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Demand Media Touts New TLDs in Latest Earnings, Domains Increase to 14 Million
May 7, 2013 @ 5:31 AMDemand Media puts new TLDs front and center in earnings release. Demand Media just released its first quarter earnings. It reported a slight profit of $0.7M before adjustments. But more interesting to the domain world is the focus the company’s earnings release places on new TLDs. The first paragraph proudly announces that the company has […]
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Go Daddy Building Big New Facility in Arizona
May 7, 2013 @ 3:19 AMGo Daddy has “broken ground” on a new 150,000 square foot facility in Tempe, Arizona. The new Global Technology Center will have room for 1,300 technology and customer care employees, the registrar said in a press release today. It expects to create 300 new jobs locally. The construction project was ceremonially kicked off by CEO […]
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WIPO Stats for Q1 2013: UDRP Complaints Down, Average Number of Domains Per Case Up, .com Domains 62% of Cases
May 7, 2013 @ 2:28 AMI checked the WIPO stats for the 1st quarter of 2013 and found that UDRP complaints have slowed down while the average number of domain names per case has increased. Usually the first 2 quartes of the year have the …
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Escrow.com Tops $1.5 Billion in Transactions
May 7, 2013 @ 1:13 AMMilestone shows that Escrow.com is growing very fast. I seems like just last year that I was writing about Escrow.com topping the $1 billion mark. And that’s because it was just last year that the company announced it had crossed the $1 billion transaction milestone. Now, about 16 months later, Escrow.com says it has already […]
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ADNDRC Bars UDRP On Stolen Domain 6543.com
May 6, 2013 @ 9:47 PMAsian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center (the ADNDRC) denied a UDRP on the domain name 6543.com. A domain which it appears was allegedly stolen from the complainant. The Respondent didn’t file a response…
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KSRegistry Takes Over .gd But Questions Remain About Two Other Hijacked Cctlds
May 6, 2013 @ 5:20 PMKSRegistry has been appointed the new registry operator for Grenada’s ccTLD after bad management at the previous operator led to the whole TLD being hijacked. But the fate of two other hijacked ccTLDs — .tc and .vg — appears to be less certain, with significant confusion over who’s in charge at both. One of them, […]
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Donuts: Hurry Up. Verisign: Slow Down.
May 6, 2013 @ 8:33 AMMany new TLD applicants will take a less-than-ideal contract if it means a faster time to market. When it comes to the new top level domain registry agreement, what you have to gain or lose from new TLDs being introduced will greatly shape your opion. Verisign has submitted two separate comments on the agreement, both […]
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.secure Applicants Take Note: Company Isn’t Giving Up Trademark Battle Yet
May 6, 2013 @ 12:33 AMCompany that filed .secure trademark application appeals USPTO ruling. The Wisconsin company that wants to trademark .secure hasn’t given up yet. I first wrote about Asif LLC in 2010 when it filed a trademark application for .secure. It also filed an application to trademark .bank. The application was originally filed on an intent-to-use basis. Later, […]
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Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds+Machines) Withdraws 4 New gTLD Applications: .free, .sale, .spa and .zulu
May 5, 2013 @ 11:59 PMThe Company has decided as a consequence of GAC warnings, and after discussion with relevant governments, to withdraw four of its applications: .free, .sale, .spa and .zulu. The GAC strongly advised against four gTLDs, none of which TLDH applied for. …
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.gd is Another Wake Up Call to Tech Firms About ccTLDs
May 5, 2013 @ 11:40 PMDoes the term “shadow registry” concern you? It should if you own a .gd domain name. Over the past few years startups and tech darlings have increasingly embraced “cute” ccTLDs and domain hacks that include ccTLDs. A key example is bitly. Bitly, which created millions of shortened URLs at Bit.ly, found out that using a […]
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