Tag Archives: services

Sun 10th August 2014
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A good snyopsis of Verisign’s corner contract - Investor does a pretty good job explaining how Verisign has a license to print money. Verisign has a wonderful license to print money. Its contract with ICANN to run .com allows it to charge $7.85 per .com domain name registered. The company enjoys fat 55% operating margins as a result. Stephen Pomeroy of Pomeroy Capital Partners, L.P. recently sent a letter to his limited partners about Verisign (of which his fund is a stockholder) and published it on SeekingAlpha. The ... read more ...
Thu 7th August 2014
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Picking a baby name formed on domain name availability - Site generates list of available domain names for naming a baby. A lot of domain name registrars have pushed out PR in recent years about parents snapping up a domain name for their newborn babies. I have one matching my daughter’s name, and even registered them up for my nieces and nephews should they ever want to use them. A new site aims to help parents name their baby by telling them what domain names are available. Call it crazy, but it’s kind of fun. Just ... read more ...
Wed 6th August 2014
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4 subscription domain name services we use - Here are four subscription-based domain name services I use regularly. There are a lot of great subscription-based services for the domain name industry. Here are four that I use on a regular basis. FreshDrop $19.95 per month FreshDrop is my go-to source for finding the best expiring domain names. A recent redesign might take long-time users a bit to get used to, but Freshdrop has a number of powerful filtering tools under the hood. I’ve used FreshDrop to find a ... read more ...
Thu 31st July 2014
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Estibot to launch domainIQ for retreat and chronological whois - New service will launch next week. The company behind Estibot is launching a new domain name service called domainIQ next week. domainIQ provides reverse whois (all the domains owned by a person or company), historical whois, and other intelligence about domain names. Many of the features are currently found in DomainTools, and some are also found in the free service Whoisology. domainIQ will certainly compete with these services, depending on what level of detail ... read more ...
Thu 24th July 2014
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A demeanour inside today’s practical domain name tradeshow - Virtual tradeshow is clunky but presents a good opportunity to chat with domain name companies. I remember going to a virtual tradeshow about a decade ago. It was clunky and hard to use. Apparently that’s the case in 2014 as well. I just attended Webfair Virtual, an online tradeshow featuring a bunch of domain name companies. The process of registering, downloading software, and navigating the show floor was rather cumbersome. (Once you figure out how to chat ... read more ...
Mon 14th July 2014
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Demand Media spin-off of Rightside set for Aug 1 - Rightside’s debut as its own publicly-traded company is imminent. Demand Media plans to complete the spin-off of its domain name business on August 1. Rightside will become its own public company on that date. It will trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol “name”. Demand Media shareholders will receive one Rightside share for each five shares of Demand Media stock they own. Rightside owns a number of domain name businesses covering the entire spectrum of the ... read more ...
Thu 10th July 2014
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.Services domain name adult to 4,600 and .Pub 1,300 after one day - .Services runs out of the gate, .pub is toast-worthy. Two new top level domain names launched yesterday and both had fairly good days. Donuts launched .services, its only domain name to come out of the Early Access phase this week. It added roughly 4,000 domain names on the first day to hit 4,584. The domain name is in Donuts’ middle tier of pricing, so it will set you back about $25 to $40 depending on where you register it (NameCheap on the low end and GoDaddy ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2014
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Lend.me launches as a Prosper for domain names - Peer-to-peer loans use domain names as collateral. Francois Carrillo, who runs the Domaining.com news aggregation site, has launched Lend.me, a loan marketplace for domain name owners. It’s a peer-to-peer loan marketplace similar to Prosper and LendingClub. A key difference is that the loans are secured with domain names. The site acts as a matchmaking site between people who want to lend money and those that want to borrow. Much like on the popular peer-to-peer ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2014
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TRAFFIC discussion heads to Las Vegas in dual weeks - Domain name conference returns to Vegas later this month. This year’s TRAFFIC conference in Las Vegas is quickly approaching. The event will formally kick off May 28 and conclude with breakfast on Saturday, May 31. TRAFFIC in Vegas is being hosted at The Bellagio for the second year in a row. Conference registration is still available for $1,595. The Bellagio room block is now closed. I just searched for a room checking in Wednesday May 28 and checking out Saturday ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2014
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People caring about one thing when picking a domain name escrow company: Reputation - Reputation first. Everything else is just details. What matters to domain name investors when they select a domain name escrow company? The biggest factor by far is reputation, according to participants in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. Survey-takers were asked to select the “primary reason” they use the escrow service they use most often. Asked to choose between eight factors, 46% said reputation is most important. That’s a strong number made even more ... read more ...
