Tag Archives: services

Tue 14th July 2015
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Trending keywords in .com: Gay, Zone, Buzz - Used, Gay, and three keywords matching new TLDS make the list. Verisign has published its monthly “trending keywords” report, highlighting the keywords making the biggest jump from the May to June in .com domain name registrations. “Used” was number one for the month. According to Verisign DomainView, there was a big spike in “used” domains registered or renewed on June 30. Over 1,700 .com domains were registered/renewed. The Verisign trending chart only takes into consideration new ... read more ...
Tue 30th June 2015
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8,000 Premium .Club domains accessible by registrars tomorrow - .Club to begin selling premium domain names through domain name registrars. Starting July 1, you’ll be able to buy premium .Club domain names through the registrar channel. Much like premium domain names offered by other registries, customers will see that the .Club domain name is available but will have to pay a higher price. There’s a key difference between .Club’s premium domains and those from other registries: the premium price is a one time fee. The domain names renew at regular prices. About ... read more ...
Wed 24th June 2015
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3,000 comments submitted about whois remoteness proposal - People upset about non-consensus proposal to forbid whois privacy on sites conducting commerce. About 3,000 people and groups have submitted comments to ICANN during its comment period on privacy and proxy services. An ICANN working group proposed a number of requirements on privacy and proxy services. The proposal that is drawing the most comments is just a minority proposal at this time: a prohibition on using privacy services for sites that conduct commerce. The proposed prohibition on using privacy ... read more ...
Mon 22nd June 2015
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DOMAINfest.Asia to be hold in Macau in September - Domain name conference heads to China in a few months. I’ve been a bit confused by NamesCon’s strategy with DOMAINfest after acquiring the brand. The one day add-ons to existing domain name conferences haven’t made much sense to me. But now DOMAINfest is hosting a complete conference, this time in Macau, China. DOMAINfest.Asia is being staged by the NamesCon, Simon Cousins’ Allegravita and .Asia. Allegravita has been staging events in Macau for over ten years, and Cousins tells me he hopes ... read more ...
Tue 26th May 2015
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Fred Krueger pushed out of Minds + Machines, association reports $5 million bookings - Co-founder leaves company and will focus on his website building platform. Minds + Machines released 2014 results today, and also announced that the board has voted co-founder Fred Krueger out of the company and his role as executive Chairman. Keith Teare, a British tech entrepreneur, will take over as Chairman. The move doesn’t come as a complete surprise to me. Krueger has seemed more excited about his website building software, Mozart, than the core process of top level domain names. In his ... read more ...
Tue 19th May 2015
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WorldHostingDays kicks off in Pennsylvania - WorldHostingDays‘ first stateside conference kicked off in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania last night. Rain made it difficult for some attendees to make it in time for Monday evening’s opening party, but hundreds of people crowded the exhibit hall and conference venue by this morning. As a “destination conference” a couple hours from Pittsburgh, the event is heavy on fun social and networking events. At lunch each day, attendees can go down a 1,980 foot slide, take the chairlift, go for a segway ... read more ...
 
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Donuts to start releasing collision and 2 impression domains subsequent month - Names will be released in batches over two months. Top level domain name company Donuts will begin making domain names from collision lists, along with certain two character domain names, available next month. The domain names will be released in batches related to categories of domains, such as photography domains and financial domains. This industry-batching should allow the company to market the availability to their target audiences. Most of the names that will be released are on the name collision ... read more ...
 
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Kellie Peterson joins Neustar - Domain name industry veteran moves to Neustar, where she’ll develop channel partnerships for domains sch as .co and .nyc. Kellie Peterson has left the President’s post at DNC Holdings (DirectNic) to join Neustar’s registry services team. At Neustar, Peterson will be responsible for growing the North American and Australian registry services markets. She will focus on growing Neustar’s managed domain name extensions (.Co, .nyc, .biz and .US). Kellie Peterson will team up with another Peterson ... read more ...
