Tag Archives: registrars

Thu 29th August 2013
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6 of tip 20 websites exposed to conflict that took down NYTimes.com - Amazon.com and Pinterest among those sites more vulnerable to unauthorized nameserver changes. Yesterday I wrote about how NYTimes.com could have avoided its nameserver hijacking on Tuesday had it paid about $50 a month for a service called Registry Lock. As the 55th most trafficked website (Quantcast), it seems like a small price to pay to avoid downtime. But The New York Times, which has since added Registry Lock, is not the only large website that hasn’t taken ... read more ...
Wed 28th August 2013
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How The New York Times could have prevented yesterday’s conflict for only $50 - Adding Registry Lock service to a domain name prevents unauthorized name server changes. Yesterday the nameservers for The New York Times’ NYTimes.com domain name were altered, allegedly by the Syrian Electronic Army, which led to some internet users not being able to access the company’s website. The New York Times could have easily prevented this from happening at a cost of under $50 a month. All it needed to do was add a product called Registry Lock to its ... read more ...
Tue 27th August 2013
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Melbourne IT a diseased couple as Twitter and NY Times domain names compromised - Two big sites have their domains compromised — and both use the same domain name registrar. Twitter and the New York Times have apparently had their domain names compromised, and the two companies have one thing in common: they both use MelbourneIT as their domain name registrar. As of right now, the New York Times whois record reads: Twitter’s whois record seems to be fine when I look it up on Melbourne IT. As the domain registrar for the domain, MelbourneIT’s ... read more ...
Fri 23rd August 2013
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GoDaddy CEO named as probable inheritor to Steve Ballmer during Microsoft - Wall Street Journal says Irving might be a candidate for Microsoft’s top spot. With Steve Ballmer heading to the exit at Microsoft within the next year, speculation about his replacement is rampant. One name that has come up: Blake Irving, who took over the reigns at domain name registrar GoDaddy earlier this year. Wall Street Journal published a story naming five possible successors, including Irving. Apparently the list was conjured up after the reporter spoke ... read more ...
Tue 20th August 2013
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Tucows.com Shares Hit 52 Week High - Shares of Tucows.com (TCX) hit a 52 week high in trading today. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.31 which is a 52 week high. As of publication Tucows.com is trading at  $2.26 up $.10 on the day and has a trading range today of $2.10 to $2.31 Tucows.com has a market cap of $93 million dollars. Tucows.com 52 week low was $1.05 making a very nice return for investors. Tucows is a top 5 ICANN domain name registrar.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Is this GoDaddy’s new slogan? - Company files two intent-to-use trademark applications. Domain name registrar GoDaddy has filed two intent-to-use trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, possibly tipping off slogans it plans to use in the future. Application 86,038,967 is for “Name It. Make It. Own It.” This seems to jive with the company’s mission to help people get their business off the ground with web services. Application 86,038,961 is for the much more generic ... read more ...
 
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Partnership leads to merger by GoDaddy - After integrating Locu into web site building product, GoDaddy buys the whole company. I took yesterday afternoon off to spend with my daughter before school starts again on Wednesday. As we hung out I scanned my tweet stream and saw something about GoDaddy and Locu. No biggie, I thought. I’ve already written about their partnership. It wasn’t until last evening that I saw that it wasn’t about the partnership — GoDaddy announced it acquired Locu. Locu helps ... read more ...
Tue 13th August 2013
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CentralNic Formally Announces Sep IPO - CentralNic and SLD’s … You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig; and a pig subject to US Law 15 USC § 1125 – False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution forbidden (a) Civil action (1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading ... read more ...
Mon 12th August 2013
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Former GoDaddy General Counsel to run for Arizona Governor - Jones jumps headfirst into politics with gubernatorial bid. Christine Jones, former General Counsel Corporate Secretary for GoDaddy, announced that she will run for Governor of Arizona. Jones left the company last year after a decade in high profile roles at the fast growing domain name registrar and web services firm. Having a leading role at a company that created thousands of jobs in the state will no doubt help her bid. Jones and other GoDaddy executives have ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media gains $1.2 million from new TLD “withdrawals” - Demand Media records seven figure gain from new TLD withdrawals. Demand Media recorded a gain of $1.2 million last quarter from withdrawals of its interest in new top level domain name applications. Here’s how it’s worded in the company’s 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: In the three month period ended June 30, 2013, the net gain related to the withdrawals of our interest in certain gTLD applications was $1.2 million. The company ... read more ...
 
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Lisa Box joins Endurance International - Box leaves Moniker:SnapNames to take role with Endurance. Lisa Box has joined Endurance International Group as Senior Director of Domains, the company announced today. Box has been in the domain name industry since 2007, when she joined Internet REIT as Vice President of Sales Marketing. She then joined Oversee.net as Senior Director of Sales. When Oversee.net sold Moniker:SnapNames to KeyDrive Group, she went along to the new company as Vice President of Business ... read more ...
Thu 8th August 2013
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Tucows: Sold .Marketing & .Media New gTLD Applications For “A Substantial Sum” - In its earnings call today Tucows.com (TCX)  said that they sold two of their new gTLD applications for a “Substantial Sum” that will be reflected in its  YummyNames.com subsidiary revenue in the third quarter of 2013. Tucows.com which was one of the applicants for .Media and .Marketing but withdrew their application for both, and combined with Unregistry’s withdrawn for the same two strings, it left Donuts as the sole applicant for .Media and .Marketing. It has been previously reported ... read more ...
 