Wed 9th April 2014
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How domain registrars and merchants accept Bitcoin but banking risk - Several companies make it easier to accept digital currencies with reduced risk. I’ve always wondered how companies like Overstock.com and NameCheap.com accept bitcoin payments while avoiding the risk of an exchange dying (e.g. Mt. Gox) and currency fluctuations. I got the answer last week when I ran in to Jessica Besseling at DomainFest. Besseling formerly worked for DomainSponsor and DDC.com, and now she’s Sr. Director of Business Development for GoCoin. GoCoin ... read more ...
Mon 31st March 2014
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Could NamesCon strike 1,000 attendees subsequent year? - Conference sets ambitious attendance goal…and it might hit it. The inaugural NamesCon domain name conference happened just two months ago, but organizers are already planning a repeat in 2015. The event will take place Jan 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. It will include an additional day of conference programming and networking. Conference organizers also say they are adding additional conference space at the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas. I guess that ... read more ...
Wed 26th March 2014
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.UK adds registry close option - .UK domains can now get added protection against nameserver and domain hijacking. .UK registry Nominet is now offering its own version of a registry lock service, dubbed “Domain Lock.” Similar to Verisign’s Registry Lock service for .com domain names, Domain Lock requires manual intervention and authentication in order to change key details about a domain name. This authentication should prevent the type of attack that took down the New York Times website last ... read more ...
Tue 25th March 2014
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5 some-more Donuts TLDs accessible to register tomorrow & .email is a leader so far - .Email has the most registrations so far for this week’s batch. Five more of Donuts’ new top level domain names revert to regular registration pricing tomorrow: .training, .solutions, .support, .builders and .email. So far it looks like .email is the winner — but anything can change when prices drop tomorrow. The latest .email zone file shows about 1,500 domain names registered. Just over 300 in the zone file were sunrise registrations with the rest coming during ... read more ...
Mon 24th March 2014
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Radix boots ARI in preference of CentralNic - CentralNic picks up contracts for new TLDs from rival. New top level domain name applicant Radix has selected CentralNic to be the backend registry provider for its .website, .host, .space and .press top level domain names. Radix had originally said that ARI Registry Services would be the technical services provider for all of its top level domain names. With that in mind, it was somewhat surprising when Radix chose CentralNic to power its .pw launch in 2012. That ... read more ...
Fri 21st March 2014
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Why Neustar paid $109 million for .Co and what it means for new TLDs - While the circumstances behind Neustar’s acquisition of .CO Internet were unique, it bodes well for operators of new TLDs. Neustar announced yesterday that it is paying $109 million to acquire .CO Internet, operator of the .co domain name. It’s a big price tag, and here’s how it breaks down: * $68 per currently registered .Co domain * 5x current annual revenue run rate * 6.5x current annual revenue run rate when you account for Neustar losing $4 million a year ... read more ...
Wed 5th March 2014
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DomainFest is reduction than a month away. Here’s because I’m going. - DomainSponsor’s annual domain name conference is just a few weeks away. This year’s date-shifted DomainFest conference is less than a month away, kicking off on March 31. I just booked my travel for the event, which is one of many domain conferences I plan to go to this year. With a very busy conference circuit, I’m being selective about which events I attend. Ultimately I included DomainFest as one of them for five reasons: 1. The show has a long history of ... read more ...
