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Startup Domain Name Fails: 68% Fail Radio Test
April 28, 2015 @ 7:00 AMMajority of companies attending startup conference have problematic domain names. Name Ninja recently performed an analysis of the domain names used by startups going to the Collision conference in Las Vegas next month. The domain name consultancy found that only 21% of companies have the “ideal” domain name for their business. A whopping 68% of…
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Sedo Now Lets Clients Start Their Own Domain Name Auctions
April 28, 2015 @ 6:45 AMDomainers can start their own reserve auctions…for a fee. Sedo is offering domain name sellers a new option to start an auction on its domain name marketplace. Called Direct Auction, clients can now select domain names to be auctioned, when they start and a reserve price. It costs $59 to start a Direct Auction. Previously,…
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New gTLDs Accounted for 21% of The Net Growth of Domain Names in 2014
April 28, 2015 @ 4:46 AMNew gTLDs accounted for 21% of the net growth of the domain name market in 2014. “The recent publication of the ICANN reports for the month of December 2014 enables us to finally take stock of 2014, marked by the…
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.xyz Helps CentralNic Double Its Revenue
April 28, 2015 @ 3:02 AMCentralNic’s revenue almost doubled in 2014, helped by the launch of new gTLDs. The UK-based registry today reported annual operating profit of £497,000 ($759,000), down from £694,000 ($1.05 million) in 2013, on the back of revenue up 99% at £6.06 million ($9.25 million). Billings- money taken but not yet recorded as revenue — was up…
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Verisign Reports Earnings, 1.51 Million Net Adds
April 23, 2015 @ 12:23 PMCompany reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and .net registrations occurred in the first quarter, up from 8.6 million in the same quarter last year. It’s…
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Minds + Machines Registry Struggles With Only 63,000 Domains Over 13 New gTLDs
April 23, 2015 @ 10:08 AMMinds + Machines Group Limited provided an update on its portfolio of generic top-level domains and registrar operations ahead of the Company’s year-end financials. The purpose of the update is to: provide shareholders with a better understanding of the Group’s…
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Afilias Released 160,000+ Domain Names Across 8 New TLDs
April 23, 2015 @ 3:59 AM160,000+ previously reserved “ICANN collision” names are now available for registration across 8 Afilias New gTLDs. Couldn’t register for great names like caribbean.blue, bake.organic, or planet.red? Now you can. Or maybe you can’t because Afilias reserved some of them. Afilias…
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New gTLD Zones Top Five Million Names
April 22, 2015 @ 2:30 PMThere are now more than five million new gTLD domain names live in the DNS. That’s according to zone files collated by ICANN, which I’m told show 5,002,252 names across the 597 new gTLD registries providing data. That works out to a mean of 8,378 domains per TLD, a median of 1,254. The largest zone…
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As .Stream is Won, ICANN's Auction List Empties
April 22, 2015 @ 5:08 AM.stream has become the latest new gTLD contention set to be settled prior to its ICANN auction, leaving ICANN’s auction schedule looking barren. Famous Four Media beat Hughes Satellite Systems to the string, which was due to auction May 27. The four strings scheduled for bidding April 29 — .living, .fun, .map and .search –…
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Google Wins .map and .search
April 21, 2015 @ 8:00 AMGoogle has secured two gTLDs representing two of its core services. The company has won .search and .map, fighting off competition from Amazon, Donuts, Famous Four Media for .search and Rightside and Amazon for .map. All the losing bidders have now withdrawn their applications. Both strings were due to head to ICANN auction April 29,…
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