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Verisign Q2 2015 DNIB Report - Internet Grows to 296 Million Domain Names
September 16, 2015 @ 12:50 PMVerisign is out with their latest industry brief, they also published an infographic to go along with the report. The infographic is in pdf format so you can view it here. Highlights of the report include: The total number of registered domain names rose to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains Two million domain…
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Donuts Sells Around 800 Two Character New gTLD's Domains in The Early Access Program
September 16, 2015 @ 10:41 AMAccording to Donuts they sold around 800 Two Character New gTLD’s domain names in its Early Access Program (EAP) which ended yesterday. Donuts released around 200,000 Two Character New gTLD’s domain names last week, meaning domain names that are two letters (LL), a letter and a number (LN), a number and a letter (NL) and…
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GoDaddy Says There's Still Upside for Registrars and Domain Investors
September 16, 2015 @ 8:57 AMMost very small businesses don’t have websites yet, but many plan to create one. GoDaddy released results from a global survey today, showing that the vast majority of very small businesses (5 or fewer employees) still don’t have a website. The survey included 4,000 businesses in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, United Kingdom and the…
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Givkwik Failes to Get Givequick.com in UDRP
September 16, 2015 @ 7:06 AMGivkwik Inc.just lost its bid to grab the domain name givequick.com in a UDRP Nathalie Dreyfus was the sole panelist who found although givequick.com was confusingly similar to Complainant’s GIVKWIK IMPULSE PHILANTHROPY mark the domain holder did not act in bad faith in registering or using the domain that they bought from BuyDomains.com in April…
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XYZ to Rethink China Gateway Plans
September 16, 2015 @ 5:37 AMXYZ.com has withdrawn its request to start selling .xyz and .college domains into China via a local gateway service provider. The company has said it will amend and resubmit its plan to ICANN, which had told it the idea “might raise significant Stability or Security issues”. The registry wants to be one of the first…
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Rick Schwartz Sells 899.com for $801,000: Now Has 1st & 3rd Largest Reported Sales of 2015
September 16, 2015 @ 5:31 AMRick Schwartz, the Domain King, has sold the domain name 899.com for $801,000 which becomes the 3rd largest reported domain name sale of 2015. (DnJournal. com is the official keeper of all reported domain name sales) Earlier this year Rick sold the domain name Porno.com for $8,888,888 which is the highest reported domain sale of…
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.sexy May Be Blocked in Iran
September 16, 2015 @ 3:53 AMSome networks in Iran appear to be systematically blocking Uniregistry’s .sexy gTLD. That’s one of the conclusions of a slightly odd experiment commissioned by ICANN. The newly published An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance was conducted by APNIC Labs. The idea was to figure out whether there are any issues with new gTLDs on…
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Sunrise Accounts for Under 1% of New gTLD Regs
September 16, 2015 @ 2:46 AMNew gTLD registries can expect just 125 sunrise registrations on average, according to statistics just released by ICANN. The new data, current as of May 2015, also shows that there have been just 44,077 sunrise registrations in total, over 417 new gTLDs. That’s less than 1% of the total number of new gTLD domain registrations…
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CentralNic Group plc Revenue Up 171%, Billings up 213% Gross Profit up 125%
September 15, 2015 @ 10:02 PMCentralNic Group Plc (LON:CNIC), the internet platform that derives revenue from the worldwide sales of internet domain names, today announces its half year results for the six months ended 30 June 2015.
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Domaintools Launches Iris Platform for Security Threat Investigations
September 15, 2015 @ 9:50 AMNew platform helps security teams quickly find the source of attacks. DomainTools launched its new Iris platform today, making it easier for companies to quickly investigate security attacks and determine their sources. Iris integrates many of DomainTools’ existing data sets into an easy-to-use workflow. While targeted to enterprises without the resources necessary to manage their…
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