Tag Archives: services

Thu 19th November 2015
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2 Great (and Free) Tools for Domain Investors - Better bulk search and a handy new tool from DomainPunch. I come across good tools for domainers from time-to-time, and want to pass a couple good ones along to you. First is NameBright’s bulk availability search. Alan Dunn mentioned this tool in a blog post yesterday, and I gave it a shot. Most registrars limit you to 100 bulk searches at a time, or 500 if they’re generous. NameBright lets you check up to 5,000 names at a time. Even more importantly, it’s fast. Compared to other registrars, ... read more ...
Wed 11th November 2015
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NamesCon offers 24-hour discount, THE Domain Conference announces dates - A couple domain name conference discounts, one of which ends soon. If you’re interested in attending a domain name conference in 2016, take note. NamesCon just announced a special 24-hour price of $399 for tickets to January’s show. Even better, $200 from each ticket sold will be donated to a Las Vegas veterans charity. I’ve already booked my transportation and airfare for NamesCon, and look forward to seeing you there. Looking further into the future, THE Domain Conference has announced its ... read more ...
 
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Appellita: a new apparatus for anticipating domain names - Some innovative approaches to finding good domain names. There are a bunch of brand name and domain name generators on the web. Every once in a while, one comes along with a unique twist that makes it worth a look. That’s the case with Appellita, a new service that soft launched in last August. It was created by San Antonio entrepreneur Daisy Egeolu. Appellita, like basically all name generators, has a system that adds prefixes and suffixes to keywords to find domains. But it goes beyond that. Two ... read more ...
Tue 10th November 2015
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Verisign's .IDN priority duration identical to .Porn - Domains will be available during a limited matching period. Verisign has released more information about its IDN transliteration launches. As expected, the launches will include a Priority Access Program that allows existing registrants of second level domain names to buy matching domain names in the new IDN-as-.com extensions. This is similar to what ICM Registry did for .Porn, .Adult and .Sex. Verisign and ICM Registry had originally hoped to continually reserve matching domain names at the second ... read more ...
 
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.News rings adult $1.4 million for Rightside - Rightside reveals numbers behind successful TLD, plus renewal rates. Less than 4 months after its general release, the .News domain name has generated $1.4 million in cash sales for Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME). On yesterday’s investor conference call, Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu reported that there are about 34,000 names registered in .News. The average wholesale price — which includes premiums — is $41. This brings the total to $1.4 million cash. (Revenue is recognized over time.) 1,000 of the ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2015
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Freelancer.com completes $7.5 million squeeze of Escrow.com - Deal was announced in April. Online freelancing marketplace Freelancer.com has completed its purchase of internet escrow service Escrow.com. Freelancer.com announced in April that it agreed to purchase the company for $7.5 million. Escrow.com generated $5 million in revenue and $1.2 million EBITDA last year on $220 million of transactions. Freelancer.com has a market cap of AUS $800 million. It owns a number of online freelancer marketplaces, in addition to online marketing forum Warrior Forum. Escrow.com ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2015
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Verisign gets obvious for Domain Name Exchange - Company proposes service in 2010 but abandoned idea. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent number 9,172,673 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for domain name exchange”. The system would allow someone to trade in their existing domain name for another, perhaps on an unlimited basis. Verisign asked ICANN to allow it to offer such a service in April 2010, noting that it would be helpful to webhosts who offer trials and monthly subscriptions to customers. If the customer ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2015
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Dicker hires lawyer, asks people to mislay adverse posts - People asked to remove posts as part of deal to get money back. Adam Dicker has hired a lawyer to handle claims made by people who say he owes them money. Attorney Joel Reinhardt of Gowlings sent a letter Friday afternoon to a number of people that posted complaints about Dicker on NamePros. The letter states: The post, made by username “Shane Bellone” is replete with highly damaging false, defamatory and malicious statements. The statements include that our client Mr. Dicker is “a predator” ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
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Verisign considers Early Access for "IDN .Coms" - Popular model for landrush phase of new TLDs might find its way to Verisign. Verisign is considering some sort of “Early Access” period when it launches IDN .com transliterations, company executives explained today on the company’s 3rd quarter conference call. In response to an analyst’s question, CEO James Bidzos said the rollouts will begin with the mandated sunrise period. After that, the company might have “Early Access” opportunities for those that want to “get in the door early”, ... read more ...
 
