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Radix Targets 25,000 Names for .online's First Day
August 18, 2015 @ 3:24 AMRadix Registry reckons .online will move at least 15,000 domains in its first day of general availability, but it’s aiming higher. “We are confident .online will be amongst the biggest new gTLDs that have launched,” Radix business head Sandeep Ramchandani said in a press release today. “The same sentiment across several Registrar Partners has reinforced…
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ICANN CEO will head off to private equity firm
August 17, 2015 @ 8:31 PMICANN CEO Fadi Chehade has announced where he’ll be heading after he breaks his contract 10 months early: private equity firm Abry Partners. Chehade surprised the internet community, and threw ICANN in disarray, when he announced in May that he was going to leave early – and, crucially, before ICANN takes over control of the top level of the internet through the IANA contract.
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Donuts: Verisign Trying to Intimidate, Bully Competitors With .xyz Lawsuit
August 17, 2015 @ 10:30 AMNew top level domain company issues statement after court finds in its favor. A judge in U.S. District Court in Washington state has denied Verisign’s request for reconsideration in a subpoena battle involving competitor Donuts. Donuts says Verisign is trying to intimated and bully competitors through similar subpoenas. Verisign subpoenaed Donuts as a non-party in…
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Frank Schilling's North Sound Names Registers 23k Uniregistry .lol Domains Now Up to 230k+
August 17, 2015 @ 8:13 AMFrank Schilling’s North Sound Names just registered 23K domain names in Uniregistry’s .LOL new gTLD domain name extension. We noted that .LOL which launched last week, had under 800 registrations after its first day of availability. On the following day, .LOL wound up with 23,779 registrations and now has 24,341 registered domains. North Sound Names which…
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Did Chehade Really Quit ICANN for Part-time Boston-based ABRY Partners
August 17, 2015 @ 7:49 AMICANN CEO Fadi Chehade will become a senior adviser with a private equity firm after he leaves ICANN next March. He blogged today that he will take the role with Boston-based ABRY Partners and “provide guidance to ABRY’s partners and their companies’ leaders on digital strategy”. Chehade, back in June, had described the ICANN CEO…
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No, CentralNic Isn't The Biggest New gTLD Back-end
August 17, 2015 @ 5:51 AMCentralNic’s registry back-end business may have got a big boost by last week’s news that Google has adopted a .xyz domain for its new parent, but it is not yet the biggest back-end provider. That honor still belongs to Rightside, which currently leads CentralNic by a few hundred thousand names, according to zone files. When…
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Web.com Group Earns Buy Rating from Piper Jaffray (WWWW)
August 16, 2015 @ 8:12 AMPiper Jaffray reaffirmed their buy rating on shares of Web.com Group (NASDAQ:WWWW) in a research note published onThursday morning, Market Beat.com reports. The brokerage currently has a $32.00 target price on the stock.
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CentralNic Passes Donuts As Backend Provider for New gTLD Domain Names
August 14, 2015 @ 8:17 AMAccording to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD’s under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD’s. However CentralNic is the…
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OpenTLD Says Suspension Would "Devastate" Its Business
August 14, 2015 @ 7:39 AMOpenTLD has fired off its newest salvo in its ongoing cybersquatting dispute with ICANN, saying the ICANN-imposed suspension would “devastate” its business. The company has also addressed many of ICANN’s cybersquatting allegations, while failing to deny it squatted on two competitors’ trademarks. In its latest arbitration filing (pdf), OpenTLD said: “Quite simply, the suspension of…
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Verisign Sues CentralNic and .xyz Over .theatre, .protection and .security
August 14, 2015 @ 5:07 AMCompany upset that Verisign was dropped as registry services provider in favor of CentralNic. Earlier this week I noted a lawsuit Verisign filed in Virginia against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Thanks to a request by the defendants to remove the case to federal district court, I now have a copy of the lawsuit (large PDF)…
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