Tag Archives: registrars

Tue 2nd December 2014
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Cyber Monday propels .Rocks to 17% daily gain - Rightside markets .rocks heavily as it finds an audience. It’s interesting watching for anomalies in new top level domain name registrations. Consider yesterday, when the zone for Rightside’s .rocks top level domain grew by almost 17% (3,817 new domains in the zone, per DomainIncite). That’s a lot of new domains, even when you consider Rightside registry as a whole. Here’s a chart from nTLDstats showing Rightside’s daily registration volume across all of ... read more ...
Wed 26th November 2014
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What we consider about Donuts’ confidant 80% renovation forecast - Last Friday, Donuts CEO Paul Stahura posted on CircleID an argument for strong renewal rates in new top level domain names. He even put a number on it: “…we conservatively predict an initial renewal rate of greater than 80% for Donuts gTLDs.” First of all, kuddos to Donuts for sticking its neck out there with a prediction. It might have its own motivations for doing so, but a lot of TLD registries are backing off of public predictions of any kind after their ... read more ...
Mon 24th November 2014
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GoDaddy announces Super Bowl ad plans - Danica Patrick to once again star in GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial. GoDaddy announced plans today for its 11th consecutive appearance in the Super Bowl. GoDaddy’s 2015 Super Bowl ad is called “Journey Home”, and will focus on GoDaddy’s small business offerings. Patrick, who already holds the record for most Super Bowl appearances by a celebrity, will star alongside a puppy. Apparently, the commercial will appear to be a Hallmark-style commercial, and then ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2014
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Godaddy Is Looking For a $4.5 Billion Dollar Valuation In Its IPO Rolling Out Next Year - According to the New York Post, GoDaddy.com is pushing ahead with an initial public offering early next year that would value the world’s biggest domain registration service at roughly $4.5 billion GoDaddy is stressing its desire to diversify from a domain registrar to a business that builds out  Web sites for customers and helping them to process transactions on their sites. GoDaddy has an average revenue per user, of $112 up from $102 9 months ago Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation ... read more ...
 
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Rightside shares strike new low - Domain name company isn’t getting much love from Wall Street. Shares of domain name company Rightside have dropped 15% this week, and hit an all time low of $8.33 in trading yesterday. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is trading for $8.55 per share this afternoon. It’s unclear what caused the sharp drop this week. Rightside reported earnings after the bell on November 6, and shares climbed the next day. The company filed its 10-Q with the SEC last Friday. I could not ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2014
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GoDaddy’s DomainFinder App advances domain name selection - App makes it easier to narrow in on the best domain name. GoDaddy recently released an iOS app for finding and registering domain names called GoDaddy DomainFinder. Many of its features are similar to what you find on GoDaddy.com and other registrar sites. For example, the app lets you filter by price, TLD, and length. Yet some features are new and different, mostly when it comes to whittling down the large list of results you receive. You can easily “favorite” ... read more ...
Mon 17th November 2014
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GoDaddy reports Q3 gain in SEC filing - Revenue up nearly 25% compared to same quarter last year. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 with the SEC today, in which it discloses its results from the third quarter. Here are some financial highlights: Q3 2014 revenue was $356.9 million, up 5.4% from Q2 and 24.7% from Q3 2013. Domain revenue kept growing, but its percentage of GoDaddy’s overall business continues to shrink. In Q3 2012, the domain business accounted for 65.7% of GoDaddy’s business. This past quarter ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Phone use continues to accelerate Tucows’ tip line - Ting product shows continued growth, OpenSRS takes a dip. Domain name and mobile phone service provider Tucows continues to see growth in its Ting offering, offsetting stagnating revenues in its domain name business. Net revenue for the third quarter of 2014 increased 9% to $38.9 million from $35.6 million for the third quarter of 2013. Revenue from Ting increased $5.03 million, offsetting a drop of $1.79 million in its domain name business. OpenSRS — Tucows’ ... read more ...
 