Mon 18th May 2015
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Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie – DNW Podcast #33 - Freelancer.com just bought Escrow.com. Here’s what it plans to do with it. Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, explains why his company paid $7.5 million for Escrow.com and what’s in store for the company. Matt also says buying the Freelancer.com domain name (a transaction handled by Escrow.com) was a huge inflection point for his company and has paid huge dividends, which he explains on the show. Freelancer.com is a big marketplace for work, such as logo design, copywriting, and even manufacturing. Also: ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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World Hosting Days discussion entrance to USA subsequent week - Popular international hosting conference makes its U.S. debut next week. World Hosting Days, a popular international conference for the cloud and hosting industry, is holding its first North American conference next week. The conference will take place at the 7Springs Ski Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania May 19-20. Speakers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Holding a conference at a resort a bit outside a major city is an interesting approach. On the one hand, it’s more difficult to travel ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2015
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One domicile cashes in twice in Verisign Contest - Twice the cash for Florida household. Verisign recently released the second batch of winners in its Internet Official contest. Here are the five that each took home $5,000: KidsCookDinner.com – Kate K, New York NYC SkinnyLA.com – Sarah G Los Angeles, CA SoldiersOnly.com – Alfred M, Jacksonville FL LastSecondFlights.com – Michael S – Wilton CT SeniorBride.com – Terry S., Port Charlotte, FL I couldn’t help but notice that there are now two winners from Port Charlotte, Florida. Last month ... read more ...
Fri 1st May 2015
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Northwest Austin is selling Weebly like crazy - Campaign to halt redevelopment is introducing people to website builder Weebly. Over a hundred of my neighbors in northwest Austin are advertising website builder Weebly. It’s a case where a non-paying customer does more good than a paying one. How did Weebly pull this off? It didn’t have to do anything at all. There’s an office complex in the area called Austin Oaks. The 12 building, 450,000 square foot complex has been around for quite some time. The owners want to tear down the complex and ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2015
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.Porn and .Adult domain names mangle morning records - Provocative domains, low pricing, marketing and promotion with Trademark Clearinghouse boost early numbers for new adult domains. ICM Registry announced today that its .Porn and .Adult domain names each received about 4,000 registrations during the sunrise trademark period. That’s more than any other new top level domain names to date. The strong interest was certainly fueled by the nature of the domains and news about Taylor Swift buying her name, but it went beyond that. ICM Registry offered ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour during Neustar's domain name base - Company is counting on new TLDs for growth in domain name business, but it’s slow. Neustar reported earnings yesterday and released updated information on its base of domain names registered. .Co continues to perform well for the company, adding $5.2 million revenue in the first quarter. Additionally, the company has operating agreements with 122 new top level domains that have signed agreements with ICANN. 43 are already in market. This chart shows how many domain names Neustar is managing, both ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2015
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CentralNic doubled income in 2014 - Company posts big gains, likely due to acquisition of domain name registrar last year. Domain name services company CentralNic doubled its revenue in 2014 and increased its adjusted EBITDA by 65%. The company grew its topline from £3.891 million to £6.067 million. Adjusted EBITDA, which excludes acquisition deal fees and non-cash charges, grew from £1.015 million in 2013 to £1.724 in 2014. Its actual profits before tax dipped for the year. CentralNic doesn’t break out results from each division, ... read more ...
Mon 27th April 2015
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New TLDs this week: .Video, .Fit and .Sale - Minds + Machines and Rightside introduce new domain names this week. A few domain names hit general availability or Early Access this Wednesday. Minds + Machines will launch .Fit with retail pricing of about $25 or so. .Fit is one of the company’s wholly owned domain names, and is the last domain name the group has scheduled to launch until Q3. Rightside starts the Early Access phase for two domain names on Wednesday: .Video and .Sale. If you can wait one week until general availability you’ll ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour during Escrow.com's income growth - Company’s topline is up over 50% in past five years. Australian company Freelancer.com has acquired Escrow.com for US $7.5M. This is 6.25x Escrow.com’s 2014 EBITDA. The transaction reveals, for the first time, Escrow.com’s growth in recent years. The company’s 2014 revenue was nearly 55% higher than 2010, representing a 9.1% CAGR since then. 2010: $3.269 million 2011: $4.125 million 2012: $4.646 million 2013: $4.798 million 2014: $5.048 million Keep in mind this only represents Escrow.com’s ... read more ...
