Tag Archives: registrars

Thu 24th April 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
The usually thing Blake Irving points during elephants is a camera - GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is doing a Reddit AMA. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is doing an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit right now. It’s a pretty gutsy move given the typical Reddit user and their stance toward GoDaddy. I suppose that’s the point. Comments have been basically what you’d expect: the company’s initial support of SOPA, the founder shooting elephants and racy commercials. Most of these are easy to defend since Blake wasn’t around when these happened. ... 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 ...
Mon 21st April 2014
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Pricing a latest new TLDs: NameCheap is Cheap - NameCheap’s pricing for new TLDs is low. Two months ago I ran a price comparison of new top level domain name options at various top registrars. The prices were for the three tiers of domains offered by registry Donuts. Many more domains have come out since then, often offered by registries other than Donuts. Today I ran another comparison based on four non-Donuts domains. In many ways the results were very similar to the Donuts comparison. NameCheap lives up ... read more ...
Thu 17th April 2014
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Rightside’s initial dual domain names enter landrush - After supporting dozens of Donuts’ launches, Rightside is finally ready to play its own hand. Rightside’s first two top level domain names are getting closer to market. The company, currently part of Demand Media, launched .democrat and .dance in landrush today. Although these are the first two of its own domains to enter landrush, Rightside’s registry operations are handling the backend for Donuts’ domain names. Rightside is running a fairly traditional ... read more ...
Wed 16th April 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
123-Reg.co.uk Alerts Customers to Fraudulent Email - 123 Reg – co.uk alerts customers to fraudulent emails. Please be aware these are NOT genuine emails from 123-reg so no action is required if you receive such an email. We advise you to not click on the links and to delete the email immediately. Emails such as this attempt to fraudulently get your account details allowing unauthorised access to your account. These emails are known as phishing emails and are a serious threat to the security of your account. Please note, this email is 100% unrelated ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2014
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I finally purebred a new TLD. Here is a (long) story. - I registered four new TLDs today. It took two hours. Today was the day. I finally registered a domain in a new TLD. Actually it looks like I ended up with four registrations, all in .link. Here is my story. Genre: horror. When I got to the office this morning I decided I was going to do whatever it took to register a domain in .link. .Link is the first truly “generic” domain to hit the market, and at about $10/year it’s also reasonably priced. Since it’s generic, ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy.com comment government Goes Down - Site won’t let users log in. GoDaddy had technical difficulties today, spanning from about 2:30 PM ET to 3:10 PM ET. Users trying to log in were greeted with a message similar to this: Service Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later. Reference #6.c758acc6.1397587049.b44810 I was able to enter my login credentials, but when I entered by two factor code I got the error message. A Domain Name Wire reader reported ... read more ...
Thu 10th April 2014
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Money talks, and Verisign is doing a good pursuit quashing new TLDs - Marketing programs help .com get top billing, but other registrars can play this game too. New top level domain names represent a growth opportunity for domain name registrars, many of which have seen domain registrations plateauing over the past year. That’s why 11 spent $50 million promoting new top level domain pre-registrations and other registrars have prominently featured new TLDs on their home pages. Over the past week or two I’ve noticed something interesting, ... read more ...
Mon 31st March 2014
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DomainNameSales.com syndication with GoDaddy is over - Today is the last day domains listed on DomainNameSales.com will show up for searches on GoDaddy. Today is the last day that Sedo listings will be syndicated to GoDaddy. It turns out it’s also the last day for DomainNameSales.com listings on the site. [Update: while March 31 was supposed to be the last day for DNS syndication on GoDaddy, GoDaddy has kept the listings up while it finishes a transition for Afternic listings in the registration path.] That means that ... read more ...
Wed 26th March 2014
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United Internet holding marketplace share from GoDaddy in new TLDs - After slow start, company is grabbing share in recent TLD launches. United Internet, a group of companies that includes 11, Sedo, InterNetX, and United Domains, appears to be taking a good chunk of the new TLDs market share away from GoDaddy. United spent about $50 million advertising pre-registrations for new top level domain names. Yet GoDaddy was kicking its butt in registrations for the first batches of new TLDs that hit the market. That has shifted in recent ... read more ...
Mon 24th March 2014
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How many domains in new TLDs will we register? - Answer this question on the 9th annual Domain Name Wire survey. This year’s Domain Name Wire Survey has additional questions about top level domain names now that new ones are finally rolling off the assembly line. By taking the survey, you’ll answer questions such as: * How many second level domains in these new extensions do you plan to register for yourself or on behalf of your company in 2014? * What will the release of new top level domain names do to the ... read more ...
Wed 19th March 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game - Godaddy.com share of the new gTLD market dropped 5% overnight after the domain extension for .Berlin launched getting almost 32,000 registrations German based registrar, InterNetX said they were able to secure 81% of all preregistrations for its clients, “making it the #1 registrar for .BERLIN domains in the B2B sector”. Godaddy.com which had just under 40% of the new gTLD market as a domain name registrar share is now sitting right below 35%. Many German based registrars benefited from the success ... read more ...
 
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Registrar suspends all domain names eliminated from consummated registrar - EnCirca finds that domains were used for nefarious purposes. ICANN terminated the accreditation of domain name registrar ABSYSTEMS INC (dba yournamemonkey.com) in December for multiple contract breaches. ICANN transferred the domain names to another registrar as ICANN does in cases of a de-accreditation. In this case, EnCirca was the (not so) lucky registrar. EnCirca got more than it bargained for. ICANN informed EnCirca that ABSYSTEMS had approximately 700-800 names, ... read more ...
 
