Tag Archives: directNIC

Mon 1st June 2015
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VIP Programs Court Domainers - Discounts and priority service are added perks for domain name investors. Last week, domain name registrar DirectNic unveiled its new VIP program, and domainers could be forgiven for having flashbacks to last decade at registrar Fabulous. That’s because Mike Robertson, who made a name for himself in the domain name business by playing point man for many large domainers with portfolios at Fabulous, is now at DirectNic and is spearheading its VIP program. The program includes discounted pricing, ... read more ...
Thu 25th September 2014
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Mike Robertson joins DirectNic as Business Development Director - Australian who co-founded Domain Guardians to move to U.S. for role. DNC Holdings (DirectNic) announced today that it has hired Mike Robertson as Business Development Director. A familiar face (and Australian accent) at domain conferences, Robertson previously co-founded Domain Guardians. Domain Guardians started as a sort of estate planning system for domain name owners. It later shifted into other domainer-focused products including domain brokerage. The company ... read more ...
Fri 5th September 2014
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Kellie Peterson promoted to President of DNC Holdings - Peterson promoted from CSO role. A familiar face at domain name conferences has been named president of DNC Holdings. DNC Holdings, which you more likely know by its registrar name Directnic, has promoted Kellie Peterson from the Chief Strategy Officer role. Peterson will be responsible for DNC’s registrar services, aftermarket, monetization and publishing units. Before joining DNC Holdings, Peterson ran the Domain Business Unit at Endurance International. Endurance, ... read more ...
Tue 17th January 2012
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DirectNIC and United Domains now entirely integrated with SedoMLS Premium - Customers can list their domains on SedoMLS at Premium level. Sedo has announced that domain name registrars DirectNIC and United Domains are now fully integrated with SedoMLS at the Premium level. This means that customers of these domain registrars can add their domains to SedoMLS’ instant transfer system and also purchase domains directly through the registrar. Both registrars were previously integrated with SedoMLS but only on the purchasing end; customers could ... read more ...
Thu 25th August 2011
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Judge Dismisses Verizon Lawsuit Against DirectNIC - Judge grants Motion to Dismiss against large domain name registrar and its parent company. The judge presiding over Verizon’s cybersquatting lawsuit has granted a Motion to Dismiss (pdf) filed by Intercosmos Media Group, Inc., directNIC, LLC and Domain Contender, LLC for lack of personal jurisdiction. Domain Contender is a subsidiary of directNIC and directNIC is a subsidiary of Intercosmos. Verizon argued that the entities had operations in Florida. The court found ... read more ...
Tue 25th May 2010
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Two Defendants Respond to Verizon Cybersquatting Lawsuit - Response filed in Verizon domain name lawsuit. Two defendants in a lawsuit filed by Verizon alleging cybersquatting have responded to the suit. Both The Producers, Inc., and Michael Gardner have responded to Verizon’s allegations that they registered domains related to Verizon trademarks. The somewhat bizarre case revolves around what DirectNIC does with domain names when they expire but are not yet deleted. Like most registrars, DirectNIC removes the registrant’s ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2009
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DirectNIC Picks adult Red Register Domains, ICANN Notifies Two More Registrars - More registrar transitions thanks to ICANN enforcement. Domain name registrar DirectNIC will take over domain names that were registered at Red Register, which was recently de-accredited by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Red Register had approximately 7,000 global top level domain names under management. Billing contact information was not provided by Red Register, so customers should provide billing information to DirectNIC to ensure ... read more ...
Thu 14th May 2009
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directNIC Offers NameMedia Domain Name Inventory - Large domain name registrar to offer AfternicDLS domain names. People searching for domain names at directNIC will soon have the option of buying an existing domain name through NameMedia. NameMedia, which owns BuyDomains and Afternic, will offer its catalog of domain names to customers. For example, I just searched for “baseball.com” at directNIC and was offered an assortment of baseball domain names for purchase: Domain owners that want to have their domains ... read more ...