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The Domains
AdWeek “Should Your Shop Purchase a .Agency Domain ?”
AdWeek.com published an article on whether advertising agencies should step up and register a .agency domain. In the article there were a few people quoted, Mason Cole from Donuts who runs .agency, David Mitnick, an intellectual property lawyer and f...
Discussion
AdWeek “Should Your Shop Purchase a .Agency Domain ?”
AdWeek.com published an article on whether advertising agencies should step up and register a .agency domain. In the article there were a few people quoted, Mason Cole from Donuts who runs .agency, David Mitnick, an intellectual property lawyer and f...
Discussion
May 8, 2015, 4:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
3D.Software domain name sells for $100,000+
Big sale illustrates value of premium strategy for new TLD operators. Rightside has sold the domain name 3D.software for a six figure some, CEO Taryn Naidu revealed on the company’s quarterly financial results call yesterday. The domain name wa...
Discussion
3D.Software domain name sells for $100,000+
Big sale illustrates value of premium strategy for new TLD operators. Rightside has sold the domain name 3D.software for a six figure some, CEO Taryn Naidu revealed on the company’s quarterly financial results call yesterday. The domain name wa...
Discussion
May 8, 2015, 2:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Last month’s Top 5 Domain Name stories
Two acquisitions highlight top stories on Domain Name Wire last month. Apparently the snow has thawed in Boston, and things are definitely heating up in the domain name name industry. There were two notable acquisitions last month and big changes at ...
Discussion
Last month’s Top 5 Domain Name stories
Two acquisitions highlight top stories on Domain Name Wire last month. Apparently the snow has thawed in Boston, and things are definitely heating up in the domain name name industry. There were two notable acquisitions last month and big changes at ...
Discussion
May 8, 2015, 1:59 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Friday, May 8th, 2015
Rightist had a pretty decent earnings yesterday but the thing that bothers me is the real money was made not selling domains or registrations but NOT selling them. Getting paid to pull out of auctions. Not a sustainable business model but I gue...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Friday, May 8th, 2015
Rightist had a pretty decent earnings yesterday but the thing that bothers me is the real money was made not selling domains or registrations but NOT selling them. Getting paid to pull out of auctions. Not a sustainable business model but I gue...
Discussion
May 8, 2015, 11:25 am
DomainSherpa
Domain Name News: May 8 Week in Review
Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:• DNSeattle on May 28th - Only 7 tickets remaining!• .Club Turns 1, Happy Birthday!• TheVerge.com Calls Purchase of RandPaul.com for $100k "Ransom"• C...
Discussion
Domain Name News: May 8 Week in Review
Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:• DNSeattle on May 28th - Only 7 tickets remaining!• .Club Turns 1, Happy Birthday!• TheVerge.com Calls Purchase of RandPaul.com for $100k "Ransom"• C...
Discussion
May 8, 2015, 9:30 am
The Domains
Qatar Airways Files UDRP Over 15 Year Old Domain DiscoverQatar.com
Qatar Airways has Filed a UDRP to get control of the domain name DiscoverQatar.com which seems about generic as it gets to us. The domain name was first registered in 2000 and seems to have been control by the same owner based on DomainTools.co...
Discussion
Qatar Airways Files UDRP Over 15 Year Old Domain DiscoverQatar.com
Qatar Airways has Filed a UDRP to get control of the domain name DiscoverQatar.com which seems about generic as it gets to us. The domain name was first registered in 2000 and seems to have been control by the same owner based on DomainTools.co...
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 10:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Tucows reports continued growth as mobile services boom
Ting helps Tucows continue to post strong growth. Tucows reported continued revenue growth in an earnings release after the market closed today. The company posted $40.5 million revenue, up from $34.4 million in the same quarter last year and $38.8 m...
Discussion
Tucows reports continued growth as mobile services boom
Ting helps Tucows continue to post strong growth. Tucows reported continued revenue growth in an earnings release after the market closed today. The company posted $40.5 million revenue, up from $34.4 million in the same quarter last year and $38.8 m...
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 8:46 pm
The Domains
Right Reports: Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30%
Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to ...
Discussion
Right Reports: Made $7.2 Million On Losing New gTLD Auctions: Name.com Revenue Up 30%
Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to ...
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 8:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside posts profit, gets $7.2 million from withdrawing new TLDs
Rightside posts profit and gets big haul from withdrawing new top level domain name applications. Rightside released first quarter earnings after the bell today. The company posted an adjusted EBITDA of $0.6 million and a GAAP profit of $1.9 million....
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Rightside posts profit, gets $7.2 million from withdrawing new TLDs
Rightside posts profit and gets big haul from withdrawing new top level domain name applications. Rightside released first quarter earnings after the bell today. The company posted an adjusted EBITDA of $0.6 million and a GAAP profit of $1.9 million....
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 8:36 pm
The Domains
What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing
As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible re...
Discussion
What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing
As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible re...
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 8:33 pm
