Tag Archives: registrars

Thu 18th February 2016
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New gTLD Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days - According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD’s domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days. In terms of percentage of increase, the 1.1 million increase in new gTLD domain names, is close to a 9% increase in just 5 days. On February 13th, there were a total of 12,675,000 new gTLD domain names registered. Today on February 18th, ntldstats.com shows the total number of new gTLD’s domain name registrations at 13,782,837 meaning that the number of new gTLD domains ... read more ...
Wed 17th February 2016
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GoDaddy roughly essential in Q4 - GoDaddy almost turns a GAAP profit in Q4. Domain name and web hosting company GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) reported earnings after the bell today. GoDaddy had a net loss of $(0.5) million and an adjusted EBITDA of $73.5 million. Total bookings hit $464.0 million and unlevered free cash flow came in at $52.3 million. (The latter two measures are important for a subscription-based business like GoDaddy’s.) The company reported $425.4 million revenue in Q4, up 14.4% year-over-year and 3.5% over the Q3. Revenue ... read more ...
 
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Name.com to heading a Bearglecorn - Don’t rip off the Bearglecorn or Statton Hammock will send you a cease desist. Rarely seen in the wild, the Bearglecorn was just spotted in a trademark application filed with the USPTO.Perhaps fed up with people trying to rip off its Bearglecorn (you know you’re out there!), Name.com parent company Rightside has filed a trademark application covering the beast. Wait–I’m sorry? You aren’t familiar with the bearglecorn!?! Perhaps that’s because you’ve never landed on a Name.com 404 page. ... read more ...
 
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Here's what's function during Rightside - Company will invest more in marketing to improve new top level domain name results. Yesterday, Rightside released Q4 earnings. The good news is that it turned in record revenue and an adjusted EBITDA that topped guidance. The bad news is that revenue growth over Q3 was nominal, especially for new top level domain names. While it’s probably fairer to look at year-over-year revenue growth in most product lines, new TLDs are different. Rightside needs to show strong quarter-over-quarter growth in ... read more ...
Tue 16th February 2016
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Rightside reports record income though new TLD income expansion is slow - Revenue grows in Q4 but new TLD revenue remains just a small fraction of the total. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) today reported record quarterly revenue for Q4 of $55.7 million, and full year revenue of $212.5 million. All three segments of the company — registrar, registry and aftermarket — showed quarter-over-quarter growth. But registry services (aka new TLDs), where the company is betting on its future, grew only slightly. The company reported $2.5 million of registry services revenue, up from ... read more ...
Thu 11th February 2016
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Two engaging GoDaddy obvious applications - Applications describe system for recommending different domain names for a website, and making it easy to transition. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published two interesting patent applications from GoDaddy related to search engine optimization and localization. Applications number 14/453415 and 14/453418 (pdf) are for “Optimized domain names and websites based on incoming traffic” and “Search engine optimization of domain names and websites”. Both describe essentially the same ... read more ...
Wed 10th February 2016
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Tucows Announces $40 Million Stock BuyBack Program & Is Up Over 8% To $20 A Share - Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) announced after the market closed yesterday “that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program to repurchase from time to time up to $40 million of its common stock in the open market.” “The new $40 million buyback program will commence February 10, 2016 and will terminate on or before February 9, 2017. ” “The Company’s previous buyback program, which commenced February 16, 2015 and was scheduled to end on or before February 15, 2016, has ... read more ...
 
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Mobile phone use continues to lift Tucows - Domain names are the base, but mobile phone service contributes the most gross margin. Tucows, one of the largest domain name registrars, released fourth quarter and full year financial results yesterday. Fourth quarter revenue hit $45 million, with annual revenue of $173 million, up 17% from the prior year. While the company’s domain name business remains the biggest component of its revenue, all of the growth is coming from its Ting mobile phone service. And, for the first time, gross margin ... read more ...
Sat 6th February 2016
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.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 ...
 
