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Relaunch and Slashed Prices for .whoswho After Terrible Sales
September 1, 2016 @ 9:04 AMNew gTLD registry Who’s Who is to slash prices, lift restrictions and drop thousands of reserved names in an attempt to relaunch the struggling business. From today, its registry fee has been dropped from $75 to $20 a year, and registrants no longer need to prove they’re a big shot in order to buy a…
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New Top Level Domain .shop Opens for Advance Registration
September 1, 2016 @ 8:01 AM.shop Sunrise Phase Closes with 1,182 Applications from Trademark Holders TOKYO, JAPAN (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 01, 2016 GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry today announces that new top level domain, .shop (<a href="https://get.shop" rel="nofollow">https://get.shop</a>) opens its doors to the general public for the…
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Another Gleissner Company Loses a UDRP, This One to Qualcomm
September 1, 2016 @ 7:56 AMAdd IMOD.com to Gleissner’s losses. Another company with Michael Gleissner as director has lost a UDRP. American Franchise Marketing Limited, which has the same address as many other Gleissner-affiliate companies, filed a UDRP against Qualcomm over the domain name IMOD.com. The case is certainly a head-scratcher. If you type in imod.com you’ll be forwarded to…
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US Claims Option to Delay IANA Transition As Cruz Launches Free Speech Doomsday Clock
September 1, 2016 @ 12:24 AMThe US government has told ICANN that it may extend the current IANA functions contract for a year, should something unexpected happen this month. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration wrote to ICANN (pdf) yesterday, to provide “preliminary notice” that it could extent the contract until September 30, 2017, if a “significant impediment” should occur…
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.trust gTLD Might Be for Sale As NCC Closes Domain Business
August 31, 2016 @ 11:29 PMNCC Group has stroppily departed from the domain name business but is evading questions about whether its .trust gTLD is for sale. The company last month told the markets that it is to “cut its losses” and get rid of its Open Registry registry/registrar business, which it acquired for up to £14.9 million ($22.6 million)…
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Ransom Paid for DavidAndGoliath.com
August 31, 2016 @ 2:27 PMUsually a company wants to find it’s way to owning a short LL or LLL.com domain name. They have a long multi word name that many find arduous to constantly type out, especially on mobile. Well one El Segundo-based ad agency wanted the exact opposite. David & Goliath had to “settle” for DNG.com because they…
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Donuts Lowering Prices for .business and .company Domain Names
August 31, 2016 @ 4:07 AMExpect to pay $10 or less starting October 1. New top level domain name registrar Donuts is continuing to play with pricing. Earlier this year it announced a 50% wholesale price hike for ten domain names, including as .dog, .camera and .plumbing. The price hike goes into effect October 1. Now it’s substantially lowering prices…
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Sabal Capital Management Reduces It Stake in Rightside By 10%
August 31, 2016 @ 2:48 AMAccording to tradecalls.com; Sabal Capital Management reduced its stake in Rightside Group Ltd by 10.0% during the most recent quarter end. The investment management company now holds a total of 312,868 shares of Rightside Group Ltd which is valued at $3,707,486 after selling 34,746 shares in Rightside Group Ltd , the firm said in a…
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Frank Schilling Sparked Yesterday's Active Day for Rightside
August 30, 2016 @ 1:19 PMSchilling sold about 1% of Rightside’s outstanding shares yesterday. Frank Schilling might have sparked yesterday’s very active day of trading in shares of Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME), or at least contributed to it. Over 860,000 shares traded hands yesterday compared to a three-month average daily volume of about 75,000 shares. This pushed shares down about 13% to…
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Verisign Announces Korean .닷컴 and .닷넷 Domains are Now Available for General Registration
August 30, 2016 @ 12:22 PMToday, Verisign announce that .닷컴 and .닷넷, the localized versions of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) in Hangul script, are now open for the registration of domain names by the general public on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability and the applicable registry policies.* The General Registration Period for .닷컴 and .닷넷…
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