Tag Archives: registrars

Mon 13th January 2014
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Demand Media’s Rightside reveals numbers and gamble on new TLDs in SEC filing - Rightside’s growth is highly dependent on the success of new top level domain names. Demand Media is spinning off its domain name business as a new publicly traded company, Rightside. Today the company filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that give the public much more detail on the business. Having reviewed the documents for much of this morning, one thing became very clear: a bet on Rightside is a bet on new top level domain names. ... read more ...
Thu 2nd January 2014
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GoDaddy gets sixth obvious for “Adwords for Top Level Domains” - Domain registrar continues to collect patents for ways to prioritize domain name search results. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a sixth patent to GoDaddy related to a way to position domain names in response to a user’s domain search. I first wrote about GoDaddy’s idea in 2011 after the USPTO granted the first patent, 7,890,602, for “Tools enabling preferred domain positioning on a registration website.” Domain name registrars accept marketing ... read more ...
Tue 31st December 2013
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Tucows executes retreat batch split, starts trade on NASDAQ - Tucows shares trading close to $13.00. Domain name company Tucows is now trading on the NASDAQ at a double digit number, thanks to its reverse stock split. As of the time of posting, is shares (NASDAQ: TCX) are trading at $12.95. Shares closed at $3.11 yesterday, and today the shares are trading after a 1 for 4 reverse split. That would put the stock at an “open” of $12.44, so the stock is still up in trading today. Tucows moved to the NASDAQ and executed the ... read more ...
Mon 30th December 2013
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2013 Top Stories: A new instruction for GoDaddy - GoDaddy has a new CEO and is moving in a new direction. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is trying to change the company — and its image.Blake Irving took the helm of domain name registrar and webhosting giant GoDaddy this year. It was a big shift for the company, which had been run by insiders until an investment group bought in to the company in 2011. The investors later installed an interim CEO until Irving came on board. Irving comes from Microsoft and Yahoo!, and brought ... read more ...
Tue 24th December 2013
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Registrar BigRock Gets ICANN Terminated Registrar Dynamic Dolphin’s Domains - ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from Dynamic Dolphin, Inc. to BigRock Solutions Ltd. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of Dynamic Dolphin, Inc. Former registrant-customers of Dynamic Dolphin, Inc. should receive notices from BigRock Solutions Ltd. advising of the transfer. Customer questions about the transfer should be directed to BigRock Solutions Ltd. The Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) of Dynamic Dolphin, ... read more ...
Wed 18th December 2013
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Domain name association Tucows headed to a NASDAQ - Company to list on NASDAQ and perform a reverse stock split. If you’ve watched Tucows’ stock over the fast few years, you’ve seen it go from under $1 to almost $3, and its market cap hit $125 million: The stock surge is due to a couple things. First, the company has grown its stock price the old fashion way: making money. Second, it has used some of its excess cash to buy back its own shares. Now the company is headed to the NASDAQ in addition to its existing ... read more ...
Thu 12th December 2013
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GoDaddy owner Bob Parsons joins The Giving Pledge - Bob and Renee Parsons pledge over half of their wealth to charitable causes. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons and his wife Renee Parsons have joined The Giving Pledge, an initiative in which wealthy people pledge to give half or more of their wealth to charity. Parsons’ net worth is estimated at over $1 billion. The couple has already made a number of seven figure donations, including to veteran causes. For example, he gave $1 million to establish The Bob Parsons Veterans ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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GoDaddy has a $12,500 cost tab for Donuts’ Early Access Program - GoDaddy issues its pricing for jumping the line for Donuts’ domain names. Last month I wrote about how Donuts was eschewing a traditional “landrush” period for its domain names in favor of a so-called “Early Access Program”. The Early Access Program (EAP) charges significantly higher prices the earlier you register a domain name. It was clear at the time that pricing for the program would not be cheap. 101Domain already listed a price of $10,990 for the ... read more ...
Tue 26th November 2013
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.Luxury Selects Namejet.com/Afternic.com For Sunrise Landrush Auctions & Premium Name Sales - Luxury Partners, LLC, which own the new gTLD .LUXURY has selected NameJet and Afternic to manage the Sunrise, Landrush and Premium Name selection and sales. Godaddy.com which recently purchased Afternic.com, is currently taking pre-registrations of .Luxury domain names starting at $799.99 a year. Here is the rest of the press release: “The .LUXURY gTLD provides a brandable platform to meet the unique needs of the luxury market. Businesses in the luxury industry will have the opportunity to strengthen ... read more ...
Mon 25th November 2013
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Scott Richter Gets Slammed By Krebsonsecurity.com As ICANN Sends Termination Of His Dynamic Dolphin Registrar -       A respected internet Security blog Krebsonsecurity.com ripped Scott Richter in a post covering ICANN’s notice of termination of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement of the domain name registrar, Dynamic Dolphin, a registrar that Krebs says “has long been closely associated with spam and cybercrime”. “The move came almost five years after this reporter asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to investigate whether the man at the helm of this registrar ... read more ...
Mon 18th November 2013
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TLDH launches “Priority Registration” use for new TLDs, starting during €29.95 - Service makes it easy to get first in line for some new TLDs, although premium pricing does apply. Top Level Domain Holdings has released a system for pre-registering new top level domain names, called Priority Registration. The service is enabled through the company’s Online Priority Enhanced Names database (“OPEN”) at the company’s own domain name registrar, Minds + Machines. It is also open for other domain registrars and registries to link into. It’s ... read more ...
Wed 13th November 2013
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1and1.com Tops 4 Million New gTLD Pre-Reservations; Adding 1.5 Million In a Month -                       The domain name registrar, 1and1.com just topped 4 Million pre-reservations for new gTLD domain names. The registrar announced earlier this week that they were accepting pre-registrations for 4 new gTLD’s, .BIKE, .SINGLES, .HOLDINGS and .CLOTHING which are different that pre-reservations. 1and1.com recently announced they have spent over $50 million dollars in television and other marketing of new gTLD domain name pre-reservations. On October 24th 1and1.com passed ... read more ...
 