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Exclusive: GoDaddy's 2016 Super Bowl Ad! - Take a look at this year’s GoDaddy Super Bowl ad before the big game airs. In a worldwide exclusive for Domain Name Wire, we have obtained an advance copy of this year’s GoDaddy Super Bowl ad. GoDaddy has been advertising during the Super Bowl since 2005, and I can’t imagine what a Super Bowl would be like without the company’s controversial commercials. Many years GoDaddy had to switch its ad plans to please the censors, infuriating GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons. Last year’s ad didn’t ... read more ...
Fri 5th February 2016
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CentralNic co-founder retires from Board, Instra CEO joins - One of the founders of CentralNic is stepping down for his board duties. Domain name registrar and new top level domain name registry CentralNic announced two changes to its board today. Executive Director Robert Pooke has retired from the Board of Directors. Pooke was one of the founders of CentralNic and has been involved in the domain name industry since 1998. Desleigh Jean Jameson, Chief Executive of Instra Group, will join the Board as a Director. CentralNic acquired Instra for $24 million in ... read more ...
Thu 4th February 2016
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.Law Gets 5K Registrations in 1st 90 days: We Break Down The Numbers - According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the new “.law” and .abogado (Lawyer in Spanish) top-level domains, “announced that .law has successfully completed its first 90 days since general availability having fulfilled more than 5,000 verified registrations, with over 700 premium names including numerous domains which have sold for $100,000 or more.” However the press release is silent on the results of .abogado (spanish for lawyer) which ... read more ...
Tue 2nd February 2016
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.Com Winners & Losers: Chinese registrars, Uniregistry continue surge - Chinese surge continues in latest .com reports ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from October, and it shows the continued surge of registrations in China. Last month I wrote about how two Chinese domain name registrars, HiChina and eName, surged into the top 5 registrars worldwide for .com registrations. Both registrars remain in the top 5 in the latest report. Also, Uniregistry led the “net transfers in” board for the second month in a row. Its net new .com adds are relatively ... read more ...
Fri 22nd January 2016
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CENTR Reports There Are 311.5 Million Domains In The World - According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world. 158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD’s including .com, .net and .org; 140.1 million are ccTLD’s (country codes), 1.6 Million are IDN ccTLD’s, and 10.9 Million are New gTLD’s. The CENTR writes: “In absolute terms, most growth came from legacy gTLDs (largely .com) which grew higher than average due to sales in ... read more ...
Mon 18th January 2016
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AlpNames overtakes GoDaddy As The 2nd Largest New gTLD Domain Registrar - According to ntldstats.com, AlpNames  has just overtaken GoDaddy in terms of the number of new gTLD domain names under management. According to ntldstats.com AlpNames.com has 1,016,800 new gTLD’s under management while Godaddy has new gTLD’s 1,005,071. Alpnames was founded in 2013 in order to provide registrar services under the new gTLD program. AlpNames has a 8.81% of the new gTLD market domain registrar market, while Godaddy has 8.87 of the new gTLD market. The largest new gTLD domain name ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2016
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GoDaddy launches Domain Investor App - App makes on-the-go bidding easier, even if you use two-factor authentication. GoDaddy has launched a new domain name investor app for the iPhone and Android, making it easier to watch and bid on domain names at GoDaddy Auctions. Mike McLaughlin, GM for Domains at the company, announced the app release during his keynote address at NamesCon today in Las Vegas. The app’s functionality is fairly simple. But it’s certainly much faster than logging into GoDaddy’s mobile site to bid, especially ... read more ...
Tue 12th January 2016
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This is what it looks like when Frank Schilling throws a celebration in Vegas -

Frank Schilling and Uniregistry hosted a celebration during Hakkasan in Las Vegas final night for NamesCon 2016 attendees. Sandeep Ramchandani of Radix and Statton Hammock of Rightside were guest DJs.

There’s another large celebration for discussion goers tonight, as a gift Water Night takes place during a venue Tropicana Hotel.

Via: domainnamewire.com

Mon 11th January 2016
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Frank Schilling unveils marketplace during keynote - Marketplace to replace Domain Name Sales solution. Frank Schilling unveiled the new Uniregistry marketplace during his keynote at Namescon today. Uniregistry users will be able to to manage sales of their domain names from within their Uniregistry account, rather than a third-party system. It’s designed to be a better experience than the company’s Domain Name Sales platform. The service will be available in early access starting Monday, January 18, with full access available February 1. Also ... read more ...
 
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Test your skills with GoDaddy's Bought or Not - Fun game asks you to guess if a domain is registered or not. GoDaddy released a fun (and rather eye-opening) app at NamesCon today called Bought Or Not. Bought or Not is similar to hot or not, except players guess if a domain name has been registered or not. It’s available online at BoughtOrNot.com and as an iPhone app, with Android coming soon. GoDaddy is giving away prizes if you play the game at its booth during NamesCon. A group of GoDaddy interns came up with the idea over the summer. GoDaddy ... read more ...
Thu 7th January 2016
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Uniregistry app hits a round out of a park - Uniregistry app is slick, simple, and comes with an Easter egg. Domain management screen on Uniregistry app.Uniregistry released an iPhone app for its registrar service today. Now, those that have read this blog for a long time know that I’m not a fanboy. I don’t fall in love with a particular company or its products, and I write about the good and the bad. But damn, this is a great app. So simple. So beautiful. It took just moments to get familiar with the app and how you can use it to manage ... read more ...
Wed 6th January 2016
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.Com Winners & Losers: China Shuffles a Deck - Chinese surge starts to show up in monthy .com reports. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from September, and it’s starting to show the surge of .Com registrations in China. As I do every month, I ran the numbers to see which registrars performed best in terms of new registrations and transfers. This month is notable because HiChina and eName, both based in China, had stellar months. HiChina registered nearly three times as many .com domains in September as it did in August. ... read more ...
Mon 21st December 2015
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Google Adds abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com to the Collection Of Alphabet Domains - Google has just added another “Alphabet” domain name to its collection buying the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com. The domain name was most recently  owned by the The Giardino Law Firm, Inc of San Antonio and by a domainer in Tennessee before that. The domain has an original creation date of 2003. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its Corporate parent Alphabet. Google acquired the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com as part of its Alphabet ... read more ...
Thu 17th December 2015
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Com Laude published the 3rd Report "Gazetteer of Domain Names" - Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries from .AAA to .ZUERICH as well as legacy gTLDs (.COM, .ORG, .NET, etc.) and all 300+ Country Code registries (.uk, .de, .fr, etc.). Here are some interesting observations from the report: “There are now over 300 million registered ... read more ...
 
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SEC questioning Endurance International Group - Webhosting and domain name company reveals SEC investigation. Endurance International Group, a rollup of domain name and webhosting companies, announced today that it is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company disclosed: Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (“Endurance”) received a subpoena dated December 10, 2015 from the Boston Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), requiring the production of certain ... read more ...
Sat 12th December 2015
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CSC's Nov New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month - Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD’s (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD’s with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the report there are now 6,654 new gTLD domain names in the Alexa top 1,000,000 up from 5,340 in October, ... read more ...