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.Berlin scores 30,000+ registrations in good news for city TLDs - City domain name rockets out of the starting gate. The .Berlin top level domain name has quickly racked up over 30,000 domain name registrations according to the latest published zone file. A lot of domain industry insiders think .city domain names have some of the best potential among new TLDs, and .Berlin’s quick start is certainly a positive sign. Perhaps encouraged by the success of Germany’s country code domain name .de, applicants applied for eight city ... read more ...
 
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Donuts adds another 20,000 registrations with subsequent 6 domains - Donuts next six domains launch and 11 is picking up steam thanks to cut rate pricing. Another five six of Donuts domain names reverted to “regular” pricing today and they picked up about 20,000 registrations in the first hours, according to updated stats on nTLDStats.com. The six domain names and their net adds are: company 6,493 center 5,599 systems 3,041 academy 2,793 management 2,252 computer 1,313 .Academy and .Computer appear to be in Donuts’ middle price ... read more ...
Tue 18th March 2014
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The Birth Pangs of new tip turn domain names - The launch of new domain names has been anything but smooth. Confusion. Frustration. Incompetence. That’s how I’d sum up the launch of new TLDs so far. I’ve already written about some of the challenges of new TLD launches to date. How they’re coming out with a whimper. How domain name registrars are making it difficult to register these new domain names. Kevin Murphy over at Domain Incite has more examples today in a post titled “Registrars screwing up new ... read more ...
Sun 16th March 2014
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A initial demeanour during Frank Schilling’s new domain name registrar - Uniregistry (the registrar) will roll out to the public on Monday. Frank Schilling’s domain name registrar Uniregistry is due to launch this week (likely Monday) and Domain Name Wire took an early look over the weekend. Although officially named Uniregistrar with ICANN, the registrar will be known as Uniregistry to customers. That’s the same name as the registry that Schilling is using to offer potentially dozens of new top level domain names. The registrar will ... read more ...
Wed 12th March 2014
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Grumpy a Cat and Rob Corddry give Name.com a High Five - Celebrities give Name.com a high five. Name.com did a rather clever marketing gimmick during SXSW Interactive in Austin. It sent one of its customer service reps to the city as “High Five Guy”. For every high five he got (10,000) the company donated 5 cents to an Austin charity. It’s difficult to attract attention during the noise of SXSW, but High Five Guy appears to have done the trick. The charity element certainly didn’t hurt. High Five guy got high fives ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2014
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Former Apple executive joins GoDaddy board - GoDaddy adds woman to board and her background might signal a coming IPO. GoDaddy has appointed Betsy Rafael to its board of directors. She is the former Chief Accounting Officer at Apple and Finance VP at Cisco Systems. Rafael also serves on the boards of Echelon and Autodesk. Rafael is the first woman on GoDaddy’s Board of Directors, although the company has a number of women in leadership roles including the CMO, CTO, Chief Communications Officer, and General ... read more ...
Mon 10th March 2014
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Survey: Domain Name Registrars in 2014 - What do customers look for in a domain name registrar? The 9th annual Domain Name Wire survey is open and awaiting your participation. As always, the survey asks some questions about domain name registrars and why people use the registrar they do. The survey asks participants to rank eight difference factors commonly considered by customers. There’s an additional one this year that wasn’t on the list last year: availability of the top level domain name options ... read more ...
Fri 7th March 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
14K of Enom’s 23K new gTLD Registrations Are From NameCheap - Yesterday we reported on the top 20 domain name registrars in terms of new gTLD domain name registrations. The domain name registrar in second place on the list was Enom with 23,167 new gTLD domain name registrations. Today the CEO fo NameCheap.com Richard Kirkendall told TheDomains.com that of the 23K domain name registrations of Enom.com, NameCheap.com accounts for over 14,000 of them. Namecheap.com is a reller of Enom so its totals are included in Enom’s official totals. Based on 14,000 registration ... read more ...
Thu 6th March 2014
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Godaddy Has 40% Of The New gTLD Market; 1and1 For Its $50M Got 12K Registrations - A new site (or at least new to me) is showing the most detailed stats I have seen for new gTLD’s. According to ntldstats.com, there are a total of 215,638 new gTLD domain registrations as of 16:30 (time zone not defined) on March 6th. According to the site, Godaddy registered almost 87,000 of the 215,000 new gTLD’s giving it a 40% market share. 1and1.com which spent a reported $50 million dollars on a  advertising campaign to promote the new gTLD’s is in 4th place with some 12,388 registrations ... read more ...
 
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Why we haven’t purebred any new TLDs yet - Between reserved domains, name collisions, premium pricing and awkward domain name registrar interfaces, it’s just a pain in the ass. I’ve written before about how new TLDs are coming out with a whimper. They are severely handicapped coming out of the gate thanks to lack of registrar support, name collision uncertainty, poor registrar search experiences and a whole host of other reasons. Earlier this week I wrote about my experience trying to register 17 domain ... read more ...
Wed 26th February 2014
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NameCheap.com Says Its Has 20% Of All .Sexy & .Tattoo Registrations - NameCheap.com has around 20% of all .Sexy and .Tattoo registrations. Based on the last zone file update, .Sexy and .Tattoo has around 2,700 domain name registered. NameCheap.com has registered 423 .sexy and 130 .Tattoo domain names as of the publication for a total of 553 domains or around 20% of the last zone update. To be clear, the NameCheap.com numbers are as of publication while the total registrations for .Sexy and .Tattoo are as of the last Zone update. Anyway you slice it with over 40 domain ... 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 ...