VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results and details about .com and .net registrations and renewals for the first quarter of 2016. Business Highlights: Verisign Registry Services added 2.65 million net new names during …
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Hexonet Starts Offering Donuts & Rightside Backorders For Regular Priced Domains
Hexonet starts offering Donuts and Rightside backorders for dropping domain names on May 1, 2016. The backorder service will be catching about 400 New gTLDs in total. HEXONET will continue to add backordering for even …
Read More »Amazon Wants To Turn Its New Domain Extensions Into Closed Generic TLDs
Amazon attempts to make one, but ultimately all, of its new extensions restricted despite ICANN’s ban on closed generic TLDs. Amazon Registry Services, Inc., the Registry Operator of .MOI TLD, has filed to ICANN a …
Read More ».Tech Hits 100,000 Domain Name Registrations (Infographic)
.Tech, the New gTLD from Radix registry, reached 100,000 domain name registrations this morning. According to NameStat .tech is the 22nd new extension in terms of domain name registrations. Radix has several partners like GoDaddy, …
Read More ».Homes Registry: Domain Investors Are Not Invited
Dominion Registries, the .Homes domain name registry, has made it clear that domain name investors are not invited in their namespace. But at the same time the registry has reserved numerous premium domain names that …
Read More »New gTLD Report Shows A 30% Increase Of Domains In Alexa Top 1M (Plus .Seat, .BMW, .Movie)
The latest edition of the bi-monthly CSC® Digital Brand Services’ New gTLD Utilization Report shows both the number of .brands and generic TLDs in the Alexa Top 1M increasing by over 30% since the February …
Read More ».Homes Registry Opens Request for Proposal (RFP) Period For Premium Domain Names
Dominion Registries, the .homes registry, announced today that a special Request for Proposal (RFP) period has opened for a group of premium .Homes domain names. The domain names are being considered for release for registration …
Read More »auDA Will Soon Introduce First Level Domain Name Registrations In .AU
Soon Australians will be able to make first level domain name registrations in .au, for example, “MyName.au”. The .au domain extension is the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) restricted to use by individuals, organisations, …
Read More »Latest Report Counts 314 Million Registered Domain Names Worldwide
VeriSign, Inc. announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all …
Read More ».Club Launches Domain Availability Dashboard (16.5% Of Premium LLL .club Available)
The .Club registry launched a new domain name availability dashboard that has some very interesting stats on both sold and available .club domain names. Dashboard is designed to make it easier for domain investors to …
Read More ».Club Registry Sells Lending.club For $25,000 & Startup.club For $22,500
The .Club domain name registry published its March domain name sales report. The .Club registrar channel was supplemented by an domain auction and the two solid direct sales to deliver steady .CLUB premium name sales …
Read More »Verisign Reports Trending Keywords In .COM & .NET Domain Names (Trump, Cuba)
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of March 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” made the list once again at number …
Read More »The Chinese Investor Who Bought 7,000 LLLL.com Domains For ~$20M (video)
ChopChop.domains did an interview with Daniel Chen, Chairman at 190.com, that bought nearly 7,000 LLLL.com domains names for almost $20 million dollars. The video interview was conducted on the 22nd of March 2016. Mr. Chen …
Read More »Minds + Machines Website Moves To mmx.co
The Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) website moved today from mindsandmachines.com to www.mmx.co. Minds + Machines announced today that it has reached an agreement for Nominet to take over the technical back-end registry functions for up …
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