Tag Archives: services

Tue 25th November 2014
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Headliners combined to NamesCon: Atallah, Alexander - Akram Atallah and Fiona Alexander have been added to the NamesCon agenda. NamesCon, taking place in Las Vegas January 11-14, has added a couple big names to its agenda for the first full day of the conference. On Monday, January 12, I will have a fireside chat with the president of ICANN’s Global Domains Division, Akram Atallah (pictured). Atallah is in charge of generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and web services at ICANN. This includes ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2014
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Frank Schilling changes plan for .Click launch - NothingHeldBack.click. 5 more Uniregistry domain names go into general availability next week. And for one of them, .click, Frank Schilling is taking a different strategy when it comes to holding back domain names. In previous launches, Schilling’s companies have registered thousands — even tens out thousands — of names ahead of general availability launch. That left frustrated domainers searching through the scraps. This was especially notable because Shilling ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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New TLDs should obey a Startup.club indication for reward domains - Program promotes .Club while also generating premium domain sales revenue. .Club’s new Startup.club program is ingenious, and something that other new top level domains should consider emulating. Here’s startup.club in a nutshell: get a premium .club domain name but pay it off over 10 years, and .Club will also give you PR and marketing support. None of the features of Startup.club are new. TLDs have offered payment plans on premium domains for a while (e.g. sex.xxx), ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Judging by a unite list, NamesCon 2015 is going to be huge - Already 40 sponsors lined up for January’s NamesCon event. It may be hard to believe, but NamesCon 2015 is just two months away. And, judging by an updated sponsorship list for 2015, it’s going to be a very big conference. Uniregistry is taking top billing for the event, and there are six Gold sponsors: Afilias, Endurance, GoDaddy, Verisign, Right of the Dot and TLD Registry. I count 40 sponsors in all, not including media sponsors. That’s a lot, and indicative ... read more ...
Thu 6th November 2014
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BuyDomains and a economics of vast domain portfolios - Should very large domain name portfolios be valued per domain or on sales and profitability metrics? The sale of BuyDomains.com this week, including a portfolio of close to a million domains for something less than $80 per domain, has raised eyebrows. On Tuesday, I wrote a bit about the BuyDomains’ business and how the valuation might make sense when viewed from a different perspective. This post will go into a bit more depth, and compare BuyDomains to other domain ... read more ...
Wed 5th November 2014
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Cool site lets we see what new TLD domains were purebred yesterday - DomainPunch’s latest tool is eye-opening. There are a lot of new top level domain names out there. Most of them grow by a dozen or so registrations every day. Now that the brand protection and investor rush is over, who is registering these domains? Here’s a quick and simple tool from DomainPunch to see domain names that were added to the zone files the previous day. It’s pretty interesting. I used the tool this week to investigate what types of domains people ... read more ...
Tue 4th November 2014
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Minds + Machines tighten to $4 million in domain registration revenue - Company says it has sold the equivalent of nearly a half million .com domain names. New top level domain name portfolio company Minds + Machines issued a press release this morning touting its results to date after launching 10 new TLDs. According to the release: The Directors are highly satisfied with the overall progress of these launches, particularly from a revenue perspective. When measured on a .com equivalent cost basis, registrations within Minds + Machines ... read more ...
 
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Ebola army ICANN to pierce assembly from Morocco to Singapore - Without specifically citing Ebola, ICANN moves meeting due to Ebola-inflicted attendance concerns. That “confidential agenda item” at last week’s ICANN Board meeting? A decision to move the next ICANN meeting, which was scheduled for Morocco in February. It will be held in Singapore instead. Without specifically citing Ebola, the board resolved to move the meeting due to attendance concerns. In addition to people being scared of traveling to the region and catching ... read more ...
Thu 30th October 2014
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Neustar reports earnings, .Co grossed $4.4 million final quarter - .Co acquisition helps boost revenue at Neustar. Neustar reported third quarter earnings after the bell today. The company, which operates .us, .biz and .co, reported a 7% lift in revenue and a 1% increase in net income compared to the third quarter of 2013. A big growth driver was the addition of .Co, which the company acquired in March. .Co added $4.4 million to the revenue line during the third quarter. Neustar originally reported the purchase price of .Co as $109 ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
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Afilias skeleton to lift $100 million, warchest will assistance in new tip turn domain auctions - Afilias will float its shares on the AIM next month, and use proceeds in part to fund upcoming new TLD auctions. Domain name registry Afilias announced today that it intends to trade on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM, raising $100 million. In doing so, Afilias will join fellow registries Minds + Machines and CentralNic on AIM. Afilias says its registry operations are second only to Verisign in size. It supports more than 20 million domain names; 6.6 million directly ... read more ...
Tue 7th October 2014
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Due industry is required before shopping glass domain names - Take these extra precautions when buying a valuable domain name. With news yesterday of more missing three letter domain names at a couple different domain registrars, now is a good time to remind people about due diligence when buying a domain name. This is especially important for “liquid” domain names like three letter domains. Three letter domains have a floor value at which they can be quickly sold to a ready market of buyers. This makes them a favorite of ... read more ...
Thu 25th September 2014
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Apple iOS 8 tip #10: selecting TLDs from a keyboard - Millions of iOS 8 users are being reminded about how to quickly insert .com using the iOS keyboard. I made the switch from Android to iOS last week with the iPhone 6. iOS 8 has a “tips” app that pushes a new usage tip to you every few days. It’s helpful for someone like me who’s learning a new operating system. Some things in iOS aren’t intuitive to those that haven’t used the operating system before. Last night I received a push notification about shortcuts ... read more ...
 
