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J. Carlo Cannell May Push for Rightside Board Shakeup (Again)
April 17, 2017 @ 5:46 AMActivist investor toys with proposing his own board candidates. Investor J. Carlo Cannell, whose investment firms own 8.7% of outstanding shares of Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME)stock, might push for his own slate of three directors for the company’s board at Rightside’s annual meeting in June. In February, after Rightside sold eNom to Tucows, Cannell started Save NAME…
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5 Afilias Extensions are Now Licensed for Sale in China: .info, .mobi, .pro, .red, and .kim
April 14, 2017 @ 9:37 AMAfilias, announced that the China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued a formal statement that awards the .INFO, .MOBI, .RED, .PRO and .KIM Top Level Domains (TLDs) a license for sale in China as required by the latest MIIT guidelines. Each TLD must be licensed by MIIT to be eligible for sale…
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Registries Selling Cheap Domains Ruins TLD for All Users
April 14, 2017 @ 7:15 AMSelling cheap domains leads to a bunch of abuse. If you’re going to essentially give away domain names in your top level domain name in order to create an impression of great demand, then you’re killing the extension for legitimate users. Here’s what @SwiftOnSecurity wrote this week: Currently have a worldwide blacklist on any emails…
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Google's John Mueller Responds to Question About Domain Age As It Relates to SEO Rankings
April 14, 2017 @ 6:56 AMBefore this morning, I was under the impression that Google uses the age of a domain name as one of the (many) ways it determines a website’s position in its search results. I thought that developing a domain name that has been registered for many years could be helpful in getting a higher search engine ranking…
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Apple Continues Its Shift From i-brands
April 13, 2017 @ 12:06 PMiTunes Podcasts are now Apple Podcasts. Apple is continuing to shift away from using i-Brand to name its products, moving toward the Apple brand instead. It started with the Apple Watch. Then, Apple Music. Now, Apple Podcasts. I bit hard on e-domains back around the turn of the century. These went out of favor once…
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ThePlayers.com: UDRP Filed Against Namefind Name
April 13, 2017 @ 12:06 PMThe PGA Tour has filed a UDRP at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for ThePlayers.com domain name. The UDRP is WIPO Case D2017-0746. ThePlayers.com is a domain name that has a creation date of January 22, 2003. It appears that the domain name was registered prior to that, but it was dropped and acquired by another party. This domain name is now owned by NameFind, a company that is owned and operated by GoDaddy…
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Panelist Makes Right Call in Zeca.com Case
April 13, 2017 @ 5:19 AMPanelist questions bad faith claim despite no response from domain name owner. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has correctly denied a UDRP filing for Zeca.com, despite the complainant having a long-standing trademark for Zeca and the domain name owner not responding to the dispute. Zeca.com is parked but doesn’t have ads for auto parts…
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Uniregistry and Neustar Have TLDs Approved in China
April 13, 2017 @ 12:00 AMChina’s April batch of approved TLDs has been released, featuring three domains from Neustar and Uniregistry. Neustar had its longstanding, 2000-round .biz pass regulatory scrutiny, while Uniregistry’s .link and .auto have also been approved. While .auto is managed by Cars Registry, a joint venture with XYZ.com, its stablemates .car and .cars do not appear to…
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This $20 Billion Company Uses a New TLD for Its Website, And...
April 12, 2017 @ 11:14 AMA huge company is forwarding a .com domain to a .technology domain name. On this week’s podcast Andrew Rosener disclosed that he brokered the sale of DXC.com this year. An astute listner noticed something about how the domain name is being used now: @DomainNameWire DXC is a merge of 100k staff from HPE and CSC…
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Analyze.com Acquired By Brent Oxley
April 11, 2017 @ 11:51 AMAnalyze.com hit the market a couple of weeks ago when Ryan Colby of Outcome Brokerage sent a newsletter to his brokerage clients and newsletter subscribers offering the domain name for sale. I detected a Whois change this week, and the new owner of the domain name is Brent Oxley, founder of HostGator. The purchase price of the domain name was not disclosed, and because I didn’t ask for the asking price when it was listed, I couldn’t speculate about the sale price. The last time I wrote about Brent, it was after he spent $500,000 to acquire Give.com…
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