Tag Archives: registries

Thu 7th May 2015
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Rightside Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30% - Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the continued onboarding of eNom wholesale partners. Registry services revenue increased to $1.6 million compared to $42 thousand. Aftermarket ... read more ...
Mon 9th March 2015
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TheRegister.co.uk Reports: Enom Suffers Huge DNS Outage, Taking Down Sites - TheRegister.co.uk,  is reporting that Domain Name registrar enom appears to be having a huge DNS outage citing quite a few tweets from people who say service has been down for hours. The story says: “”Domain name registrar eNom appears to have gone titsup worldwide since the early hours of this morning, according to reports from furious customers who – at time of publication – were yet to get a response from the Washington-based firm.”” The story goes on to say: “Some customers reported ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2015
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Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 Million on Losing New gTLD Apps - Rightside reported its earnings for the 4th Quarter today and full year ended December 31, 2014 after the market closed. Domain Name Services Revenue Increases 16% Year-over-Year 4Q Total Revenue Increases 13.5% Year-over-Year Domain name services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2014 increased 16% to $43.2 million compared to $37.2 million for the same period in 2013. Organic growth of 15%, which excludes the acquisition related benefit from Name.com, was primarily due to an increase ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2014
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Can Verisign Maintain Its Leadership Moving Forward ? - Trefis is a financial analysis site, they describe themselves as an interactive financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US.  They wrote about Verisign yesterday and whether or not they can maintain their growth. They note that .com has built such a niche that it has been able to stand the test of competition, in their estimation .net is not and they believe the new gtld program has affected .net in a negative way. From ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2014
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Braden Pollock’s Legal Brand Marketing Acquires 14 Premium Law-related .Co.com Domains -     According to a press release we received, co.com LLC, announced today that Legal Brand Marketing, LLC which was founded by Braden Pollock, acquired a premium portfolio of law-related .co.com domain names, including Law.co.com and Attorney.co.com. Legal Brand Marketing, plans to develop and launch websites for each domain. Financial terms were not disclosed. Legal Brand Marketing is a leading publisher of law-related websites and provider marketing services to law firms including: lead generation, ... 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 ...
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 ...
 
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CentralNic Issues Interim Results For 6 Months Ending Jun 30, 2014 - CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), today announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2014. Key Points: · CentralNic has seen steady growth in its wholesale (“Registry”) business, against a background of delays in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and early demand levels across the industry falling short of industry expectations. · CentralNic has continued investment in the development of new retail and enterprise business lines, as outlined in the 2013 Annual Report. · Group revenue £1.64 ... read more ...
Tue 8th July 2014
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Co.Com Enters “General Availability” Phase At Noon EST Today! -     According to a Press Release we just received the Co.Com registry will enter the live General Availability (GA) registration phase today, Tuesday, July 8th at 16:00 GMT (12 noon EDT). The .Co.Com registry previously announced it was removing tens of thousands of its premium domain names on their reserved list and allowing Landrush registrations which would presumably carry over to GA (except for those taken in Sunrise and Landrush) Here is the rest of the press release: “As we look ahead ... read more ...
Mon 7th July 2014
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CentralNic Launches BuyDomains.London, Domain & Website Included For £39.00 A Year -       CentralNic announced today that they have launched the BuyDomains.London A “website for Small SMEs to obtain their .London domain names” taking aim “at the “75% of London’s 841,000 SMEs that will fail to register for a .London domain name before the 31 July deadline”. For only £39.00 per year, Londoners and London-based businesses will get from BuyDomains.London: – A .London domain, which tells local customers and visitors alike that you’re located in London – A professional ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2014
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Why Is Neustar Allowing Nicaragua To Use A .US Doman for Their Offical Visitor Site? - I saw a full page ad in a travel magazine a few weeks ago for the website VisitNicaragua.us. It was a very nice full color ad which promoted the country as a great tourist destination. The domain name is registered to the Nicaraguan Tourism Board and whose registered address on the whois records is in Nicaragua My first thought that it is stupid domain for the official travel site of a country to use domain name in  the ccTLD of other country. After all .US is the ccTLD for the United States and ... read more ...
Thu 26th June 2014
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.Com Breaks Through The 113.5 Million Domain Mark; Adding 500K Domains In 3 Months - According to zone file for the .com registry the number of .Com domain name registrations has passed 113.5 Million domains for the first time. Of course everyday tens of thousands of .com domains are deleted for non-renewal and tens of thousands are more are registered. Most days result in a net positive gain for the .com registry while its also not unusually to see a net loss for certain days were more domains are deleted than registered. It was on March 22nd 2014 that we reported that the .Com ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2014
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Free Domains Anyone? .Berlin Adds 70K Domains & Tops 116K; .XYZ Adds 27K & Tops 145K - A huge day in the new gTLD program as .Berlin in its first day of offering free domain names,  added some 70,000 domain names, more domains than were registered in the extension in the three months since .Berlin was launched. .Berlin passed .Club to become the 2nd most registered new domain extension (new gTLD). .Berlin which had been hanging around 48,000 registrations for weeks, shot up to 116,638 registered domains .Berlin launched around March 19 and got some 32,000 registrations in its first ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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.Co.Com Releases “Tens Of Thousands” Premium Domains For Landrush -     The .Co.Com registry just announced on their blog, that they were dropping “tens of thousands” premium domains from their reserved list and placing them into availability where they can be immediately registered in the Landrush period. The .Co.Com registry furnished this list (excel) of over 23K formally reserved premium domain names with Google Searches Per Month, Google Competition and Google Suggested Bid for each domain Here is the list: co.com-released-names-june2014 The Co.Com blog ... read more ...
Mon 10th February 2014
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Glenn Hayward, Formerly With Nominet, Joins CentralNic’s Board & Becomes Its CFO - CentralNic (AIM:CNIC), today announces that Glenn Hayward has joined the Board of CentralNic plc as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Hayward joins the Board of CentralNic from Nominet, the company responsible for the .uk domain names, where he was Executive Director, Business Development Director and Finance Director. Ben Crawford, Chief Executive Officer of CentralNic plc, said: “We are delighted that Glenn has joined the CentralNic Board. His expertise gained with one of the world’s ... read more ...
Fri 15th November 2013
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Ken Hansen Of NeuStar Resigns to Launch The Co.com Registry With Greg McNair & Paul Goldstone - According to press release we received, “three well known domain industry leaders have teamed up to launch the co.com registry that will allow users to “register the .com domain names they’ve always wanted!” Ken Hansen (formerly of Neustar) will lead the new venture as CEO, joining Paul Goldstone (President), and Gregg McNair (Chairman). Ken Hansen “When Paul asked me to work with him to build a ‘dream team’ for co.com, I immediately thought of Ken Hansen as our leader. Today our CEO ... read more ...
Fri 11th October 2013
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Google’s Registry For New gTLD’s; Charleston Road Registry Launches the Site - Google’s Registry for that will be the back end operator for Google’s new gTLD strings, CharlestonRoadRegistry.com officially launched their site today (Update I have been informed that this site actually launched on March 29, 2013) “Welcome to Charleston Road Registry, Google’s domain registry. We’re really excited about the domains we’ll soon be able to offer. The Internet has always been first and foremost about self-expression, and the dawn of this era of hundreds of new domains marks ... read more ...
Tue 27th August 2013
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ICANN Approves Renewal Of .Info; .Org and .Biz Registry Contracts Without URS Being Included - According to a resolution passed by the ICANN Board,  ICANN has renewed the registry contracts for the .info, .biz and .org contracts without the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) being included. On the issue of not requiring the URS to be added to the registry contracts ICANN said: “”There was a specific community concern raised, and subsequent letters provided to the Board, regarding the inclusion of a requirement for the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to be included in the renewed agreement, ... 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 ...
Wed 7th August 2013
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Demand Media Reports: Revenue Up 9%; Registrar Revenue Up 4% Without Name.com + 10% With -   Demand Media, Inc. (DMD),reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Q2 2013 Financial Summary: Content Media revenue ex-TAC grew 9% year-over-year. This was driven primarily by 15% Owned Operated revenue growth, which slowed sequentially from 26% year-over-year growth in Q1 2013, due primarily to traffic declines from lower search engine referrals. Network revenue ex-TAC declined 15%, due primarily to lower revenue from YouTube Channels. Registrar revenue grew 10% ... read more ...
Sat 6th July 2013
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Godaddy To Rebrand .La Domain Names & Market Them In Los Angeles -   According to The LA Times, GoDaddy, will kick off a marketing campaign Monday to re-brand .LA as the Web suffix for Los Angeles after partnering with  CentralNic, the company that handles the database for .the .LA ccTLD. .LA is the ccTLD for Laos. Godaddy and CentralNic are apparently taking the upcoming new gTLD launch as an opportunity to re-brand .LA in the same light as other cities that have backed new gTLD applications including New York City’s .NYC, Miami’s application for .Miami Rich ... read more ...
Thu 23rd May 2013
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Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Owns Over 5% Of Verisign - Back In February we told you that Warren Buffets’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased 3,685,700 shares  of Verisign (VRSN) which at the time of acquisition represented an investment of around $165 Million dollars. Today according to Cnbc.com,  Berkshire Hathaway added another 4.49 million shares last quarter and now owns 5.35% of VeriSign. “”While the introduction of a new category of “top level domains” (such as .aero for aviation businesses or .mobi for mobile websites) does increase the ... read more ...
Tue 2nd April 2013
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.CO To Launch IDN’s In Chinese, Japanese and Korean on Apr 15th - According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal trademark sunrise, landrush period or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages. “With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and our team. ” “Over the past two and a half years, .CO has become the domain of choice for startups ... read more ...
Tue 12th March 2013
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Breaking: AdamsNames Operators Of .TC, .GD & .VC: “Key-Systems Highjacked Our Site” - We received two responses overnight to our story yesterday in which we told you that AdamsNames.com which operates the ccTLD’s .TC, .GD .VC had been hacked and its back end provider Key-Systems  “locked the registry down” to proect it. However in the responses that we received from Adamsnames.com today one of which is in the form of  an open letter to the Internet Community; they tell quite a different story: The first comment we received was this: Our domain name of our website Adamsnames.com ... read more ...