Tag Archives: Network Solutions

Wed 10th February 2016
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Verisign files opening brief in interest opposite .XYZ - David v. Goliath battle continues in appeals court. Verisign has filed its opening brief (pdf) with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, in its dispute with new top level domain name company XYZ. In October 2015, a federal district judge dismissed Verisign’s lawsuit against the operator of the .xyz domain name. Verisign subsequently appealed. Verisign argues that the district judge misapplied the standards for summary judgment and misinterpreted statements of fact. At the heart of Verisign’s ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2015
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Verisign v. XYZ set for jury hearing subsequent week - Verisign’s false advertising case about .xyz top level domain name is scheduled for jury trial next week. [Update: the judge has granted summary judgment to XYZ.] .Com registry Verisign is scheduled to present its case against .XYZ next week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Verisign filed a false advertising suit against .XYZ and its founder Daniel Negari in December. At the center of Verisign’s argument is that .XYZ gave away free .xyz domain names and then used these “inflated” ... read more ...
Wed 14th October 2015
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What's inside 1 Month of Network Solutions emails? - What is Network Solutions pitching to its customers in all of that email? Here’s the answer. Anyone who has registered a domain name with Web.com registrars Network Solutions and Register.com know that the company sends lots of promotional emails. How many? One per business day. Now, I know a lot of retailers send daily promotional emails to customers. But I’m not aware of other registrars that do this. If nothing else, it shows there’s not much more juice the company can ring out of customers ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Web.com: Verisign did a "blatant bait-and-switch" - Company doesn’t want to provide accounting information to Verisign. Web.com is fighting back against a Verisign request for more information about how the registrar accounted for .xyz domain name registrations. Verisign is suing .XYZ for false advertising after .XYZ boasted about its registration volume — which Verisign alleges was inflated by a Network Solutions giveaway. Web.com owns Network Solutions, which gave away hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names to its customers. At issue appears ... read more ...
Wed 19th August 2015
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Verisign presses Network Solutions for sum on .XYZ registrations - Company files motion to compel Network Solutions’ parent company to provide a witness. Verisign has filed a motion (pdf) in a Florida court to compel Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions, to provide a witness to testify about how the registrar accounted for free .xyz domain names. Network Solutions gave away perhaps hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names last year. They weren’t just offered for free; They were placed in customer accounts on an opt-out basis. Verisign is suing .XYZ ... read more ...
Tue 29th July 2014
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Finally, well-targeted new tip turn domain name marketing - Network Solutions’ pitches .republican domain names to owners of political domain names. A couple weeks ago I wrote about how Sedo did a new TLD promotion that registrars should be doing. Sedo looked at its existing customer base for people interested in buying and selling domain names with “club” in them and marketed .club to them. I finally have an example of a domain name registrar doing a similar thing: This goes a step further. Rather than just look for ... read more ...
Thu 19th June 2014
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I got my initial giveaway .XYZ domain name offer today - Network Solutions finally got around to offering me a free .xyz domain name. The .XYZ top level domain name continues to grow by thousands of registrations each day due to a Network Solutions giveaway. I got my first such free domain offer today. It’s interesting to see how the company handles the promotion. As you probably know by now, Network Solutions’ program is “opt out”, meaning the domain name is put in your account unless you specifically decline. Interestingly, ... read more ...
Tue 22nd April 2014
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Network Solutions patents domain purchasing system - Patent for domain purchasing system granted ten years after application was filed. Network Solutions, now part of Web.com, has received a patent for its Certified Offer service…ten years after applying for it. Network Solutions applied for the patent titled “Certified Offer Service for Domain Names” back in 2004. It was rejected multiple times, but the company successfully amended and appealed. The service lets customers make an offer on a domain name that is ... read more ...
