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Endurance Shells Out $1.1 Billion On Constant Contact
November 2, 2015 @ 5:14 AMEndurance International is to acquire email marketing company Constant Contact for $1.1 billion. The $32-a-share cash offer, a 23% premium on Constant Contact’s Friday closing price, has been approved by both boards. Endurance counts registrars BigRock, Domain.com and ResellerClub among its portfolio of brands, which also includes hosting companies HostGator and BlueHost. The company said…
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Web.com: New TLDs are Not Moving The Needle
October 30, 2015 @ 5:37 AMContribution from new top level domain names isn’t significant, CEO says. Web.com CEO David Brown was asked about new top level domain names on yesterday’s investor conference call. Brown said the company isn’t doing “back flips” over the results, and says it’s not moving the needle for the firm. He suspects new domains aren’t moving…
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.shop Among Four gTLDs Heading to Auction
October 30, 2015 @ 4:56 AMThe new gTLDs .shop, .shopping, .cam and .phone are all set to go to auction after their various delays and objections were cleared up. It seems that .shop and .shopping contention sets remain merged, so only one string from one applicant will emerge victorious. That’s due to a completely mad String Confusion Objection decision that…
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Biggest New gTLD Registrants: 23 of Top 30 are From China; 38 Out of Top 50
October 30, 2015 @ 4:43 AMAccording to ntldstats.com registrants from China are dominating the list of the top 100 Biggest New gTLD Registrants 23 of the top 30 domain names registrants are from China; 38 out of Top 50 domain names registrants are from China; and 72 of out 100 are from China. If you consider that of the 7…
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Aussie Government Slams .food Closed Generic Bid
October 30, 2015 @ 3:57 AMThe Australian government is among those asking ICANN deny a request to make .food a “closed generic” gTLD. Eight people have filed comments opposing Lifestyle Domain’s application for Specification 13 status for its .food registry contract, which would allow the company to keep all .food domains for itself, since we reported the news earlier this…
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Zajo.com: a Good 4 Letter UDRP Decision
October 30, 2015 @ 3:57 AMOwners of four letter domain names should take note. The owner of Zajo.com, who bought it for its value as a four letter domain name, has successfully defended the domain name in a UDRP. Domain owner Jay Dove of Deep Frontier represented himself. Sporting goods company Juraj Králik-ZAJO of Slovakia threw everything it could at…
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Credit Card Hack Cost Web.com Millions
October 30, 2015 @ 3:10 AMWeb.com is taking a $1 million per-quarter hit to its revenue as a result of August’s hacking attack. It also incurred $400,000 in consulting, legal and credit monitoring fees in the third quarter as a result of the breach, CEO David Brown told analysts last night. Some 93,000 credit card numbers were stolen during the…
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IEC.com Saved in UDRP
October 29, 2015 @ 8:43 AMNGO loses attempt to get valuable domain name. International Electrotechnical Commission, a non-governmental organization, has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of IEC.com. Although the respondent is listed as IEC Communications Ltd., it appears it’s really a domain name investor. The respondent said it acquired the domain name because of the value of…
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Verisign Gets Patent for Domain Name Exchange
October 29, 2015 @ 8:09 AMCompany proposes service in 2010 but abandoned idea. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent number 9,172,673 (pdf) to Verisign for “Systems and methods for domain name exchange”. The system would allow someone to trade in their existing domain name for another, perhaps on an unlimited basis. Verisign asked ICANN to allow it…
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .live 3,470; .studio 2,032; .srl 223
October 29, 2015 @ 4:56 AMTwo new gTLD’s launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names…
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