Tag Archives: registrars

Wed 8th October 2014
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See GoDaddy’s crafty .NYC boat ad - Barge message taunts neighbors across the Hudson. Earlier today I wrote about the highly anticipated launch of .NYC domain names. GoDaddy is promoting the domain name heavily around New York City, including a big ad on a barge being piloted on the Hudson River. Here are a couple photos of the barge, taunting New Jersey residents about how New York City has a domain name and they don’t. In fact, only people who live or own a business in New York City are eligible ... read more ...
Tue 7th October 2014
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New Domain Name Registrar Offers At Cost Registrations: DomainCostClub.com - According to a press release out today boosts that “DomainCostClub.com  Becomes the First Domain Registrar in the World to Offer At-Cost Pricing The “ICANN Accredited registrar starts a new club to provide domains at wholesale price to its members, starting from October 2014, Domain Cost Club will accept new members.” “Domain Cost Club provides its members with domain name registration, renewal and transfers at the same price that it costs to them, this results from 20% to 300% savings ... read more ...
Mon 6th October 2014
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Moniker only reset your password, and we need to do something about it NOW - Moniker tries to improve security, but… Moniker just sent an email to all of its customers notifying them that their passwords were reset in the name of better security. Requiring stronger passwords at Moniker is a good idea. It has historically had weak password requirements, including password character composition and reset requirements. Yet the way Moniker made the change was probably counterproductive to security. The email to each customer included the login ... read more ...
 
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Michael Ward joins Uniregistry as Director of Registrar Operations - Ward moves from Directnic to Uniregistry. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has hired Michael Ward as its new Director of Registrar Operations. Ward will be in charge of registrar growth, marketing, and product support for the registrar side of the business. This was a smart hire for Uniregistry. Ward has experience with many parts of the domain name ecoysystem and has a solid reputation in the industry. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer for DirectNic, ... read more ...
Thu 2nd October 2014
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Should new TLD registries sell directly to consumers? - New TLD registries might need to go direct to consumers in addition to the existing registrar channel. Can I interest you in a domain today, ma’am?There has been an established channel for gTLD domain name registrations for a long time. The registries offer domains to registrars, who in turn sell them to people like you and me. This channel has been mandated in top level domain contracts with ICANN because of the way these contracts were handed out. Verisign’s ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2014
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Google Entering a Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com - Summary Web.com’s stock has declined 36.4% year to date. The decline is being driven by lower revenue guidance and Google announcing their entrance into the domain industry. Google will have an impact on the domain industry but the impact won’t be as significant as investors are anticipating. Additionally, Web.com may actually benefit from Google’s presents. Even if Google doesn’t help Web.com, Web.com has been able to perform well in a very competitive market environment. Over the last ... read more ...
 
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Times have changed: GoDaddy CEO to pronounce during women in computing event - CEO of company known for sexy commercials to speak on panel at women in computing conference. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is speaking at an event celebrating women in computing.GoDaddy’s CEO is speaking on the “Male Allies” panel at next week’s Anita Borg Institute Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing event. Let that soak in for a moment. Such a role for a GoDaddy CEO would not have been imaginable five years ago. The company, known for its objectifying ... read more ...
Thu 25th September 2014
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Mike Robertson joins DirectNic as Business Development Director - Australian who co-founded Domain Guardians to move to U.S. for role. DNC Holdings (DirectNic) announced today that it has hired Mike Robertson as Business Development Director. A familiar face (and Australian accent) at domain conferences, Robertson previously co-founded Domain Guardians. Domain Guardians started as a sort of estate planning system for domain name owners. It later shifted into other domainer-focused products including domain brokerage. The company ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
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Minds + Machines Reports: Sales Increase 4,114%; Revenue 255%; Shares Are Up 9.5% -       Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) issued its financial report for the six months ending  June 30, 2014 today. Total sales increased 4,114% to £295,000 against £7,000 for the same period in 2013;  Operating profit was up 255% at £2.92 million against a 2013 loss of £1.88million,  and wound up with £20 Million  in the bank as of June 30th up from £9 Million  as of the end of December 31st, 2013 You can read the full report here. Operational Highlights: ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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.RICH & .ONL To Have Its Own Retail Registrar Site To Be Powered By LogicBoxes -           LogicBoxes is pleased to announce the partnership with I-Content Ltd., based out of Germany, to initiate the implementation of end-to-end Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs .RICH and .ONL. .RICH is a New gTLD extension that caters to a global community of high net worth individuals and the companies that support them. .ONL (the official abbreviation for “online”) is a New gTLD that intends to provide limitless access to everything online by being a natural domain for ... read more ...
