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Tue 27th January 2015
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Internet grows to 284 million domain names in Q3 2014: Verisign - New Delhi: US-based Internet infrastructure services provider Verisign today said 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in July-September 2014 taking the total number to 284 million globally.Domain names rose by 1.6 per cent quarter-on-quarter compared to the second quarter of 2014, while globally registrations grew 18.1 million or 6.8 per cent, year-on-year.“Four million domain names were added to the Internet in third quarter of 2014, bringing the total number ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Win Another New gTLD .Express Beating Out Express.com: No ICANN … - Donuts has won yet another new gTLD string ahead winning .Express. The only other applicant was submitted by Express.com who has now withdrawn their application. This domain was scheduled for an ICANN Last Resort Auction. There are now 11 new gTLD scheduled to go to an ICANN in February and 19 more for March. As things have been going the vast majority of these will be settle ahead of time by private auction while some contention groups will ask and receive an extension. Several contention sets that ... read more ...
 
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Featured Technology Stocks – Verisign, (VRSN), Juniper Networks, (JNPR), Intuit … - Las Vegas, NV – Jan 27, 2015 — (TechSonian) – EquityObserver.com continuously monitors and scans the markets for day trading and swing trading signals on NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, OTCBB and Pink Sheet companies for its free e-newsletter subscribers. To receive real-time SMS alerts, Just Text the Word EQUITY To 555888 from Your Cell Phone. Verisign, Inc.(NASDAQ:VRSN) a worldwide leader in domain names and Internet security, publicized four million domain names were added to the Internet in the third ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows by 4 mln domain names to 284 mln Q3 - VeriSign, a provider of domain names and internet security, announced 4 million domain names were added to the internet in the third quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 284 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of 30 September 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of four million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.6% over the second quarter of 2014. Worldwide registrations have grown by ... read more ...
Mon 26th January 2015
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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 ...
 
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Over half of domains registered in Spain in 2014 were .es - Monday 26 January 2015 | 15:15 CET | News The number of domain names registered under the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Spain, .es, increased by 3.46 percent in 2014 and for the first time accounted for over half of all internet domains registered in the country, according to internet development agency Red.es. The total number of .es domain name registrations in 2014 reached 1,755,224, compared to the 1,696,538 registered the previous ... read more ...
 
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Sizzling News:Verisign (VRSN), Prosperity Bancshares (PB), Chambers Street … - Las Vegas, NV – January 26, 2015 — (TechSonian) –Verisign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN)updated four million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 284 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Sept. 30, 2014, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.During the third quarter of 2014, Verisign’s average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load was 114 billion across all TLDs operated by ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
 
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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 ...
 
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APC’s .ng Domain Name, Website is Active, Says NIRA - By Emma Okonji The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the registry for .ng domain names, which maintains the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), has maintained that the website of All Progressives Congress (APC), was never shutdown for any reason. NIRA said the party's website, which was registered since February 7, 2013, under the internet domain name, www.apc.com.ng, was not shutdown by NIRA, and reiterated that the website is still ... read more ...
Sun 25th January 2015
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ICANN CEO Fadi Bites The Hand That Feeds It Calling out Those “Hogging … - Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com, which also contains a video interview with Fadi at World Economic Forum in Davos, explaining how we “went from twenty-something” top domain names to hundreds” throws large domain investors under the bus and then backs up the bus and rolls over them again calling them Cybersquatters. In respond to a questions regarding “land grabs” in the new domain extension Fadi said: “The reality is, the more there are names ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Wins The Rights To Operate The New gTLD .Cafe Beating Out Co. That … - Donuts has picked up another new gTLD extension winning the rights to .Cafe, beating out Punto 2012 the registry that runs .Bar and .Rest. The new gTLD string .Cafe was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort auction later this Month. Other new gTLD’s that touch .cafe include .Restaurant, which is operated by Donuts .Eat was applied for by Google .Food is in contention by three parties .Rest one of the two strings owned by Punto 2012 and is meant to be a shortener for .Restaurant   ... read more ...
Sat 24th January 2015
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Afilias Wins The .Bet new gTLD Beating Donuts, Famous Four & UK Gambling … - The new gTLD .Bet has been settled in what we can only guess was a private auction won by Afilias. Afilias won the rights to operate the new Top Level Domain beating out two big portfolio applicants Donuts and Famous Four Media as well as Ladbrokes a publicly traded  British based gaming company. According to Afilias  application with ICANN they expect to have 21K .Bet domain registrations by the end of year three. .Bet was set to be resolved later this month in the ICANN Last Resort Auction. Here ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in shop for on the internet - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming readily available for the very first time. The new gTLDs (top-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) designed new on line actual estate. Place extensions such as .London and .NYC, and far more common names ndash like .Photography and .Specialist ndash changed the internet forever, and created it easier for organizations to discover a location on line to call home.But what are the crucial trends set ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
 
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What does 2015 have in retailer for on line companies - By David Fisher on November 4, 2014. Gordon Nixon joins the Board of Directors of BCE Inc. BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE) today announced the appointment of Gordon M. Nixon, CM, O. Ont., as a director of BCE… ... read more ...
 
