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Co.ltd Sells for $115,000
August 15, 2016 @ 12:29 PMDonuts sells two-letter domain name for six figures. New top level domain name company Donuts has sold the domain name co.LTD for $115,000, the company revealed today. .LTD is a corporate identifier top level domain name and is short for “limited”. There are about 25,000 .ltd domain names in the zone. The buyer is listed…
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Afilias Was Second-place Bidder in $135 Million .web Auction
August 15, 2016 @ 9:08 AMAfilias bid $135 million for rights to .web domain name. There has been a lot of chatter after the $135 million .web auction as to who the second place bidder in the auction was. I was skeptical of a report that it was Google. I was under the impression that it must have been Afilias,…
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Industry Lays Into Verisign Over .com Deal Renewal
August 15, 2016 @ 3:48 AMSome of Verisign’s chickens have evidently come home to roost. A number of companies that the registry giant has pissed off over the last couple of years have slammed the proposed renewal of its .com contract with ICANN. Rivals including XYZ.com (sued over its .xyz advertising) and Donuts (out-maneuvered on .web) are among those to…
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ICANN Lawyers Slam "Fire Him" Story "Blogger"
August 15, 2016 @ 12:36 AMICANN lawyers have launched an extraordinary attack on a “blogger” who recently wrote an article headlined “ICANN’s general counsel should lose his job over this”. Early Friday, ICANN’s board of directors issued its response to the recent Independent Review Process case in which new gTLD applicant Dot Registry managed to show that the board had…
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Ted Cruz Asks DOJ to Review .com Pricing
August 13, 2016 @ 6:36 AMCruz and two other senators question DOJ over .com pricing. U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) sent a letter to the Department of Justice yesterday that echoes the concerns I presented in an article about .com pricing. The Senators want to make sure that the .com contract extension…
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Daniel Negari and Ambrose Sell $2M of Rightside Shares
August 12, 2016 @ 1:35 PMEach now own 2.1% of company. .XYZ founder Daniel Negari and his COO Mike Ambrose have sold 173,000 shares of Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) stock worth about $2 million this month as of yesterday, according to an SEC filing. Negari sold 109,794 shares and now owns 402,091. Ambrose sold 63,285 shares and now owns 405,872…
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Next New gTLD Round Could Start Sooner Than Expected
August 11, 2016 @ 6:14 AMThe ICANN board of directors is wondering whether the next new gTLD application round should kick off sooner than expected. Chair Steve Crocker reached out to the Generic Names Supporting Organization this week to ask whether the next round could start before all GNSO policy work has been completed. Or, he asked, are there any…
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Centuries-old Companies Both Fail Community gTLD Test
August 11, 2016 @ 12:04 AMTwo companies called Merck have separately failed ICANN Community Priority Evaluations, meaning the new gTLD .merck could be the first dot-brand to head to ICANN auction. Merck KGaA applied for .merck for the Merck Group, a German chemicals company founded — staggeringly — in 1668, the same year Newton built the world’s first reflecting telescope…
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Afilias Buys Three gTLDs From Starting Dot
August 8, 2016 @ 11:39 PMRegistry upstart StartingDot has sold its small portfolio of new gTLDs to Afilias. .archi, .bio and .ski are the three components of the package. While the size of the deal was not disclosed, retail prices and zone file volumes suggest the portfolio probably brings in about $2 million a year in revenue. The biggest seller…
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Donuts Rolls The Dice With $22.5 Million .web Lawsuit
August 8, 2016 @ 10:54 PMDonuts is demanding ICANN pay up the $22.5 million it reckons it is owed from the auction of the .web gTLD, which sold late last month for $135 million. The company yesterday amended its existing California lawsuit against ICANN to allege that Verisign tried to avoid regulatory scrutiny by secretly bankrolling successful bidder Nu Dot…
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