA’s standing to bring the case since it was relying on a “certification mark”, not a trademark ... read more ...
Tue 8th January 2013
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Afilias and Go Daddy to reason second .info auction - Second “sunrise” auction features 135 .info domain names. Afilias and Go Daddy are teaming up for a second .info auction consisting of domain names originally reserved in the .info sunrise period in 2001. The auction includes 135 .info domain names that were claimed as trademarks in the sunrise period, but the sunrise applications were later deemed invalid. The previous auction of over 100 domain names included cancer.info (which sold for $16,005 to an Arizona ... read more ...
Tue 11th December 2012
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Cancer.info hits $11,000, heading .info domain auction - .Info auction attracting serious bids with three days to go. Cancer.info is leading the way at the Afilias .info auction at Go Daddy. Bidding on the domain name has reached $11,005 with 17 different bidders placing 87 bids. The auction features over 100 domain names that were claimed during the .info trademark sunrise period in 2001. The sunrise claims were later invalidated and .info registry Afilias has held the domain names ever since. Bidding on all domains starts ... read more ...