Fri 19th September 2014
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My .website results: Hexonet wins a day - Hexonet did remarkably well with my .website pre-orders. On Wednesday, I wrote about the challenges I had pre-registering domain names at various registrars. I was specifically trying to pre-register .website domains. .Website was supposed to launch Wednesday, but was delayed a day for technical reasons. This gave me another 24 hours to go after the domains I wanted. Originally, I found 23 domains that didn’t have premium prices and pre-ordered them at GoDaddy. ... read more ...
Wed 17th September 2014
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Hey domain registrars, get your sh*t together! - Pre-ordering new TLDs is (still) a complete mess. This morning I tried to give my money to a handful of domain name registrars. I tried really hard. Some of them refused to take it unless I jumped through a bunch of hoops. Mind-numbing, hair-pulling hoops. Someone pass the Propecia, because I’m going to need some to replace all the hair I just pulled out. The simple exercise I was trying to complete: pre-registering .website domain names. Let me tell you, it’s ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2014
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In Auction At Snap: Gynecologist.com & Obstetrician.com: Is Moniker Pulling A Tucows? -             There are two great bang on medical domain names in closed auctions at Snapnames.com, Gynecologist.com Obstetrician.com More about the auctions in a few, but the history of the domain names may indicate that Moniker has gone the way of Tucows and is picking up expired domains for its own account and then selling them instead of letting the simply drop. The domain name Gynecologist.com was owned by a a company called IDEAS, Inc. out of Saddle River New Jersey on August 9th, with ... read more ...
Wed 10th September 2014
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An instance of new TLD channel selling pleasantness of Minds + Machines - Getting registrars excited about promoting new TLDs is key to each registry’s success. I’ve written numerous times about what new TLD companies are doing to promote their domain names to end users. Just as important is marketing them to domain name registrars, which typically act as the channel to get domain names into the hands of end users. This is especially important given the flood of new domain names hitting the market every week. Here’s an example of ... read more ...
Sat 6th September 2014
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Namecheap Gets NC.Me & Giving Away Free .Me Domains & Email To College Students - Namecheap.com a top 10 domain name registrar, has just launched the “Namecheap for Education Program” through which it is giving away a free .Me domain name registration, 1 year of free email a premium About.me page,  a 1 click Github page as well as scholarships to college students Bike for them to use on Campus and for the Schools with the most signups will  “takeover” the Namecheap home page for a week where additional money will be raised for the school. Namecheap is also now the proud ... read more ...
Fri 5th September 2014
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Kellie Peterson promoted to President of DNC Holdings - Peterson promoted from CSO role. A familiar face at domain name conferences has been named president of DNC Holdings. DNC Holdings, which you more likely know by its registrar name Directnic, has promoted Kellie Peterson from the Chief Strategy Officer role. Peterson will be responsible for DNC’s registrar services, aftermarket, monetization and publishing units. Before joining DNC Holdings, Peterson ran the Domain Business Unit at Endurance International. Endurance, ... read more ...
Tue 2nd September 2014
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Uniregistry releases domain tracker to Hoover adult domain names - System shows you which of your domains are about to expire and lets you transfer them to Uniregistry. Uniregistry (the registrar, not registry) has launched a new dashboard called “Domain Tracker”. It’s the first integration between Frank Schilling’s registrar and his domain sales/parking platform DomainNameSales.com. The dashboard pulls in all the domains you have listed on DomainNameSales.com and shows their nameservers, expiration dates and registrar. Uniregistry’s ... read more ...
