Uniregistry.com announced today that it has re-hired of Vern Jurovich as its Chief Operating Officer (pictured here with my wife Judi) Vern will help oversee all aspects of Uniregistry and help Frank Schilling shoulder business relationships and tactical day-to-day business operations across all … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
New Domain Name Registrar Offers At Cost Registrations: DomainCostClub.com
According to a press release out today boosts that "DomainCostClub.com Becomes the First Domain Registrar in the World to Offer At-Cost Pricing The "ICANN Accredited registrar starts a new club to provide domains at wholesale price to its members, starting from October 2014, Domain Cost Club will accept new members." "Domain Cost Club provides its members with domain name registration, … [Read more...]
.Desi Ends 1st Day Of GA With Just 324 Registrations; .NYC Gets 1,400 More: .OVH Gets 43K Free Registrations
.Desi which went into general availability yesterday wound up with just 324 registrations according to ntldstats.com. .NYC which is still having uncontested landrush applications to the zone file, (we had mentioned we knew they had not all been added), added another 1,440 landrush domains and now sits at just over 6K registrations. .NYC goes into general availability tomorrow October 8th and … [Read more...]
BRS Media Submits Reconsideration Request for Dot Radio
BRS Media the company behind .FM, .AM and Idotz.net, put out a press release that they have submitted a reconsideration request pertaining to the Dot Radio extension. They are seeking to overturn a ruling from last month which said that the European Broadcasting Union had the winning community priority evaluation score. From the release: On Sept. 10, 2014, ICANN announced that the European … [Read more...]
Marchex Files Federal Suit Over UDRP On Banco24horas.com and Banco24horas.net
Marchex Sales Inc, filed a Federal Lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia today over the domain names, banco24horas.com and banco24horas.net which were awarded in a UDRP to Tecnologia Bancaria S.A. of Brazil. The lawsuit is for Reverse Domain Hijacking and for Declaratory Relief Under the Lanham Act 15 USC 1114(2)(d)(iv)-(v) & For Tortious Interference with a Contract. In addition … [Read more...]
National Association of Realtors Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Realestate
The National Association of Realtors has won the rights to the new gTLD .Realestate The three other applicants for .Realestate Donuts, Uniregistry and and Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) have withdrawn their applications. The remaining applicant is dotRealEstate LLC is in actuality the The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), which already owns the new gTLD .Realtor and has … [Read more...]
EURid Second Quarter Progress Report – Registrations Increase 0.9 %
Eurid released its second quarter report. You can download the pdf which gives a complete breakdown of stats and graphs. During Q2 2014, the number of .eu registrations increased by 32,791 domain names, a net increase of 0.9%, to 3.83 million. The total number of .eu domain names registered at the end of Q2 represented an increase of 4.2%, or 122,450 registrations, when compared with the total … [Read more...]