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Escrow.com acquires Agreed.com escrow service - Escrow service that launched this year is gobbled up by largest online escrow company. For the past year, the number of online escrow companies targeting the domain industry has grown considerably. It’s about to shrink by one. Escrow.com announced today that it has acquired Agreed.com from Thought Convergence. This is Thought Convergence’s second divestiture in as many weeks; last week it announced the sale of Aftermarket.com. Agreed.com launched in January of ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
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Is Verisign’s devise for a standards organisation partial of the obvious play? - Company’s CEO disclosed creating an industry group as part of monetizing its patent portfolio. Verisign recently announced plans to organize a group called Registration Operations Association (ROA) to discuss technical aspects of domain name registration. A three part blog series proposing the group, penned by Verisign Senior Director Scott Hollenbeck, focuses on Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) and the challenges of registrars working with different EPP extensions ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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CentralNic: Early new TLD direct next attention expectations - Company says its registry operations are showing steady growth despite delays and low demand for new TLDs. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) issued its interim financial report for the first half of 2014 today. The company, which is the backend registry operator for a number of top level domains, said it’s realizing steady growth in the registry “against a background of delays in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and early demand levels across the industry falling short of industry ... read more ...
Wed 10th September 2014
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Sedo and TLDs foster domain names during dmexco - Top your frozen yogurt with a heap of .media and a sprinkle of .pics. Sedo and a number of top level domain registries are promoting domain name options at Europe’s biggest digital marketing conference this week. The company has a booth at dmexco, taking place in Cologne today and tomorrow. The event is expected to draw 32,000 people. The booth has a wall featuring a number of top level domain options. It also has a frozen yogurt machine and toppings. All of the ... read more ...
Mon 8th September 2014
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Only use WHOIS services we trust - Few things in life are truly free, including whois data websites. There are a lot of great sites out there for doing whois lookups. DomainTools, for example, has long been a great source to lookup a domain and get extraneous information about the domain/site. But you need to be careful which sites you use if you value your privacy. Non-registrar whois sites make money in one or more ways: advertising, subscription fees, data collection. If you don’t see advertising ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2014
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Next month: a biggest domain name discussion ever - The biggest conference in the history of the domain name industry is taking place next month. This summer’s ICANN meeting in London set an all-time record for a domain name related conference with 3,115 people in attendance. The record is likely to last only one more month, as ICANN’s next meeting in Los Angeles is just a month away. ICANN meetings have grown in size for a couple reasons. First, the release of new top level domain names has increased interest. ... read more ...
Wed 3rd September 2014
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This domain name business switched to a new TLD - A domain name business adopts a .domains domain name. New top level domain name registries have been looking for examples of companies adopting their domain names. They don’t have to look too far: a domain name software company is among those that has adopted a new TLD. Softnik, maker of the Watch My Domains software for domain management, has moved its software sales site from DomainPunch.com to WatchMy.domains. The company will continue to use DomainPunch.com, ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2014
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Quickly find a tip websites built on new TLDs - Two tools show you which sites built on new TLDs are gaining traction. A key for the long run success of each new top level domain name is usage. Which TLDs are getting traction with actual end users? Two tools based on Alexa data can help you find out. Softnik, creator of Watch My Domains Pro, has created a free tool that makes it easy to sort the Alexa 1 Million list by TLD. Just type in a TLD, hit enter and you’ll quickly see a list of domains on that TLD that ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
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.Cash and .Fund any get fewer than 1,000 registrations - Slow start for the two new TLDs that launched yesterday (for which we have data.) Five top level domain names launched yesterday. Unfortunately, ICANN’s centralized zone file system only has updated zone files for two of them. .Cash gained 725 registrations to end the day with 909 in the zone file. .Fund picked up just 414 to get to 625. There are no first day zone files for Donuts’ other two TLDs, .tax and .investments. A zone file for Rightside’s .haus is ... read more ...
Wed 20th August 2014
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Registry launches “Chinese Domain Ambassador Program” - Registry engages with customers with ambassador program. Here’s another example of a registry reaching out directly to its registrants to help promote their new top level domain name. TLD Registry, the company behind Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has launched a its Chinese Domain Ambassador Program. The company noticed a group of Chinese domainers supporting their domain names shortly after launch. It reached out to these domain ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2014
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New TLDs this week: .Bio, .Haus and an costly Donuts domain - StartingDot and Rightside join Donuts with new top level domain name releases this week. Last week was a Donuts-only week for new TLDs. This week the mega-registry is joined by Rightside and StartingDot. On Wednesday, Rightside will launch .haus. That’s German for “house”. Expect to pay anywhere from $25-$40 for .haus domains. Also on Wednesday, four financial Donuts domain names exit EAP and revert to regular pricing:.cash, .tax, .fund and .investments. .Investments ... read more ...
 
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Donuts compelling the TLDs during Vegas conform uncover (photo) - Company goes direct to customers to promote its niche domain names. “If you build it, they will come.” Not if they don’t know you’ve built it! Although there are close to 200 new top level domain names on the market, dozens of them niche domains for particular industries, very few people know about them. I’d bet fewer than 1% of business owners have ever heard of new TLDs, let alone most of the niche extensions. New TLD backers need to get in front of business ... read more ...
Mon 11th August 2014
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Verisign: Internet grew by 5 million domain names in Q1 - Domain Name Industry Brief shows continued growth of registered domain names. Verisign released its Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf) today , estimating that the total base of registered domain names grew by 5 million to 276 million in Q1 this year. (Yes, that’s Q1 — not the most recently concluded quarter.) That’s 1.7% more than at the end of Q4, and 7.5% growth year-over-year. The base of country code domain names grew at a faster clip than gTLDs, with a 2.9% ... read more ...