GGRG Brokerage Consulting and Giuseppe Graziano published the 2nd quarter of 2017 Liquid Domains Market Overview partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com. QUALITY IS IN, QUANTITY IS OUT. Increased end user …
Read More »George Kirikos: “How can *objectively* argue that sunrise program has been a success, when the data says otherwise?”
George Kirikos has been arguing about the New gTLD sunrise success with the ICANN community and the GNSO Working Group. In my opinion his views are 100% correct and his suggested procedure could save all …
Read More »Is TMview.com (purchased for $4,000) a spoofing website created by Michael Gleissner?
John Berryhill sent out a few tweets on August 11, 2017 warning people about tmview.com being a spoofing webpage. The intellectual property attorney believes that the fake web page is spoofing TMview that is the …
Read More »Report: ccTLD renewal rate over 2016 was 83% (report falsely claims .loan has strong performance!)
The DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report (Q2/2017) has been published. The report covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs) with additional focus on the European …
Read More »Namejet adds “Shill Bidding Policy” in updated terms of use
Namejet updated its terms of use on August 10, 2017. The new terms include a new section called “Shill Bidding Policy”. Now the Namejet terms clearly state that shill bidding is not permitted in its …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: token, future, vegan, prime, weed
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of July 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are no common keyword in the .com …
Read More »ICANN report: more hacked domains in legacy gTLDs, more maliciously registered domains in new gTLDs
ICANN announced the publication of the report, “Statistical Analysis of DNS Abuse in gTLDs” [PDF, 2.23 MB]. The study aims to compare rates of these activities between new and legacy gTLDs, as well as employs …
Read More »The Donuts and Rightside brand and trademark protections become one
Donuts successfully completed the acquisition of Rightside and that is good news for registrars and their end customers with Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) programs. From now on companies interested in brand protection will not …
Read More »Donuts gets $110 million credit
Donuts Inc., today announced that it has closed a $110 million credit facility led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of SVB Financial Group), and with participation from Cadence Bank, N.A., Comerica Bank, Pacific Western Bank, and Umpqua Bank. This debt …
Read More »Rick Schwartz’s rules of domaining
Rick Schwartz sent out a tweet yesterday saying: “I NEVER buy a #domain asking question: Is this $1k domain worth $2k? I ask a completely different question & get different result!!” Of course I immediately …
Read More »Tucows Q2 revenue goes up to $84 million with the help of eNom
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Revenue went up compared to Q2 2016 after the Enom acquisition from …
Read More »GoDaddy Q2 results: total revenue was $557.8 million, up 22.3% year over year
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. “GoDaddy successfully delivered another solid quarter with continued organic customer, revenue and cash flow growth,” said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. …
Read More ».Boston launched Community Priority Phase
Today, MMX launched the Community Priority Phase for the new .boston top level domain. This phase gives local nonprofit organizations and government entities a chance to apply for their organization’s .boston domain name by registering …
Read More »Namejet sold 92 domains for $613,601 in July (spitfire .com, zev .com, gogirl .com)
Namejet released it’s July 2017 domain name auctions report that includes mostly 2, 3 and 4 character domains and fewer numerics. Namejet sold 92 (129 domains in June) domains in July for a total of …
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