Tag Archives: .com

Sat 15th February 2014
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The Russians Are Forwarding The Official Site of The Olympics Sochi.Ru To a .Com Sochi2014.com - If you have watched any part of the Winter Olympics from Sochi, and I know you have, you have undoubted sighted a Sochi.ru domain name banner that is flying across the the venues. One of the readers of thedomains.com points out that although the Sochi.ru domain name is being displayed hundreds of times each day on television stations all around the world,  if you type the domain in it forwards to Sochi2014.com I would say it is interesting that the Russian who are an extremely proud nation are ... read more ...
Wed 12th February 2014
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Mike Daniels Former NSI Chairman: Dot com Became a Brand of Choice & we Believe it Will Be in a Future - Mike Daniels who served as Network Solutions (NSI) chairman from 1995 – 2000 and orchestrated the sale of Network Solutions to VeriSign for $19.3 billion in 2000 shared his thoughts on the new gTLD’s with BroadwayWorld.com Will the new crop of domain registration companies be as successful as Network Solutions? Probably not. Dot com remains the most important domain because that was what we publicized in the mid-to-late-1990′s during the .com boom days. Dot com became the brand of choice and ... read more ...
Tue 11th February 2014
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Check out what this association did with the .Co domain name - It’s not .com. Every once in a while I see a .co domain name around town. One of my favorites is mow.co, which is used by a local lawn mowing service. I was flipping through the Angie’s List magazine last night and saw an ad for a local window washing company. Something about the domain name looked funny: I’ve never seen that before. They use a .co domain name, and to make it clear to readers that it’s .co and not .com, they put an / through an “m” next ... read more ...
Fri 7th February 2014
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Did Someone Let Cm.com Drop and Who Owns it? - The rare two letter domain name Cm.com appears to have dropped back 2013. The last record for the domain according to DomainTools.com is from May 2013: Record Date: 2013-05-01 Registrar: DOMAIN.COM, LLC Server: whois.domain.com Created: 1997-05-20 Updated: 2013-04-28 Expires: 2020-05-21 Can’t get information on local domain CM.COM”” According to Screenshots.com the domain was in use as a parking page most recently back in December 2010. Unlike other two letter domain names that recently dropped ... read more ...
 
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LinkedIn acquires Bright.com - LinkedIn made their largest acquistion yet acquiring Bright.com. Tech Crunch covered the acquisition which coincided with LinkedIn reporting earnings on Thursday. From the article: Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The deal, which was 70 percent stock and 30 percent cash the company said, will be completed during the first quarter ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: we’re not fearful of new TLDs, and IDN transliterations will be delayed - A defense of .com’s staying power and bad news for IDN.com investors. On its investor conference call yesterday afternoon, Verisign CEO James Bidzos explained why he isn’t afraid of new top level domain names. Also, in a blow to IDN.com investors, the company said it will take a longer for them to hit the market than many are hoping for. New TLDs? We’re not afraid of those! Despite Verisign’s never-ending tactics to delay new top level domain names, Bidzos ... read more ...
Thu 6th February 2014
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On The Day New gTLD Picked Up 19,163 New Registrations, .Com Picked Up 37,782 - Plenty of new and buzz was created yesterday when new gTLD’s generated 19,163 new domain registrations led by .Guru However in all fairness we need to point out that the total number of new gTLD registrations on the 1st day of general availability was still just about 1/2 of the number of net new .Com registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com while the total number of new gTLD registrations were 19,163 with 9,516 of them coming from .Guru, the .Com registry had 99,078 new domain registration ... read more ...
