Tag Archives: registrars

Tue 21st May 2013
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GoDaddy gets dual patents for domain appraisal - Paul Nicks’ inventions related to name spinning and appraisals get patent protection. The United States Patent and Trademark Office today issued two patents to GoDaddy related to name spinning and appraisal. U.S. Patent number 8,447,701 is titled “Appraising domain names using comparative data” and 8,447,702 (pdf) is “Domain appraisal algorithm”. The patents have lots of overlapping material. They cover name spinning to create permutations of domain names ... read more ...
Mon 20th May 2013
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Every grill should get one of these websites - A mobile friendly website for restaurants that doesn’t have any of my pet peeves. On Friday I received a press release from GoDaddy about how its website builder had new functionality and specific templates for restaurants. It was Friday afternoon and I generally don’t care much about small business website builders. The combination of these two led me to click the “delete” button. But then I quickly hit “undo”. Wait? Did that say specialized websites ... read more ...
Thu 16th May 2013
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GoDaddy.com Bowl drops .com for 2014 game - In another sign of rebranding, The GoDaddy.com Bowl is now the GoDaddy Bowl. GoDaddy is in the process of rebranding from GoDaddy.com to simply GoDaddy. With the change, the football game formerly known as the GoDaddy.com Bowl will be called merely the GoDaddy Bowl next year, reports AL.com. GoDaddy announced plans to change its brand to a group of new top level domain applicants in March. The company will drop the .com from its branding over the coming year and ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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Tucows Reports: Revenue Increases 9% But Domain Sales Slow To $1.1M - Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC), reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 after the market closed today According to reports Tucows missed expectations as to both earnings and revenue. Net revenue for the first quarter of 2013 increased 9% to a record $30.0 million from $27.5 million for the first quarter of 2012. Net income for the first quarter of 2013 was $0.1 million, or $0.00 per share, compared with $1.7 million, or $0.04 per share, for the first quarter ... read more ...
 
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domaindiscount24 Puts .EU Domain Registrations On Sale For 80% Off - domaindiscount24 (dd24) just put one-year .EU domain registrations on sale for the special price of only 0.14 EUR / 0.17 EUR incl. VAT per month in May, which represents a cost saving of 80% off the regular price. dd24 is the retail customer portal of the Key-Systems GmbH, the second largest registrar for generic domains such as .COM or .NET in Europe and one of the 15 largest worldwide, in relation to the number of managed gTLD domain names (source: webhosting.info). Websites with a .EU address ... read more ...
 
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Tucows reports earnings, says domain investors are assessing a impact of new TLDs - Tucows reports earnings, says domain investors are proceeding cautiously on domain buys as they assess the impact of new TLDs. Tucows reported earnings this afternoon, recording its twelfth consecutive quarter of record revenue (year over year). The company generated $30.0 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2013 and reported a slight profit of $0.1 million for the quarter. That compares to a $1.7 million profit in the same quarter last year. Most of ... read more ...
Fri 10th May 2013
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An reason of Demand Media’s understanding with Donuts - SEC filing sheds (some) light on relationship for new top level domains. A lot of fuss has been made about the connection between Demand Media and Donuts and the new TLD program. What exactly is the relationship between the two companies? Demand Media’s latest 10-Q, filed today, explains the terms of the agreement: As part of its initiative to pursue the acquisition of gTLD operator rights, the Company has entered into a gTLD acquisition agreement (“gTLD Agreement”) ... read more ...
Wed 8th May 2013
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Godaddy Formally Names Scott Wagner COO & CFO - According to a press release by GoDaddy, it is formally announcing as “its new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Scott Wagner, effective immediately.” “Wagner was a KKR Capstone Member and the leader of KKR’s portfolio operations team in North America, who stepped in as GoDaddy’s interim CEO last summer. ” “Wagner began working with GoDaddy a short time after KKR, Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures made strategic investments in the company in 2011.     ... read more ...
 
