CentralNic announced today that the acquisition of SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive country code top-level domain for Slovakia, .sk, has now been completed. The Company’s agreement to acquire SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive …
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Neustar moves its website from Neustar.biz to Home.Neustar
Neustar, Inc. today announced that it has revamped its global website and that it is moving to its own .brand extension. Neustar’s new website is moving from Neustar.biz to Home.Neustar All of Neustar’s digital assets …
Read More »Global growth in domains has slowed down but still was 2.5% YOY (without .xyz/.top)- New gTLD market share down from 7.5% to 6.6%
There are an estimated 311 million domains under management over 1,500+ top-level domains globally. Over the past 2 years, quarterly growth rates have been decreasing since peaks in early 2016. The slowdown is the result …
Read More »Radix shares renewal rates for .Online, .Tech and .Site (no data for its other 6 extensions)
Radix registry shared the renewal rate for three of its most popular TLDs, .ONLINE, .TECH and .SITE. Launched in July and August 2015, these 3 TLDs are up for subsequent (2nd cycle) renewal and are …
Read More ».Club sells 452 domain names for $380k (porn.club, basketball.club, coin.club)
In the third quarter of 2017 .CLUB sold a total of 452 domain names, generating $325,743.31 in single payment sales and another $55,050 in topline value of new “Easy Payment” subscription sales at www.get.club for …
Read More »Verisign Q3 report: 145.8 million .com & .net domain names (up 1.47 million)
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 …
Read More ».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 …
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