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This week in new TLDs: medical and financial domain names
Medical Donuts exit EAP, financial Donuts enter. A slow week for new top level domain names is on tap. Donuts is the only company with new releases hitting general availability this week. That means all of the action takes place on Wednesday. .Care, ...
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This week in new TLDs: medical and financial domain names
Medical Donuts exit EAP, financial Donuts enter. A slow week for new top level domain names is on tap. Donuts is the only company with new releases hitting general availability this week. That means all of the action takes place on Wednesday. .Care, ...
Discussion
August 11, 2014, 1:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
A good snyopsis of Verisign’s monopoly contract
Investor does a pretty good job explaining how Verisign has a license to print money. Verisign has a wonderful license to print money. Its contract with ICANN to run .com allows it to charge $7.85 per .com domain name registered. The company enjoys f...
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A good snyopsis of Verisign’s monopoly contract
Investor does a pretty good job explaining how Verisign has a license to print money. Verisign has a wonderful license to print money. Its contract with ICANN to run .com allows it to charge $7.85 per .com domain name registered. The company enjoys f...
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August 10, 2014, 2:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Oh, great: someone is SMS spamming Whois
I guess those emails the spammers send you after you register a domain name aren’t effective enough. Don’t click the link, even out of curiosity. Your mobile phone number is appended to the URL, so they’ll know you got the message.
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Oh, great: someone is SMS spamming Whois
I guess those emails the spammers send you after you register a domain name aren’t effective enough. Don’t click the link, even out of curiosity. Your mobile phone number is appended to the URL, so they’ll know you got the message.
Discussion
August 9, 2014, 7:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
A look inside Google’s new domain name registrar
Google Domains offers a simple way for businesses to establish a web presence, but not much more. It’s been a little over a month since Google announced its domain name registration service, and I got access to the beta today. Google Domains is...
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A look inside Google’s new domain name registrar
Google Domains offers a simple way for businesses to establish a web presence, but not much more. It’s been a little over a month since Google announced its domain name registration service, and I got access to the beta today. Google Domains is...
Discussion
August 8, 2014, 6:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain name purchases including State Street and Live Person
State Street and LivePerson among domain name buyers. Sedo sold 632 domain names last week for a total of $1.7 million. Their highest reported sale was just $25,100, which means there were one or more big ticket sales that were confidential. Here are...
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End user domain name purchases including State Street and Live Person
State Street and LivePerson among domain name buyers. Sedo sold 632 domain names last week for a total of $1.7 million. Their highest reported sale was just $25,100, which means there were one or more big ticket sales that were confidential. Here are...
Discussion
August 8, 2014, 2:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s expired domain name sales
NameJet kicks off our list of last week’s expired domain auctions with a category-defining domain that blends Employment, Travel, and Leisure – the $15k sale of HospitalityJobs.com. Thereafter, we’ve got 2 “soft&rdqu...
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This week’s expired domain name sales
NameJet kicks off our list of last week’s expired domain auctions with a category-defining domain that blends Employment, Travel, and Leisure – the $15k sale of HospitalityJobs.com. Thereafter, we’ve got 2 “soft&rdqu...
Discussion
August 8, 2014, 1:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
My takeaways from Rightside’s first investor call
Naidu makes his pitch to analysts; company discloses some numbers on parking and domain sales. Rightside just concluded its first ever investor conference call as a standalone company. CEO Taryn Naidu and CFO Tracy Knox spent much of the time explain...
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My takeaways from Rightside’s first investor call
Naidu makes his pitch to analysts; company discloses some numbers on parking and domain sales. Rightside just concluded its first ever investor conference call as a standalone company. CEO Taryn Naidu and CFO Tracy Knox spent much of the time explain...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 9:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside just released its first earnings report
Revenue and earnings slip year-over-year, but that was expected. Rightside today released its first quarterly earnings report after being spun off from Demand Media. The company, which started trading as NAME on the NASDAQ this Monday, posted total r...
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Rightside just released its first earnings report
Revenue and earnings slip year-over-year, but that was expected. Rightside today released its first quarterly earnings report after being spun off from Demand Media. The company, which started trading as NAME on the NASDAQ this Monday, posted total r...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 7:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN 51 site shows funny tweet from parody Chehade account
Unfiltered tweet feed on ICANN website pokes fun at .xyz giveways. Like many meetings/conferences, ICANN publishes a tweetstream on its page for each meeting. That includes the site for the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles, which pulls in all...
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ICANN 51 site shows funny tweet from parody Chehade account
Unfiltered tweet feed on ICANN website pokes fun at .xyz giveways. Like many meetings/conferences, ICANN publishes a tweetstream on its page for each meeting. That includes the site for the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles, which pulls in all...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 4:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week .Rocks, definitely not a .Fail week
.Rocks is the top TLD of the week. On Tuesday I questioned if this week would be a big .fail for new TLDs, or if it would .Rock. We now have a (relative) answer. Rightside’s .Rocks was the top domain name launch of the week. So, by that definit...
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This week .Rocks, definitely not a .Fail week
.Rocks is the top TLD of the week. On Tuesday I questioned if this week would be a big .fail for new TLDs, or if it would .Rock. We now have a (relative) answer. Rightside’s .Rocks was the top domain name launch of the week. So, by that definit...
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August 7, 2014, 2:25 pm