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Major Chinese transport sites Ctrip.com and eLong.com go down due to domain change [updated] - Domains stop resolving after placed in clienthold status. The websites for two major publicly traded Chinese travel sites went down today as a result of their domain names being place in “ClientHold” status at the registrar. Sites for $8 billion (market cap) Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP) and $0.6 billion eLong.com both were unavailable this morning United States time. Both domain names were placed on “clienthold”, a status that tells the registry to not activate ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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Web.com sued for telemarketing calls - Plaintiff complains about multiple telemarketing calls. A California resident has sued Web.com, claiming the company called her cell phone multiple times in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The lawsuit seeks class action status. Web.com disclosed the lawsuit in its most recent quarterly filing: On October 31, 2014, a putative class action was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (Tammy Hussin, et al. v. Web.com Group, ... read more ...
Sat 8th November 2014
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New Site domcomp Compares Price Of 10+ Registrars Across Over 600 Extensions - A new site has popped up which compares the registration, renewal and transfer prices  of 10 + different registrars across over .com, .net, .org selected ccTLD and what seems to be hundreds of new gTLD extensions. Domcomp which seems to have launched in September ,bills itself as the “No-nonsense Domain Price Comparison” “We aggregate prices for over 600 top level domains from the industry’s most popular registrars. “Straight-forward, unbiased comparisons help our users find the best deals, ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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German Court Says Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable For a Infringement of their Customers - Court rules registrars are responsible for fighting piracy In a case that involved the music of Robin Thicke and his album Blurred Lines, a German court has ruled that a domain registrar can be held liable when it comes to copyright infringement. The domain registrar in this case is Key-Systems who appealed the initial ruling and lost their appeal at The Higher Regional Court of Saarbrücken. Torrent Freak wrote: In a case brought by Universal Music over the album Blurred Lines, a Court of Appeal ... read more ...
Thu 6th November 2014
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Rightside (NAME) Is Up 20% In After Hours Trading - After its first earnings report as a public company, Rightside (NAME) is up about 20% in after hours trading. Rightside is currently trading at $11.26 up $1.85 from its closing price of $9.41 Rightside has a 52 week low is $8.96 and its 52 week high of $17 but just started trading on August 1st 2014. Here are the highlights: Rightside reported 16 Million domains under management through its registrars. Over all Rightside’s registrars are experiencing a 75.2% renewal rate overall. The new gTLD gave ... read more ...
 
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Will Web.com Hurt Godaddy’s IPO? - Web.com in reporting its earnings earlier today had a few comments on its earnings call that should be of concern to all domain name regisrtrars: CEO David L. Brown noted “the increased availability of [domain] names has had a near-term negative impact on domain-related revenue,” primarily related to “non-core domain-related revenue such as sales of premium domain names and bulk domain sales.” Non-domain businesses (do-it-yourself websites, hosting, etc.) have been hurt by the “unintended ... read more ...
 
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Web.com says new TLDs spiteful .com resales - Company lowers guidance on weaker demand from its domain portfolio. Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) reported earnings yesterday and lowered its guidance for the fourth quarter. One of the reasons for lowering the guidance is that the new supply of TLDs is causing domain investors to dial back large purchases of existing domain names. In prepared remarks, Web.com CEO David Brown said: First, in the domain business, while we continue to expect the recently expanded top-level ... read more ...
 
