Tag Archives: domain registrar

Tue 8th December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
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 ...
Fri 23rd October 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free - The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the “free” Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to Zone file records .XYZ crossed back over 1,000,000 domain registration mark for the first time today, since ... read more ...
Fri 9th October 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start - We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD’s At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don’t see on a website of one the largest corporation’s on earth: ... read more ...
Wed 22nd August 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ICANN terminates dual domain name registrars - Two small registrars get the ax. ICANN’s contract compliance efforts with domain registrars seem to go in fits and starts. The past couple months have been active, and this month the company fully terminated two accredited domain name registrars. Just yesterday ICANN sent a notice of termination to Ynot Domains Corp in New York. Ynot was canned for not escrowing registration data and being late on accreditation fees. The registrar was tiny, with just 24 .com domains ... read more ...
Mon 18th May 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
6 Signs Your Domain Registrar is Going Defunct - After RegisterFly, ESTdomains, and Parava, here are some tips to avoid bad domain name registrars. Even when a relatively small domain name registrar, such as Parava, loses its ICANN accreditation, it can have devastating consequences for web site owners. But there are usually tell-tale signs that a company isn’t doing well. Below are six warning signs that your domain name registrar might not be in it for the long run. 1. It isn’t accessible in a public forum, ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
DNW Launches Domain Name Registrar Review Site - RegistrarJudge.com allows users to rate domain registrars. I’m excited to announce the launch of the beta for RegistrarJudge.com. Registrar Judge allows domainers and other consumers to rate domain registrars on 5 criteria and write reviews about them. Domain registrars are automatically ranked on the site according to the ratings. There are lots of forums and other discussions about domain registrars, but I haven’t found a simple way to rank and review domain ... read more ...
Thu 31st July 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ICANN To Offload Domains from De-Accredited Registrar - Who wants 1,440 domains? Good question. When RegisterFly lost its ICANN accreditation, GoDaddy swooped in to take over the registration of RegisterFly clients’ domain names. It was a nice pickup for GoDaddy of nearly 1 million domain names. So what happens when a small registrar with only 1,440 domain names under management loses its accreditation? That’s a good question, especially since a registrar has to endure a lot of trouble to get the domains. ICANN ... read more ...