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CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20%
December 8, 2015 @ 8:09 AMCentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release “the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering.” According to the press release Instra in the year…
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CentralNic to Swell With $24M Instra Buy
December 8, 2015 @ 6:39 AMCentralNic is set to grow revenue by almost three quarters by acquiring Australian registrar Instra for $23.7 million. The acquisition is for AUD 33 million, AUD 30 million of which will be in cash. CentralNic plans to raise £10 million ($15 million) with a share placement to help fund the deal. “This acquisition will grow…
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CentralNic Acquires Instra for $24 Million, Sells $3.6m in Domains, and Plans to Raise $15m
December 8, 2015 @ 6:01 AMCentralNic buys another domain name registrar. Publicly traded domain name registrar and registry CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) has agreed to acquire domain name registrar Instra Group for AU $33 million (USD $24 million), the company announced today. The purchase price includes AU $30 million in cash and AU $3 million in stock, with AU $5…
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Jeb Bush Domain Name Redirects to Trump Site
December 7, 2015 @ 12:19 PMThe long-standing feud between Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and GOP rival Jeb Bush escalated on Monday, with a site with the former Florida governor’s name redirecting to Trump’s campaign website homepage.
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Former ICANN Director Blokzijl Dies at 72
December 7, 2015 @ 8:32 AMRob Blokzijl, a former ICANN director widely acknowledged as an internet pioneer, died last week at the age of 72. He passed away December 1, according to RIPE. Blokzijl, a citizen of the Netherlands, was one of the founders of RIPE NCC, the European IP address registry and the first of the internet’s Regional Internet…
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Foot-dragging Amazon Has Bumper Crop of New gTLDs
December 7, 2015 @ 7:48 AMAmazon Registry Services took possession of 17 new gTLDs at the weekend. The would-be portfolio registry had .author, .book, .bot, .buy, .call, .circle, .fast, .got, .jot, .joy, .like, .pin, .read, .room, .safe, .smile and .zero delegated to the DNS root zone. Amazon seems to have waited until the last possible moment to have the strings…
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GoDaddy Acquires Mike Berkens' Worldwide Media Domain Name Portfolio
December 7, 2015 @ 7:37 AMBerkens sells majority of domain names to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has acquired the majority of Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio; the company announced today. Berkens writes the blog TheDomains.com and his portfolio was under the company Worldwide Media. GoDaddy acquired the vast majority of Berkens’ domain names, about 70,000 names in total. “GoDaddy is focused on…
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Domain Owner Sues National Arbitration Forum and Complainant After Losing UDRP
December 7, 2015 @ 7:16 AMLawsuit names UDRP complainant and National Arbitration Forum. VirtualPoint, Inc., which operates the site UDRPSearch.com, has filed a lawsuit after losing a UDRP for the domain name WindCreek.com. The company filed the suit (pdf) against not only the complainant in the case but also the National Arbitration Forum. Against complainant Poarch Band of Creek Indians,…
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Twitter Just Went "All In" With Periscope Domain Names
December 7, 2015 @ 6:45 AMCompany registers 75 domain names related to Periscope. Twitter’s Periscope live-streaming app is proving to be a hit. Someone at the company decided it was time to go all in on brand protection for the app. On Friday, Twitter registered 75 domain names related to the app, ranging from PeriscopeCats.com to PeriscopeValentines.com. I guess it’s…
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Report: Domain 688.com Sold for $1.5 Million
December 6, 2015 @ 12:41 PMAccording to a report appearing in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was 9,580,000 RMB which according to today’s exchange rate is $1,496,290.52. The domain name 688.com did change ownership yesterday. The domain was owned by a XiaoFeng Lin of China at…
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