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Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
May 4, 2016 @ 10:13 PMSci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
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Next Round of New TLDs Might Be in 2020
May 4, 2016 @ 1:16 PMIt’s going to be a while. Want to apply for your own top level domain name in the next round? You might be able to…in 2020. But no one ever lost money betting on delays at ICANN. Speaking at World Summit on the Information Society, Akram Atallah, President of ICANN’s Global Domains Division, suggested 2020…
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Domain Name Revenue Barely Budges at GoDaddy
May 4, 2016 @ 12:44 PMDomain names represent slow growth at GoDaddy. GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) reported its first quarter results today, and it’s no wonder the company has diversified out of the core domain name market. The company had first quarter revenue of $433.7 million, up 15.3% year over year and 2% quarter over quarter. Its domain name revenue hit $218.9…
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Jen Sale and Adam Strong Launch Evergreen
May 4, 2016 @ 9:44 AMDomain industry veterans Adam Strong and Jen Sale are working together on their new domain consulting and brokerage company, Evergreen. I first learned about Evergreen at NamesCon, and the company was officially launched this week. Evergreen’s focus will be on the naming space…
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The .com Report: Uniregistry Winning in Transfers
May 4, 2016 @ 8:03 AMUniregistry continues to win transfers from other domain name registrars. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from January. Uniregistry won the transfer game with the most net inbound transfers. On the new registrations side, GoDaddy saw a seasonal jump in January, reporting a solid number of new…
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CentralNic to Nuke a Handful of PsEUdo-domain Names
May 4, 2016 @ 6:54 AMGB.com among domain names that will no longer operate like a registry. CentralNic (LSE:CNIC) is going to terminate a handful of third level domain name options it offered to registrants the same way second level domain names are registered. Domains registered under .AR.COM, .GB.COM, .HU.COM, .KR.COM, .QC.COM, .NO.COM, .SE.COM, AND .UY.COM will no longer work…
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UDRP Filed Against Cpm.com
May 4, 2016 @ 5:54 AMAccording to UDRPSearch.com, a UDRP was filed at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) for the valuable CPM.com domain name. NAF does not publish the name of the complainant before the decision is rendered, so I am not sure who filed the dispute. The UDRP is case #1672836, and it was commenced yesterday. CPM.com is one of the oldest domain names in existence…
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Donuts Makes Weird Investment in Startup
May 4, 2016 @ 2:04 AMDonuts has made a surprising investment in a company that makes geolocation technologies. The new gTLD registry operator announced yesterday that it has something called Donuts Labs, through which it will make “strategic investments” in “similar” companies. Its first investment is in California tech startup GeoFrenzy, which operates in the emerging “geofences” space. A geofence…
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Two-letter At.properties Domain Name Saved in UDRP
May 3, 2016 @ 5:59 AMCompany that uses atproperties.com wanted the “domain hack”. Illinois real estate company @Properties has failed to get the domain name AT.properties in a UDRP. @Properties uses the domain name atproperties.com, and also registered atproperties in multiple top level domains, including .cc, .condos and .rentals. But it neglected to pick up at.properties when it became available…
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CentralNic Hits 4 Million New Top Level Domain Names
May 3, 2016 @ 5:34 AMXYZ and Radix propel CentralNic’s registry growth. CentralNic now has over 4 million domain names on its new top level domain registry services platform, the company announced today. It provides registry services to .xyz, which accounts for about three-quarters of the total. Its other major client (volume-wise) is Radix. Radix runs a handful of top…
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