Tag Archives: CentralNic

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 ...
Fri 5th February 2016
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CentralNic co-founder retires from Board, Instra CEO joins - One of the founders of CentralNic is stepping down for his board duties. Domain name registrar and new top level domain name registry CentralNic announced two changes to its board today. Executive Director Robert Pooke has retired from the Board of Directors. Pooke was one of the founders of CentralNic and has been involved in the domain name industry since 1998. Desleigh Jean Jameson, Chief Executive of Instra Group, will join the Board as a Director. CentralNic acquired Instra for $24 million in ... read more ...
Tue 8th December 2015
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CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20% - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release “the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering.” According to the press release Instra in the year to June 30 posted pre-tax profits of just over £1mln (A$2.1mln) on turnover of £7.11mln (A$14.8mln). CentralNic ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic acquires Instra for $24 million, sells $3.6M in domains, and skeleton to lift $15M - CentralNic buys another domain name registrar. CentralNic is buying Instra for USD $24M.Publicly traded domain name registrar and registry CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) has agreed to acquire domain name registrar Instra Group for AU $33 million (USD $24 million), the company announced today. The purchase price includes AU $30 million in cash and AU $3 million in stock, with AU $5 million held in escrow and paid out over the next five years. To fund the acquisition, CentralNic plans to issue 25 million ... read more ...
Fri 20th November 2015
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XYZ 2, Verisign 0 - Judge dismisses registry change lawsuit. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Verisign filed against .XYZ and CentralNic. Verisign sued the companies after two of Verisign’s clients sold their top level domain names to .XYZ and switched to CentralNic for registry services. .XYZ acquired .Theatre, .Protection and .Security. The original applicants for these domain names had contracted with Verisign to run them. Once .XYZ bought the names; it wanted to move the names to CentralNic since the company ... read more ...
 
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XYZ & Negari Beats Verisign In Federal Court, Again: CentralNic Too - .XYZ has just won another court battle against Verisign (VRSN). Back three weeks ago a Federal Court dismissed a case brought by Verisign against XYZ.com,  the registry for .XYZ and Daniel Negari personally alleging  false advertising by granting XYZ and Negari a short summary judgement opinion. Now in a second case in Verisign sued XYZ.COM, DANIEL NEGARI and CentralNic,  which is the back-end provider for the .XYZ registry,  for tortuous interference and business conspiracy relating to changing ... read more ...
Tue 10th November 2015
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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 ...
Tue 15th September 2015
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CentralNic reports earnings, numbers decrease from final half - Although year-over-year numbers look nice, it’s not a good comparison. Top level domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) reported results for the first half of the year today. The company painted a rosy picture comparing the results to the first half of 2014 (revenue +171%, gross profit +125%), but that doesn’t really tell the story. The best comparison for CentralNic’s numbers are the second half of 2014, since that’s when the company realized the full revenue and earnings from its ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Profit More than Doubles in 1st Half of 2015 - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) reported today that its profits more than doubled in the first half of 2015. CentralNic, which is a technical partner and wholesale distributor for web domains, saw a 213% rise in bookings to £7.9mln in the six months to June 30, compared with £2.5mln in the corresponding period of 2014. Booked revenue was up 171% at £4.4mln versus £1.6 last year, while gross profit increased 125% to £2.1mln from £0.95mln in the first half of 2014. Chief executive Ben Crawford highlighted ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Appoints Mergers & Acquisitions Specialist Mike Turner As Non-Executive Chairman - Internet domain group CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has appointed tech mergers and acquisitions specialist Mike Turner as the internet domain firm’s new non-executive chairman. Turner, a partner and head of technology media and communications at law firm Taylor Wessing, joins the company immediately Chief executive Ben Crawford says Turner’s “deep expertise and vast network” will be invaluable to the company as it pursues organic and acquisition-led growth. “Mike Turner is one of the best-known ... read more ...
Fri 14th August 2015
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Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names - According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD’s under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD’s. However CentralNic is the backend provider for just 24 new gTLD’s at the moment while Donuts has 189 active new gTLD’s using its backend system. In layman’s ... read more ...
 
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Verisign sues CentralNic and .XYZ over .Theatre, .Protection and .Security - Company upset that Verisign was dropped as registry services provider in favor of CentralNic. Earlier this week I noted a lawsuit Verisign filed in Virginia against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Thanks to a request by the defendants to remove the case to federal district court, I now have a copy of the lawsuit (large PDF). As it turns out, Verisign originally sued Key Brand Entertainment, applicant for .Theatre, and CentralNic back in March in Circuit Court in Fairfax County. The basis of the lawsuit was ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
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Google Alphabet news causes CentralNic shares to burst 50% - Shares in .xyz services company are up big this week. Shares in domain name registry company CentralNic have jumped about 50% since Monday afternoon. The company thinks this is due to Google’s selection of the domain name abc.xyz for its new company Alphabet. CentralNic is the backend registry provider for .xyz domain names. Shares on the London AIM (CNIC) traded for about 40 pence on Monday afternoon, and have shot up to 61 pence at the time of writing. CentralNic issued a statement this morning: The ... read more ...
