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.xyz Adds 788,000 Domains in a Day
June 2, 2016 @ 4:46 AMBlimey. XYZ.com managed to “sell” at least 788,167 .xyz domain names yesterday, as registrars gave them away for peanuts. According to this morning’s zone file count, the gTLD has 3,644,826 domains, compared to 2,856,659 yesterday. And its sale is not even over until midnight tonight. The company has pumped millions into marketing .xyz for the…
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Phil Bienert Out As GoDaddy Cmo, Barb Rechterman Back in
June 1, 2016 @ 12:18 PMBarb Rechterman heads back to the marketing c-suite. Phil Biener has resigned as Chief Marketing Office at GoDaddy after a little over a year in the role. Barb Rechterman, who moved from the CMO job to Chief Customer Office to make way for Bienert, is now back in the CMO role. Rechterman has been with…
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Phil Bienert Out As GoDaddy CMO, Barb Rechterman Back in
June 1, 2016 @ 12:18 PMBarb Rechterman heads back to the marketing c-suite. Phil Bienert has resigned as Chief Marketing Office at GoDaddy after a little over a year in the role. Barb Rechterman, who moved from the CMO job to Chief Customer Office to make way for Bienert, is now back in the CMO role. Rechterman has been with…
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These Might Be The Top 10 Biggest New gTLD Daily Growth Spikes
June 1, 2016 @ 11:05 AMWith news seeping out this evening that XYZ.com’s latest marketing blitz has very possibly added half a million domains to its .xyz gTLD today, I thought I’d knock out some data on the previous largest one-day growth spikes in new gTLDs. With some caveats, which I’ll get to, I think these might be the top…
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Registering a Trademark Doesn't Let You Refile a UDRP
June 1, 2016 @ 7:45 AMUDRP panel declines to hear refiled UDRP. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied Steven Samblis’ second attempt to take down gripes sites. Samblis is a television personality and businessman who runs a media company. Apparently his actions have rubbed at least one person the wrong way. That person set up sites using the…
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ICANN Proposes Pricing Changes for New gTLDs
June 1, 2016 @ 3:30 AMICANN is to give gTLD registries greater power to change their pricing under a proposed new deal. The organization also says it could accept reduced fees from registries under some circumstances. These are among about 40 substantial changes appearing in a new version of the standard new gTLD Registry Agreement that has been put out…
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Registrars Selling .xyz Names for Pennies
June 1, 2016 @ 2:43 AMXYZ.com’s campaign to keep its volumes high as .xyz approaches its second anniversary seem to have resulted in basically free registrations. Uniregistry said yesterday that it has started selling .xyz domains for just $0.01, and NameCheap is offering them for $0.02. The prices, which apply to first-year registrations, kicked in yesterday and expire at midnight…
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Keyword Domain Names Get Better Search Click-through Results
May 31, 2016 @ 8:14 AMVerisign published a study today that describes how Verisign sought to understand whether or not having a keyword-rich domain name that shows up in search results provides any benefits over domain names appearing in search results that do not include keywords. To help answer this question, Verisign researchers analyzed millions of search queries licensed from the…
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West.cn to Prop Up .xyz Renewals With $1.5 Million Subsidy
May 29, 2016 @ 11:21 PMLeading Chinese registrar West.cn has said it will subsidize .xyz renewals to the tune of $1.5 million. According to a West.cn press release, CEO He Xiaojiang made the announcement alongside XYZ.com counterpart Daniel Negari at meeting in Beijing on Friday. The registrar’s .xyz customers “are going to get high rebate back from West.cn so that…
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CentralNic Doing Okay Out of New gTLDs
May 26, 2016 @ 6:31 AMLocal former rival Minds + Machines may be struggling to turn a profit, but CentralNic seems to be doing quite well out of this new gTLD malarkey. But not as well as you might expect. Large growth at its clients does not appear to have translated to a whole lot more revenue for CentralNic itself…
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