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Verisign Files Opening Brief in Appeal Against .xyz
February 10, 2016 @ 11:30 AMDavid v. Goliath battle continues in appeals court. Verisign has filed its opening brief (pdf) with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, in its dispute with new top level domain name company XYZ. In October 2015, a federal district judge dismissed Verisign’s lawsuit against the operator of the .xyz domain name. Verisign subsequently appealed…
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FundMe.com and GoFundMe.com in Trademark Spat
February 10, 2016 @ 10:43 AMTwo similarly-named companies are on a collision course. The owner of FundMe.com has filed a lawsuit against personal fundraising site GoFundMe.com over the similarity of their names and trademarks, and a bit of nuance around types of crowfunding. FundMe.com has a trademark related to business funding. GoFundMe is a site for personal or charitable crowdfnding…
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Mobile Phone Service Continues to Lift Tucows
February 10, 2016 @ 9:06 AMDomain names are the base, but mobile phone service contributes the most gross margin. Tucows, one of the largest domain name registrars, released fourth quarter and full year financial results yesterday. Fourth quarter revenue hit $45 million, with annual revenue of $173 million, up 17% from the prior year. While the company’s domain name business…
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China Dominates New .com Registration Trends
February 10, 2016 @ 8:01 AMChinese names are a big hit in .com. Verisign has released its monthly trending keywords report, and words tied to China dominated last month. The list considers which keywords made the biggest jump in registrations from one month to the next. Here are the top ten for last month: 1. Jin 2. Fang 3. Yun…
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Tucows Announces $40 Million Stock Buyback Program & is Up Over 8% to $20 a Share
February 10, 2016 @ 7:58 AMTucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) announced after the market closed yesterday “that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program to repurchase from time to time up to $40 million of its common stock in the open market.” “The new $40 million buyback program will commence February 10, 2016 and will terminate on or…
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New gTLD Utilization Report (.brands, "Suspicious" New gTLDs & .bank)
February 9, 2016 @ 12:52 PMThe latest edition of CSC’s New gTLD Utilization Report shows .brand launches continuing to pick up speed, more new gTLDs climbing up the Alexa rankings and some interesting examples of new gTLDs in use. They also take a closer look…
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Donuts Makes Hollywood Content Policing Deal
February 9, 2016 @ 7:07 AMDonuts has made a deal with the American movie industry that will make it easier to take down piracy domains. The Motion Picture Association of America has been given a “Trusted Notifier” status, and the two companies have agreed upon a domain take-down framework. The agreement targets “large-scale pirate websites”, Donuts said. It’s the first…
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Donuts Signs Piracy Deal With MPAA
February 9, 2016 @ 6:39 AMAgreement says Donuts will investigate piracy claims as a last resort. New top level domain name company Donuts has inked a deal with Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in which Donuts will investigate cases of large-scale piracy on the domain names it operates. The deal isn’t a rapid takedown sort of agreement. It only…
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New gTLDs Top 12 Million Domains
February 9, 2016 @ 5:35 AMThe new gTLD universe passed 12 million domains for the first time today, according to zone files. Today, we counted 12,001,346 domains across all the 2012-round gTLD zones, up by just under 60,000 names on the day. Over 50,000 of the new names were split fairly evenly between .xyz and .club, which seem to be…
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.xyz Passed Two Million Names, Growing Like Crazy
February 9, 2016 @ 3:15 AMThe .xyz gTLD at the weekend became the first new gTLD to pass the two million domains mark, as it experiences ridiculously fast growth. Its zone file has grown by 274,315 domains in the last seven days, hitting 2,092,346 yesterday. It added 130,000 names on Saturday alone. That’s the kind of growth more usually associated…
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