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Verisign: 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations final quarter - Verisign drives new registrations, grows overall base in .com and .net. Verisign reported earnings this afternoon, and disclosed that it handled 9.2 million new .com and .net registrations in Q3. The number of new registrations per quarter is typically in the 8-9 million range. On its investor conference call today, Verisign executives said the growth was driven internationally, particularly in Asia (including China and India). The company expects the pace of activity in the 3rd quarter to slow sequentially ... read more ...
 
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How to not remove your shirt investing in domain names for China - Video explains what makes domains good — and bad — for the Chinese market. Allegravita, a consultancy for doing business in China that has worked with a number of domain name companies, has published three info-packed sessions from the DomainFest Asia conference held in September. The company has packaged them together as a “Boot Camp” on the Chinese domain name market, and one video in particular is worth watching for any domainer thinking about investing in domains that might appeal to ... read more ...
Tue 22nd September 2015
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Get a ambience of dmexco in these videos - Videos show large crowd at digital marketing conference. The dmexco digital marketing conference in Germany last week attracted over 40,000 people. Sedo has published two videos from the event. The first shows scenes from the conference, including people interacting with Sedo’s exhibit. Sedo partnered with a number of top level domain name companies to put the exhibit together. As it did last year, the company also offered free frozen yogurt with toppings named after top level domain names. The ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines posts earnings, skeleton £15 million share buyback - Company continues its shift to sales and marketing organization. Minds + Machines released unaudited first half results this morning. The company reported $1.974 in billings for the quarter — this is essentially a revenue number if it didn’t have to recognize domain registration revenue over time. Its adjusted EBITDA using the billings number was -$1.216 million. Using traditional accounting principles, the company had earnings of -$3.695. The company’s board has approved a plan to return ... read more ...
Tue 15th September 2015
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DomainTools launches Iris height for confidence hazard investigations - New platform helps security teams quickly find the source of attacks. DomainTools launched its new Iris platform today, making it easier for companies to quickly investigate security attacks and determine their sources. Iris integrates many of DomainTools’ existing data sets into an easy-to-use workflow. While targeted to enterprises without the resources necessary to manage their own systems tapping into DomainTools’ API, it could also be helpful for domain name attorneys and other people trying ... read more ...
 
