Tag Archives: registrars

Mon 19th October 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
There Are Now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars - During remarks made at the 54th ICANN Meeting being held in Dublin, Akram Atallah,  the President of the Global Domain Domains Division of ICANN stated that there are now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars in the world. ICANN has accredited 579 domain name registrars just since the last ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires 53, which was held June 21-25, 2015. ICANN has also dropped the requirement that a domain registrar carry liability insurance which should great increase domain registrars ... read more ...
Fri 16th October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Afilias acquires 101Domain - Hello, vertical integration. Domain name registry Afilias has acquired domain name registrar 101Domain. Afilias, which manages the .info and .mobi domain names as well as a bunch of new TLDs, now owns a registrar known for carrying every domain name under the sun. 101Domain made a name for itself by carrying just about every domain name, regardless of how challenging their requirements. One of the reasons I quote pricing for new TLDs at 101Domain is because I can be sure they’re carrying it; I ... read more ...
Wed 14th October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
What's inside 1 Month of Network Solutions emails? - What is Network Solutions pitching to its customers in all of that email? Here’s the answer. Anyone who has registered a domain name with Web.com registrars Network Solutions and Register.com know that the company sends lots of promotional emails. How many? One per business day. Now, I know a lot of retailers send daily promotional emails to customers. But I’m not aware of other registrars that do this. If nothing else, it shows there’s not much more juice the company can ring out of customers ... read more ...
Fri 9th October 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start - We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD’s At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don’t see on a website of one the largest corporation’s on earth: ... read more ...
Thu 8th October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
A Frank Schilling association owns some-more than 5% of Rightside - SEC filing discloses interest in company. Some people say the domain name business is an incestuous industry. They might be right. An SEC filing this afternoon discloses that a company associated with Frank Schilling now owns 5.5% of the company. The filing was made by FTS, Corp in Grand Cayman. Schilling’s middle name is Taylor, hence FTS are his initials. The filing was made by Ria Scott Blyth, Administrative Assistant of FTS Corp. Her LinkedIn profile shows that she works for Frank Schilling’s ... read more ...
Tue 6th October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Google bolsters Google Domains, switching to Domains.Google? - Registrar is revving up with simple email connection, more domain options. Google announced today that it’s adding features to its domain name registrar Google Domains, plus expanding the number of domain names it offers. I suspect Google is also getting ready to change the domain name the service is hosted on. The company is making it easier for people to set up email addresses with their new domain names. The registrar also now allows for transfers to other Google accounts, which is known as ... read more ...
Mon 5th October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Com Winners Update: Google Domains is Growing - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in June. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from June. As always, GoDaddy dominated the charts in terms of new registrations. And, for the second month in a row, it avoided the top 5 when it comes to net transfer losses. But the bigger story to me is Google, which is growing its new registrar at a rapid clip. Google continues to get lots of inbound transfers, and also generated 18,675 new .com registrations in June. It ended the month ... read more ...
Thu 1st October 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain name registrars no longer have to lift ubiquitous guilt insurance - ICANN waives insurance requirement for accredited registrars. ICANN’s board approved a resolution this week to waive an insurance requirement for domain name registrars. The registrar accreditation agreement requires registrars to carry general liability insurance of at least $500,000, but ICANN will no longer require this. ICANN has decided to waive the requirement for a couple reasons. First, the reason for requiring the insurance was to protect registrants. But most general liability insurance ... read more ...
Fri 25th September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
InternetX Lambo Races to First Place - Car finishes first…at first. This past weekend the InternetX race team had strong podium finishes at the ADAC GT Masters in Zandvoort. InterNetX Reiter Engineering had two cars (initially) place in first and third place. Here’s a picture: Unfortunately, after the race, a 30 second penalty was inflicted for a breach of rules after the safety car phase. I’m not entirely sure what that means. But I heard an unsubstantiated rumor that .Club CEO Colin Campbell was seen running around throwing ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Endurance CEO takes money compensate cut, with intensity large share payday - Ravichandran could get up to 3.7 million additional shares of EIGI stock. Endurance International Group CEO Hari Ravichandran is taking a big cash pay cut in return for shares in the company if it hits free cash flow targets. Ravichandran’s annual salary will be reduced from $750,000 to $200,000 and he won’t receive any cash bonuses for 2015, 2016 and 2017. The upside: the potential to get another 3.7 million shares in the company over the next three years. Shares currently trade for $14 a share, ... read more ...
Fri 18th September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Check out InterNetX's Lamborghini R-EX - Lambo is part of European marketing tour. Domain name and hosting company InterNetX is running a great awareness program at several European conferences and even a car race in Netherlands. Dubbed “InterNetX Online Racing Days”, the marketing campaign features a domain logo-laden Lamborghini R-EX making pitstops at three European conferences: dmexco in Germany this week, Hostingcon Europe in Amsterdam next week and Bits Pretzels, one of the largest founder conferences in Europe, from September ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy says there's still upside for registrars and domain investors - Most very small businesses don’t have websites yet, but many plan to create one. GoDaddy released results from a global survey today, showing that the vast majority of very small businesses (5 or fewer employees) still don’t have a website. The survey included 4,000 businesses in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States. 59% of businesses said they don’t have a website. The upside: 55% report they intend to create a website in the next two years. The ... read more ...