Wed 2nd April 2014
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Some SnapNames-caught domains to be managed during NetworkSolutions - Domains caught by SnapName’s own registrars will be managed through Network Solutions. Here’s the first notable change as a result of Web.com acquiring expired domain marketplace SnapNames. SnapNames announced today that domain names acquired through a SnapNames credential (i.e. registrar) will now be managed via Web.com registrar Network Solutions. Previously these names were managed by Moniker. I can already hear the collective groan from domainers not wanting ... read more ...
Tue 25th February 2014
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Domain hunt progressing, though still not prepared for new tip turn domain names - Registrars are slowly improving their search results to show new top level domain name options, but the experience is far from ideal. Earlier this month I wrote about how domain name search at major registrars wasn’t ready for new top level domain names. I admitted it was early, as Donuts’ domain names had just come on to the market. It represented the first batch of English-language domains to become available. Now a few weeks later and over 100,000 new TLD registrations ... read more ...
Wed 22nd January 2014
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Web.com: WebLock module will be opt-in, not opt-out - Company will not charge customers for added security service unless they accept it. Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions and Register.com, came under fire yesterday after informing some customers they would automatically be opted-in to a security program that costs $1,850. An email sent to 49 customers informed them that their accounts would have added security under a new service called WebLock. The email also indicated that customers would be charged $1,850 ... read more ...
Tue 21st January 2014
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Network Solutions automobile enrolls business into $1,850 “WebLock” service - If your domains are within the top 1% of traffic at Web.com, the company is going to opt you into a new program that costs $1,850 the first year. UPDATE 1/22/14 3PM CT: The company says the program will actually be opt-in, not opt-out. Read more here. Domain name registrar Network Solutions, part of Web.com, is taking some heat today for notifying a customer that it is auto enrolling him into a program that will cost $1,850 per year. Brent Simmons, who says he has ... read more ...
Wed 6th November 2013
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Marchex and Web.com recover earnings - Domain portfolio owner and large registrar group report earnings. Two domain name companies released third quarter earnings results after the bell yesterday. Marchex reported GAAP revenue of $40.6 million, compared to $33.7 million in the same quarter of 2012. Its adjusted EBITDA fell to $3.4 million from $4.8 million in Q3 2012. The company is primarily a pay-per-call business, but it also owns the Archeo domain name business. Archeo sold 81 domain names last quarter ... read more ...
Fri 2nd August 2013
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Network Solutions shuts down 3 Iranian websites - Registrants are agency of the Iranian government or Specially Designated Nationals. Web.com, parent company of domain name registrar Network Solutions, revealed today that it has shut down three Iranian websites due to the The Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012. In its SEC filing, the company details three organizations that Network Solutions originally sold domain name registrations to from 1999 to 2002, which later renewed their domain names. ... read more ...
Fri 19th July 2013
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Network Solutions recuperating from DDoS - Company faced multiple outtages this week. Network Solutions customers experienced outtages this week due to a DDoS attack. The problems appeared to start on Monday. On Tuesday, Network Solutions reported that “On [Monday], some Network Solutions customer sites were compromised.” Then on Wednesday, the company posted to its Facebook page that it was facing a DDoS “that is impacting our customers as well as the Network Solutions site.” Later on Wednesday it ... read more ...
Tue 2nd July 2013
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Ingenious? Network Solution offers Expiration Protection. - Company charges $9.99 to renew your domain name for another year in case you forget. As Web.com points out frequently on its investor conference calls, it believes that it has room to grow its cross selling activities to existing customers. This latest sales pitch gave me a good laugh. Network Solutions (owned by Web.com) is offering its customers “Domain Expiration Protection”, which makes sure your domain doesn’t expire for a least a year if they can’t auto ... read more ...
Thu 25th April 2013
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Network Solutions files domain remoteness obvious application - Domain name registrar Network Solutions wants to patent various aspects of a domain privacy service, and has filed a patent application for “Private Domain Name Registration” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The application is technically a continuation of an application the company filed in 2004 but later abandoned. The new application was filed May 25, 2012 and just published (pdf) today. But wait, doesn’t Go Daddy already have a patent on this? Sort ... read more ...