Sat 1st February 2014
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Coupons.com files for $100million IPO - Last week it was Care.com going public and soaring in its first day of trading and now another category killer .com, Coupons.com has filed to go public. When looking at both of these companies “.COM” is a part of the name, they are not Care Inc or Coupons Inc and use the .com extension. With all the talk lately of new gtlds and branding themselves it is important to note that .com started this trend with the extension as part of the company name. Tech Crunch wrote on the coming IPO The march ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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Verisign: Rise In Value Of Bitcoin Causes Surge In .Com/.Net Domain Registrations: 22K In 2013 - Verisign just published a blog on how the rising value of Bitcoin has led  to surge of .com and .net domain name registrations.   The value of a Bitcoin surged from roughly $13 at the beginning of 2013 to an eventual high of $1,137 at the end of November (The chart below, courtesy of Coinbase, documents the ebbs and flows of a Bitcoin’s value).       By doing a search of the word “bitcoin” for the past six months, it is fairly easy to see a correlation between the two Bitcoin price surges ... read more ...
Thu 16th January 2014
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Verisign: .Com Registrations Blow Past 112 Million Mark For The 1st Time - Verisign is reporting that the number of .Com domain names in the active zone file exceeded the 112,000,000 Mark for the first time. The number of .com domain name registrations in the active zone crossed the 112 Million number today January 16th, 2014 The number of .net domain names in the active zone file is down slightly but still well over the 15 million domain name mark.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 1st November 2013
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NameBright offers $4.99 .com domain names in November - James is right again, you need to exit the drop catch business, if you want the trust of domainers. I assume this is not something you are willing to do. As well you need to stop registering TM terms, maybe a better eyeball of your vaccum system before you go and gulp every drop of the day could help you fix that. I think all parties deserve a fair shot, and people should not be swayed by teaser pricing. I would rather register with Godaddy.com, Name.com, Namecheap.com before even ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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Verisign Reports: 125.9 Million .Com/.Net Domains Registered Up 5% From Last Year - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2013 reporting revenue of $244 million up 9% from the same quarter in 2012. Verisign reported net income of $81 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.53 for the third quarter of 2013, compared to net income of $78 million and diluted EPS of $0.47 in the same quarter in 2012. The operating margin was 54.5% for the third quarter of 2013 compared to 51.9% for the same quarter in 2012. Business ... read more ...
Mon 30th September 2013
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Verisign Study: 9 out of 10 Small Business Prefer A .Com Domain For Company Website - Verisign released the results of a  global survey today that was conducted by Merrill Research of 1,050 small businesses (SMB) with an online presence, to get a better understanding of SMB’s sentiment around the benefits, barriers, and preferences for creating an online presence. The results of the survey found that in the U.S., 9 out of 10 small businesses with an online presence prefer a .com domain name for their company website. Globally, that number is 61%. Small businesses that choose to ... read more ...
 
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Finances.com Purchased For $500,000 -     Finances International, Ltd. just announced they purchased the domain name Finances.com for $500,000. “Finances.com is to become home to one of the most interactive online portals dedicated to financial markets and financial management. ” “The portal will be officially launched on November 1st, 2013. ” The new financial resource will act as a free independent information hub for people requesting timely updates on international business, political and technological developments as ... read more ...
Mon 15th July 2013
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BuyDomains Asks: “Is The Most Popular gTLD (.com) Here to Stay? - On its company blog this morning BuyDomains Asks, is the  most popular gTLD here to stay?     “No one could have predicted the success of the .com extension, but compared to other extensions such as .net, .org, and .info,.com domains are far more popular. However, with the introduction of the new gTLDs to market, there is certainly the possibility of a shift in popularity in the near future. Today, over 109 million .com domains account for 75% of all gTLDs. That’s then followed by .net at ... read more ...
Tue 2nd July 2013
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LaunchRock Switches From .Com to .Co -   LauchRock.co which bills itself as “A Platform For New Startups” has switched its main URL from LaunchRock.com to LaunchRock.co effective July 1, 2013. In a email sent to users, LaunchRock.com announced the change: “”” From: LaunchRock hello@launchrock.com Date: 2013/7/1 Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: Keep your LaunchRock account from being retired Hello LaunchRocker, On Monday, July 15th, 2013 at 12:00 PM PST, LaunchRock will be retiring our Legacy platform. If you do not migrate your account ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
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A pointed (yet big) change in GoDaddy’s ads - Verisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This is nothing new. GoDaddy frequently advertises on baseball broadcasts. But something about the ad looked different. Take a look. Can’t see the difference? Here’s a close-up. We already know that GoDaddy is rebranding by dropping .com from its name. But this ad not only drops the .com from the original GoDaddy.com ... read more ...