Wed 1st July 2015
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CentralNic Likely Sells GB.com Domain Name - Early this morning CentralNic published an press release Press Release saying they had sold $1 Million dollars in unidentified domain names and would be using  will use the cash to buy more premium web domain names. In the release CentralNic says they own around 20,000 premium domain names that they started acquiring in the 2nd half of 2014. This morning the domain name GB.com, which they own has changed registrant email address to: kk@sedo.com That registrant email change very likely indicates ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic sells $1 million domain name portfolio - CentralNic sells more domain names from its domain trading business. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) announced today that it has sold a group of domain names for US $1 million, to be paid over the coming months. The sale comes from CentralNic’s portfolio of over 20,000 domain names. The company started buying and selling domain names in the second half of last year, and reported $2.5 million in sales in December 2014. CentralNic’s biggest value might be in the two letter domain names it owns, such as ... read more ...
Wed 17th June 2015
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CentralNic raises £2.3 Million - CentralNic pads bank account with institutional placement. Publicly traded domain name registry and registrar CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) has raised £2.3 Million by placing 5,750,000 new ordinary shares. The shares were sold at 40 pence each, above yesterday’s closing mid-market price of 34.5 pence. Shares are trading between 37.50 pence and 39.00 pence today. The shares will represent 8.58% of the company’s ordinary share capital. CentralNic can boast being the #2 backend registry for new top level ... read more ...
Tue 5th May 2015
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CentralNic Adds NCC Group's Domain Assured Service - According to a press release, CentralNic, has partnered with global information assurance specialist NCC Group, in order to protect its growing list of clients from domain abuse. NCC Group’s Domain Assured service uses expert threat intelligence to deliver a complete picture of a domain’s threat landscape, which allows registry operators to monitor the overall health of their domain portfolios and major domain abuse types such as spam, typo squatting, hosting of malicious code and phishing. The ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2015
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CentralNic doubled income in 2014 - Company posts big gains, likely due to acquisition of domain name registrar last year. Domain name services company CentralNic doubled its revenue in 2014 and increased its adjusted EBITDA by 65%. The company grew its topline from £3.891 million to £6.067 million. Adjusted EBITDA, which excludes acquisition deal fees and non-cash charges, grew from £1.015 million in 2013 to £1.724 in 2014. Its actual profits before tax dipped for the year. CentralNic doesn’t break out results from each division, ... read more ...
Wed 1st April 2015
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After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD's - After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on “CentralNic gTLDs” CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD’s Shares rose today 1p to 24p. ” CentralNic is pleased to report that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to customers around the world exclusively via the CentralNic platform. CentralNic also recently won the tender ... read more ...
Mon 8th December 2014
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CentralNic Sells $2.5 Million in Premium Domains: Sounds Like Non-New gTLD Related - CentralNic (LON:CNIC)  announced on Monday it has sold premium domain names for  US$2.5mln. Sounds like those domain names were not of the gTLD variety. On the gTLD front CentralNic said they to be the exclusive registry service provider to at least 35 new TLD’s over the next 2-3 years. The group has also been confirmed as the exclusive global distributor and billing agent for the following new TLDs to be launched from 2015: .site, .design, .tickets. Other CentralNic new TLDs still to be launched ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic sells $2.5 million value of reward domain names - Sales were from the company’s portfolio of domain names. CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC) announced today that it has sold $2.5 million worth of premium domain names. These domain names are part of the group’s 20,000 domain name holdings that are not related to new top level domain names. The company did not disclose which domain names it sold. CentralNic also cited delays in new top level domain names coming to market for lower-than-expected sales in new TLDs. In its ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Internet.bs Releasing 9.5 Million Available .Com Registered in Other Extensions - Here is the list of new gTLD sites that are in top 100,000 Alexa list as of yesterday. There are just 102 of them. I know that Alexa is not very accurate but it still is an indicator for sites within the top 100,000. These daily updated Alexa ranks are based on monthly averages and is slightly different from the toolbar rank (which is averaged over 3 months). “searchengines.guru”,”1067″ “thefappening.sexy”,”4227″ “archive.today”,”4330″ “kickasstorrent.link”,”9430″ “ddlvalley.rocks”,”11993″ “sourcephoenix.rocks”,”13125″ “friv.today”,”13800″ “kodi.wiki”,”17078″ “thefappening.rocks”,”17191″ “archive.moe”,”22207″ “webs.directory”,”22296″ “blackhat.community”,”23114″ “gen.xyz”,”24035″ “proxybay.xyz”,”26996″ “www.google”,”27419″ “rokettube.xyz”,”27560″ “sorozatbarat.ninja”,”28204″ “sozai.club”,”28269″ “msnbc.website”,”28709″ “torrentdownload.link”,”29300″ “thedudes.club”,”30249″ “c2d.ink”,”30784″ “2121.club”,”32294″ “womenslife.today”,”32514″ “riw.moscow”,”33504″ “poe.trade”,”33933″ “gunahsehri.club”,”34159″ “tema.ninja”,”34414″ “giveaways.club”,”34583″ “themoney.expert”,”35484″ “maturetube.sexy”,”36502″ “ait-themes.club”,”38048″ “you-tube.club”,”38617″ “just-like.club”,”40910″ “trendy.social”,”41848″ “claim.realtor”,”44054″ “viralcamp.club”,”45239″ “hackintosh.zone”,”46852″ “gaytube.sexy”,”46915″ “youtubetrends.red”,”48180″ “playbuzz.club”,”49519″ “bokepdo.club”,”50826″ “besser-einkaufen.tips”,”51664″ “lelivros.club”,”52333″ “smartlife.tips”,”52686″ “naiz.eus”,”52815″ “buy.ooo”,”53085″ “mp3s.xyz”,”53155″ “3d-print.today”,”54115″ “khmernews.today”,”54262″ “pressa.today”,”54346″ “kashin.guru”,”54481″ “youtubemp3.club”,”55581″ “warriors.tips”,”55865″ “telly.desi”,”57131″ “onlinehealth.wiki”,”59312″ “viral-videos.xyz”,”59963″ “okshare.xyz”,”61372″ “magesy.xyz”,”61627″ “richinvest.club”,”61720″ “duc.link”,”61963″ “pinayaqq.xyz”,”64047″ “ebookss.xyz”,”65701″ “winnet.club”,”68363″ “designhomes.pics”,”68462″ “bonddot.investments”,”68984″ “asiantube.sexy”,”70241″ “word.photos”,”71199″ “pcdrivers.guru”,”74975″ “mix.tokyo”,”75476″ “pcerror.support”,”75637″ “amk.cool”,”77129″ “songspk.cab”,”77419″ “artsex.sexy”,”78458″ “thefappening.social”,”78650″ “dnr.today”,”80175″ “mirror.ninja”,”80631″ “millionairefactory.cash”,”80762″ “toureiffel.paris”,”82282″ “fens.xyz”,”82925″ “www.youtube”,”83110″ “smartmovies.club”,”83195″ “desilink.website”,”83247″ “coolgallery.pics”,”83916″ “blackhat.guru”,”84214″ “hidown.xyz”,”85411″ “thesims.club”,”86809″ “1000.menu”,”89305″ “sav.support”,”91833″ “woodbook.xyz”,”92083″ “lesbiantube.sexy”,”92149″ “tribo.marketing”,”92270″ “see.place”,”92769″ “comparing.guru”,”92770″ “absolutely.club”,”93288″ “jpon.xyz”,”93765″ “fashionand.clothing”,”94292″ “jaja.club”,”94349″ “freesite.host”,”94926″ “artistintelligence.agency”,”95810″ “kat.works”,”96185″ “порно-видео.онлайн”,”96752″ ... read more ...
Fri 31st October 2014
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Report: 8 .NYC Sites Are Already In Alexa Top 1 Million - The launch of domain names ending with .NYC about a month ago have just 47,000 .NYC domains have been claimed and will become internet websites from and for New York City. Sites are following suit. Eight sites are already in Alexa´s top One million count. Alexa provides traffic data, global rankings and other information on 30 million websites and is one of the main sources of information for internet usage. According to one report out today, the following are the eight sites already up in the Alexa´s ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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CentralNic: Early new TLD direct next attention expectations - Company says its registry operations are showing steady growth despite delays and low demand for new TLDs. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) issued its interim financial report for the first half of 2014 today. The company, which is the backend registry operator for a number of top level domains, said it’s realizing steady growth in the registry “against a background of delays in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and early demand levels across the industry falling short of industry ... read more ...
Mon 22nd September 2014
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CentralNic invests in .Tickets TLD winner, valuing it during $13.5 million - Registry pumps money into .tickets auction victor. Domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) has invested $1.62 million in Accent Media Ltd, which the latter used to help acquired the .Tickets TLD in a private auction. Accent Media Ltd beat Donuts, Famous Four Media, Tickets TLD LLC and Shubert Internet in the auction. CentralNic’s investment will give it a 12% equity stake in Accent Media. As best I can tell, Accent was set up to get the .tickets TLD, which ... read more ...