Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 on Losing New … - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...

2 More New gTLD’s Settled; Amazon Loses .Box; L’Oréal Wins .Hair - Two more new gTLD’s that were scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction next week have been settled by privately. Amazon has withdrawn its application for .Box leaving NS1 Limited of Hong Kong who is run by the same principal of .Asia, Edmon Chung as the winner. It seems .Box see’s itself as a competitor to .Cloud. Here is how .Box explains its vision for the extension in its ICANN application “.box is about the making the Internet (the cloud) personal.Personal computers (PC) fundamentally ... read more ...

So who just bought the rights to .blog for $30m? A chap living in Panama - Exclusive The rights to sell .blog domains – one of the most sought after new dot-word gTLDs – have been won at auction by an unknown Colombian working out of Panama. Gerardo Aristizabal and his company Primer Nivel paid an estimated $30m for the premium piece of internet real-estate, beating out industry giants Google, Afilias, Donuts as well as five others. It makes it the most expensive new ... read more ...

Your catwalk to the world? .fashion - Brand protection is a key issue for retailers. As brands continue to increase their presence online a key aspect is the protection of brands in domain names.  Until fairly recently, the number of generic top level domains (“gTLDs”) had been restricted to a limited number, including .com, .org and .info. However, a large number of new gTLDs are to be rolled out with names such as .academy, .clothing and .properties having recently been released.  The ‘Sunrise Period’ ... read more ...

Introducing the World Trademark Review podcast: available now - Trevor Little World Trademark Review is pleased to announce the launch of the first WTR podcast, in which we talk to J Scott Evans, 2015 president of the International Trademark Association, about all things brand - spanning new gTLDs, 3D printing, plain packaging for tobacco products and the need for the trademark community to accentuate the positive. The ... read more ...

VeriSign Posted A Moderate Fourth Quarter, But Aims Higher With Increased … - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), the dominant player in the Domain Name market, posted its fourth quarter results on Thursday, February 5th. VeriSign’s revenue for the quarter was $256 million, a 4.2% increase on a year-over-year basis. GAAP operating income was $142 million, a 9% increase on a year-over-year basis. The increase in revenue was primarily driven by effective marketing activities which are reinforcing VeriSign’s brand value, the market dominance of the .com brand, and the ... read more ...

Why the GAC’s role at ICANN should be a concern for brand holders - Trevor Little If there is one theme emanating from the current ICANN meeting in Singapore, it is the friction between the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and other stakeholders. While the GAC may not be on the radar of many trademark counsel, the president of the International Trademark Association has warned that its role in the ICANN structure ... read more ...

Architelos Reports New gTLD’s Have 1/4 of the Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy … - Architelos, says that Approximately 50% of all new gTLDs have had one or more domains listed for abuse, with 99% being spam. The sequence of abuse follows an expected pattern where spam is the first to enter, followed by phishing and malware later once the TLDs are more established. Abusive domains were being registered slowly across approximately 20-25% of TLDs in general availability for the first six months of 2014. However, in August the number of gTLDs having domains listed for abuse significantly ... read more ...

Jeffrey Sass - We're Asking the Wrong Questions In my role as CMO of .CLUB I get to speak about domain names at different events all over the world, and have been doing so for more than two years now. From stages and podiums at countless events I have heard the same comments and questions again and again, and in all that time it seems that very little has changed when it comes to the perceptions of the new domain extensions, the so-called "new gTLDs"... more» ... read more ...

ResellerClub Offers Upto 50% Discounts on Servers, Web Hosting & Domains to … - NEW YORK, February 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Web Services Provider, ResellerClub has launched a slew of promotions across all its hosting products and security add-ons all through February to mark its birthday. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130522/614177) According to the terms of the offer, both existing and new Resellers of ResellerClub can take advantage of fantastic discounts across a wide array of products like Servers, Shared Hosting, Website Security Backup, Website Builder ... read more ...

ResellerClub Offers Upto 50% Discounts on Servers, Web Hosting & Domains to … – Virtual - NEW YORK, February 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Web Services Provider, ResellerClub has launched a slew of promotions across all its hosting products and security add-ons all through February to mark its birthday.      (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130522/614177)/ According to the terms of the offer, both existing and new Resellers of ResellerClub can take advantage of fantastic discounts across a wide array of products like Servers, Shared Hosting, Website Security Backup, Website ... read more ...

VeriSign Earnings Preview: Saturation Of .com And Lack Of Traction For .net … - VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), the leader in the Domain Name market, is set to release its Q4 2014 earnings on February 5th. VeriSign, the authoritative registry service provider for all .com and .net gTLDs (Generic Top-Level Domains), as well as the sole registry service provider for gTLDs like .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name, enjoys a 47% market share. The company registered a ~5% increase in sales to $754 million in the first nine months of 2014. However, the growth rate has ... read more ...

