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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 ...
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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....
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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...
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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
Domain Name Wire
.Club turns 1 and these 17 registrars are selling domains for $1
Registrars offer $1 special on .Club domains on first anniversary of launch. .Club is celebrating the one year anniversary of its general availability. As part of the celebration, 17 registrars are offering .Club domain names for about a dollar today...
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.Club turns 1 and these 17 registrars are selling domains for $1
Registrars offer $1 special on .Club domains on first anniversary of launch. .Club is celebrating the one year anniversary of its general availability. As part of the celebration, 17 registrars are offering .Club domain names for about a dollar today...
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May 7, 2015, 6:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Name Roundup including Moviez.com for $11k
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in domain name sales at NameJet. At some point, yours truly will stop pointing out the fault line between Chinese and Western domain sales in these charts, inasmuch as I’m beginning to sound like ...
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Expired Domain Name Roundup including Moviez.com for $11k
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in domain name sales at NameJet. At some point, yours truly will stop pointing out the fault line between Chinese and Western domain sales in these charts, inasmuch as I’m beginning to sound like ...
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 3:37 pm
The Domains
TheVerge.com Calls Purchase of RandPaul.com For $100K “Ransom”
TheVerge.com is apparently on the Verge of calling anyone who owns a domain name and is looking to sell it a Cybersquatter and somehow is calling on the next President of the United States to outlaw the practice of buying a domain name and selling it...
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TheVerge.com Calls Purchase of RandPaul.com For $100K “Ransom”
TheVerge.com is apparently on the Verge of calling anyone who owns a domain name and is looking to sell it a Cybersquatter and somehow is calling on the next President of the United States to outlaw the practice of buying a domain name and selling it...
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 3:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
One household cashes in twice in Verisign Contest
Twice the cash for Florida household. Verisign recently released the second batch of winners in its Internet Official contest. Here are the five that each took home $5,000: KidsCookDinner.com – Kate K, New York NYC SkinnyLA.com – Sarah G ...
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One household cashes in twice in Verisign Contest
Twice the cash for Florida household. Verisign recently released the second batch of winners in its Internet Official contest. Here are the five that each took home $5,000: KidsCookDinner.com – Kate K, New York NYC SkinnyLA.com – Sarah G ...
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May 7, 2015, 2:18 pm
The Domains
Domain Movers: QD.com, Circle.com, HorseRanch.com and More Domains
Welcome to the latest domain name movers series on TheDomains.com where Jamie Zoch digs domain names that are on the move and have been acquired, registered and simply moving by some of the largest companies in the world.
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Domain Movers: QD.com, Circle.com, HorseRanch.com and More Domains
Welcome to the latest domain name movers series on TheDomains.com where Jamie Zoch digs domain names that are on the move and have been acquired, registered and simply moving by some of the largest companies in the world.
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 1:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s new TLDs (retroactive edition)
Recapping this week’s domain name launches. It’s been a busy week and I missed doing my weekly new top level domain name preview. A number of interesting domain names launched this week, so I’ll recap what came out and how they did....
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This week’s new TLDs (retroactive edition)
Recapping this week’s domain name launches. It’s been a busy week and I missed doing my weekly new top level domain name preview. A number of interesting domain names launched this week, so I’ll recap what came out and how they did....
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 1:49 pm
The Domains
New gTLD 1st Day Domain Names Totals: .Video 3,271 & .Sale 2,160
Rightside launched two new gTLD domain name extensions into general availability (GA) yesterday .Video and .Sale Including all domain name registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those that paid a higher fee during the Early Access ...
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New gTLD 1st Day Domain Names Totals: .Video 3,271 & .Sale 2,160
Rightside launched two new gTLD domain name extensions into general availability (GA) yesterday .Video and .Sale Including all domain name registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those that paid a higher fee during the Early Access ...
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May 7, 2015, 1:45 pm
