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.xyz Domains Can't Be Registered in China, Negari Says It's Temporary
May 3, 2017 @ 7:24 AMXYZ CEO Daniel Negari says the company is working to resolve issues selling domains in China. China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has instructed domain name registrars in China to stop selling .xyz domain names as of May 4, Domain Name Wire has learned. Many registrars have already complied and are no longer…
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XYZ Acquires .storage, Its 10th gTLD
May 3, 2017 @ 7:01 AMXYZ.com said today that it has acquired the half-launched new gTLD .storage from its original owner. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but CEO Daniel Negari said in a blog post that it has been funded using some of the “excess of cash flow” from sales of .xyz domains. The original .storage registry…
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Richard Tindal Leaves Donuts
May 3, 2017 @ 5:56 AMExit follows Stahura’s role change. Half of new top level domain name company Donuts’ founding team is no longer in their original day-to-day roles. The company announced that Richard Tindal, COO and one of four co-founders of the company, has “retired” from Donuts. Earlier this year, co-founder and CEO Paul Stahura switched roles with Bruce…
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ICANN Changes Panama Meeting Dates to Avoid Muslim Holiday
May 3, 2017 @ 1:01 AMICANN has changed the dates of next year’s ICANN 62 public meeting to accommodate the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr. Eid is the movable festival marking the end of the fasting month Ramadan, when observant Muslims are allowed to start eating during daylight hours again. In 2018, it runs from June 14-15, which would have…
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More Change at The Top at Donuts As Tindal Steps Down
May 3, 2017 @ 12:48 AMDonuts has lost co-founder and COO Richard Tindal, who has announced his retirement. Tindal was one of the four domain industry executives who founded Donuts in order to take advantage of ICANN’s new gTLD program about seven years ago. No reason was given for his departure, which was announced in a blog post, beyond “retirement”…
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GoDaddy Reports Earnings, Domain Revenue Dips From Q4 But Up Yoy
May 2, 2017 @ 12:35 PMDomain revenue slips compared to Q4. GoDaddy (NASDAQ:GDDY) reported Q1 2017 earnings after the bell today. Topline revenue was $489.7 million, up 12.9% year over year. Bookings hit $624.8 million, up 12.0% year over year. The domain name business pulled in $240.8 million of revenue in Q1. This is up 10% year over year but…
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.art - The New Digital Dress Code for The Art World
May 2, 2017 @ 8:09 AMOne of the most contested and highly anticipated TLDs is entering General Availability on May 10th at 14:00 UTC. The retail base price of a .ART domain name will be approximately $15. .ART started off last year with a highly successful Early Adopters Program, remarkable for its extent and quality, with over 50 notable museums, galleries and artists acquiring .ART domains for future use…
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January Data Show Why Rightside Sold eNom: NameCheap
May 2, 2017 @ 5:52 AMNamecheap made a wholesale switch to its own accreditation in January. ICANN has published data from Verisign about .com activity in January, and it reveals a good reason why Rightside sold eNom to Tucows. Namecheap. Namecheap has always been a big part of eNom’s business. It has historically accounted for about a quarter of eNom’s…
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Verisign Ends 1st Quarter of 2017 With 143.6 Million .com and .net Domain Names
April 28, 2017 @ 6:22 PMVeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial and domain name registration results for the first quarter of 2017. The final .com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2016 was 67.6 percent compared with 73.3 percent for the same quarter in 2015. That is not that bad considering a lot of Chinese registrations expired…
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Verisign Credits Super Bowl for Strong Quarter
April 28, 2017 @ 8:02 AMSuper Bowl ads propel new domain registrations. Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) released earnings and business results for Q1 2017 yesterday after the closing bell. 9.5 million new .com and .net registrations occurred in the quarter, beating expectations. While down from the 10.0 gross registrations in the same quarter of 2016, that quarter was during the Chinese investment…
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