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Nominet to Run .blog's Back-end
May 13, 2016 @ 8:57 AMNominet is to run the back-end registry systems for .blog, the company announced this evening. We reported earlier today that .blog has a surprise new owner — Knock Knock, Whois There, which belongs to Automattic, owner of WordPress.com — and it seems the change of ownership comes with a change of back-end. Primer Nivel, the…
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More Details On .blog and Automattic
May 13, 2016 @ 6:55 AMA few more interesting details about Automattic running .blog. There was big news in the top level domain world yesterday: Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced it will be running the .blog top level domain name. This will be a shot in the arm for new TLDs as it should expand awareness significantly. I reached…
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Radix Joins The Hollywood Content Police
May 13, 2016 @ 4:00 AMRadix has become the second major gTLD registry to announce a content policing deal with the movie industry. It today said it has signed an agreement with the Motion Picture Association of America similar to the one Donuts announced in February. Like Donuts, Radix will treat the MPAA as a “trusted notifier” for the purposes…
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WordPress Reveals It Bought .blog for $19 Million
May 13, 2016 @ 1:09 AMWordPress.com owner Automattic has outed itself as the bankroll behind the winner of the .blog auction and the new owner of the forthcoming new gTLD. Founder Matt Mullenweg also revealed that the company paid around $19 million for the domain at private auction in February 2015, about $1 million more than the amount DI estimated…
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Automattic (WordPress.com) Acquires .blog Top Level Domain Name
May 12, 2016 @ 11:15 AMBig news for top level domains as .blog gets big backing. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, now controls the .blog top level domain name. The company announced plans for the domain name today. Primer Nivel S.A., the company behind My.co, won an auction for the heavily-contested top level domain name last year. Many were surprised…
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Chinese Owner of Nbaz.xyz Defends UDRP Brought By American Bank
May 12, 2016 @ 7:27 AM…but he didn’t use the “four letter acronym domain has value” defense. The owner of the four letter domain name NBAZ.xyz has successfully defended a cybersquatting complaint filed by National Bank of Arizona. This is notable for a couple reasons. First, some people in China are not defending their domain names in disputes, and this…
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World's First Vanity gTLD Goes Live
May 12, 2016 @ 2:14 AMHong Kong billionaire Richard Li has become the first person to own a top-level domain matching his name. The new gTLD .richardli went live on the internet today. The registry is Pacific Century Asset Management (HK) Limited, a subsidiary of PCCW, the Hong Kong telecomms and internet giant of which Li is chair. Forbes estimated…
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Afilias Takes Over .hotel, Sidelines Krischenowski Over Hacking Claims
May 12, 2016 @ 1:02 AMAfilias has sought to distance itself from DotBerlin CEO Dirk Krischenowski, due to ongoing claims that he improperly accessed secret data on rival .hotel applicants. The company revealed in a recent letter to ICANN that it has bought out Krischenowski’s 48.8% stake in successful .hotel applicant Hotel Top Level Domain Sarl and that Afilias will…
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Rightside Targets $50-$75 Million Annual Registry Revenue in 3-5 Years
May 11, 2016 @ 10:11 AMCompany predicts strong upswing in registry revenue. Rightside’s revenue from new TLDs might be trivial to its business right now, but the company expects big things in the future. Last year, Rightside generated registry revenue of $8.4 million with an adjusted EBITDA margin of just 2%. This year, the company expects to generate $12-$15 million…
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Web.com Acquires Dozens of Registrars From Rightside
May 11, 2016 @ 8:36 AMWeb.com has acquired dozens of registrars from rival/partner Rightside, seemingly to boost the success rate of its SnapNames domain drop-catching business. I’ve established that at least 44 registrars once managed by Rightside/eNom have moved to the Web.com stable in recent weeks, and that might not even be the half of it. All of the registrars…
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