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Rightside Has Record Revenue in Q2
August 4, 2015 @ 1:23 PMRightside continues upward trajectory. Domain name company Rightside posted record revenue of $52.2 million in Q2, the company announced today. That compares to $46.7 million in Q2 2014 and $50.5 million in the first quarter of this year. The company posted revenue gains in all three segments compared to Q2 2014. Registrar services revenue, which…
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Famous Four Launches 5 Domain Names This Week
August 4, 2015 @ 8:35 AMFive domains on tap this week. Famous Four Media launches another five top level domain names on Wednesday of this week. Registrars will begin selling .racing, .accountant, .download, .win and .loan. 101Domain is offering all of the names for about $30. I’m somewhat surprised that Famous Four has priced all of the names the same,…
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Student Redirects Gov. Asa Hutchinson's Website To LGBT Forum
August 3, 2015 @ 10:06 PMA college student took over Governor Asa Hutchinson’s site when it expired. He secretly owns the sites of over 27 bigoted politicians and says there is more to come.
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Lawsuit Filed to Recover Stolen Education Domain Names
August 3, 2015 @ 6:11 AMSuit alleges a dozen domain names were stolen using compromised email address. Texas company CMN.com LLC has filed a lawsuit to recover 12 domain names it alleges were stolen from it. According to the suit, the thief gained access to one of its email addresses and was able to use this to transfer the domain…
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Web.com Group Earns “Buy” Rating from Deutsche Bank (WWWW)
August 2, 2015 @ 11:08 PMWeb.com Group (NASDAQ:WWWW)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reiterated by equities researchers at Deutsche Bank in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday, Market Beat reports. They presently have a $30.00 price target on the stock, up from their prior price target of $28.00. Deutsche Bank’s target price indicates a potential upside of 20.53% from the company’s current price.
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Google Domains Screw-up Divulges 1,664 Customers' Email Addresses
August 2, 2015 @ 6:39 AMGoogle support sent an email to over 1,600 customers using the To: field instead of Bcc:. It’s been a long weekend for someone working on Google’s new domain name registrar. It began when the company sent out domain name renewal reminder emails to customers that already had their domains set to auto renew. This email…
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Fed Court of Appeals Affirms Dismal of Name.space's Claim Against ICANN's New gTLD Program
August 1, 2015 @ 3:31 AMThe United States’ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of antitrust and other claims against ICANN made by a company called name.space, related to ICANN’s new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Program, in an opinion published today In 2013, a federal district court dismissed all of name.space’s claims, and today the Ninth…
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A Look at China's Internet - 668 Million Users
July 31, 2015 @ 8:13 AMCFR.org published an article on the size and characteristics of the Internet in China. Citing data from CNNIC, the article gives some great insight into the Chinese Internet. From the article: The number of Internet users in China has grown to 668 million, according to a report released last week by the China Internet Network…
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Most Governments Keep Restrictions On Country Names in New gTLDs
July 31, 2015 @ 6:39 AMJust one out of every 10 governments in the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee is happy for people to register its country name in new gTLDs. That’s according to a new GAC database detailing which countries want to keep tabs on how their names are being used. Out of 80 GAC members contributing to the database,…
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KraftHeinz.com Registered The Same Day The Merger Was Announced Lost in UDRP
July 31, 2015 @ 4:57 AMA one member UDRP panel awarded the domain name kraftheinz.com was registered on March 25, 2015, the same day the merger between Kraft Foods Group, and H.J. Heinz Company was announced. The decision was published in Korean and we used Google translate. The panel said: “Registering a domain name that combines the names of the…
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