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More details on .Blog and Automattic
A few more interesting details about Automattic running .blog. There was big news in the top level domain world yesterday: Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced it will be running the .blog top level domain name. This will be a shot...
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More details on .Blog and Automattic
A few more interesting details about Automattic running .blog. There was big news in the top level domain world yesterday: Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced it will be running the .blog top level domain name. This will be a shot...
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May 13, 2016, 2:55 pm
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Automattic (WordPress) acquires .Blog top level domain name
Big news for top level domains as .blog gets big backing. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, now controls the .blog top level domain name. The company announced plans for the domain name today. Primer Nivel S.A., the company behind My.co, won ...
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Automattic (WordPress) acquires .Blog top level domain name
Big news for top level domains as .blog gets big backing. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, now controls the .blog top level domain name. The company announced plans for the domain name today. Primer Nivel S.A., the company behind My.co, won ...
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May 12, 2016, 7:15 pm
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Daniel Zhang of Xinnet on China domain aftermarket and IDNs
Remarks focus on SMB and enterprise client needs and trends. Xinnet.com, a Chinese registrar in business 23 years, is among the top 20 in the world. Daniel Zhang has been running their domain business unit for the last ten years. In this video from C...
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Daniel Zhang of Xinnet on China domain aftermarket and IDNs
Remarks focus on SMB and enterprise client needs and trends. Xinnet.com, a Chinese registrar in business 23 years, is among the top 20 in the world. Daniel Zhang has been running their domain business unit for the last ten years. In this video from C...
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May 12, 2016, 6:55 pm
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Chinese owner of NBAZ.xyz defends UDRP brought by American bank
…but he didn’t use the “four letter acronym domain has value” defense. The owner of the four letter domain name NBAZ.xyz has successfully defended a cybersquatting complaint filed by National Bank of Arizona. This is notable ...
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Chinese owner of NBAZ.xyz defends UDRP brought by American bank
…but he didn’t use the “four letter acronym domain has value” defense. The owner of the four letter domain name NBAZ.xyz has successfully defended a cybersquatting complaint filed by National Bank of Arizona. This is notable ...
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May 12, 2016, 3:27 pm
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How many typos does a drug company need to register?
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals registers over 100 typos for a new drug name. Names of prescription drugs can be difficult to spell, with names like Aciphex, Juxtapid and Xenazine. Drug names put Silicon Valley’s latest vowel-less startups to shame. ...
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How many typos does a drug company need to register?
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals registers over 100 typos for a new drug name. Names of prescription drugs can be difficult to spell, with names like Aciphex, Juxtapid and Xenazine. Drug names put Silicon Valley’s latest vowel-less startups to shame. ...
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May 12, 2016, 2:30 pm
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Rightside targets $50-$75 million annual registry revenue in 3-5 years
Company predicts strong upswing in registry revenue. Rightside’s revenue from new TLDs might be trivial to its business right now, but the company expects big things in the future. Last year, Rightside generated registry revenue of $8.4 million...
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Rightside targets $50-$75 million annual registry revenue in 3-5 years
Company predicts strong upswing in registry revenue. Rightside’s revenue from new TLDs might be trivial to its business right now, but the company expects big things in the future. Last year, Rightside generated registry revenue of $8.4 million...
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May 11, 2016, 6:11 pm
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S.club sells for $38k, leading .Club domain name auction
Single letter .club domain sells for big bucks. The .Club registry sold over $130,000 worth of premium domain names last month, with about half of the sales coming from an auction held on Alibaba’s Ali Auction platform (TaoBao) in China. .Club ...
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S.club sells for $38k, leading .Club domain name auction
Single letter .club domain sells for big bucks. The .Club registry sold over $130,000 worth of premium domain names last month, with about half of the sales coming from an auction held on Alibaba’s Ali Auction platform (TaoBao) in China. .Club ...
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May 11, 2016, 2:14 pm
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14 End User Domain Name Sales
A “body contouring” company, medical chain and general contractor bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 465 domain name transactions last week for a total of about $1 million in sales. Unlike last week, there weren’t a bunch o...
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14 End User Domain Name Sales
A “body contouring” company, medical chain and general contractor bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 465 domain name transactions last week for a total of about $1 million in sales. Unlike last week, there weren’t a bunch o...
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May 11, 2016, 2:05 pm
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Prince, Panama and Czechia were popular in .com domains last month
News drives domain name registrations. .Com registry Verisign has released its monthly report showing which keywords were trending in new .com domain name registrations. Notable entrants on the list for April included domains paying homage to Prince,...
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Prince, Panama and Czechia were popular in .com domains last month
News drives domain name registrations. .Com registry Verisign has released its monthly report showing which keywords were trending in new .com domain name registrations. Notable entrants on the list for April included domains paying homage to Prince,...
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May 10, 2016, 9:24 pm
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Rightside: Q-over-Q revenue drops, new TLD revenue builds
Rightside’s revenue was down sequentially, but up compared to the same time last year. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) released earnings after the bell today. The company reported $55.1 million revenue for the first quarter of 2016, a 9% increase over ...
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Rightside: Q-over-Q revenue drops, new TLD revenue builds
Rightside’s revenue was down sequentially, but up compared to the same time last year. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) released earnings after the bell today. The company reported $55.1 million revenue for the first quarter of 2016, a 9% increase over ...
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May 10, 2016, 9:00 pm
