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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
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...
Discussion
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 ...
Discussion
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...
Discussion
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 ...
Discussion
May 7, 2015, 2:18 pm
