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GoDaddy Gets WHOIS Verification Patent
March 1, 2016 @ 10:16 AMPatent describes ways to make sure people don’t use invalid information in whois records. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent 9,275,040 to GoDaddy for “Validating user control over contact information in a domain name registration database”. Its inventor is GoDaddy Vice President of Policy James Bladel. The patent application describes ways to…
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Activist Investor Slams Rightside Over "Garbage" New gTLDs, Looking for Blood
March 1, 2016 @ 7:50 AMA hedge fund manager known for causing trouble at the companies he invests in has savaged Rightside, saying its focus on new gTLDs at the expense of its registrar business is ruining the company. J Carlo Cannell of Cannell Capital is looking for some serious bloodletting. He wants Rightside to cut 20% of its staff,…
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Major Rightside Shareholder Upset With Focus On New TLDs
March 1, 2016 @ 7:33 AMShareholder asks company to fire 20% of staff, add update and unify company products under eNom. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) investor J. Carlo Cannell, who owns 7.32% of outstanding shares through investment funds, has sent a scathing letter to Rightside about its strategy. Cannell is upset with the “unrelenting propaganda” about new TLDs while he believes Rightside’s…
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Radix Begins Sending Expired Domain Inventory Through Snapnames
March 1, 2016 @ 7:27 AM.Website domain names are the first of the company’s domain names to be available through SnapNames. New top level domain name company Radix has struck a deal with SnapNames to send expired domain name inventory through the auction platform. .Club was the first new TLD I’m aware of to capture value from the expired domain…
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How to Lose a $175,000 Domain Name in a UDRP
March 1, 2016 @ 7:07 AMCompany loses Halifax.com after trying to get Bank of Scotland to buy the domain name. A company in the United Kingdom just lost a domain name it paid $175,000 for in a UDRP. It should be viewed as a lesson on what not to do with a domain name that has both a generic/geo value…
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Citigroup Affirms VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) Rating of Downgrade
March 1, 2016 @ 2:42 AMVeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN)’s stock had its ‘Target Up, Downgrade’ rating verified by analysts at Citigroup in a paper circulated on Wednesday, Jan 6th 2016. They currently have a $77.00 target price for the stock, up from their previous price objective of $76.00. Citigroup’s goal price points to a potential
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Registrars Object to "Unreasonable" .bank Demands
March 1, 2016 @ 2:21 AMRegistrars are upset with fTLD Registry Services for trying to impose new rules on selling .bank domains that they say are “unreasonable”. The Registrar Stakeholder Group formally relayed its concerns about a proposed revision of the .bank Registry-Registrar Agreement to ICANN at the weekend. A key sticking point is fTLD’s demand that each registrar selling…
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City Brand Media Launches Three D.C. Area Dot-coms
February 29, 2016 @ 2:16 PMCity Brand Media, the nation’s largest CITY(dot)com media and publishing company, finalized a deal today to develop websites for three furious growth cities in Northern Virginia’s County of Fairfax. Washington metropolitan neighbors TysonsCorner.com, Reston.com, and Herndon.com, part of the most populous jurisdiction in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria area, join City Brand Media’s growing number of city domains, expected to number over 400 by the end of 2016….
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Sales of New .pet Domain in Top 10% of New TLDs!
February 29, 2016 @ 1:56 PMAfilias, a leading domain registry operator, today announced strong first day sales results for the new “dot PET” (.PET) top level domain which launched on Feb…
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Uniregistry Goes to Eap Pricing Up to $28,500 for .mom
February 29, 2016 @ 9:35 AMUniregistry is launching the new gTLD domain name extension .Mom and it’s taking a whole new path a rather expensive one. Aside from the .car. .cars and .auto new gTLD’s which is a joint venture between Uniregistry and XYZ, Uniregistry had avoided launching its new gTLD’s with an Early Access Program (EAP), but with .Mom…
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