VeriSign, Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of 2017. Business Highlights Verisign ended the third quarter with 145.8 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 1.2 percent …
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.London launches marketing campaign on London Underground, billboards, digital & TV advertising
.London is launching a new marketing campaign. This new localised campaign aims to encourage London’s small businesses to show pride in their association with the capital, to help increase brand awareness, encourage new registrations and …
Read More »New .COM campaign: “With a .COM, you can beCOMe anything you want.”
Verisign just launched a new .com campaign with tagline “With a .com, you can become anything you want.” The campaign is using the domain name YouCouldBe.com. They are also making a play with the word …
Read More »CentralNic secures contract to 14 New gTLDs, .sk acquisition has been delayed
CentralNic has agreed with Germany’s KSregistry GmbH for CentralNic’s wholesale division to provide its services for 14 Top-Level Domain extensions currently managed by Open Registry, which KSregistry acquired from Group NCC in 2017. Under the …
Read More ».NYC announces the 5 winners of the Best of Boroughs contest (plus some .nyc stats)
The City of New York, on behalf of .nyc, crowned the winners of the first-ever Best of Boroughs contest. The Best of the Boroughs 5 website winners are: Best of Bronx – NewDayChurch.nyc is committed …
Read More »DigitalTown acquires JustLegal.com, hires Frank Robles, Braden Pollock joins as an investor/advisor
DigitalTown, Inc. and Congo, Ltd., have entered into an agreement for DigitalTown to acquire technology, expertise, and other assets of Congo. Congo’s flagship product is JustLegal.com, an online service for legal service provider discovery. “The …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: Irma, disaster, base, drain, jerseys
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of September 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. “Drain” is the only one common keyword in …
Read More »Less than 1,500 .Boston domains were registered on general availability
Less than 1,500 .Boston domain names were registered on general availability day 1, October 10 2017. According to Namestat there are now 1,619 registered .Boston domain names. The total includes 1,429 registrations from general availability …
Read More ».CLUB to release 380 domains tomorrow (BB.club, HR.club, etc.)
.CLUB will be releasing 380 domains tomorrow, October 11, at 1500 UTC (11:00 EST), through the registrar channel. The domain names are predominantly LL and NN names such 12.club, 16.club, AB.club, BB.club, CD.club, DV.club, ET.club, HR.club …
Read More ».US Town Hall – Key points and how Neustar totally ignored my question
Neustar held the .US domain names town hall last week. They mostly talked about how they do all these “great” marketing efforts they do and people on forums and blogs complained about that. But a …
Read More »Neustar has destroyed the .BIZ and .US domain name whois service
Neustar, Inc. has decided to destroy whois for .biz and .us domain names without even an announcement. That is probably because what they did is against ICANN rules. Domain name whois at port 43 is …
Read More »My thoughts on the Donuts New gTLDs and their stated 71% average renewal rate
Donuts published a health check on its TLDs and this time it includes all 40 of the newly acquired Rightside extensions. “Taking a glance at year-to-date numbers (through August 2017), the indicators are all positive. …
Read More »Join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the future of the .US extension
Neustar, the .US registry, is hosting a live town hall forum on Wednesday to discuss the United States’ country code Top-Level Domain, .US. Anyone can join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the …
Read More »Funniest domain name story of the month! wtf@wtf.wtf (???)
This is one of the funniest stories I have heard in the past few months! Imagine this: You are having issues with your email and then out of anger you try to send an email …
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