Tue 2nd April 2013
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Network Solutions gets a delay obvious on URL forwarding - Patent issued today covers forwarding one domain name to another. Domain forwarding, a.k.a. URL forwarding. Every domain registrar offers it, and most give it away for free to their customers. Type in DNW.com and get forwarded to DomainNameWire.com. Pretty simple, right? Did you know that Network Solutions has a patent for “Apparatus and method for web forwarding”? Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent (pdf) to Network Solutions for a way ... read more ...
Tue 15th January 2013
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Verisign gets another obvious for ccTLD registration - Patent covers bulk checking and registration of country code top level domains. Verisign has been granted U.S. patent number 8,356,081 for “Automated Domain Name Registration”. This patent, applied for in 2005, is a divisional patent of 7,000,028, which was filed back in 2000. Which will take you down memory lane… The genesis of this patent is actually idNames, a company founded by Pinky Brand and Marc Ostrofsky. Network Solutions bought the company in 1998. ... read more ...
Mon 17th October 2011
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Web.com to Cut More Network Solutions Employees - Company plans more pink slips at iconic domain registrar. Web.com plans to fire more Network Solutions employees after it acquires the company than it previously thought. The company, which also owns domain name registrar Register.com, originally thought it would save $30 million through efficiencies. Now it expects to save much more by “cutting senior manager posts, including Network Solutions’ chief executive, and consolidating data centres and applications”. “There ... read more ...
Wed 3rd August 2011
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Register.com Owner to Acquire Network Solutions - Register.com and Network Solutions to get married. Two of the highest priced and oldest domain name registrars are getting married. Web.com, which owns Register.com, will pay $405 million plus 18 million shares of Web.com stock as well as take on Network Solutions’ debt. The cash portion of the deal will be funded with new debt: $600 million of First Lien Credit Facilities and $150 million of Second Lien Credit Facilities, as well as a $50 million revolver. The ... read more ...
Fri 18th February 2011
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Zuccarini Files Another Lawsuit, This Time Adding ICANN to a List - Zuccarini sues three companies for negligence. John Zuccarini has filed another lawsuit (pdf) stemming from the sale of 14 domain names on NameJet. In this case he counts Network Solutions, NameJet, and now ICANN as defendants. Zuccarini owes the IRS and creditors $550,000, some of which involves a cybersquatting judgment against him. A court-appointed receiver was holding some of his domain names to satisfy these debts, but he accidentally let some of them expire. ... read more ...
Sun 6th February 2011
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GoDaddy.co Gets Ready and Network Solutions Piggybacks - Lots of mainstream attention on domain names today. We’re just hours away from Go Daddy’s Super Bowl commercials and a huge plug for the .co domain. I really have no idea who the GoDaddy.co girl is. My guess is it’s not someone from Colombia, but that’s about all I have at this point. I’m thinking that Go Daddy might not actually show who the .co girl is on the TV commercial and instead send viewers to their web site to see the revealing. This would ... read more ...
Mon 24th January 2011
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Judge Shuts Down Zuccarini Fight Against NameJet, NetSol, and VeriSign - Judge calls for an end to lengthy domain name battle. United States District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema has said enough is enough in a domain name lawsuit filed by John Zuccarini. Zuccarini filed the lawsuit after a court appointed receiver failed to renew domain names of his that were seized to settle a cybersquatting judgment. The domain names were at Network Solutions and subsequently auctioned off on NameJet when they expired. One of the domain names was bid up ... read more ...
Wed 22nd December 2010
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Network Solutions and Register.com Slot .Co Second - Big registrars pushing .co as next best thing to .com. Last month Go Daddy created quite a buzz by briefly changed its default domain name search parameter to .co. Although Go Daddy and its competitors continue to offer .com first, two large retail domain registrars are making a significant push to get customers to register .co. Both Network Solutions and Register.com are promoting .com as a second choice to .co, with Network Solutions even promoting .co above other ... read more ...