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.com/.net Domain Base Increases Just 0.68 Million in Second Quarter
July 27, 2017 @ 12:34 PMBase barely budges but beats Verisign’s expecations. Verisign (VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, released results after the closing bell today. The base of registered domains in .com and .net barely budged, increasing 0.68 million during the quarter. But this is above Verisign’s forecast of 0.0 to 0.4 million growth. It predicted…
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.XYZ Working to Make Domains Available in China Again
July 27, 2017 @ 8:27 AMDomains haven’t been available at Chinese domain registrars since early May. Many Chinese domain name registrars stopped offering .xyz domain names back in May at the behest of China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). At the time, XYZ CEO Daniel Negari said “CentralNic is updating RNV providers to ensure there is stability in…
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Donuts Acquisition of Rightside to Happen Overnight
July 27, 2017 @ 8:03 AMRightside should no longer exist as a public company tomorrow morning. The sun has gone into hiding and a mist is falling in Seattle this morning, but executives at Rightside and Donuts won’t be getting much time outside anyway. They’ll be working to complete Donuts’ acquisition of its neighbor in Kirkland. The tender offer for…
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ICANN Chair Steve Crocker: No Date On Next New gTLD Round
July 27, 2017 @ 6:05 AMICANN will NOT set a date for the next round of new gTLD applications, despite recent pleas from registry operators. That’s according to a letter (pdf) from ICANN chair Steve Crocker to the Registries Stakeholder Group published today. The RySG had asked (pdf) last month for ICANN’s leadership to set a fourth-quarter 2018 deadline for…
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Donuts to Complete Rightside Acquisition Tonight
July 27, 2017 @ 5:12 AMDonuts is on the verge of closing its acquisition of coopetitor Rightside, after the vast majority of Rightside shareholders agreed to sell up. Rightside just disclosed that owners of 92% of its shares — 17,740,054 shares — have agreed to sell at Donuts’ offer price of $10.60 per share. That means the remaining 8% of…
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MMX Says .vip Renewals Running at 75%
July 27, 2017 @ 3:41 AMMMX has revealed that its renewal rate for first-month .vip registrations in China were over 75%. The portfolio gTLD registry, also known as Minds + Machines, said that 317,000 domains that were registered during .vip’s first month of availability have now been renewed. The news follows a June announcement that the renewal rate would be…
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Verisign Issues Statement On .cc/.tv Situation in China
July 26, 2017 @ 10:16 AMCompany has submitted applications but domains are not licensed for sale in China. Last week some registrars in China dropped support for .cc and .tv domain names, both of which are managed by registry company Verisign. This was part of a directive from the Chinese government to suspend sales of a number of domains that…
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.vip Gets 75% Renewal Rate for Early Registrations
July 26, 2017 @ 8:17 AMCompany tops expectation it set last month. Last month MMX (Minds + Machines) forecasted that about 70% or more of .VIP domains registered within the first 31 days of general availability last year would be renewed. A commenter on that post claimed “There is no way it will be 70%”, insinuating it would be less…
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GoDaddy Launches WordPress Premium Support to Provide Small Businesses With 24/7 Expertise
July 26, 2017 @ 6:01 AMNew service combines GoDaddy’s best-in-class customer support with round-the-clock access to expert developers, helping small businesses fix and optimize their WordPress sites…
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Auda Now Looking to Outsource .au Registry
July 26, 2017 @ 4:08 AMAustralian ccTLD overseer auDA appears to have softened its approach to overhauling the management of .au. The organization said today that it’s now planning to look for an “outsourced registry operation” that will come online in July 2018. In recent months, the company had been looking for suppliers to help it build a dedicated, in-house,…
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