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See .Online ads in San Francisco - Radix begins ad campaign in Bay Area. New top level domain name registry Radix has begun a large-scale advertising effort in San Francisco. The company now has ads promoting .Online on the side of 35 bus stops. Radix is also promoting .online and .tech on a mobile video board. The truck is visiting a number of hot spots in San Francisco and a couple conferences, such as TechCrunch’s Disrupt ’15 and Dreamforce (the latter of which sucks up every hotel room in the city). Listen to this week’s ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic reports earnings, numbers decrease from final half - Although year-over-year numbers look nice, it’s not a good comparison. Top level domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) reported results for the first half of the year today. The company painted a rosy picture comparing the results to the first half of 2014 (revenue +171%, gross profit +125%), but that doesn’t really tell the story. The best comparison for CentralNic’s numbers are the second half of 2014, since that’s when the company realized the full revenue and earnings from its ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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Here's one source behind a proliferation of Whois marketing - Cheap, fresh whois data is leading to increased spam and telemarketing. I usually keep my iPhone on “do not disturb” mode at night. But not on August 16. My wife was traveling, so I kept it on in case she needed to reach me. At 4:19 in the morning, my phone pinged and woke me up. It wasn’t my wife. It was this text message: The text message I received was from Devan Crow, who owns a Florida business called SkyNet Group LLC. For $500 a quarter (or less for longer term subscriptions), Crow ... read more ...
Tue 18th August 2015
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eNom joins Sedo Fast Transfer network - eNom clients can now sell their domain names through SedoMLS. Sedo has added eNom to its SedoMLS system in a partnership that opens open millions more potential domains to be sold through Sedo’s sales distribution platform. The deal enables eNom account holders and resellers to list their domains with SedoMLS. These domain listings are then syndicated across Sedo’s network of partners, allowing customers to buy them through partners’ checkout processes and have them instantly transferred. The ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
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Google Alphabet news causes CentralNic shares to burst 50% - Shares in .xyz services company are up big this week. Shares in domain name registry company CentralNic have jumped about 50% since Monday afternoon. The company thinks this is due to Google’s selection of the domain name abc.xyz for its new company Alphabet. CentralNic is the backend registry provider for .xyz domain names. Shares on the London AIM (CNIC) traded for about 40 pence on Monday afternoon, and have shot up to 61 pence at the time of writing. CentralNic issued a statement this morning: The ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2015
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See .XYZ CEO Daniel Negari on Bloomberg - Bloomberg features .xyz and how Google’s big announcement has affected it. .XYZ and its CEO Daniel Negari are riding the wave of Alphabet, Google’s new parent company. The company’s official website is abc.xyz, representing the first and last three letters of the alphabet. Negari was on Bloomberg earlier today discussing the spike in registrations his company has seen since the Alphabet announcement. The video also features commentary from GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving about the availability of ... read more ...
Tue 11th August 2015
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Successful domain financier releases "Make Money Online" book - Eric Borgos tells his interesting story. You can learn a lot from it. I’ve long been a fan of Eric Borgos, even though I had never spoken with him until yesterday. I’ve been a fan because he’s extremely frank and revealing. He blogs about his successes and failures, but focuses more on the failures. He even publishes his annual revenue and net income numbers from his businesses. This sort of candid analysis and transparency is unheard of in the domain name industry. Eric has sold millions of ... read more ...
Thu 30th July 2015
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Neustar acquires Bombora and ARI - Neustar continues to grow its top level domain name services business with acquisition. Neustar has acquired Australia-based Bombora Technologies Pty Ltd, the registry services provider of the .au top-level domain and numerous other top-level domains, for approximately AUD $118.5 million, or approximately USD $86.9 million in cash. This includes its subsidiary ARI Registry Services, which provides registry services to a number of new top level domain names. Bombora had revenue of USD $20.6 million ... read more ...
Tue 28th July 2015
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Verisign gets obvious for presaging domain name renovation rates - A crystal ball for estimating domain name renewal rates. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent number 9,094,467 to Verisign for “Method and system for predicting domain name registration renewal probability”. Simply: take a number of factors about the domain name and its history to calculate the chances of it being renewed. Verisign has to run these calculations frequently, and not just for its own forecasting. Because of the renewal grace period, it can’t give final renewal ... read more ...
Fri 24th July 2015
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3 "New" Risks to Verisign's Business - Company includes additional risks in its most recent quarterly filing. .Com registry Verisign released its earnings and filed its quarterly report with the SEC yesterday. Using Intelligize, I compared Q2’s SEC report to Q1 to look for changes. I found three interesting risk factors added to the most recent report. Some of these aren’t new risk factors, but they weren’t disclosed in the Q1 report. 1. China – newly enforced regulations for business licenses for selling domains in China For ... read more ...
Tue 21st July 2015
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How & because we should use DomainTools' portfolio tracker - DomainTools offers a nifty tool for tracking domain names. DomainTools has a lot of useful features, but most people just barely scratch the surface of its capabilities. One of the tools I find particularly useful is Domain Monitor. Simply put, Domain Monitor monitors domain names and lets you know if changes are made to the whois record. Changes can include expiration dates, lock status, registrar, registrant, etc. It’s pretty obvious how this can help you with your own portfolio. DomainTools ... read more ...