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Verisign to Hike .net Prices 10%
July 24, 2015 @ 5:06 AMDomain registration bills increasing. Verisign announced that it is raising its wholesale price for .net domain names in February. The current fee is $6.79, and this will jump 10% to $7.46 effective Feb. 1, 2016. Verisign is able to increase the price of .net domain names annually. A 2012 contract extension for .com domains keeps…
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Verisign Reports Revenue Up 4.9%: 133.5 Million Registered .com/.net Domains
July 23, 2015 @ 12:17 PMVeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the operator of the .com and .net registry reported financial results for the second quarter of 2015 reporting revenue of $263 million for the second quarter of 2015, up 4.9% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $93 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the…
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.bank Gets Over 5,500 Applications for a .bank Domain at $1k+ Per Domain
July 23, 2015 @ 12:12 PMfTLD Registry Services announced today that more than 5,500 .BANK applications have been received from members of the global banking community at a retail price of $1,000 + depending on the registrar. Unlike most domain names, .Bank is restricted so if you want to register a domain you have to fill out an application and…
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Patent Troll Applies for Domain Name Management Patent
July 23, 2015 @ 11:09 AMIntellectual Ventures wants patent related to managing domain names and web hosting. Some big companies in the domain name space have lots of patents. Despite threats, no major players have tried to extract money out of their competitors. But registrars should be concerned about a recent patent application because of the company behind it: Intellectual…
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"Spa Community" Gets .spa Domain Name
July 23, 2015 @ 7:21 AMGroup wins Community Priority Evaluation for .Spa. Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council Limited has won (for now) the sole right to operate the .Spa top level domain name after winning a Community Priority Evaluation for the name. The group scored 14 points (pdf) out of 16 to prevail. It lost one point for “Content…
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Domain Name Registrar's Suspension Stayed After It Files for Arbitration
July 23, 2015 @ 6:48 AMOpenTLD argues it should have received a formal breach notice first. Domain name registrar OpenTLD, which had its ability to register new TLDs suspended by ICANN, is back in action for now. ICANN suspended the registrar for cybersquatting on other registrar’s brands. OpenTLD has filed for arbitration in the matter, and ICANN has agreed to…
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Analysts Expect Rightside Group to Post ($0.22) Earnings Per Share (NASDAQ:NAME)
July 23, 2015 @ 12:11 AMRightside Group (NASDAQ:NAME) has earned an average broker rating score of 2.00 (Buy) from the two brokers that provide coverage for the company, Zacks Investment Research reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. Rightside Group’s rating score has declined by 100% from three months ago as a result of various analysts’ upgrades and downgrades.
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John Berryhill Gets Stolen EHT.com Domain Returned Through UDRP
July 22, 2015 @ 3:14 PMPanel orders domain name stolen in 2013 to be returned to previous owner. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has successfully won the transfer of the domain name EHT.com for his client, in a rare case in which he acted on behalf of the complainant. John Dilks has owned EHT.com since 1997. The domain name was…
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$50,000 Penalty for Filing a Frivolous UDRP!
July 22, 2015 @ 9:00 AMCompany pays big bucks after filing losing UDRP. A Belgium maker of ultrasound equipment has paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a frivolous UDRP it filed. SDT International filed a UDRP for the domain named SDT.com last year. The domain name is owned by Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, and SDT had tried to purchase…
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GoDaddy Testing "Ad" Designation in Search Results
July 22, 2015 @ 8:47 AMSearch results that are bumped up through marketing agreements get a new label. GoDaddy is testing the use of an “ad” designation in its domain name search results. Search results that have their locations influenced by a registry paying to bump up the result are sometimes labeled with the designation. The label is similar to…
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