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Amazon Files Appeal On Rejected .amazon Domain
March 3, 2016 @ 12:30 PMAmazon has appealed the rejection of its proposed .amazon new gTLD. The company this week told ICANN that it has invoked the Independent Review Process, after 18 months of informal negotiations proved fruitless. Amazon’s .amazon application was controversially rejected by ICANN in May 2014, due to advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee. The GAC, by…
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Radix Giving Free .host Domains to All WHMCS Customers
March 3, 2016 @ 8:58 AMAccording to a press release we just received Radix is giving all WHMCS clients the opportunity to register a .HOST domain name free of charge for the first year WHMCS is a leading hosting and automation solutions provider to Web Hosts worldwide. The program has garnered immense popularity with over 2000 registrations within the first…
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Amazon Loads Up On Echo Dot Domains
March 3, 2016 @ 6:56 AMCompany makes defensive registrations for new products. Amazon.com announced its new Echo Dot today, a smaller and stripped down version of its Amazon Echo. Of all of the smart home devices we have in our house (and we have a LOT), the Echo is by far the most used. The company also launched Amazon Tap,…
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Amazon Plotting Registrar Workaround?
March 3, 2016 @ 6:54 AMAmazon has given an early hint at how it may manage its new gTLD registries. The company seems to be planning to make its own web site the place to go to for its new gTLD domains, relegating registrars to secondary players in the sales path. It also seems to be planning to up-sell registrants…
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GoDaddy's Annual Report Re-confirms $35.5 Million Price for Berkens' Portfolio
March 3, 2016 @ 5:05 AMCompany paid about $500 per domain to acquire Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio. GoDaddy filed its annual report with the SEC today, and it confirms (or re-confirms) that the company paid $35.5 million to acquire Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio. After GoDaddy released its Q4 earnings, I wrote about how the cashflow reconciliation showed that…
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Michael Berkens Resigns From Right of The Dot
March 2, 2016 @ 9:10 AMAfter big sale, Berkens resigns from domain consulting group. Michael Berkens has resigned as a Director and officer of Right of the Dot, LLC, a consulting firm he co-founded with Monte Cahn. Berkens recently updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect that he was no longer with the company, and I verified the move with him…
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LA Times Publisher Acquires LA.com Domain Name
March 2, 2016 @ 9:02 AMTribune acquires valuable domain name, plans to offer customized email addresses. Tribune Publishing Company (NYSE:TPUB), publisher of the L.A. Times, has acquired the valuable domain name LA.com. The company has already created a landing page for the site, which invites visitors to enter their email address to be alerted when the site launches. You might…
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8.club & 24 2-number Domains (11.club., 44.club, 55.club, 99.club) to Be Auctioned On 4.cn
March 2, 2016 @ 7:56 AM8.club, along with 24 other two-number domain names, including 11.club., 44.club, 55.club, 99.club and more, are set to go to auction on 4.CN, China’s leading domain auction platform and the largest domain marketplace in the country. Bidding will open on March 7th, 2016 at 5pm in China (4am Eastern) and the auctions will have staggered…
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Chinese Domain Name Registrar Knocks GoDaddy Off .com Perch
March 2, 2016 @ 7:33 AMeName was #1 in most recent published results. Chinese registrants helped .com surge toward the end of 2015 as they registered millions of short domain names. And, with official numbers just published by ICANN, we now know that this surge pushed GoDaddy off its perch as #1 for most new .com domain registrations in November…
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Schilling Agrees With Activist Rightside Investor
March 1, 2016 @ 1:29 PMUniregistry boss Frank Schilling agrees to a large extent with the fellow Rightside investor who was revealed today to be threatening a boardroom coup at Rightside. Schilling, who is believed to have paid $8.4 million for 6.1% of Rightside, told DI tonight that he believes Rightside’s management has not done a good job over the…
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