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Scott Wagner takes COO and CFO positions during Go Daddy - Scott Wagner goes from interim to permanent at GoDaddy. Domain name registrar GoDaddy today announced that Scott Wagner is its new COO and CFO. Wagner took over as interim CEO of the company last summer when Warren Adelman stepped down from the CEO position. He then vacated that position earlier this year to make way for new CEO Blake Irving. Wagner worked for KKR for 13 years, recently as a member of KKR’s portfolio operations team. He became involved with GoDaddy ... read more ...
 
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ICANN sends crack notice to vast Argentinian domain registrar - Dattatec late on fees, slow to respond to whois inaccuracy claims. ICANN has sent a breach notice to a relatively large domain name registrar based in Argentina. ICANN claims (pdf) that Dattatec.com, SRL is in breach of a number of provisions of the registrar accreditation agreement. According to the breach notice, Dattatec is not taking reasonable steps to investigate whois inaccuracy complaints, isn’t properly maintaining registration records, and isn’t making ... read more ...
Tue 7th May 2013
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Demand Media touts new TLDs in latest earnings, domains boost to 14 million - Demand Media puts new TLDs front and center in earnings release. Demand Media just released its first quarter earnings. It reported a slight profit of $0.7M before adjustments. But more interesting to the domain world is the focus the company’s earnings release places on new TLDs. The first paragraph proudly announces that the company has signed up 400 resellers for its new TLDs (though eNom) and has received 2 millions “expressions of interest” from people ... read more ...
 
