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• Market Recap 2/18/16 Endurance Intl up Close to 10% – Go Daddy Down 3.7%

  Market Recap 2/18/16 Endurance Intl (EIGI) went on a ride today, trading as low as $8 and then closing at $10.28, up close to 10%. Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Radix Set to Launch .Store in April

  Radix put out a press release today that they will be launching .Store in April. Dot store will start Sunrise on 6th April. The TLD will follow the same... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• New gTLD Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days

  According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD’s domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days. In terms of percentage of... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• In Less Than 2 Years, .XYZ Passes 14 Year Old .BIZ to Become 4th Largest Domain...

  

  The new gTLD domain name extension, .XYZ is which won’t be two years old until, June of this year, just surpassed the domain extension .Biz which has been aroun... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• In Less Than 2 Years, .XYZ Passes 14 Year Old .BIZ to Become 5th Largest Domain...

  

  The new gTLD domain name extension, .XYZ is which won’t be two years old until, June of this year, just surpassed the domain extension .Biz which has been aroun... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Market Recap 2/17/16 GoDaddy up Over 7% Reports Earnings

  Market Recap 2/17/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was up over $2 today or 7%, they received a buy recommendation from Deutsche Bank and reported earnings after the close.... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Me Passes 1 Million Domain Name Registrations +28% in 2015

  The .Me registry announced today that for the 1st time, the number of .Me domain registrations passed 1 Million domains. .Me is the country code or ccTLD for... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Market Recap 2/16/16 Go Daddy up Close to 9% Day Before Earnings Report

  Market Recap 2/16/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) up close to 9% the day before they release earnings. The company received an outperform rating from RBC Capital today.... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $2 Million Led by CustomFit.com

  685 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Com Tops 125 Million Domain Registrations

  

  According to Verisign (VRSN) the registry for .Com, the number of .Com registration crossed the 125 million mark in the Domain Name Base. The active zone file i... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• The Story Of How Harvey Levin Bought The Domain TMZ.com For $5K

  

  The Newyorker, just published a very interesting story on the history of TMZ, including the story on how the founder of the company, Harvey Levin bought the... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• .Club Passes 9 Year Old .Mobi In Numbers of Domain Registrations

  .Club has just passed .mobi in terms of domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com .club has 691,522 domain registrations while .mobi is at... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2016 BUSINESS, TECH

• 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