Domain Name News

Healthcare Dot

WellPoint, a major North American health insurance provider, has dropped its application for .anthem, a proposed dot-brand gTLD. It’s the fifth application to be withdrawn this week and the 64th to be withdrawn overall. The pull-out rate from the original 1,930 applications now stands at roughly 3.3%. It’s also the second bid to be yanked […]

Related posts:
Two more dot-brand gTLD bids withdrawn
ARI drops .book new gTLD bid
Second .online gTLD bid and third ‘guardian’ dot-brand withdrawn

Fiji Moves It Offical Tourism Site to Fiji.travel

Tourism Fiji, the official travel and tourism agency of the government of Fiji, has registered the name Fiji.travel and has now launched <a href="http://www.Fiji.travel" rel="nofollow">http://www.Fiji.travel</a> as its official tourism website. According to the Registry other country governments have made the same move to .travel.
Germany.travel, Colombia.travel, Egypt.travel, Ecuador.travel, and Canada.travel are all now using the .travel extension for their official tourism sites…

UDRP Filed On The Domain Name Quirk.com

The domain name Quirk.com just got his with a UDRP. The domain name is registered to TobyClements.com, LLC however according to the company they don’t own the domain name but changed the ownership to market the domain name….

Tucows Reports: Revenue Increases 9% But Domain Sales Slow to $1.1m

Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC), reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 after the market closed today. According to reports Tucows missed expectations as to both earnings and revenue. Net revenue for the first quarter of 2013 increased 9% to a record $30.0 million from $27.5 million for the first quarter of 2012….

Tucows Reports Earnings, Says Domain Investors are Assessing The Impact of New TLDs

Tucows reports earnings, says domain investors are proceeding cautiously on domain buys as they assess the impact of new TLDs. Tucows reported earnings this afternoon, recording its twelfth consecutive quarter of record revenue (year over year). The company generated $30.0 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2013 and reported a slight profit of […]

BuyDomains Relaunches Site

NameMedia refreshes end user sales web site. BuyDomains, the end user domain name sales site owned by NameMedia, relaunched with a completely new look and feel today. The site places a greater focus than the previous one on explaining why a business should spend money on a domain name. It also emphasizes the ease and […]

Afilias Dumps .mail Bid, and Three Other New gTLD Withdrawals

Four new gTLD applications have been withdrawn so far this week, including the first to come from .info operator Afilias. Afilias has pulled its bid for .mail — the second applicant to do so — due to the number of competitors for the string. A spokesperson said in an email: The company felt there were […]

Google Top $900 for 1st Time & Market Cap Breaks $300 Billion

Shares of Google (GOOG) are currently trading above $900 a share an all time high for the company. It was only 3 months ago that shares of Google hit $800 a share. Its was just a few months earlier when shares of Apple and Google were trading at the same $600 level.
Shares at time of publication are trading at $905 up over $18 a share….

ICANN Publishes 2012 Tax Return

Tax return unveils compensation, legal costs. ICANN just published its FY 2012 tax return online (pdf). The form tax return covers the year ending June 30, 2012. Much of the information, including financials, had previously been published by ICANN on its web site, so there’s not much new there. What may be most interesting is […]

NetNames: 33% Have No Idea What a New gTLD Is; 62% Have No Plans to Register One

NetNames, a online brand protection and domain name management specialist, released the results of a poll of 100 business directors in UK enterprises (minimum turnover of £5 million) on domain names and the new gTLD’s. In its research, NetNames found 99% of respondents feel domain names are important to their brand’s internet presence, reflecting the significance of maintaining a company’s visibility on the web.”