Getting New gTLDs’ Sales Drivers Right: Simulations Are Key - The new gTLDs won't survive unless registries learn simulation techniques, the only way to understand how sales drivers interact. Some of the new gTLDs have done dismally. Registry critics, including insiders, blame high registration prices, limited supply, and restrictions on usage, competition, and marketing messages. But these drivers connect with each other. You can't talk about prices without talking about price-setting mechanisms and the number of registrations. That's why simulations ... read more ...

New gTLD Awareness Remains Low Despite Growing Interest in New Domain … - Internet users around the world are just as comfortable with new gTLDs as they are with the traditional .com and country-code extensions, even though only 25 percent said they are aware of new gTLDs, the Domain Name Association (DNA) said. The DNA announced the results of its Global Domain Name Preferences Study this week. The study was put together by Research Now from 5,000 survey responses across 10 countries, and indicates a number of opportunities in the domain name area. Huge majorities ... read more ...

Are New gTLDs More Memorable than Country Code Domains ? - Stuart Fuller, director, commercial operations at NetNames spoke with FE Brandwagon/FinancialExpress.com and gave his view why the new gtlds are more memorable and why brands can have more security if they take the time to get their own Dot Brand. NetNames also put together a couple of graphics on the topic. From the article: Could you elaborate on how the new domain system will change the internet landscape? I hope we see a safer environment, one where innovation is fostered and where brand holders ... read more ...

‘dotBank, dotBeer or dotFootball are more memorable than country code domain … - Face off:  Stuart Fuller, director, commercial operations, NetNames EVER since internet came into being, people typed “.com” or “.org” to visit websites of their choice. It was in 2011 that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced a shake-up in the system that millions of people across the world used to navigate the web. ICANN proposed the introduction of a new domain name system that will allow entities—individuals and corporations alike—to create ... read more ...

Generic Top Level Domains – Current Sunrise Periods Open January 2015 Update - You are responsible for reading, understanding and agreeing to the National Law Review's (NLR’s) and the National Law Forum LLC's  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before using the National Law Review website. The National Law Review is a free to use, no-log in database of legal and business articles. The content and links on www.NatLawReview.com are intended for general information purposes only. Any legal analysis, legislative updates or other content and links should not be construed ... read more ...

Would you have applied for a new GTLD if you knew what you know now ? - On the one year anniversary of the rollout of new gtlds to the public, our January poll question was, “Would you have applied for a new GTLD if you knew what you know now ?” We had 110 votes and 62 people voted no while 48 voted yes. This may have been a tricky question because a lot of participants may not have had the ability to embark on such an adventure due to the price. I think if you could have been one string registry, that secured its string uncontested it would be intriguing , something ... read more ...

For Brands With a gTLD, It’s Time to Rethink Your SEO Strategy - Tweet Buffer Owning your own generic top-level domain (gTLD) means it's important to rethink your SEO strategy, as gTLDs will ultimately change how people search and navigate the Internet. Search engine optimization (SEO) is always evolving in response to changes in user behavior and the algorithms that users rely upon to find their way around the Internet. Apps and social media have also become dominant players into SEO strategy as we learn ... read more ...

Valideus Lures 15-Year Veteran Jeff Neuman Away from Neustar to Help … - London based management consultancy Valideus decided to launch a sister company in the United States and they have certainly gotten off on the right foot by appointing veteran ... read more ...

Valideus launches in US with Neuman hire - Print Close Email a friend Your name: Your email: Please enter a maximum of 5 recipients. Use ; to separate more than one email address. Recipient email(s): Recipient name(s): Email yourself a copy? ... read more ...

The Next Global Name Branding Boom - There are some million new cyber brands about to appear on the global e-commerce, big or small they will skate all around the globe. The influx of new dot names called gTLD cyber brands creating new name identities like wine.club, flat.paris loans.london or tax.kpmg jim.pharmacyThe bottom line; the global domain name expansion is unstoppable, the global hunger for brand name visibility is irresistible and the clash of the two is now inevitable.The new gTLD owners of 2000 such game changers armed ... read more ...

What does 2015 have in shop for online businesses? - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming accessible for the first time. The new gTLDs (best-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) developed new on the web genuine estate. Location extensions such as .London and .NYC, and far more basic names ndash like .Photography and .Expert ndash changed the internet forever, and made it a lot easier for enterprises to find a place on the net to call residence.But what are the essential trends set to shape 2015, and what do ... read more ...