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AlpNames Overtakes GoDaddy As The 2nd Largest New gTLD Domain Registrar
January 18, 2016 @ 5:53 AMAccording to ntldstats.com, AlpNames has just overtaken GoDaddy in terms of the number of new gTLD domain names under management. According to ntldstats.com AlpNames.com has 1,016,800 new gTLD’s under management while Godaddy has new gTLD’s 1,005,071. Alpnames was founded in 2013 in order to provide registrar services under the new gTLD program. AlpNames has a…
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.cloud Gets 500 Sunrise Regs
January 15, 2016 @ 10:50 AMAruba, the .cloud gTLD registry, said it received 500 applications during its sunrise phase, which closed this afternoon. While low by pre-2012 standards, it’s a relatively respectable performance for a new gTLD, where sunrises periods consistently result in double-digit registrations. It’s almost certainly in the top 10 for 2012-round gTLDs. exactly one hour left to…
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Ziff Davis Buys Offers.com
January 15, 2016 @ 9:38 AMPublisher gets popular website-and killer domain name-with Offers.com acquisition. Publishing company Ziff Davis, a division of publicly traded J2 Global (NASDAQ: JCOM) has purchased Austin company Offers.com. Offers.com is a coupon code and product deals site that attracts five million monthly unique visitors. I caught up with Offers.com founder and CEO Steve Schaffer this morning…
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Why You Shouldn't Go Bananas Over Banana.com Domain Name "Sale"
January 15, 2016 @ 7:27 AMThere’s a good reason to be skeptical of a $2 million banana.com domain sale. Last month there was a bit of a stir in the domain name industry about the Chinese buying one word English domain names for huge sums. A domain name auction in China resulted in 5 domain name “sales” of $2 million…
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Vodex Communications Nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
January 15, 2016 @ 6:26 AMSerial entrepreneur defends 17-year-old domain name. Serial entrepreneur Taro Gold has successfully defended his domain name Vodex.com in a UDRP. The panel found complainant Vodex Communications to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking by bringing the suit. Business telecom company Vodex Communications uses the longer VodexCommunications.com domain name, which it registered in 2012. The…
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Premium TLD 50 Shows 7% Growth in Q4 2015
January 14, 2016 @ 12:13 PMStartingDot’s Premium TLD 50 index for Q4 2015 shows strong growth for this segment of the new gTLD market. Premium TLDs are defined by StartingDot as “Latin character suffixes (no IDNs) that are not brand or geographic terms and with an…
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.club Sold $2.35 Million in Premium Domain Names Last Quarter
January 14, 2016 @ 12:11 PMDecember not as big as November, but .Club has a great Q4. The Chinese domain name registration boom gave .Club a huge lift in Q4, with the registry selling $2.35 million of premium domain names. The company sold another $614,000 of premium domains in December, on top of the ridiculous $1.6 million it sold in…
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Flippa Introduces The All New Flippa Domains
January 14, 2016 @ 8:21 AMFlippa just introduced the all new Flippa Domains. They decided that understanding how Buyers navigate and discover their next domain acquisition – often amidst millions of other options – was crucial to their Sellers success. So after months of work, they…
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Kinderis Calls On Industry to Cut The Bullshit
January 14, 2016 @ 4:48 AMDomain Name Association chair Adrian Kinderis has called for the industry to “grow up”. The former ARI CEO, now Neustar veep, said Monday it’s time for the industry to kick out the handful of bad actors that ruin its reputation, and to quit the “bullshit bickering” about which TLDs are best. “For far too long…
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GoDaddy Launches Mobile App for Investors
January 14, 2016 @ 4:09 AMGoDaddy has launched a new mobile device app specifically for domain investors. GoDaddy Investor, as it is called, will enable domainers to monitor watch-lists of expiring domains, as well as bid in and track auctions, the company said. Authentication is handled via a special PIN system or, on iOS, Apple’s TouchID. “We worked closely with…
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