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Donuts Makes First Investment Through Donuts Labs
May 3, 2016 @ 5:00 AMDonuts’ first investment is in a geofencing company. Top level domain name company Donuts has made the first of what promises to be many investments through its new Donuts Labs program. Through Donuts Labs, the company is putting its capital and registry knowledge to work by investing in emerging technologies that promote new uses for…
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Name Experts, LLC Announces Launch of Domain Brokerage
May 2, 2016 @ 11:44 PMName Experts, LLC launches its new business and website. A boutique domain name brokerage firm, the company specializes in premium dotcom domain names, expert domain valuation and buy-side/sell-side brokerage services.
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GoDaddy (Domain and Hosting Service Provider) Files Patent Application For Two Patents
May 2, 2016 @ 1:43 PMThe Domain Names and Web Hosting service provider GoDaddy filed a Patent from for the Domain Title history check and Fast Domains Transfer service. The GoDaddy is the Internet company, which provides domain names and the web hosting for Webmasters and bloggers. The company has filed the Patent forms in the U.S Patents and Trademarks office.
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SportAccord Council Member On U.S. Sanctions List is Replaced
May 2, 2016 @ 12:27 PMIlyumzhinov removed from council list. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has been removed from a list of SportAccord Council members published on the .sport domain applicant’s website. It appears he was replaced by another member. Domain Name Wire published a story last month about how Ilyumzhinov was listed on the U.S. Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list…
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Shaquille O'neal and The New GoDaddy TV Ad
May 2, 2016 @ 9:03 AMGoDaddy’s newest commercial is out and it seems that former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal likes the new Shaq made of cheese that is featured in the ad. The ad is part of the new ‘Go You’ campaign by Go Daddy and is the second ad of the series. The latest ad features a fake cheese sculptor…
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Rightside Gets .games Will Launch in 3Q; Uniregistry Launching .game This Week (Sunrise)
May 2, 2016 @ 4:59 AMRightside (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016, starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Donuts was the sole applicant for .Games, which is one of the jointly owned new gTLD domain extensions with Rightside. There were 5 applicants for the new…
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ICANN in a strop that Intel, Netflix, Lego, Nike and others aren't using their dot-brand domains
May 1, 2016 @ 12:53 PMSome of the world’s biggest brands, including Intel, Nike, Target, Netflix, Lego, UPS and the NFL have been told to put their namesake dot-word domains live in the next three months or risk losing them altogether. Domain name overseer ICANN has warned 200-plus companies in a blog post that there is a 12-month deadline from signing a contract to making sure their dot-brand is live on the internet. If they don’t meet the deadline, ICANN has threatened to end the agreement.
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.shop Lawsuit Falling to Pieces
April 29, 2016 @ 6:06 AMCommercial Connect’s lawsuit against ICANN appears to be on its way out, as ICANN claims the .shop applicant has “abandoned” the case. The company sued ICANN in January in an attempt to prevent .shop gTLD being sold off via an ICANN last-resort auction. It failed, and the auction raised a $41 million winning bid from…
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Verisign On 2016 Expectations and IDNS
April 29, 2016 @ 5:34 AMCompany warns Q4 might see a drop, says more IDNs on the way. Verisign held its quarterly investor call yesterday after announcing another quarter of better-than-usual results. The company added 2.65 million net additions in .com and .net, above its predicted 1.5 to 2.0 million net adds. After predicting normalization of registration numbers from China,…
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Verisign Signs Deal With China's Cnnic for Real Name Verification
April 29, 2016 @ 5:09 AMGroup that operates .CN will assist Verisign with identity verification of .com and .net registrants. Verisign has signed an agreement with China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) for real name verification. Back in December, I wrote about how the Chinese government was going to begin enforcing real name verification on registrants of .com and .net…
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