A company has filed a federal lawsuit against the company that owns the ICANN accredited registrar, BestRegistrar.com a few alleged resellers of BestRegistrar and the owners of the company that owns Bestregistrar.com, to "recover control of approximately 5,000 Internet domain names rightfully owned by Simon Property Group (SPG), and to recover damages both compensatory and statutory in nature … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Verisign: Only 3% of New gTLD Domain Names Are Resolving To Business Websites
Verisign issued a report on new gTLD registrations through June 29, 2014, finding that 41% of all new gTLD registrations are parked and only 3% of New gTLD Domain Names Are resolving to Business Websites. Of course Verisign operates the .com and .net registries and have a lot to lose in the new gTLD world, yet the numbers are the numbers. The report entitled Website Usage Analysis in the … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Chat.Fr for 99,999 Euro; ecal.com $25K; Havana.club at 8K
Sedo reported that over the past week, 527 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million, 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All sales were led by Chat.fr which sold for 99,999 Euro's (about $134,000) and Chat.de which sold for 65,000 Euro's (about $87,000). The buyer of both domain names is Xedoc Holding, SA which is a large … [Read more...]
Warning: WOI.com Reported Stolen
The three letter domain name WOI.com has been reported stolen. The domain name was at Godaddy until just a few days ago registered to a Bernard Naiborhu of Jakarta, when it moved over to the domain name registrar, eName Technology Co.,Ltd. of China WOI.com is now registered to: Admin Name: linyu Admin Organization: xia men yi ming wang luo you xian gong si Admin Street: zhen zhu wan ruan … [Read more...]
1 & 2 Character.GD and .VG Domains Will Be Charged A Higher Registration Fee
The registry for the .GD and .VG ccTLD announced today that beginning on September 2, 2014, all 1 and 2 character domains under .GD and .VG will be considered as premium domain names and will be charged with a higher domain registration fee. The renewal fee for these domains will remain on standard pricing. Currently registered 1 and 2 character domain names will remain registered to their … [Read more...]
Tucows Earnings Call: gTLD’s & ccTLD’s Increase Margins & They Bank Money Off .Group
In the earnings call Tucows (TCX) which reported earnings yesterday revealed some interest facts and figures. In general profit margins from domain name is increase due to new gTLD's and ccTLD's, sales of domains are slowing, and Tucows revealed they had a minority interest in an application for .group which lost a private auction. While those funds won't be booked until Tucows 3rd … [Read more...]
Tucows Hits 52 Week High & Reports Earnings
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014 in a day that saw intraday 52 week high for the shares. Tucows.com closed at $16.20 a share after hitting an intraday 52 week high of $16.33 per shares. Yummy domain sold less than $1 Million in domains for the quarter Summary Financial Results (In Thousands of US Dollars, Except Per … [Read more...]