 
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What is Freelancer.com and because did it buy Escrow.com? - Publicly traded freelance marketplace owns a number of businesses, including a website and domain name marketplace. Yesterday (United States time), Freelancer.com announced that it acquired Escrow.com for US $7.5 million. Freelancer.com is a publicly traded company in Australia with a market cap of about $450 million, but many people probably aren’t familiar with it. The company is similar to oDesk/eLance, where people post jobs they need done and freelancers bid to complete the work. Freelancer.com ... read more ...
Sun 26th April 2015
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Escrow.com acquired for $7.5 million - Company known for securing domain name transactions is acquired by Australian company. Freelancer.com, an online marketplace for freelance services, has acquired escrow service Escrow.com for $7.5 million. Escrow.com is a popular service among domain name investors and has handled over $2.2 billion worth of transactions to date. Margins for escrow services are slim, and today’s acquisition announcement puts it in perspective: Escrow.com handled $220 million transactions last year, generating $5 ... read more ...
Wed 22nd April 2015
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Breaking down Minds + Machines' domain name Portfolio - Registry releases detailed stats on domain name registrations. Top level domain name registry Minds + Machines released an update on its progress today, including a detailed breakdown of how its top level domain names have fared so far. The company has 165,364 registrations as of April 20. The majority of these registrations are for domain names in which Minds + Machines isn’t the outright owner. It either provides backend services or has a partnership. Its wholly-owned domain registration tally ... read more ...
Fri 17th April 2015
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The story of Verisign's Internet Official competition winners - Verisign contest hits its goal in first round. Verisign’s first five winners fit its message perfectly.Verisign has announced the first five winners in its Internet Official contest, a promotion designed to show that good .com domain names are still available. The domain names selected have interesting histories. The first five winners, who will each pick up $5,000, are: 1. ChooseYourTattoo.com: Registered by Tom H. of Niles, Mich. 2. ElectricMotorcycleClub.com: Registered by Adam Y. H. of Pine ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
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Donuts' initial new domain names are starting to drop… - Donuts’ first domain name registrations are starting to drop. Here are initial numbers. Donuts is releasing renewal numbers for its new TLDs daily as the first batch of names exit the auto-renew grace period. Yesterday, Donuts COO and Co-Founder Richard Tindal blogged results for the 6,352 Donuts domains that exited the grace period as of Saturday. Of these, 85.3% were renewed. About one third of these domain names were sunrise registrations, which should have a higher-than-normal renewal rate. ... read more ...
Thu 19th March 2015
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.Uno domain launches Uno Social Site - Site gives .uno domains away for free, but ensures free domain names will be used. An example Uno Social SiteThe company behind the .uno top level domain name has launched a new social media aggregator called Uno Social Site. Uno Social Site aggregates your data from various social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) in one place. It also allows you to add additional media. Notably, the free service comes with a free .uno domain name. Registries have been working hard to get people to register ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2015
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2 impression domain names turn accessible today - Short domain names to be released today. Top level domain name company Rightside is releasing 20,000 two character domain names across its TLDs today at noon EDT. The two character domains to be released include at least one number in them, taking the form of NL.tld, LN.tld or NN.tld. That obviously limits the appeal compared to two letter domains, but two letter domains are still in limbo at ICANN. I would think the better domains are ones typically used as brands (e.g. A1) and ones with specific ... read more ...
Tue 17th March 2015
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Donuts launches ad debate to boost recognition of new TLDs - Company starts campaign to build awareness of the availability of alternatives to .com domain names. Donuts launched its first major, web-based advertising campaign to raise awareness of new top level domain choices yesterday evening. The “Freedom of Choice” campaign involves display and video advertising targeted to small and medium business owners, entrepreneurs and tech-savvy early adopters. Ads will show on Forbes, Mashable and Fast Company, as well as more general sites such as YouTube and ... read more ...