Konstantinos Zournas, Author at OnlineDomain.com

GoDaddy Q2 2016 Report: Revenue Up 15.6%, Domain Revenue Up 10.2%

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2016. GoDaddy also announced that Ray Winborne has joined the company as its new Chief Financial Officer and Scott Wagner has …

What Is Sedo Afraid Of?

According to TheDomains.com “Sedo has decided to stop reporting the total weekly transaction number and the percentage of buy it now transactions.”. WOW. I didn’t expect that from Sedo. Or actually I did. I guess …

2016 DOMAIN INDUSTRY AWARDS (How to vote and who I voted for)

You can now vote for the 2016 domain industry awards that will be announced at THE Domain Conference Keynote and Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, September 13th. You can vote until Friday morning so you need to …

.Net Domain Name Price Goes Up 10% On February 1st, 2017 (Up 76% Since 2012)

.Net domain name wholesale price goes up again on February 1st, 2017. That means you have a few months notice to renew your .net domain names for 1 to 10 years so you can save a …

Verisign Will Quickly Grow .Web As An Additional Option

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) today announced the following information pertaining to the .web top-level domain (TLD): “The Company entered into an agreement with Nu Dot Co LLC wherein the Company provided funds for Nu Dot Co’s …

Why Verisign Bought The .Web Domain Extension And What NOT To Expect

So Verisign paid $135 million to get the exclusive rights to the .web new domain name extension. But why and what you should expect or rather NOT to expect? The price was very high but Verisign …

Nu Dot Co (Verisign?) Wins Auction For .WEB Domain Names For $135 Million

On 27 July 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program auction to resolve contention for .WEB and .WEBS. Auction serves as the method of last resort for …

Verisign Q2 Report: Revenue Up 9.1% Adding 0.78 Million Net New Domains

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2016. Business Highlights Verisign Registry Services added 0.78 million net new names during the second quarter, ending with 143.2 million .com and …

Minds + Machines Now Has 728,940 Domains Under Management (up from 217,200 last year)

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that the Group’s unaudited interim accounts for the six months ended 30 June 2016 will be published on 20 September 2016. During the first half of 2016 transformational …

ICANN Report: Very Few Trademark Holders Use The New gTLD Sunrise Periods

ICANN announced the publication of the Draft Report of the Independent Review of the Trademark Clearinghouse. Specific considerations related to the matching criteria, Trademark Claims service and Sunrise period are assessed in the review, conducted by …