Fri 11th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Godaddy Wins 5 Year Case Against The Oscars (Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) - According to Variety.com, A federal judge ruled that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences (AMPAS) which owns and broadcast the The Oscars award failed to show that GoDaddy (GDDY) acted in “bad faith” with an intent to profit off of the Academy trademarks. U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr., in a 128-page opinion found that GoDaddy met its affirmative good faith safe harbor defense typically granted to registrars for domain name registered to customers According to Variety “The Academy ... read more ...
Wed 9th September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Jothan Frakes to lead Moniker - Frakes to the rescue? Domain name industry veteran Jothan Frakes is set to take over the helm of Moniker as interim CEO later this month. Frakes will have a tough challenge ahead of him. Moniker has been in a tailspin ever since it switched from its legacy system to a reseller platform under the ownership of KeyDrive. The new system was confusing to users. Worse, migration errors led to domain names missing from accounts and incorrect account balances. Support and communication during the transition ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Symantec released obvious for rating domain registrars - Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells the web security product line Norton, suggests that calculating a registrar reputation score helps determine how much scrutiny to give to websites connected to domain names at that registrar. If a registrar has a high proportion of names distributing malware, responsible ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Uniregistry continues to gleam in .Com Winners and Losers - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in May. Uniregistry recently announced that it crossed the million domain milestone. I’m not sure how Frank Schilling’s own domain names and North Sound new TLDs are accounted for, but the number is strong even if all of his domains in the total. For the second month in a row, Uniregistry tops the transfer gains in Verisign’s monthly report. Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three month delay. So this post is about May’s results. ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
GoDaddy Ranks No. 1 In .IN Domain Name Market Share For With 33% Of Registrar Market - http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/godaddy-ranks-no-1-in-domain-name-market-share/45089, Godaddy the worlds largest domain name registrar has the highest market share for selling .IN domain names, according to the National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi). .IN is India’s Country Code Top Level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet. The domain name extension .IN, “is seeing significant uptake among individuals and businesses in India and worldwide, with over 1.7 million websites around the ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Web.com: Verisign did a "blatant bait-and-switch" - Company doesn’t want to provide accounting information to Verisign. Web.com is fighting back against a Verisign request for more information about how the registrar accounted for .xyz domain name registrations. Verisign is suing .XYZ for false advertising after .XYZ boasted about its registration volume — which Verisign alleges was inflated by a Network Solutions giveaway. Web.com owns Network Solutions, which gave away hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names to its customers. At issue appears ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
What Do Big Brands Pay To Protect & Buy Domains? Wikileaks Give Some Clues: Hint "A Lot" - What do big companies that use brand protection company’s to register and buy domain names spend to protect, acquire, register and renew domain names? WikiLeaks.org published invoices from MarkMonitor to Sony, documents (PDF) In those invoices published by WikiLeaks , MarkMonitor.com billed Sony $1,000 several times for a “Domain Acquisition Fee” for domain names that are not owned by Sony. WOF.com, is for an example (page 60 in the pdf) a domain Sony does not own, nor has ever owned, according ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy introduces dual cause authentication outward U.S. - Security tool expanded to 185 countries. Non-U.S. customers of GoDaddy can now activate two-factor authentication to add security to their accounts. The service has been available in the U.S. for several years, and international customers have been asking for it. The SMS-based system sends a text message to customers after they enter their standard login credentials. They must enter a code from the text message before gaining access to their account. In theory, this means someone would have to obtain ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
One domain name batch is indeed adult today - Endurance manages to eek out small gain so far today. The DOW opened down 1,000 points today. It has since recovered a bit, but it’s a safe bet that your stock portfolio took a hit today. One domain name stock is actually bucking the trend. Shares of Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) are up $.12 at the time of writing, to $15.30. Sure, it’s less than a 1% jump, but every other domain name stock I track (GoDaddy, Rightside, Web.com, Verisign, CentralNic, Minds + Machines, Neustar) is ... read more ...
Wed 19th August 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Verisign presses Network Solutions for sum on .XYZ registrations - Company files motion to compel Network Solutions’ parent company to provide a witness. Verisign has filed a motion (pdf) in a Florida court to compel Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions, to provide a witness to testify about how the registrar accounted for free .xyz domain names. Network Solutions gave away perhaps hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names last year. They weren’t just offered for free; They were placed in customer accounts on an opt-out basis. Verisign is suing .XYZ ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Web.com shares dump 12% on information crack news - Shares plummet after credit card information is stolen. It’s a down start to the day for stock markets in general, but domain name and hosting company Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) is having a particularly bad day. Shares are trading down about $3.00 to $20.81 at the time of writing. That’s about a 12% drop. The move appears to be in response to the company’s announcement yesterday of a data breach. The company says credit card details on up to 93,000 cards might have been stolen last week. There’s ... read more ...
Tue 18th August 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Web.com breached, 93k credit label sum competence be compromised - Large domain name registrar discloses security breach. Web.com announced today that a security breach might have disclosed credit card information of 93,000 of its customers. The company owns Network Solutions and Register.com. Although most domain name investors use lower-cost registrars, many have accounts with these registrars for expired domain names. The registrars don’t necessarily have your credit card information, though, as domains won at NameJet are paid through NameJet. Update: See FAQs ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sedo highlights registries during dmexco - Sedo is partnering with registries and registrars to reach European audience at dmexco. A flyer promoting the Sedo booth that will be handed out at dmexco.Sedo is once again highlighting top level domain name options at the biggest digital marketing conference in Europe. dmexco takes place next month in Cologne, Germany. Last year Sedo offered frozen yogurt at the event, with the kicker that attendees had to order toppings based on TLD names. Sedo is offering the frozen yogurt again this year, but ... read more ...