Wed 27th August 2014
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Christine Jones’ gubernatorial bid ends in primaries - Former GoDaddy exec places third in Republican primary. Christine Jones, former general counsel for GoDaddy, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona in the Republican primary yesterday. Doug Ducey, current Arizona treasurer and former CEO of ice cream franchise Cold Stone Creamery, took 37% of the vote in the primary. Jones finished third with 16.7% of the vote. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons contributed over $1 million to fund attack ads against Ducey. ... read more ...
Mon 25th August 2014
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Domain name registration and a Paradox of Choice - Offering too many choices might lead to more abandoned shopping carts. One of my favorite books is Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice. The premise of the book is that more choice doesn’t necessarily mean more satisfaction. It can lead to regret, dissatisfaction, and indecision. The book references a report by Columbia and Stanford researchers called “When Choice is Demotivating” (pdf). One of the field experiments in the report involved a sample station ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
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Domain name hunt is most softened (at some registrars) - A look at how major domain registrars are handling domain search in the wake of new TLDs. I’ve written a couple times about the state of registrar search as registrars grapple with an onslaught of new TLDs, most recently at the end of February. There’s good news for TLD registries: search is getting a lot better. Let’s run through the registrars I checked last time for an update. (For this article, I chose to search for “valleyview construction” for three ... read more ...
Tue 19th August 2014
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Are industry-specific resellers a destiny of domain name registration? - Niche resellers and registrars are key for selling industry-specific domain names. Many of the new top level domain names coming to market are targeted to particular industries: .photography for photographers, .plumbing for plumbers, .solar for the solar industry. Selling these domain names through mass market domain name registrars is tricky. The domain names are unlikely to come up high in search results unless a particular keyword closely matches the TLD. Unless ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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GoDaddy justification IPO filing, reports Q2 results - Company continues to grow revenue as it heads toward IPO. GoDaddy released its second quarter financial results today through an amended S-1 Initial Public Offering filing with the SEC. Q2 2014 revenue came in at $338.5M, up from $276.0M in the same quarter of 2013 and $320.2M in Q1 2014. The net loss for the quarter was $37.5 million, worse than the $35.3 million loss it turned in during the second quarter of 2013 but better than the $51.3M loss in the first quarter ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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Suit Filed Against BestRegistrar Over “Ransom” to Transfer Over 5K Domains Out - A company has filed a federal lawsuit against the company that owns the ICANN accredited registrar, BestRegistrar.com a few alleged resellers of BestRegistrar and the owners of the company that owns Bestregistrar.com, to “recover control of approximately 5,000 Internet domain names rightfully owned by Simon Property Group (SPG), and to recover damages both compensatory and statutory in nature arising out of: (i) Defendants’ wrongful exercise of control over the 5,000 domain names and (ii) unlawful ... read more ...
Tue 12th August 2014
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Tucows reports clever gain growth…from phone service - Ting powers Tucows to growth in Q2. Tucows released earnings for Q2 2014 after the bell today. It was a strong quarter for the company, which owns domain name reseller service OpenSRS. Revenue was up 14% compared to Q2 2013 and net earnings per share doubled. Don’t thank the domain name business for that growth. Although the domain business did OK, the growth driver was Tucows’ mobile phone service Ting. Ting revenue was up 121% compared to the same quarter last ... read more ...
Fri 8th August 2014
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A demeanour inside Google’s new domain name registrar - Google Domains offers a simple way for businesses to establish a web presence, but not much more. It’s been a little over a month since Google announced its domain name registration service, and I got access to the beta today. Google Domains is what I expected it to be: a no-frills experience designed to make it dead simple to get online. I started by searching for available domain names. I read an article yesterday about cocktails being dispensed by tap, so I ... read more ...