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Tucows Reports: Revenue Increases 11%; Sells Over $1 Million In Domain Names - Tucows.com reported its financial results for the 2nd Quarter ending June 30, 2013. Net revenue for the second quarter of 2013 increased 11% to a record $31.2 million from $28.2 million for the second quarter of 2012. Net income for the second quarter of 2013 was $0.6 million, or $0.01 per share, compared with $0.7 million, or $0.02 per share, for the second quarter of 2012. Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the second quarter of 2013 were $6.5 million compared with $4.3 million at the end ... read more ...
 
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RBC: Demand Media New gTLD Initiative Could Be Worth More Than Its Registrar Business: enom.com, name.com - RBC issued an Equity Research Report  today on Demand Media, Inc., the day after Demand Media, Inc, reported its second quarter earnings. Demand Media announced during the earnings report and the earnings call that followed that Google’s Search algorithm continues to impact Demand’s owned and operated site traffic negatively and to a greater extent than captured in estimates. Shares of Demand are down over 5% in early trading today at $6.21 as time of publication although they hit as low as ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Sends Notice Of Breach Of RAA To PacNames.com (Again) - ICANN has sent a notice to Pacnames Ltd. of Auckland 1052 New Zealand A Notice of Breach of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA): “”Please be advised that as of 5 August 2013, Pacnames Ltd. (“Pacnames”) is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) dated 26 February 2012 (“RAA”). These breaches result from: Pacnames’failure to maintain registration records as required by Section3.4.2 of the RAA; ... 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 ...
Thu 1st August 2013
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ICANN Will Start Enforcing a New Expired Registration Recovery Policy (“ERRP”) At The End Of The Month - On August 31, 2013 ICANN will start enforcing the new Expired Registration Recovery Policy (“ERRP”) . The ERRP is expected to promote better understanding of registrants’ options and help alleviate common issues related to the expiration of gTLD registrations. This policy is intended to help align registrant expectations with registrar practices by establishing certain minimum communications requirements and making renewal and redemption of domain name registrations uniformly available in prescribed ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
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You Know About UDRP’s; Have You Ever Heard Of A TDRP? - Have you ever heard of a TDRP? Until yesterday I didn’t when I ran into the NameCheap.com case which decision is still pending which apparently denied NameCheap.com’s claim to 7 domain names that a US federal judge ordered transferred to them in January. So unlike a UDRP which involves an alleged  rights holder as the Complainant and a domain holder as the respondent a TDRP is an dispute between registrars arising from inter-registrar transfer of domain names. The TDRP was approved by ICANN ... read more ...
Fri 26th July 2013
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You Hate Obama?: Check Out The Links Network Solutions Is Serving Up On JoeBiden’s Expired Domain - Elliotsblog.com reported today that the domain name matching of the Vice President of the United States JoeBiden.com expired and could be heading for auction. I checked out the parked page that NetworkSolutions.com is serving up now that they as the registrar are in control of the expired domain name. I couldn’t help but notice some links on the parked page that will probably not exactly thrill the Whitehouse like “Do You Hate Obama” ‘Poll-Impeach Obama?” and Repeal Obama Care” The results ... read more ...
Wed 24th July 2013
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Judge Says Godaddy Is Not Entitled To Safe Harbor Protection On Parked Pages Program - In a 29 page ruling a California Federal Court denied Godaddy’s motion to have the case filed by the ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES, (the Oscars) which was filed in 2010, thrown out, denying Godaddy.com the Safe Harbor that domain name registrars typically enjoy. DomainNameWire.com reported last week that Godaddy was testing out some new parked landing pages, but this ruling might explain why Godaddy made the change removing pay per click traditional parked page advertising. Of course ... read more ...
 
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Royal baby domain name registrations spike - GoDaddy reports increase in domain registrations related to baby. I have to admit, I don’t really get this royal baby nonsense. But it’s still the top news story today, even on the U.S. version of CNN.com. Punters* are lining up to cash in on the name of Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s baby. GoDaddy reports that, as of yesterday evening, it had seen a spike of 2x-4x (in the previous 24 hours) in domain names registered that included possible names of ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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GoDaddy lets business “watch” new TLDs - Domain registrar creates watchlist for new domain names. GoDaddy is now allowing customers to add particular new top level domain names to a “watchlist”. The company’s updated new TLD landing page includes 700 categorized to level domain names. A blog post announcing the new watchlist feature was careful not to call it pre-registration, or even expressions of interest: NOTE: Keep in mind, we might not sell all of the gTLDs listed on the landing page. The “watch” ... 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 ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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GoDaddy gets obvious for Geo Domain tool - First patent related to system for generating geo domain names is granted. Back in 2009 GoDaddy released a geo domain tool that allowed you to find domain names specific to a location, e.g. AustinAllergists.com. Last year I reported that GoDaddy filed three patent applications related to the tool. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now granted a patent to GoDaddy covering the technology. U.S. patent 8,489,746 is titled “Systems for suggesting domain names ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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GoDaddy triples space in Sunnyvale, now over 80 employees in Silicon Valley - Domain name registrar leases 40,000 square feet in key Silicon Valley location. GoDaddy is opening a new office in Sunnyvale, California as it rapidly increases its headcount in the area. The new 40,000 square foot office more than triples the company’s current space in the city. 40 GoDaddy employees were in Silicon Valley as of February, and the press release about the expansion says that number has “more than doubled” since then. The space is in Moffett Towers ... read more ...