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Escrow.com Revenue Dips On China and Account Verification But is Rebounding
August 14, 2017 @ 8:27 AMPopular domain escrow service takes a revenue hit but shows signs up improvement. Freelancer Limited, the company that owns online escrow company Escrow.com, has posted its results (pdf) for the first half of 2017. Gross payment volume (GPV) at Escrow.com in the first half of 2017 was down 24% (year-over-year) to $209 million. Net revenue…
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Google Ends Up With DailyStormer.com Domain Name
August 14, 2017 @ 7:47 AMOwner transfers domain name to Google’s domain name registrar. Google has landed a hot potato. [Update: and now it’s getting rid of it] After GoDaddy told white supremacist site The Daily Stormer it needed to find a new domain name registrar, the owner transferred the domain name to Google’s domain name registrar. It’s important to…
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GoDaddy Kicks Out Neo-nazi Site After Dead Protester Post
August 14, 2017 @ 3:39 AMGoDaddy has given neo-Nazi web site The Daily Stormer a day to GTFO after it posted an article viciously attacking the victim of racially motivated violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. In multiple tweets, the company said this morning that it had given the site’s owners 24 hours to move to a new registrar. We informed The…
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Attorney Warns About Spoof Tmview Search Site
August 11, 2017 @ 8:52 AMSite could be tracking trademark searches. Attorney John Berryhill is warning people about a website that he says is spoofing the popular TMview trademark search database. It appears that a business tied to Michael Gleissner is running the site. fake TMVIEW page at tmview .com – records your search and then falls over to the…
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ICANN Report: More Hacked Domains in Legacy gTLDs, More Maliciously Registered Domains in New gTLDs
August 10, 2017 @ 9:17 AMICANN announced the publication of the report, “Statistical Analysis of DNS Abuse in gTLDs” [PDF, 2.23 MB]. The study aims to compare rates of these activities between new and legacy gTLDs, as well as employs inferential statistical analysis to measure the effects of DNSSEC, domain parking, and registration restrictions on abuse rates using historical data…
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The Donuts and Rightside Brand and Trademark Protections Become One
August 10, 2017 @ 3:19 AMDonuts successfully completed the acquisition of Rightside and that is good news for registrars and their end customers with Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) programs. From now on companies interested in brand protection will not need to buy both the Donuts DPML and the Rightside DPML. Subject to the fine print (existing terms and conditions),…
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Tucows Revenue Rockets After eNom Buy
August 10, 2017 @ 3:01 AMTucows saw its revenue from domain names more than double in the second quarter, following the acquisition of rival Enom. The company this week reported domain services revenue for the three months ending June 30 of $62.8 million, compared to $28.4 million a year ago. That was part of overall growth of 78%, with revenue…
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GoDaddy Domains Business Grows 15% in Q2
August 10, 2017 @ 2:42 AMGoDaddy saw its revenue from domain name sales increase by almost 15% in the second quarter, the company announced this week. Its domains revenue was $263.3 million, up 14.6% on the same quarter last year. That was part of an overall growth trend at the company, which saw revenue for the quarter up 22.3% at…
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Millions of Australian Domain Name Owners "Ripped Off"
August 9, 2017 @ 10:33 PMSean Fogarty is a website owner, builder and reseller and auDA member who says he and many other small business owners are being overcharged.
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Tucows Shares Up 12% Today
August 9, 2017 @ 12:43 PMInvestors liked Tucows’ earnings report. Shares in Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX) shot up 12% today to close at $59.20 after the company reported earnings yesterday afternoon. The company’s record earnings per share and revenue were driven primarily by its acquisition of domain name reseller platform Enom earlier this year. Combined with Tucows’ OpenSRS reseller platform and retail…
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