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 …
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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 ».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 …
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 »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 …
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 ».AT Will Release 1 And 2 Character Domains
Starting with August 29, 2016 nic.at releases one and two character domains under the TLD .at. Until now the minimum length of a domain name under the top-level domain .at has been three characters. This …
Read More »Internet Now Has 326.4 Million Domain Names (12 Million Added In Q1 2016)
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that approximately 12 million domain names were added to the internet in the first quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 326.4 million …
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 »Trending Keywords In .COM & .NET Domain Names (worlds, brexit, vietnam, aids)
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” is out after being on both lists …
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