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Tucows Q1 Results: eNom Purchase Helps Grow Revenue By 55% to $69.6 Million
May 10, 2017 @ 8:04 AMTucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Financial Results Net revenue for the first quarter of 2017 increased 55% to $69.6 million from $44.7 million for the first quarter of 2016. The first quarter’s results only include the contribution from…
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.eco Loser Threatens Registrars
May 10, 2017 @ 7:20 AMGuy who got an early trademark for .eco sends a nastygram to registrars and Afilias. One of the core tenants of the new top level domain name application process was that being the first to announce your interest in a particular domain (or even marketing it, for that matter) didn’t give you rights to the…
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Neustar's .au Deal in Peril As Aussies Look In-house
May 10, 2017 @ 6:03 AMAustralian ccTLD registry auDA is looking at bringing its back-end infrastructure in house, to the possible detriment of Neustar. In a surprise move, auDA said late last month that several months of talks with AusRegistry, aimed at possibly extending its current back-end contract beyond 2018, had failed. AusRegistry has operated .au for auDA since 2002,…
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USSA.com, Domain Used in USAA Phishing Attack, Hit With UDRP
May 9, 2017 @ 4:24 PMFour letter domain name subject to cybersquatting complaint. A UDRP cybersquatting complaint has been filed against the domain name USSA.com. The filing was made at National Arbitration Forum, which does not disclose the name of the complainant until a decision is rendered. However, there’s a good chance it was filed by USAA, a financial services…
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Rightside Reports $14.4 Million Revenue in Q1, New TLD Revenue Stalls
May 9, 2017 @ 12:56 PMCompany has better-than-expected results in aftermarket segment but registry revenue isn’t budging. Domain name company Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) reported $14.4 million revenue for Q1 2017 after divesting eNom. Registry services revenue-that covers new top level domain names-increased 20% year over year. However, it was down slightly from Q4 2016 ($3.18 million vs. $3.20 million)…
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Bank of America Phishing Scam Shows Limitations of Validated TLDs
May 9, 2017 @ 10:30 AMPeople will fall for this bogus domain name. Domain investor Abdu Tarabichi sent a screenshot of a text he received today from a scammer: If you go to the subdomain of BofA-SMS.com it will ask you to unlock your account by entering your credit card number, expiration date, CVV and the last four digits of…
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CentralNic Reports 2016 Results While Deleting Several Websites
May 9, 2017 @ 8:28 AMCentralNic (AIM: CNIC), announced today its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2016. All this while several websites just went dark after the company sold many of its 2-letter domain names (or ended the relationship with such owners) that were used for CentralNic to sell sub-domains. Here are few posts from the past…
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.health Domain Names Now Available for Trademark Holders
May 9, 2017 @ 6:50 AMThe Sunrise phase of the .health domain launch is open from May 8 – July 7, 2017. MIAMI, FL (PRWEB) MAY 08, 2017 dotHealth LLC, the official registry for the .health domain extension, announced that .health has entered the first…
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GoDaddy Acquires More Ll .com Domain Names
May 9, 2017 @ 5:10 AMGoDaddy has acquired more two letter .com domain names. I noticed a Whois change this morning on HU.com. The domain name moved from the Esqwire.com escrow account (the law firm of Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer), and the domain name is now registered to NameFind, the portfolio company owned by GoDaddy. After doing a bit of searching, I noticed that HU.com had been used by Centralnic to sell third level domain names (such as Example.HU.com). When I did a subsequent search for the HU.com domain name, I saw the Domain Name Wire article about Centralnic’s decision to sunset some of its…
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Liquid Domains Market: Escrow.com Reports $16M Transactions in Q1 2017
May 9, 2017 @ 4:59 AMGGRG Brokerage Consulting and Giuseppe Graziano published the 1st quarter of 2017 Liquid Domains Market Overview partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com. This report is focused on 2017 Q1 and presents key statistics of the domains that are considered liquid in the domain name aftermarket, that is 586,848 .com domains…
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