Donuts Inc., the largest New gTLD registry, today publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s entire registry of new generic top-level domains (New gTLDs) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash …
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No Action Will Be Taken Yet Against .EU Domain Names Registered By Residents In UK
EURid, the .eu and .ею domain name registry, issued a statement today regarding the United Kingdom referendum results and .eu domains owned by UK residents. On 23 June 2016 voters in the UK referendum expressed …
Read More »Report: 92% Of NGOs Have A Website (70% .ORG, 9% .COM, 18% ccTLDs & others)
The Public Interest Registry and the Nonprofit Tech for Good published the report of a research project: “2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report”. This is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how …
Read More »Tucows Files Ontario Lawsuit To Halt Transfer Of The Domain Name Hayter.com
Tucows filed an Ontario lawsuit to halt the transfer of the domain name Hayter.com and to stop the UDRP proceedings. Tucows, an ICANN accredited registrar, is also the owner of a big portfolio of domain …
Read More »eNom Releases New Website, Logo & Blog
eNom, an ICANN accredited registrar that is part of Rightside, released its new website and logo today as well as a new blog. Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside, announced the new site: Fresh new @enom …
Read More »Undeveloped.com New gTLD Domain Name Auction (find .work, customer .care, u .fit)
Undeveloped.com is having a New gTLD domain name auction. This is the second auction for the Undeveloped.com platform after the premium .com and ccTLD auction that ended last week. The auction runs from the 20th June to …
Read More »CEOs of .Club & .XYZ Go On A Twitter Battle (“.CLUB will never sink to a penny!”)
It all started with a Tweet from Colin Campbell, CEO of .Club, then Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ, replied and the battle of the New gTLDs began! Here is the timeline of the twitter battle: …
Read More »Mike Mann’s Latest Domain Acquisitions & Sales (CoolDomains .com, GaySocial .com, VoteDonaldTrump .com)
Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from the last month or so. Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers more than 250,000 premium domain names for …
Read More »3,159 Euro Paid In Greece For Forwarding 3 Domain Names?
The municipality of Samos, a Greek island in the Aegean sea, paid 3,159 Euro for a 5-minute job assignment. The price included Greek 24% VAT tax. Specifically they paid Andreas Skalkos (e-samos) to forward 3 …
Read More »Results From The 1st Undeveloped.com Premium Domain Name Auction
On the 14th of June Undeveloped’s 1st premium domain name auction ended. The auction included short domains like UPD.com and premium product specific domains like RedWine.com but unfortunately most of these premium domains did not met the …
Read More »CentralNic to Relaunch .CX ccTLD Rebranded As Customer Xperience
CentralNic will relaunch the TLD .CX on June 22 through its new Registry Gateway Service. .CX is the ccTLD for Christmas Island. The ccTLD is rebranded as the domain for good Customer Xperience. The TLD …
Read More »CentralNic Will Be The Backend For UKCI’s .ART New gTLD
CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC), announced that it has contracted with UK Creative Ideas Limited (“UKCI”), the rights holder for the new Top-Level Domain (“TLD”) .ART, to be its exclusive backend registry service provider. .ART will …
Read More ».STORE Makes $1+ Million Until Day 1 (t-shirts.store $25k, stars.store $10k)
Radix announced that their new gTLD .STORE made more than $1 million before close of general availability day 1, earlier this week. This figure includes revenue earned from premium names, sunrise and regural registration fees. …
Read More »101Domain Rolls Out New Services & Features
101Domain is rolling out new services and features while approaching the one-year anniversary since being acquired by Afilias plc in September 2015. First, they have updated their terms & conditions and are now fully operational …
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