GMO Internet, Inc. is a publicly traded company and one of Japan's largest ISP and operator of the country’s largest domain registrar, today announced they acquired the domain name Z.com for JPY800 million which is at today exchange rates equals $6,776,448 USD. GMO Internet a also an applicant for several new gTLD's including .Shop and .Inc … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
UDRP filed ON three letter domain RVK.com
A UDRP was filed today on the three letter domain name RVK.com The domain is owned by domain name investor Gregory Ricks The domain name was registered under privacy for many years. R.V. Kuhns & Associates, Inc is the Complainant who filed for a trademark on the term back on August … [Read more...]
Uniregistry: No Reserved Or Collision Domains Held Back Except For Single Characters
We just received this from Uniregistry which is launching .Click on November 25th. Pricing for a .Click domain will be $6.88 or less at retail. "We will no longer have a registry reserved list at the time of launch for any domain name beyond single-characters. If your registrar has been accepting pre-registrations, … [Read more...]
Godaddy Is Looking For a $4.5 Billion Dollar Valuation In Its IPO Rolling Out Next Year
According to the New York Post, GoDaddy.com is pushing ahead with an initial public offering early next year that would value the world’s biggest domain registration service at roughly $4.5 billion GoDaddy is stressing its desire to diversify from a domain registrar to a business that builds out Web sites for customers and helping them to process transactions on their sites. GoDaddy has an … [Read more...]
Why The Right Domain Name May Help In Landing You A Job
AfterCollege.com did an interview with Predrag Lesic the CEO of .ME. The interview talks about his own career path and why he believes in today's current job market there is a need for a student to create a personal brand. From the article: Why do you feel a student’s personal brand is such an important part of the job search? The labor market is highly competitive, with rising numbers of … [Read more...]
.Music LLC CPE Reconsideration Request Denied
.Music LLC sought reconsideration for Community Priority Evaluation in an effort to be given priority over others who are interested in running .music. .Music LLC believed that when their application was looked at that the panel failed to comply with already established ICANN policies. The board governance committee denied the reconsideration request. From the report released by ICANN The … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Top 10,298; .Quebec 4,902: .ENGINEER 523
We have numbers for the three new gTLD's that launched this week. .Top which launched on the November 18th has according to ntldstats.com 10,298 domains registered. The registry for .Top is "Jiangsu Bangning Science & Technology Co.,Ltd." which is also the backend for the extension and is also a domain name registrar Out of the 10,298 domain names registered, Jiangsu registered … [Read more...]