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T Rowe Price Fund Bulks Up On Rightside Shares
September 19, 2016 @ 10:09 AMFund has acquired about 700,000 shares this year. We know that Frank Schilling, Daniel Negari and Mike Ambrose have been selling Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) shares lately. So who’s been buying? T Rowe Price filed an amended 13G with the SEC that reported a sharp increase in the number of shares one of its funds holds. As…
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This is Why Frank Schilling is Dropping 230,000 New gTLD Domains...
September 19, 2016 @ 7:48 AMFirst of all Frank Schilling is not REALLY dropping 230,000 domain names. These are his registry’s domains. Everyone that registers one will pay Uniregistry a fee. Frank Schilling is expanding his sales channel from just a parked page to hundreds of registrars and also reducing his overhead cost. You can’t beat that. He is actually…
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Frank Schilling's North Sound Names Starts Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry Domains
September 17, 2016 @ 7:54 AMOn Thursday Frank Schilling North Sound Names started to delete the registrations for the approximately 230,000 domain names it registered in Uniregistry new gTLD extensions. Yesterday over 100,000 domain names owned by North Sound Names in Uniregistry strings were deleted. About a month ago Uniregistry announced it would be releasing over 1,000,000 domain names it…
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GMO Registry Announces New Domain .shop Has Achieved Over USD2 Million in Revenue and Almost 2,000 Domain Names in Advance Registration Phases
September 16, 2016 @ 12:12 PM.shop General Availability Opens September 26 TOKYO, JAPAN (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 17, 2016 GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry, Inc. announces that new top level domain .shop has already grossed over US 2 million dollars in revenue with close to 2,000…
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ICANN latest: Will the internet be owned by Ted Cruz or Vladimir Putin in October?
September 16, 2016 @ 11:30 AMThe battle over the internet’s critical IANA contract shows no sign of being resolved – with just two weeks to go until it is due to be handed over to internet oversight organization ICANN. Thursday 15 September would have been the day that the Department of Commerce formally informed ICANN by letter that it intended to extend…
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Lots of Companies are Shopping for .shop
September 16, 2016 @ 6:57 AMRegistry already has some notable premium domain name sales. GMO Registry paid a whopping $41.5 million to acquire rights to the .shop top level domain name. Hiro Tsukahara, CEO of GMO Registry, told Domain Name Wire in a podcast that will be released Monday that it will take a while to recoup that investment. But…
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Gleisnner's Latest Trademark Applications: Fashion.com, Splash.com, Yeah.com and More
September 16, 2016 @ 4:55 AMCompanies continue to file trademark applications, including on domain names they don’t own. Companies that list Michael Gleisnner as their officer continue to file trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. The latest batch includes three .com domain names. One has whois privacy, but the other two are definitely not owned by Gleisnner:…
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Internet Grows to 334.6 Million Domain Name Registrations in the Second Quarter of 2016
September 15, 2016 @ 6:48 PMVeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and internet security, today announced that approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 334.6 million across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2016, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.
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Radix Launches Startup League to Help Startups Launch Their Ideas
September 15, 2016 @ 10:02 AMThe Startup League (www.startupleague.online) is a unique startup-support program designed to aid early stage startups that use any of Radix’s TLDs to launch their idea or company. This initiative will support startups across several key areas like marketing, event sponsorships, and PR. In the first few days of the outreach itself Radix incubated 15+ startups…
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UDRP Panelist: WHOIS Privacy is "Intent to Deceive" and Evidence of Bad Faith
September 15, 2016 @ 9:58 AMA shocking interpretation of whois privacy and domain name investing. The majority of a UDRP panel deciding a case over the domain name montezuma.com got it right, determining that the complainant didn’t prove a lack of rights or legitimate interests in the domain name, nor that it was registered and used in bad faith. But…
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