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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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LeBoeuf Corporation Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Leboeuf.com
LeBoeuf Corporation (“Complainant”), represented by Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld of KRONENBERGER ROSENFELD, LLP, California, USA, has just been found guilty of Reverse... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Your Tax Dollars At Work: Clinton Department Of State Email’s Shows Interest In ...
One of the unclassified emails from the Hillary Clinton fiasco shows she or someone at the Department of State had an interest in a domain name around the term... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com up Over 10% – Verisign up Close to 4%
Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com (WWWW) was up over 10% today, the company posted earnings last night (Non-GAAP EPS were $0.66, three cents above estimates) and... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Rightside Establishes Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise in China & Plans To Be...
Rightside (NAME) announced today its expanded operations in China by establishing a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). Rightside says that there are... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Pro Domain Extension Hits All Time High Number of Domain Registrations
On November 15th, 2015 the restrictions on the TLD .Pro were lifted. Since it was approved in 2000, .Pro domain names had been restricted to to three classes... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign Working On Getting Contract To Operate .Com Registry For 10 More Years
In the earnings call today, Verisign (VRSN) announced that it was in “in the final stages of drafting the new Root Zone Maintainer Agreement with ICANN “to... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign Expects Higher Non-Renewal Rates From Those 4th Q Domains Reg By Chines...
Verisign reported its earnings for the 4th quarter of 2015 and financial results for 2015. In the earnings call today, Verisign made some interesting comments... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Web.com Buying Local Ad Co. Yodle for $342M Which Is About 40% of Its Market Cap
Web.com (NASDAQ:WEB) announced today it’s acquiring Yodle, a provider of local online ad/marketing services for 50K+ small businesses, for $300M in cash up-fron... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 2/11/16 Verisign Reports Earnings Down in After Hours
Market Recap 2/11/16 Verisign (VRSN) reported earnings after the close, the stock was up on the day but is down in after hours. VeriSign, Inc. Read more
Posted on 11 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million Led by VacationUSA.com
Over the past week, 534 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 2/10/16 Tucows up 8.2% – Verisign up 1% Ahead of Earnings Tomorrow
Market Recap 2/10/16 Tucows (TCX) was the top performer on the day, after announcing a $40 million stock buyback the stock closed up 8.2%. Verisign (VRSN) was u... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Tucows Announces $40 Million Stock BuyBack Program & Is Up Over 8% To $20 A Share
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) announced after the market closed yesterday “that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program to repurchase fro... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
SalesForce Buys The Domain Quotable.com Through BrandBucket.com
Salesforce has just bought the domain name Quotable.com through BrandBucket.com According to DomainTools.com the owner of the domain name was Baroda Ventures LL... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Feel The Bern? The Domain FeelTheBern.com Is For Sale; We Chat With The Owner
Yesterday Bernie Sanders won the first Democratic primary of the 2016 election beating Hillary Clinton by over 20%. What has become the rally phrase for Mr.... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Feel The Bern? FeelTheBern.com Is For Sale W/ It’s 18K Visitors A Month: We...
Yesterday Bernie Sanders won the first Democratic primary of the 2016 election beating Hillary Clinton by over 20%. What has become the rally phrase for Mr.... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 2/9/16 Godaddy Down Close to 5% – Verisign up 1.1%
Market Recap 2/9/16 Godaddy (GDDY) had another rough day down close to 5%. The stock was as low as $23.88. Uptick Analyst published where analysts stand on the... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
CSC Issues “New gTLD Utilization Report” .Global Enters “Alternative Top 10” List
Brand protection and domain registrar, Corporate Service Company (CSC) issued its latest “New gTLD Utilization Report” which is designed to update digital... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 2/8/16 Verisign Down 5% – Sedo’s Parent off 7.4%
Market Recap 2/8/16 Another down day in the markets overall, Godaddy (GDDY) managed to finish up .14 after being down over 15% the previous two trading days. Read more
Posted on 08 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Club Sells Over $140K in Premium Domains In January: Over $3.5 Since Launch
.Club reported on its blog that it sold $142,470.52 in Premium Name Sales in January bringing the total cumulative premium name sales for .CLUB to $3,540,637.79. Read more
Posted on 08 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.XYZ Says They Just “Blew Past” 2 Million Domain Registrations
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just sent me over a note that the new gTLD .XYZ has “blew past 2 Million domain name registrations”. According to... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH
