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Juice.com and Eco.org Leading The Pack at Moniker's Premium Domain Name ...
January 23, 2012 @ 7:01 AMMarksmen, Inc. has announced a roster of premium domain names the company is selling through their domain and IP brokerage service, Name Quiver at this year’s DOMAINFestGlobal® conference in Santa Monica, CA.
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.ORG, The Public Interest Registry, Names New COO
January 23, 2012 @ 4:11 AM.ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Reston, Va.-based nonprofit that manages the world’s third largest generic top-level Internet domain, on Monday named telecom veteran Nancy Gofus as its chief operating officer.
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Sedari Working On .Moscow Application
January 23, 2012 @ 4:11 AMAccording to a press release we were sent today, Sedari, a consulting and technology company focusing on TLD Business Management has been engaged by the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development (FAITID), a not-for-profit Russian foundation which is preparing applications for the .MOSCOW and .MOCKBA (in Cyrillic) top-level domain names.
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Buy.XXX: a Case Study of Consumer Awareness of TLDs
January 23, 2012 @ 3:07 AMICM Registry’s TV ad campaign invited viewers to visit <a href="http://www.buy.xxx" rel="nofollow">http://www.buy.xxx</a> to learn more about the new .xxx domain extension. The campaign reached a lot of eyeballs judging by the flood of traffic Domain Name Wire received from search engines. But did people understand that Buy.xxx was a domain name, just like Buy.com is? Some did, but there was a lot of leakage.
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Tucows Inc. Announces Preliminary Results of Dutch Tender Offer
January 22, 2012 @ 9:31 PMTucows Inc. announced today the preliminary results of its modified “Dutch auction” tender offer, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 20, 2012. Tucows expects to purchase up to 7,569,952 shares of its Common Stock at a purchase price of $0.77 per share, for a total of $5,828,863. The 7,569,952 shares expected to be purchased are comprised of the 6,500,000 shares Tucows offered to purchase and 1,069,952 shares to be purchased pursuant to Tucows’ right to purchase up to an additional 2% of the shares outstanding immediately prior to the commencement of the tender offer. Tucows intends to fund the tender through a combination of available cash and two demand loan revolving facilities Tucows currently has with the Bank of Montreal (“BMO”).
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Bonfire of The Brands: ICANN's Top-level Domain Selloff
January 22, 2012 @ 7:18 PMDespite what in the final months seemed to be stiff competition, ICANN went ahead with its new generic domain names, letting companies register .whatevertheycanthinkof from 12 January.
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Wayne Man Makes Killing On Domain Name
January 22, 2012 @ 3:10 PMSometimes risks pay off. Glen DiGirolamo says ‘it’s just crazy’ that his Internet domain fetched $250,000. For Glen DiGirolamo of Wayne, it paid $250,000. The story behind DiGirolamo’s recent quarter-million-dollar windfall is a window into the weird, arcane and occasionally profitable world of Internet domain names. It began with a bad loan to a billiards player.
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ICM Responds To Manwin’s .XXX Suit With Motions To Dismiss
January 22, 2012 @ 1:34 PMICM filed its repose to the lawsuit filed by Manwin Licensing International, S.a.r.l. (“Manwin”) and Digital Playground, Inc. (“DP”), which was recently acquired by Manwin, asking the Court to throw out the case.
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Don't Stop at SOPA
January 20, 2012 @ 6:00 AMOpposition to the Protect IP Act (“PIPA”) and Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) reached a fever pitch this week, following a coordinated effort by a number of technology companies and technology-related websites that included a day-long Internet “blackout” in protest of the proposed bills. And the opposition seems to have…
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ICANN Says It Has 25 Registrants for New Top-level Domain Names
January 20, 2012 @ 1:50 AMThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, says it has approved 25 “successful registrants” since it began accepting applications for new generic top-level domain names a week ago. The number of actual applications for domains does not necessarily equal the number of registrants, however, because each registrant can apply for up to 50 new top-level domains, ICANN says.
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