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Verisign CEO Discusses 2018 .com Contract Renewal and Price Increases
December 2, 2015 @ 7:06 AMBidzos says it’s early to speculate about contract renewal, but cites two factors that might allow it to raise .com prices in the future. Will Verisign be able to increase .com prices when it renews its contract for the domain name in 2018? Verisign’s 2006 contract gave it the right to increase .com prices 7%…
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Is Amazon.com Getting Into The Ticket Biz? Checkout These 3 New Domain Registrations
December 1, 2015 @ 6:20 AMAmazon.com registered three very interesting domain names yesterday that may indicate a new business for the company. Amazon registered the domain names AmazonConcerts.com & AmazonConcertTickets.com and AmazonTheaterTickets.com yesterday through the brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMonitor.com. This might indicate that Amazon might be getting into the ticket business to maybe take on Ticketmaster.com…
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.xyz's Negari and Ambrose Now Own 5% of Rightside
November 30, 2015 @ 1:22 PMCXOs at .XYZ have invested $8.6 million in Rightside. First it was Frank Schilling. Now two other domain name industry insiders are disclosing ownership in publicly traded domain name company Rightside. .XYZ founder and CEO Daniel Negari and COO Mike Ambrose disclosed a combined 5.2% ownership in Rightside today in an SEC filing. The disclosure…
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7x Bigger Than Las Vegas in Gambling Revenue, Macau.com Hits The Market
November 30, 2015 @ 5:35 AMEarlier this month we learned that LasVegas.com sold back in 2005 for what could be up to $90 Million Dollars. In August the sale of Vegas.com was announced to a public company in a deal that could be worth $38 million dollars. In both instances, Vegas has consistently set the record valuation marks as the most valuable destination-specific website…
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.xyz Has More Domain Registrations Than Donuts 183 gTLD's ComBINed
November 29, 2015 @ 6:58 AMAccording to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has more domain registrations than all of Donuts strings combined. Donuts has 1,527,510 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com (including 35,306 which are upcoming delete) while .XYZ has 1,560,576 active domains according to namestat.org. There are 183 new gTLD’s of Donuts in general availability (GA) meaning they can be registered on a…
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Verisign Gets Patent for Evaluating Typeability of Domain Names
November 24, 2015 @ 9:03 AMPatent describes ways to score domain names based on how easy it is to type them on different keyboards. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,195,316 to Verisign for “Evaluating typeability of domain names.” The patent describes a way of taking different inputs, namely the layout/type of keyboard, and then figuring…
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New Forests Asset Management is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
November 24, 2015 @ 8:08 AMCompany filed dead-on-arrival UDRP after failing to purchase domain name it wanted. New Forests Asset Management Pty Limited of North Sydney, Australia has been found to have engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking over the domain name NewForests.com. The asset management firm uses the Australian country code domain name NewForests.com.au. The company filed a UDRP…
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Owner of Newforests.com.au Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking On 16 Yr Old .com
November 24, 2015 @ 7:56 AMNew Forests Asset Management Pty Limited of North Sydney, Australia, represented by Clayton Utz Solicitors, Australia was just found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name newforests.com after offering just $4,000 to by the domain The company owns the domain name newforests.com.au which was registered in June 2006 The domain name…
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Remember Those Free .realtor Domains? They Do Not Appear Free to Renew
November 24, 2015 @ 5:32 AMRemember when the new gTLD .Realtor rolled out giving members of the National Association of REALTORS as well as the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) the chance to register a free .Realtor domain name? .Realtor went to far to warn its members just over a year ago not to “pre-register or pay money to an…
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Bladel Romps Home in ICANN Election Re-run
November 24, 2015 @ 4:08 AMGo Daddy VP of policy James Bladel has been elected chair of ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization Council. The result came a month after the GNSO Council embarrassingly failed to elect a chair to replace outgoing Jonathan Robinson. This time Bladel ran unopposed, securing the unanimous support of both his own Contracted Parties House and…
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