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Dot-com is dead. Long live dot-com - As you probably know, the internet's domain names are dominated by a single three-letter ending: "com". What you probably don't know is the sheer scale of dot-com's dominance. There are roughly 116.5m domains ending in ".com" - more than all of the 25 next largest registries combined. When the industry draws bar charts of registrations, they let dot-com run off the top of the page, put it on a logarithmic ... read more ...
 
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ICANN: Our Top 3 Policy Priorities for 2015 - 2014 was a big year for us and for our clients. The new gTLD program forced us to rethink, reprioritize and implement new and different strategies to protect our brands online. The uncertainty largely behind us, and with more information at our fingertips about just how well (or not) brands are faring in the new environment, it's time to look forward to what we can do in 2015 to fix what's broken, throw away what's useless, fight for what's important and generally continue to try and make navigating ... read more ...
Fri 23rd January 2015
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Latest Quarterly Verisign Report Shows Continued Growth in Worldwide Domain … - Verisign, the administrator of the .com and .net registries has issued their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief covering the 3rd quarter of 2014. Always a treasure trove of ... read more ...
 
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What does 2015 have in store for online businesses? - 2014 was the year of the domain, with new domain name extensions becoming available for the first time. The new gTLDs (top-level domains, like .com, .net or .org) created new online real estate. Location extensions such as .London and .NYC, and more general names – like .Photography and .Expert – changed the web forever, and made it easier for businesses to find a place online to call home.But what are the key trends set to shape 2015, and what do the next twelve months have in store for those ... read more ...
 
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.Global Registry Offering A $25 Cash Back Rebate, But just for 8 Days - The .Global new gTLD registry just launched a cash back program to give people who register 10 or more .Global Domain names a cash back bonus of $25 per domain. “This is a limited time offer only available between Friday 23th of January and Saturday 31st of January.” For details on how to apply for the cashback, please click here. It doesn’t matter which registrar that sells .global registrations you use to get the cash back bonus. The $25 per domain will be sent by the registry to your paypal ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2015
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Over 75% of All Top-Level Domains (TLDs) Now Signed With DNSSEC - As I was entering in data for the weekly DNSSEC Deployment Maps, I was struck by the fact that we are now at the point where 617 of the 795 top-level domains (TLDs) are now signed with DNSSEC. You can see this easily at Rick Lamb's DNSSEC statistics site: This represents 77% of all current TLDs! Now, granted, most of that amazing growth in the chart is because all of the "new generic TLDs" (newgTLDs) are required to be signed with DNSSEC, but we are still seeing solid growth around the ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Reports 3Q 2014 Closed With 284 Million Domains Up 6.8% - Verisign issued its Domain Name Industry Brief for the Third Quarter of 2014. The third quarter of 2014 closed with a base of 284 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of four million domain names, or 1.6% over the second quarter of 2014. Registrations have grown by 18.1 million, or 6.8 percent, year over year. The base of country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) was 132.1 million domain names, a 2.5% increase quarter over quarter, and a 10.7% increase ... read more ...
 
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NABP Reviewing .Pharmacy Domain Name Applications for Sunrise … - PRESS RELEASE The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) is currently reviewing .pharmacy domain name applications received from trademark holders who are registered in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). The Sunrise Application period, which ended January 19, 2015, preceded the TMCH Sunrise Registration Period, which will end March 16, 2015. Only those companies who submitted qualifying applications during the Sunrise Application ... read more ...
 
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My Opinion: Donuts Is Not Helping Itself By Attacking .Com - Raymond Hackney just published a story on the Thedomains.com based on a blog post published on Donuts.co corporate site, which you can read here. I have written about Donuts attacking .Com to sell their own new gTLD’s before and even discussed it in our 2014 year recap. I think its a bad move. First of all its false. In 2014 .Com grew by some 3.3 million domains  which is slightly less than the total number of new gTLD registration but is more than the number of paid third party new gTLD registrations. .Com ... read more ...