Tag Archives: NameCheap

Sat 6th February 2016
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.XYZ Says They Just "Blew Past" 2 Million Domain Registrations - Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just sent me over a note that the new gTLD .XYZ has “blew past 2 Million domain name registrations”. According to ntldstats.com .XYZ was sitting at 1,967,963 domain registrations as of the last zone update, however there has been a huge surge in 6 number .XYZ domain names from China (NNNNNN.xyz) (also known as 6N domains) of over 100,000 domain registrations. According to XYZ 27% of all 6N domain name combinations are now registered. 100% of all possible ... read more ...
Tue 24th November 2015
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Namecheap Holding Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale With "$10 Million in Savings" - Namecheap, a leading ICANN-accredited domain registrar and web hosting company, announced their major annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale. The two-day event offers over $10 million in savings and the lowest prices available for the year. Customers can save big not only on domain names and hosting, but SSLs, website builders, email hosting, and more. Rick Kirkendall, Namecheap CEO is quoted in a press release as saying: “There is literally no better time to buy what you need to set up a web presence ... 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 ...
Tue 4th August 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Rightside and NameCheap ink longer tenure deal - Deal adds some certainty to Rightside’s future revenue. After frequent short-term extensions, Rightside’s eNom and reseller NameCheap have signed a longer term reseller deal. Many people are surprised to learn that NameCheap, which manages millions of domain names, is actually a reseller. It’s an important one to Rightside; NameCheap represents 26% of its domains under management. The new deal is through December 31, 2018 and will automatically renew for an additional three year term unless ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2015
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Namecheap Launches Respectourprivacy.com To Save Private Whois Registrations - Namecheap.com, in association with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Fight For The Future (FFTF), launched the website Respectourprivacy.com to allow people to file a comment with ICANN letting them know they object to the proposed rule that would greatly restrict the use of privacy or proxy services on whois records of domain names. ICANN public comment period closes on July 7th midnight UTC. As of yesterday there were only 8 comments posted to the ICANN site. Today there are 833. The ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Weebly introduces module for domain name registrars and hosts - Reseller program allows hosts and registrars to offer Weebly website builder tools. Website builder Weebly launched a new program for domain name registrars and webhosts today, enabling them to offer Weebly’s website creation tool to their customers. NameCheap and Endurance International Group (which owns a number of hosting companies and Domain.com) are initial customers of the new Weebly for Hosts. Weebly for Hosts is essentially a reseller program, allowing companies to offer a simple website ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Online partnership splits, one association will work new TLD - Companies end .online partnership, but all three will help market the domain name. A three company partnership for the .online top level domain name has broken up, and it appears Radix will now run the domain name by itself. A partnership between Radix, Tucows and NameCheap won the contention set auction for .online last year, reportedly paying more than $10 million for the domain name. All three parties then made capital contributions to the partnership to cover the cost of the auction and running ... read more ...
Mon 9th February 2015
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Web.com strikes understanding with investors, Rightside extends understanding with NameCheap - Web.com and Rightside reveal deals. Here’s some news about two publicly traded domain name companies. Web.com has struck a deal with Okumus Fund Management, which owns about 15% of the company’s shares, to add two new members to the board of directors. John Giuliani, the former CEO of Conversant and Rick Rudman, the former CEO of Vocus will join the board. Shares in Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) are down about 2% today, slightly above their 52 week low. In other news, competitor Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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Looks Like The Team Of Radix, Tucows & NameCheap Has Won .Online - The new gTLD .online looks like it was won by the previously announced partnership with Tucows and Namecheap.com Last year Radix announced that the three applicants for .online have partnered up to run the .online registry. At that time, both Tucows and Namecheap withdrew their applications for .Online with ICANN. Today the ICANN site has updated and the remaining applicants for .online, except for Radix have withdrawn their applications ICANN shows Donuts, Whatbox, and I-Registry Ltd. have withdrawn ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Online could be best general new domain yet - Three reasons .online should be successful. Michael Berkens spotted this morning that the last of the losing applicants for .online had withdrawn its application, meaning a partnership between Radix, NameCheap and Tucows has won the rights for the .online domain name. I think .online will be one of the most successful new generic top level domain names, for a few reasons. 1. A combination of three top-10 registrars will be pushing it. I’m assuming that Radix will ... read more ...
Sat 6th September 2014
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Namecheap Gets NC.Me & Giving Away Free .Me Domains & Email To College Students - Namecheap.com a top 10 domain name registrar, has just launched the “Namecheap for Education Program” through which it is giving away a free .Me domain name registration, 1 year of free email a premium About.me page,  a 1 click Github page as well as scholarships to college students Bike for them to use on Campus and for the Schools with the most signups will  “takeover” the Namecheap home page for a week where additional money will be raised for the school. Namecheap is also now the proud ... read more ...
Thu 1st May 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Namecheap hunt “favorites” is cool. I’m still watchful for improved new TLD search. - Namecheap’s interface is a nice upgrade for domain discovery. It could do better with TLD context, though. Namecheap unveiled a new domain searching interface this morning. The highlight for me is the ability to pick favorite TLDs for future searches. For example, I “hearted” .com, .zone, .guru and .in. When I search for domains in the future I can see results for these favorite extensions by clicking on the Favorites tab. This is a nice upgrade as I no longer ... read more ...
Mon 9th May 2011
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
NameCheap Sued Over WhoisGuard - Company sues NameCheap after it doesn’t disclose identity behind protected whois. I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again — offering whois privacy and proxy services is not free for domain name registrars. Here’s another example. Emergency Essentials, Inc, which caters to end-of-the-worlders by selling emergency and food kits, has sued NameCheap over a domain name registered using its WhoisGuard service (pdf). It’s common for someone to name a domain ... read more ...