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Verisign Reaches New 1-Year High on Analyst Upgrade (VRSN)
October 2, 2015 @ 1:02 PMVerisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) shares hit a new 52-week high on Friday after Cowen and Company raised their price target on the stock from $63.00 to $66.00, MarketBeat reports. Cowen and Company currently has a hold rating on the stock. Verisign traded as high as $72.44 and last traded at $72.25, with a volume of 554,953 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $71.42.
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Web.com Group Earns Buy Rating from Piper Jaffray (WWWW)
October 2, 2015 @ 1:02 PMPiper Jaffray restated their buy rating on shares of Web.com Group (NASDAQ:WWWW) in a research report sent to investors on Tuesday morning, Analyst Ratings.Net reports. They currently have a $31.00 price target on the stock.
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Stolen Domain Name Xag.com Returned Via UDRP
October 2, 2015 @ 1:01 PMMichael Evans and Chord Consulting Inc. d/b/a XAG (“Complainant”), represented by John Berryhill,just got the stolen domain name xag.com returned in a one member panel UDRP decision: John J. Upchurch found the Complainant has common law rights in the XAG mark through dating back to 2009 and found the domain holder registered and used the…
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Three Letter Domain Abg.com Held By Brand Protection Company CSC Hit With UDRP
October 2, 2015 @ 12:51 PMThe three-letter domain name ABG.com has gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name is being held under brand protection company CSC Corporate Domains, Inc on behalf of an unknown client The domain is not resolving at the moment. It appears the domain was sold in the past few days having been listed for sale…
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Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales is Hiring Again; But You Still Have to Move to The Caymans
October 2, 2015 @ 12:29 PMI got this email from Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com that they are expanding their 25 person sales team once again. A little over 2 years ago we put out the message that DomainNameSales.com was hiring and a bunch of people made a life changing move to the Cayman Islands and join the company. Well DomainNameSales.com is…
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Rightside Is A Misunderstood Spin-Off Opportunity
October 2, 2015 @ 11:03 AMRightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is undervalued. Rightside and it’s predecessor businesses within Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) operate businesses related to internet domain names, they have operated as a wholesale domain name registrar since 2006 with their purchase of eNOM, and a retail registrar since 2012 with the purchase of Name.com. I have been interested in Rightside as an investment due to their entrance into the top level domain (TLD) registry business which was initiated in 2013.
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.miami Domain Names Go On Sale Today
October 2, 2015 @ 5:15 AMMiami gets its own domain name today. I didn’t get around to my usual weekly roundup of domain name launches, but there’s a big one happening today at noon ET: .Miami. .Miami joins .NYC and .Vegas as the only .city domain names in the United States. Unlike many of the other geo domain name launches,…
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URS Arrives in Three Legacy gTLDs
October 2, 2015 @ 2:35 AMThe legacy gTLDs .cat, .pro and .travel will all be subject to the Uniform Rapid Suspension policy from now on. Earlier this week, ICANN approved the new Registry Agreements, which are based on the new gTLD RA and include URS, for all three. URS is an anti-cybersquatting policy similar to UDRP. It’s faster and cheaper…
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Viking Victor in .cruise gTLD Auction
October 2, 2015 @ 2:23 AMViking River Cruises has emerged as the winner of the .cruise new gTLD contention set. It seems to have beaten Cruise Lines International Association, which has withdrawn the only competing application, in an auction. Both applicants originally proposed a single-registrant model, in which only the registry could own domains, but changed their plans after ICANN…
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Kurt Pritz Resigns From Domain Name Association
October 1, 2015 @ 9:49 AMExecutive Director steps down from role. Kurt Pritz has stepped down from his role as Executive Director of Domain Name Association, and advocacy group for the domain name industry. In a letter sent to DNA members this afternoon, Chairman Adrian Kinderis did not identify a successor. Kinderis wrote: Fellow members may have concerns about the…
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