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August/September .club Premium Domain Sales Top $135k
October 18, 2016 @ 7:38 AMThe .Club registry just announced that is sold over $135,000 domain names in August/September 2016 .Club sold 52 names totaling $32,103.52 through the registrar channel . 84 other domain names were sold for a total of $103,245.47, including the Sedo auction. “In both August and September, premium names were sold by 14 different registrars. One…
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Google Open Sources Domain Registry, Donuts Collaborates As Pressure On Registry Providers Mounts
October 18, 2016 @ 7:00 AMDonuts makes key contributions to open source registry platform, setting up a possible migration in the future. The shakeup in the backend domain name registry services business continues. Today, Google launched an open source cloud-based registry platform called Nomulus. The company already uses the platform for its own domain names. Donuts, which currently uses Rightside’s…
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All LLL.com Domain Names Worth $2 Billion, New Report Says
October 18, 2016 @ 5:30 AMA new report sheds light on the health of the domain name aftermarket for short .com domain names. Domain name valuation service EstiBot and short domain name brokerage GGRG have released a report on the state of the market for short domain names. The report calculates the total market value of all domain names within…
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Mike Mann Gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Win
October 17, 2016 @ 9:03 AMOperator of Dollar City stores tries to argue “retroactive bad faith.” Domain name investor Mike Mann has successfully defended against a UDRP on his domain name DollarCity.com, and the panel found complainant Centroamerica Comercial guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Centroamerica Comercial runs a chain of over 50 Dollar City stores in El Salvador and…
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States Drop IANA Transition Block Lawsuit
October 17, 2016 @ 6:24 AMFour US states attorneys general have quietly thrown in the towel in their attempt to have the IANA transition blocked. The AGs of Texas, Nevada, Arizona and Oklahoma unilaterally dropped their Texas lawsuit against the US government on Friday, court records show. A filing (pdf) signed by all four reads simply: Plaintiffs hereby provide notice…
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Donuts Will Cut Off Sham .doctors
October 17, 2016 @ 2:27 AMDonuts has outlined plans to suspend or delete .doctor domain names used by fake medical doctors. Despite protestations from governments and others, .doctor will not be a restricted gTLD when it goes to general availability next week — anyone will be able to register one. However, Donuts said last week that it will shut down…
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.net Domain Registrations Cross The 16 Million Mark for The 1st Time
October 14, 2016 @ 2:11 PMThe number of domain name registrations ending in .Net crossed the 16 million mark for the first time today according to Verisign. According to Verisign the number of .Net domain names is 16,004,860. This all time high is despite over 1,000 new domain extensions being released over the last 2+ year and the fact…
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Registrar Accused of Pimping Prescription Penis Pills
October 14, 2016 @ 10:06 AMICANN has implicated a Chinese domain name registrar in the online selling of medications, including Viagra and Cialis, without the required prescription. The organization’s Compliance department filed a contract breach notice with Nanjing Imperiosus, which does business as DomainersChoice.com, today. The move follows an allegation from pharmacy watchdog LegitScript in the US Congress that DomainersChoice…
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Unsurprisingly, Re-renewal Rates On New TLDs Higher Than Original Renewals
October 14, 2016 @ 4:39 AMRightside’s first batch of new TLDs follow the expected patter for re-renewals. Rightside, which markets 40 top level domain names, this week published data on domain name renewals. The data aren’t particularly surprising. The company has seven top level domain names that have been available for a full two-year cycle. During the first year, these…
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Rightside New gTLD Renewals Can Top 80%
October 14, 2016 @ 12:34 AMRightside says it is seeing encouraging renewal figures from its oldest batch of new gTLDs. The company this week revealed that renewals after two years of ownership on average stand at 81%. In a blog post, Rightside broke out some numbers for .dance, .democrat, .ninja, .immobilien, .social, .reviews and .futbol. Those seven are the only…
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