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ICANN Has $400M in The Bank
October 27, 2016 @ 3:23 AMICANN ended its fiscal 2016 with just shy of $400 million on its balance sheet, according to its just-released financial report. As of June 30, the organization had assets of $399.6 million, up from $376.5 million a year earlier, the statement (pdf) says. Its revenue for the year was actually down, at $194.6 million in…
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Thick WHOIS Coming to .com Next Year, Price Rise to Follow?
October 27, 2016 @ 2:55 AMVerisign could be running a “thick” Whois database for .com, .net and .jobs by mid-2017, under a new ICANN proposal. A timetable published this week would see the final three hold-out gTLDs fully move over to the standard thick Whois model by February 2019, with the system live by next August. Some people believe that…
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Radix Acquires .fun gTLD From Warren Buffett
October 25, 2016 @ 9:38 AMNew gTLD portfolio player Radix has acquired the pre-launch TLD .fun from its original owner. The company took over the .fun Registry Agreement from Oriental Trading Company on October 4, according to ICANN records. Oriental is a party supplies company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. It won .fun in a private auction in April…
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Domain Stocks: From -26% to +51%, Here's How They're Doing This Year
October 25, 2016 @ 9:35 AMTucows, MMX and GoDaddy are enjoying great years, Endurance and Web.com…not so much. There are just a couple of months left in the year, and it has been one of ups and downs for many domain name stocks. The S&P 500 has returned about 7% this year. Here’s how domain name stocks have fared, ordered…
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Uniregistry Just Released 3.5 Million Previously Reserved Domain Names
October 25, 2016 @ 9:01 AMMost are available at standard registration prices, including about 1.5 million .click domains. At 1 PM EDT today, domain name registry Uniregistry released 3.5 million previously reserved domain names to its registrar channel, meaning anyone can register them at its accredited registrars. The 3.5 million names include domains the registry had withheld, many of which…
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GoDaddy Builds a New (And Better) Domain Valuation Tool
October 25, 2016 @ 5:37 AMNew tool is limited for now, but may become available to customers in the future. GoDaddy rolled out a domain name valuation tool four years ago that offered free domain name appraisals. It was, to put it mildly, underwhelming. a In May of this year, GoDaddy got serious about domain name valuation. It’s about to…
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Big Brands Condemn "fraudulent" .feedback gTLD in ICANN Complaint
October 25, 2016 @ 3:09 AMTop Level Spectrum has been accused today of running the gTLD .feedback in a “fraudulent and deceptive” manner. Over a dozen famous brands, corralled by corporate registrar MarkMonitor, today formally complained to ICANN that .feedback is a “complete sham”. They reckon that the majority of .feedback domains belong to entities connected to the registry, violate…
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DomainTools Was Targeted By Email Harvesting Campaign
October 24, 2016 @ 4:30 PMDomainTools sent out an email today informing its account holders that a high volume user email harvesting campaign targeted its system and correctly matched a few hundred current or historic DomainTools account email addresses. This is the complete email sent out today: Hello Konstantinos, Yesterday DomainTools experienced a high volume user email harvesting campaign which…
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Private Equity Firm Sues to Recover JPE.com
October 24, 2016 @ 4:06 AMCompany says domain name was stolen after email was compromised. Jacobs Private Equity, LLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover the domain name JPE.com, which it says is stolen. The firm, lead by Bradley Jacobs, alleges that the JPE.com domain name was stolen from it after one of its representative’s email accounts was hacked…
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Nintendo Announces Switch, Domains Get Registered
October 21, 2016 @ 6:21 AMOver 100 Switch-related domain names registered yesterday. Nintendo announced its next video game console, the Nintendo Switch, yesterday. As you might expect, people took the opportunity to register Switch domain names that might be useful one day. 175 .com and .net domain names including the word “switch” were registered yesterday, according to Verisign DomainView. To…
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