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Rightside earnings: 15 TLDs beget $2.5 million, clever eNom performance - Rightside grows its eNom business, new TLDs generate $2.5 million in revenue as of end of Q3. Rightside released third quarter earnings after the bell today. Revenue for the third quarter came in at $48.8 million, up from $45.5 million in the same quarter last year and $46.7 million in the second quarter of 2014. The company swung to a profit with a $4.1 million bottom line. However, its adjusted EBITDA — which presumably is a key metric it wants to be valued on ... read more ...
Wed 5th November 2014
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Moniker mislaid only 18,057 .com domains to transfers in July - Customer losses still fairly low after switch to new system. Last month I reported that Moniker only lost 17,506 .com domain names to transfers in June after its disastrous switch to a new registrar platform. I predicted that the number would shoot up in July, since it was easier to transfer domains out at that point. (Official .com registry reports are published three months after the end of the month). The July report is out, and Moniker’s losses in July were ... read more ...
Fri 31st October 2014
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Report: 8 .NYC Sites Are Already In Alexa Top 1 Million - The launch of domain names ending with .NYC about a month ago have just 47,000 .NYC domains have been claimed and will become internet websites from and for New York City. Sites are following suit. Eight sites are already in Alexa´s top One million count. Alexa provides traffic data, global rankings and other information on 30 million websites and is one of the main sources of information for internet usage. According to one report out today, the following are the eight sites already up in the Alexa´s ... read more ...
Tue 28th October 2014
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Amazon.com heading competence tip off skeleton for new tip turn domain names - Trademark application covers registry services related to selling domain names to the public. What does Amazon.com plan to do with top level domain names it is the registry for? Does it still plan to earmark them for just Amazon.com’s use? Is it just for defensive purposes? Or will it promote them to consumers? We don’t know much, but a recent trademark application provides some possible hints. Earlier this month, Amazon filed an intent-to-use trademark application ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
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GoDaddy paid adult to $45 million for Mad Mimi, justification S-1 - GoDaddy’s amended s-1 filing shows that it paid $42 million plus up to $3 million in bonuses for email marketing firm. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 with the SEC yesterday. Most of the changes from the previous S-1, filed in August, are subtle. The latest filing does not include third quarter results. The most notable change in the new filing is the disclosure of its purchase price for email marketing firm Mad Mimi. The filing discloses that it paid $42 million ... read more ...
 
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A million domain names have been suspended, and law coercion is AWOL - Domain registrars plead for data as websites go dark thanks to whois verification requirements. “We won’t provide you with data to show that what you’re doing is pointless.”It has been almost a year since most large domain name registrars have been required to verify certain elements of domain name whois information. For now, it’s pretty simple. Your registrar sends an email to the whois contact on your domain and asks you to click a button to verify. It’s ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
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ICANN slashes new TLD forecast, though is it enough? - ICANN is forecasting 15 million new TLD registrations during the current fiscal year. ICANN has slashed the number of new top level domain name registrations it expects during this fiscal year for budgeting purposes, but is its picture still too rosy? That’s a question that members of the Registrar Stakeholders group asked ICANN’s board last week in Los Angeles. In May, ICANN set a draft proposed budget for the 2015 fiscal year, which runs from this July to June ... read more ...
Mon 13th October 2014
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TopCoin launches as cryptocurrency for new TLDs - TopCoin enables registries to pass rebate credits directly to registrants. I caught up with Michael Blend last night here in Los Angeles. Blend sold his company to Demand Media and was then an executive with the company for many years. He’s currently working on a number of startups, and one of these is applicable to the domain name industry: TopCoin. It’s billed as a cryptocurrency for digital goods. For now, you can think of it as a rewards program for buyers ... read more ...
Thu 9th October 2014
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Moniker usually mislaid 17,506 .com domains to transfers in June - Customer losses stemming from botched transition was rather limited in first month. ICANN has just published the monthly registry reports for June, the month that Moniker switched to an entirely new platform. The switch caused numerous problems for Moniker and its customers. But it looks like — at least for the first month — the damage in terms of domain outflows was rather limited. Moniker lost 17,506 .com domain names to transfers out in June. Given that it ... read more ...
Wed 8th October 2014
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Moniker’s transition-related confidence holes come to light - Moniker customer explains some of the security holes that may have led to his domains being stolen, including some introduced by the transition from the old Moniker system to a new platform. So it is sad to say goodbye to Moniker, and to witness the self-destruction of this company that played such a large role in the development of the domain industry. So writes Nat Cohen, long time domain name investor and owner of perhaps the best portfolio of three character domains ... read more ...