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ICANN cautions about new TLD pre-registrations - ICANN weighs in on pre-registrations for new top level domain names. With more and more domain name registrars offering some sort of pre-registration or pre-reservation service for new top level domain names, ICANN has published a word of caution. Cyrus Namazi, Vice President of DNS Industry Engagement for ICANN, published a blog post today titled “Pre-Reserve a Domain Name, or Not? ICANN Answers the Question.” Namazi warns against services that “guarantee” ... read more ...
 
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Tucows shares rocket to $3.00 on earnings, new TLD deal - Deal with Donuts bolsters Q3 earnings. Shares of Tucows (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) shot up 15% to $3.00 in after hours trading after the company announced third quarter earnings. The company got a big cash boost from its deal with Donuts to withdraw its applications for the .marketing and .media top level domain name applications. Although the exact dollar figure of the deal was not disclosed in the earnings release, there’s a huge jump in the company’s “portfolio” ... read more ...
Mon 11th November 2013
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1&1 starts pre-registration, and new TLDs are removing most some-more confusing - Top ten domain registrar 11 is now accepting pre-registrations on a first come basis, and the various pre-registration offerings are rather confusing. Last week I wrote about how GoDaddy was beginning to accept paid pre-registrations for a handful of top level domain names that will be coming soon. Other registrars are also offering some version of paid offering now, and more will begin to do so as the domains are actually delegated. 11, which has been running TV ... read more ...
Fri 8th November 2013
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How Your Premium Domain Might Be Sold By Godaddy As People Try To Preregistrations A New gTLD - With Godaddy taking paid preregistrations on four new gTLD’s today, .Luxury, .Build, .Menu and .Uno, your chances of selling your premium domain name may increase if its listed in Godaddy resale channel. As people search to preregister a new gTLD domain,  if that domain isn’t available because its  already preregistered or reserved by the registry (Godaddy doesn’t distinguish) they are showing alternative domain names and all of the alternatives as of now, are either unregistered .org .net ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy starts usurpation pre-registrations for new TLDs for adult to $1,200 each - Pre-registrations now accepted for fees of up to $1,200 per domain. Overnight GoDaddy started accepting paid pre-registrations for four new top level domain names: .uno, .menu, .build, .luxury. While many registrars have offered some sort of pre-reservation or pre-registration service that did not require any firm commitment by the customer, GoDaddy is the first major registrar I’m aware of to actually charge an upfront fee. And the fees are steep. Prices to pre-register ... 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 ...
 
