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Marchex: $36.2 Million Revenue in Q1 2013, Archeo: $5.1 Million Revenue ($1.4 From Domain Sales)
May 2, 2013 @ 5:43 AMMarchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX), a leader in mobile performance advertising, today announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. Archeo announced a couple of days back Q1 2013 domain sales of $1.4 million from 50 domains sold for an …
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Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 8%; Sets $250 Million Repurchase Plan
May 2, 2013 @ 5:36 AMNeustar, Inc. (NSR), announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 and affirmed its guidance for 2013. Neustar is the backend provider for several TLD’s including .Us and .Co and hundreds of new gTLD’s and is going to operate the .NYC extension on behalf of the city of New York…
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The 20 ccTLDs That Google Treats As Generic TLDs
May 2, 2013 @ 4:48 AMAccording to the Seroundtable.com, Google has been updating their indexing systems to treat more ccTLDs, country-level top level domains, as generic TLDs. As we already know some of the favorite ccTLD’s of domainers like .Co, .Me and .Tv made the list…
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A Look at .tel’s 14 Year, £25 Million Journey
May 2, 2013 @ 4:40 AMTelnic has lost £25 million since it was founded — and much of that was before .tel even launched. It’s been a long and winding road for many new top level domain applicants. But most of the delays and challenges new TLD applicants have faced pale in comparison to the very long, very expensive road […]
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YouPorn Owner Settles Lawsuit With .xxx Registry Over Pricey Domain Costs
May 2, 2013 @ 2:35 AMTwo internet porn giants have settled a lawsuit with an agreement that will make .xxx domain names more affordable. The domain names currently retail for around $100 annually, but under the…
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.org Project 94 Combined Results: 50 Domains Sold for $143,661, Not a Single 1 Character .org Sold
May 2, 2013 @ 2:27 AMIn a terrible PR move PIR, the .org registry, managed to not sell a single 1 character .org domain from the 31 domains that were auctioned off in the 2 auctions run by Namejet/Enom and Go Daddy. In total 50 …
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ICM: Over 1,000 .xxx Domains Registered in 1st 24 Hours of Price Reduction
May 2, 2013 @ 12:34 AMThe ICM registry says they have sold over 1,000 new .XXX registrations in first 24 hrs since they announced yesterday the temporary price decrease. Of the domain registered in the last 24 hours the average domain years was 2.3. The best news for the .XXX string is that “well over 90% of the domain names registered in the last 24 hours were clearly “adult themed names” rather than non-adult or brand protection registrations…
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Nigeria Registers 30000 .ng Domain Names
May 1, 2013 @ 8:22 AMAs NiRA crashes domain registration cost to N15,000. The total number of registered Nigeria’s country code Top Level Domain Names, .ng, which is the nat…
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Verisign Blasts ICANN Over Proposed Registry Agreement
May 1, 2013 @ 6:01 AMVerisign says unilateral right to amend is alive and well in proposed contract. Verisign senior vice presidents Pat Kane and Richard Goshorn have sent a letter to ICANN blasting the inclusion of amendment right clauses in the proposed new registry agreement. In the sometimes snarky letter, Verisign claims that ICANN’s unilateral right to amend the […]
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Fakebook: Misspelled Domain Squatters Must Pay Facebook Nearly $2.8 Million
May 1, 2013 @ 5:39 AMMisspelling domain names is easy enough that the government doesn’t let companies take advantage of it — and Facebook has just been awarded nearly $2.8 million in a case against several people…
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