Tag Archives: Domain Registrars

Sat 12th December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
CSC's Nov New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month - Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD’s (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD’s with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the report there are now 6,654 new gTLD domain names in the Alexa top 1,000,000 up from 5,340 in October, ... 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 ...
Fri 23rd October 2015
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.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
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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 24th September 2014
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Is Verisign’s devise for a standards organisation partial of the obvious play? - Company’s CEO disclosed creating an industry group as part of monetizing its patent portfolio. Verisign recently announced plans to organize a group called Registration Operations Association (ROA) to discuss technical aspects of domain name registration. A three part blog series proposing the group, penned by Verisign Senior Director Scott Hollenbeck, focuses on Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) and the challenges of registrars working with different EPP extensions ... read more ...
Thu 17th May 2012
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14 funniest domain registrar names - From dessert names to rather unflattering names, here are 14 odd domain registrar names. People get creative when coming up with domain names. Even registrars sometimes get into the act when naming their registrars. Many registrar names are created by companies creating drop catching registrars. Since they aren’t public facing registrars, they get really creative. Here are some of the more amusing registrar names (both drop catching registrars and regular ones): Afterdark ... read more ...
Mon 30th April 2012
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Which domains a tip 10 domain registrars promote - .co is a favorite among non-VeriSign domains. Registrars have many options when it comes to which top level domains to promote to customers. Sometimes this is based purely on demand calculations. In other instances domain registries strike deals with domain registrars to give them premium shelf space or promotion on their home pages. I just checked the top 10 domain registrars. These results are for either the drop down box in their domain search function or the results ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2008
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GoDaddy took down 7,000 sites in a Last 2 years - Go Daddy General Counsel Christine Jones testified before Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security,  today about illegitimate pharmacies on the Internet. Today, House Members introduced a bipartisan bill to stop pharmacies operating on the Internet enttled  ‘The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008. It passed the U.S. Senate without any opposition and now awaits action in the House. Go Daddy‘s top lawyer and Corporate Secretary ... read more ...
Wed 16th April 2008
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Survey: Security Top Concern for Domain Name Registrants - When selecting a registrar, customers place security at the top of the list. According to Domain Name Wire’s 2008 survey of 841 domain name industry participants, security is the number one selection criteria when choosing a domain name registrar. This is a change from the first two years of the survey, which had price as the number one consideration. Clearly, issues about domain names being stolen are affecting where registrants take their business. Survey respondents ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2008
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Domain Name Wire Survey Update - Leader update, prize reminder for 3rd annual survey. The first two years of the Domain Name Wire survey were closed, meaning that no one could see the results until the survey was closed. I’ve decided to change that this year by providing an update of leaders thus far for a few of the questions. My hope is that this will get more people to take the survey and vote for their favorite service providers. If you haven’t taken the survey yet, just click here. ... read more ...