Rightside Announces Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results - KIRKLAND, Wash., Aug. 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. "In the second quarter, we delivered record revenue and strong performance across our business," said Chief Executive Officer Taryn Naidu. Naidu continued, "New gTLDs create compelling opportunities for online ... read more ...

Hans Seeuws - From Toad to Princess - New TLDs Are No Magical Wand in the Kingdom of Search Engines Google has posted details on Ranking of new gTLDs (new gTLDs) in search. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, said that new gTLD's will be treated the same as other gTLD's such as .com. He stated: "Overall, our systems treat new gTLDs like other gTLDs (like .com .org). Keywords in a TLD do not give any advantage or disadvantage in search." The ambiguous use of the word "overall" in the statement, may ... read more ...

July 2015 Update – gTLD Sunrise Periods Now Open - 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 ...

NameJet To Auction Premium Numeric .Asia Domain Names - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... NameJet, in partnership with RightOfTheDot and DotAsia, is offering a stand-out group of premium 3-4 digit numeric .asia domain names.Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) - NameJet, the leading aftermarket domain name auction platform, in partnership with RightOfTheDot, a company specializing in marketing sales strategy for new gTLDs, and DotAsia, the organization charged with running the .asia top-level domain (TLD), are offering a select group of premium 3-4 digit ... read more ...

NameJet To Auction Premium Numeric .Asia Domain Names - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... NameJet, in partnership with RightOfTheDot and DotAsia, is offering a stand-out group of premium 3-4 digit numeric .asia domain names.Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) - NameJet, the leading aftermarket domain name auction platform, in partnership with RightOfTheDot, a company specializing in marketing sales strategy for new gTLDs, and DotAsia, the organization charged with running the .asia top-level domain (TLD), are offering a select group of premium 3-4 digit ... read more ...

NameJet To Auction Premium Numeric .Asia Domain Names - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... NameJet, in partnership with RightOfTheDot and DotAsia, is offering a stand-out group of premium 3-4 digit numeric .asia domain names.Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) - NameJet, the leading aftermarket domain name auction platform, in partnership with RightOfTheDot, a company specializing in marketing sales strategy for new gTLDs, and DotAsia, the organization charged with running the .asia top-level domain (TLD), are offering a select group of premium 3-4 digit ... read more ...

IP Fridays – Episode 33: Interview With Reg Levy About gTLDs – Facebook … - Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:36 26.4MB) We interview Reg Levy all about gTLDs. She is VP at Minds + Machines, the third largest applicant of gTLDs. Another topic are Facebook Beacons, a new tool by Facebook to push location based messages to users. Also, trademarks in Cuba are becoming now more important now. IP FRIDAYS Co-Presenters: Rolf Claessen and Kenneth Suzan Episode 33 July 24, 2015 RC = Rolf Claessen KS = Kenneth Suzan RL = Reg Levy This is Reg Levy, Vice ... read more ...

Future Hosting Comments on the Search Impact of New Generic Top-Level Domains … – Virtual - Future Hosting has commented on the confusion surrounding the search performance of new generic top-level domains to mitigate the impact of a misunderstanding of the search performance of new gTLDs. Southfield, MI (PRWEB) July 27, 2015 Future Hosting, a leading VPS, application, and dedicated server hosting provider, has commented on the confusion surrounding the search performance of new generic top-level domains. In light of recent clarifications from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst John ... read more ...

Frank Schilling On New gTLD’s and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead - Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: “”IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable alternative TLD’s will marginalize the totality of .com’s mindshare in future. Speaking as the owner of a large portfolio of valuable dot com names, I once felt comfortable explaining that people should spend whatever it takes to buy one of my .com names because they could rest easy knowing their acquisition/investment ... read more ...

How do you buy a domain name? - DIVYANK TURAKHIA, founder CEO, Media.net, and co-founder, Directi. "In the offline space, you can still buy great real estate. But on the internet, that wasn't the case until new gTLDs (generic toplevel domain) came in. Now with new gTLDs, you can get your own .website or maybe .tech if you are tech company." "Since there is already heavy demand during gTLD auctions, treat it like a poker game. Investment in this space at this early stage makes sense. Think of it as buying real estate in a market ... read more ...

Verisign Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2015. Second Quarter GAAP Financial ResultsVeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $263 million for the second quarter of 2015, up 4.9 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $93 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the second quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $100 ... read more ...

Boston Globe Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Mucks It Up - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...

Boston Globle Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Muck It Up – TheDomains.com - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...

Boston Globle Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Muck It Up - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...

Google Prepares Brands For New TLDs In Search - As a new generation of top level domain (TLD) names continues to emerge, Google steps up to provide answers to questions from brands on how its engine will handle the queries. "We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs," wrote John Mueller, Webmaster Trends analyst, in a post published Tuesday. He explains that the search engine and its algorithms treat new gTLDs similar to other gTLDs, such ... read more ...

Google Prepares Brands For New TLDs In Search 07/22/2015 – MediaPost - As a new generation of top level domain (TLD) names continues to emerge, Google steps up to provide answers to questions from brands on how its engine will handle the queries. "We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs," wrote John Mueller, Webmaster Trends analyst, in a post published Tuesday. He explains that the search engine and its algorithms treat new gTLDs similar to other gTLDs, such ... read more ...

Google Gives An Update On How It Handles New gTLDs - Google is letting webmasters know about how it handles new top level domains. The company says that as many new generic TLDs become available, it wants to provide some insight into how they’re handled in Google search as it has seen and heard a lot of misconceptions about the topic. The most important thing to note is that Google will generally treat the new gTLDs just like any other gTLDs like .com, .org, etc. Keywords in the TLD do not give it any advantage or disadvantage in search, it says. ... read more ...

Google Gives An Update On How It Handles New gTLDs – WebProNews - Google is letting webmasters know about how it handles new top level domains. The company says that as many new generic TLDs become available, it wants to provide some insight into how they’re handled in Google search as it has seen and heard a lot of misconceptions about the topic. The most important thing to note is that Google will generally treat the new gTLDs just like any other gTLDs like .com, .org, etc. Keywords in the TLD do not give it any advantage or disadvantage in search, it says. ... read more ...