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How Demand Media sees the domain name business - Domain business positioned as end-to-end domain provider, spin-out on track. Demand Media just concluded its first quarter earnings conference call, and much of the talk centered on new TLDs. The company is working to spin out its domain name business into a separate business and expects that to happen by the end of the year or in early 2014. CEO Richard Rosenblatt explained that the company wants to be an end-to-end provider of domain services. The group will continue ... read more ...
Sat 4th May 2013
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Web.com Owner Of Register.com and NetworkSolutions.com Reports Earnings -   Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW), which owns the top 10 domain name registrars, NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 on Thursday night. After reporting results shares of the company hit an all time high on Friday Here are the highlights: Added 21,000 net new subscribers, ending the quarter at 3.03 million subscribers Average Revenue Per User of $13.89 grew $0.12 sequentially Completed second debt re-financing increasing total annualized ... read more ...
Thu 2nd May 2013
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Nigeria slashes second turn .ng registration cost by 97% - Domains used to cost $3,165 per year. According to an article on This Day Live, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the registry for .ng domain names, has reduced the price of registering a second level .ng domain name by 97% to NGN 15,000. That’s equivalent to about $95 USD. Previously, the group had been charging NGN 500,000, or $3,165 per year, for a second level .ng registration. But it actually used to cost a lot more than that. When NIRA started ... read more ...
Thu 25th April 2013
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Network Solutions files domain remoteness obvious application - Domain name registrar Network Solutions wants to patent various aspects of a domain privacy service, and has filed a patent application for “Private Domain Name Registration” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The application is technically a continuation of an application the company filed in 2004 but later abandoned. The new application was filed May 25, 2012 and just published (pdf) today. But wait, doesn’t Go Daddy already have a patent on this? Sort ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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ICANN will now be means to postpone domain name registrars - [Well, looks like ICANN actually had a similar provision in its 2009 RAA, just in a different section. Sorry about that.] One of the big improvements in the proposed 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) over the 2009 version is the ability for ICANN to suspend registrars. Previously, if a registrar was in breach of contract, ICANN only had the “nuclear option” – to terminate the domain registrar. Many in the ICANN community felt this was why ICANN would ... read more ...
Tue 23rd April 2013
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Coming this year: a biggest domain registrar phishing conflict ever - New RAA satisfies boneheaded law enforcement request that will lead to more domain theft. The proposed new registration accreditation agreement satisfies a law enforcement requirement of verifying whois information when someone registers a domain name. The requirements can easily be satisfied by people who want to register domains for nefarious purposes. In fact, they’re downright stupid. But more troubling is that it will lead to more phishing of domain registrar ... read more ...
Wed 17th April 2013
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Go Daddy proves it’s a tech company, though not with the commercials - Recent moves by new CEO Blake Irving show the company’s path forward. If you ask the typical person on the street what Go Daddy is about, they’ll probably say something about sexy Super Bowl commercials. Last year the company decided to change that image and show people that it was a serious tech company. It advertised its tech prowess on various blogs and hired ad agency Deutsch to produce new commercials, culminating in the Bar Rafaeli “kiss” commercial ... read more ...
Wed 10th April 2013
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Video: how to set adult and use two-factor authentication during GoDaddy.com - Video gives step-by-step instructions for increasing security in your Go Daddy account. Two-factor authentication is one of the best ways to make any online account more secure. Go Daddy introduced two-factor authentication for its United States customers last year. Once you set up the service you will receive a text message every time you log in to your account. In addition to your username and password, you need to enter a six digit code from the text message in ... read more ...
Sat 6th April 2013
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Guest Post By Bill Sweetman “Why we Support The ICA” - This is a guest Post by Bill Sweetman who is General Manager of YummyNames, a service from Tucows.com, a top 5 domain name registrar,  that allows marketers, entrepreneurs, and startups to buy premium domain names for their business. Bill is also a member of the ICA Board: “”The domain investing industry, as wonderful and exciting as it is, is pretty small compared to other industries and consists of a relatively small number of individuals, companies, and related service providers. It is very ... read more ...
Tue 2nd April 2013
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Network Solutions gets a delay obvious on URL forwarding - Patent issued today covers forwarding one domain name to another. Domain forwarding, a.k.a. URL forwarding. Every domain registrar offers it, and most give it away for free to their customers. Type in DNW.com and get forwarded to DomainNameWire.com. Pretty simple, right? Did you know that Network Solutions has a patent for “Apparatus and method for web forwarding”? Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent (pdf) to Network Solutions for a way ... read more ...
Tue 26th March 2013
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The entrance change in domain name search - Registrars are preparing domain search for new top level domain names. Sometime this year a key element of the domain search box at GoDaddy.com will disappear: the drop down box containing top level domains such as .com. It may seem like a subtle change, but it’s indicative of a big shift coming in domain search and discovery necessitated by the launch of hundreds of new top level domains. Domain registrars must figure out how to present the most relevant domain ... read more ...
Sun 24th March 2013
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Demand Media Paid $18 Million For Name.com Registrar - According to a 10-K report filed with the SEC by Demand Media (DMD) (page F-31) the company paid $18 Million dollars for the domain name registrar Name.com “”On December 31, 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of the net assets of Name.com, a retail registrar company based in Denver, Colorado. “The purchase consideration of $18,000,000 comprised an initial cash payment of $16,200,000 and the remaining $1,800,000 is subject to a hold back to satisfy post-closing indemnification obligations” “any ... read more ...
Wed 13th March 2013
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Want to sell your new TLD by Go Daddy? KISS. - A uniform registration process is key to selling your new TLD through Go Daddy. Last week representatives of about 800 of the unique strings applied for as new top level domains gathered in Phoenix for Go Daddy Registry Days. The event was designed to start a dialogue between the world’s largest domain name registrar and the many registries that hope to get shelf space at GoDaddy.com for their new TLDs. At a high level, the message was pretty basic: KISS, or Keep ... read more ...
 
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Joe Alagna joins 101Domain.com - Alagna will lead registrar’s channel development efforts. A long time fixture in the domain name industry has joined 101Domain.com. The registrar announced today that Joe Alagna is now its Vice President, Channel Development. Prior to joining 101Domain.com, Alagna spent over a decade at CentralNic, including as GM, North American Markets. Centralnic is best known for selling third level domains such as domains under us.com and de.com, but it’s also supporting ... read more ...