Did GB.com get sold? Domain sleuth George Kirikos tweeted out that the registrar changed and the domain is now under privacy. It appears that @CentralNic may have sold their https://t.co/FemlXiKDSX domain name (change of registrar, and also WHOIS privacy). — George Kirikos (@GeorgeKirikos) November 29, 2017 When checking whois I see that the nameservers are now at … [Read more...]
You never let someone else control your business
As a domain owner you have enough to deal with from ICANN moves to price increases. You never ever develop anything of importance to you on someone else's property. Use social media and other apps to feed your website, but the CentralNic retirement of several LL.com domains illustrates why you never trust anyone else with your business. From links to SEO, social mentions etc... A sub-domain is … [Read more...]
CentralNic appoints Stuart Fuller as Group Commercial Director
CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) announced today that it has named Stuart Fuller as Group Commercial Director heading up worldwide sales activities. "Mr. Fuller joins the company after eleven years at domain name retailing, corporate domain name management and brand protection firm NetNames (formerly Group NBT) where he was responsible for commercial operations for the group. His earlier career was in … [Read more...]
A look at how domain stocks did in 2016, if you owned Tucows you were very happy
2016 was a great year for shareholders of Tucows and Neustar, for shareholders of Verisign, Marchex and Sedo parent United Internet ? Not so much. Tucows was the star for 2016 up 67% on the year. Neustar got acquired and the stock finished up close to 40%. Verisign saw their fortunes take a down turn in 2016, all the speculative hand regs based on Chinese whims did not materialize in 2016 … [Read more...]
CentralNic Shares Hits 52 Week Low on More Than 10x Avg Daily Volume
Shares of CentralNic Group Plc (LON:CNIC), sank after releasing its financial results for the six months ending June 30, 2016. After hitting a 52 week low of 38p, shares of CentralNic closed at 39.5p down over 14% from its previous closing price of 46p. Over 1,000,000 shares were traded in the company which has an average daily volume (3m) of just over 84,000 shares. CentralNic has a 52 … [Read more...]
CentralNic Revenue up 100% & Gross Profit Up 19% in 1st Six Months of 2016
CentralNic Group Plc (LON:CNIC), today announced its half year results for the six months ended June 30th 2016. For the six months to June 30, the company reported £45.08mln of billings - the gross amount charged for domains before revenue sharing - which represents an 468% increase compared to the same period of 2015. CentralNic’s revenue amounted to £8.9mln, double the £4.44mln in the … [Read more...]
CentralNic Profit Triples in 2015; Revenue Up 70%
CentralNic PLC (AIM: CNIC) reported its financial results for 2015 recording pretax profit of GBP 1.5 million for 2015, nearly tripled from the GBP 520,000 it posted in 2014. Revenue rose 70% to GBP 10.4 million from GBP 6.1 million. CentralNic is the backend provider for many new gTLD extensions including .xyz which has the most registrations of all new gTLD's, provides registrations on … [Read more...]