Mon 3rd March 2014
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I only went 0-for-17 induction new domain names - Between name collisions, registry reserved domains, and premium pricing, the best new TLD opportunities are difficult to find. I think there are some opportunities for domainers to make money with new top level domain names, but they are limited. My thinking is that some domain names that can be obtained for under $100 with low renewal fees can be sold within 1-5 years for low $1,000s to the right buyer. It’s very risky, and with typical sell through rates I’ll ... read more ...
Thu 27th February 2014
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.CO creates a “Pop-up HQ” for SXSW 2014 - .CO creates its own home on the road for SXSW Interactive. .CO went small the first time it came to SXSW Interactive in Austin. It was more of a scouting trip than a marketing one. I remember catching up with the company at the W Hotel that year. .CO Internet CEO Juan Diego Calle said “Wow, this is big”. .CO has had a major presence at SXSW ever since then. It’s the perfect event for a company that targets startups. This year it’s going bigger and better ... read more ...
Fri 21st February 2014
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The domain name discussion circuit is really, unequivocally busy - Lots of competition creates a dilemma for attendees. The domain name conference circuit is undergoing a big shakeup in 2014 because there are a lot more options. A lot of the new(er) options are directly related to the rollout of new top level domain names. Money is flowing because of the rollout, and a lot of new faces in the industry are seeking to learn, meet people, and strike deals. The huge number of conferences means that prospective attendees will have to ... read more ...
Mon 10th February 2014
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Rightside Registry offers the possess Domain Protected Marks List - Service for blocking trademark domain names is very similar to Donuts’. Rightside Registry announced its own version of the Domain Protected Marks List (DPML) service last week. With the service, trademark owners can block their marks from being registered as a second level domain name in any of the top level domain names Rightside runs. If the name and the concept sound very familiar to Donuts’ DPML, that’s because Rightside Registry also runs the backend technical ... read more ...
Fri 7th February 2014
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Verisign: we’re not fearful of new TLDs, and IDN transliterations will be delayed - A defense of .com’s staying power and bad news for IDN.com investors. On its investor conference call yesterday afternoon, Verisign CEO James Bidzos explained why he isn’t afraid of new top level domain names. Also, in a blow to IDN.com investors, the company said it will take a longer for them to hit the market than many are hoping for. New TLDs? We’re not afraid of those! Despite Verisign’s never-ending tactics to delay new top level domain names, Bidzos ... read more ...
Tue 4th February 2014
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LeadsCon owner and former DomainSponsor worker launches Grow.co - Jay Weintraub starts his next company: Grow.co. Jay Weintraub, who founded and later sold the popular LeadsCon conference for the lead generation industry, has started a new company called Grow.co. Weintraub was an early employee at Oversee.net/DomainSponsor prior to founding LeadsCon. Grow.co aims to be a community for “customer acquisition marketers.” Weintraub describes this as a “nascent community,” but he has a habit of jumping on trends that explode ... read more ...
 
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Sedo co-founders deposit in App marketplace Apptopia - Tim Schumacher and Ulrich Essmann invest in Apptopia. Tim Schumacher and Ulrich Essmann, two of Sedo’s founders, are no strangers to building a marketplace. The pair hope to put this background to good use by investing in Apptopia, which they describe as a “Sedo for Apps.” They led a bridge financing round that also includes Kima Ventures, Eric Kagan, Telegraph Hill Capital and Rothenberg Ventures. Much like Sedo does for domain owners, Apptopia allows app publishers ... read more ...
 
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Calzone creates monitoring new TLD launches easier - Did you know that there are about 60 top level domain names in sunrise right now? Yes, 60. This many domain name launches at once is difficult to track. Add to it early access programs, landrush, general availability, trademark claims periods, etc., and it is quite confusing even for domain name experts. Enter Calzone, a free TLD calendar that has formally launched after being in beta for a few months. Created by Thomas Barrett, president of domain name registrar ... read more ...