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How Web.com upsells and cross-sells the customers - Whether you’re a DIYer or full service customer, Web.com wants to make a mint selling you more than just a domain name. If you’ve ever registered a domain name at Register.com or Network Solutions, then you’ve undoubtedly received their follow-on sales pitches. These pitches cover everything from Facebook services to premium domains. Web.com CEO David Brown gave a good, succinct description of how this works on the company’s earnings call yesterday. …let’s ... read more ...
 
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Donuts to skip Landrush on initial collection of TLDs - Sunrise to begin November 26. Donuts announced this morning that it plans to start the sunrise for its first seven top level domain names on November 26. The sunrise will close on January 24, 2014. The seven domains are .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures. Interestingly, the company has chosen to skip the landrush phase for these domain names. The landrush period typically allows people interested in premium domains to place their ... read more ...
Tue 5th November 2013
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Demand Media’s Domain Services Spinoff Is Rightside.co & Names Taryn Naidu As CEO -     Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD),  that it has selected the name Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”) for the spun off domain services business. The company is going with the domain name Rightside.co. Taryn Naidu, who currently serves as Demand Media’s Executive Vice President of Domain Services, will become the CEO and a Director of the newly formed domain services company that is proposed to be spun off from Demand Media. Rightside will include the domain name registrars eNom, Name.com, ... read more ...
 
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I was right: Demand Media spinoff to be called RightSide - Rightside is right. Last week I wrote about how signs were pointing to Demand Media calling its domain name spinoff Rightside. Today the company formally announced that the name will indeed by Rightside. Rightside Group, Ltd. will encompass Demand Media’s current domain name services (eNom, Name.com, United TLD, NameJet) as well as its large portfolio of domain names. The publicly traded company will be led by Taryn Naidu, currently Demand Media’s Executive Vice ... read more ...
Fri 1st November 2013
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NameBright offers $4.99 .com domain names in November - James is right again, you need to exit the drop catch business, if you want the trust of domainers. I assume this is not something you are willing to do. As well you need to stop registering TM terms, maybe a better eyeball of your vaccum system before you go and gulp every drop of the day could help you fix that. I think all parties deserve a fair shot, and people should not be swayed by teaser pricing. I would rather register with Godaddy.com, Name.com, Namecheap.com before even ... read more ...
Thu 31st October 2013
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GoDaddy to run dual Super Bowl commercials, sans passionate innuendo - Company will continue to advertise in Super Bowl but take a different tack. GoDaddy has announced that it will run Super Bowl ads for the tenth year in a row. The company will again have two 30 second ad spots in the 2014 Super Bowl. One of them will, once again, feature race car driver Danica Patrick. But the similarities between 2014 and the company’s previous Super Bowl commercials will end there: the company will skip sexual innuendo in the new commercials. GoDaddy ... read more ...
Wed 30th October 2013
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GoDaddy sends out the initial large email blast about new TLDs - Registrar invites customers to follow their favorite top level domains. GoDaddy has featured new top level domain names on its website for a while now. But it appears the company just sent out its first big email promotion to inform its customer base about the coming avalanche of top level domain options. The email (pictured) invites customers to follow top level domain names that interest them. GoDaddy will later allow customers to pre-register domain names, and ... read more ...