Rightside announced today that last month it sold two of its Premium domains, which ranked as two of the largest per domain revenue transactions in Rightside’s history. Sex.LIVE sold for $160,000 and Porn.LIVE went for $120,000. [websites are NSFW] …
Read More »Afilias Acquires StartingDot’s New gTLDs .ARCHI, .BIO and .SKI
Afilias announced today the acquisition of StartingDot, the Registry Operator for 3 new TLDs: .ARCHI, .BIO and .SKI. The acquisition agreement is part of Afilias’ ongoing program of acquiring new TLDs to add to its portfolio. …
Read More »Donuts Will Decrease Pricing for New .BUSINESS and .COMPANY Domains
Effective at 16:00 UTC on October 1, 2016, Donuts will adjust downward the standard wholesale price for new, non-premium registrations in .BUSINESS and .COMPANY. Donuts says that “This adjustment better aligns registration prices with emerging …
Read More »Colin Campbell Gives A Talk Called “All In A Name” At HostingCon 2016 (video)
Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB Domains, gives a talk called “All In A Name: How New Meaningful Domain Extensions Can Drive More Business” at HostingCon 2016 in New Orleans. Watch the video here:
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Rightside Made More Than $1 Million In Q2 Selling Premium Domains
Rightside announced some of the highlights of the first half of 2016 regarding premium domain name sales. They also announced “The Power of Two” campaign for September that will be the release of previously unavailable two-letter …
Read More »eShow Brasil 2016: .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass on “How New Domain Names Are A Marketer’s Best Friend” (video)
At the 2016 eShow Brasil conference in Sao Paolo Brazil, .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass gave this presentation on “How New Domain Names Are A Marketer’s Best Friend.” (Thanks to Andres Varona of AM Global for …
Read More »Nintendo, Developer Of Pokemon Go, Bought The Domain Name Pokemon.Club For $10
Nintendo, the owner of the newly released game Pokemon Go, bought the domain name Pokemon.Club. The domain name was bought from the .Club registry as the domain name was reserved by the registry due to …
Read More »Rightside Rejects Donuts’ $70 Million Proposal
Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful consideration and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, has rejected the unsolicited proposal from Donuts Inc. to acquire Rightside’s …
Read More »Chinese Domaining Masterclass Concludes With Numbers 0 And 10
TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, and ChopChop.domains is releasing the last installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. Here are the previous 9 installments: the number 7 …
Read More »Donuts Receives The First 6 Infringing Domain Names by MPAA
In February of this year Donuts announced its newly minted “trusted notifier” program with the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”). It was the first arrangement of its kind in the domain name industry made …
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