Sun 31st March 2013
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King.com Drops The .Com & Rebrands As King - According to Socialnewsdaily.com, King.com has re-branded itself by dropping the .com and going with just King, to celebrate it 10 year anniversary. Here is how the site used to look:                   This is how the site looks today:                           This is not the first time that a branded .com has announced that it was dropping the .com from its brand. Back in February we told you that Hosting.com was re-branding to just Hosting and last month we told you that ... read more ...
Tue 26th March 2013
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Here Are a Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam: - Verisign, Inc., operator of the .com TLD registry, has filed objections to three applications with ICANN for a new gTLD, .cam. Verisign retained me to design and conduct a survey to determine whether there is likely to be string confusion between the applied-for .cam gTLD and the existing .com TLD.  This report details the methodology and results of the survey. As described in more detail later in this report, the survey results showed a net confusion level of 39% that must be attributed to the ... read more ...
Mon 25th March 2013
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Here Is Verisign’s Objection To .Cam & Why They Think Its Too Close To .Com - A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. As of today the objections are still not showing up on the on the site of the provider where the objection was filed but TheDomains.com got some detailed information on what Verisign is providing to the International Centere For Dispute Resolution, in support to their  ... read more ...
Fri 30th November 2012
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UPDATED: Mike Mann Just Saved Almost $2 Million Dollars With Verisign’s No Rate Increase .Com Contract - (George Kirikos just pointed out that I did not take into account the compouding of the Verisign rate increase and he is correct so I have correct the math and the numbers) Mike Mann owns around 330,000 domain names. Based on Verisign’s contract  renewal to operate the .Com registry over the next six years, without being able to raise their prices 7% in 4 out of 6 years, according to our calculation Mike Mann just saved almost $2 Million dollars. The current rate for a .Com registration or renewal ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: If New gTLD’s Are Successful We Might Be Able To Lift All Price Caps On .Com’s - Coming out of the Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) conference call this morning announcing that the contract to operate the .com contract had been renewed for six years, without any price increases, is that all price caps on .Com’s could be lifted as early as 2014 if the new gTLD program is highly successful. Responding to questions, Verisign stated that through this contract renewal they”obtained an option for ourselves before 2018 to ask commerce to find   we no longer have “market power” and ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: .Com Contract Renewed For 6 Years With NO Automatic Price Increases - In what domain holder have to consider a victory, Verisign, Inc.  ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) was granted an six year renewal of the .Com registry but losses the ability to automatically raise prices. Verisign’s current pricing of $7.85 per domain name registration will continue for the six-year term of the Agreement. Under the current contract Verisign has to operate the registry which expires today they had the right to raise prices 7% in any 4 of the 6 years of its choice and in fact did elect to raise ... read more ...
Thu 29th November 2012
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Breaking: Verisign To Hold Conference Call & Live Webcast Friday Morning At 8:30 AM On Status of .Com Contract - Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN )just announced they will be holding a conference call and Live Webcast tomorrow morning, Friday November 30, 2012 at 8:30 AM EST: “to provide a status update on the .com Registry Agreement renewal”. “The call will be accessible by direct dial at (888) 676-VRSN (U.S.) or (913) 312-0400 (international).” A listen-only live webcast of the conference call will also be available at http://investor.verisign.com. November 30th is the date previously set by Verisign as the ... read more ...
Fri 26th October 2012
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For VeriSign, it’s 2009 all over again - Growth in .Com/.net base slows down thanks in part to search engine changes. Immediately after Verisign released its earnings yesterday that showed slowing growth, fellow blogger Michael Berkens sent me this tweet: Michael was referring to my earlier article that stated the numbers he used in his own post saying .com/.net growth had slowed to a crawl weren’t a fair comparison, and that historically .com growth rates have been on a steady but measured decline. While ... read more ...