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CentralNic Profit Triples in 2015; Revenue Up 70%

May 25, 2016 by Michael Berkens

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...]

Google + 5 Registries Release Domain Test: “Developers Can Test Compatibility with new gTLD’s”

March 23, 2016 by Michael Berkens

Google registry released a new tool "Domain Test" which is a "tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). " Domain Test was "developed by Google and launched in a partnership between Google Registry and Ausregistry, CentralNic, Donuts, RightSide, and Uniregistry. Domain Test is an open source project available under the Apache … [Read more...]

Domain Registration on Record Pace? Over 750K Added Yesterday Alone

February 19, 2016 by Michael Berkens

Registrations of domain names seem to be going on at a record pace. Yesterday saw the number of domain registrations across all Top Level Domain (TLD) names have a net add of over 750,000 domains according to registrarstats.com "Net Add" mean its the amount of domains registered less the number of domain names deleted. The gross numbers of domain names registered yesterday were close to … [Read more...]

CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20%

December 8, 2015 by Michael Berkens

CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release "the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering." According to the press release Instra in the year to June 30 posted … [Read more...]

XYZ & Negari Beats Verisign In Federal Court, Again: CentralNic Too

November 20, 2015 by Michael Berkens

.XYZ has just won another court battle against Verisign (VRSN). Back three weeks ago a Federal Court dismissed a case brought by Verisign against XYZ.com,  the registry for .XYZ and Daniel Negari personally alleging  false advertising by granting XYZ and Negari a short summary judgement opinion. Now in a second case in Verisign sued XYZ.COM, DANIEL NEGARI and CentralNic,  which is the … [Read more...]

CentralNic Passes 2 Million Registrations of New gTLD

November 10, 2015 by Michael Berkens

CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names. Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names.  The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+  is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names. CentralNic passed … [Read more...]

CentralNic Profit More than Doubles in 1st Half of 2015

September 15, 2015 by Michael Berkens

CentralNic (LON:CNIC) reported today that its profits more than doubled in the first half of 2015. CentralNic, which is a technical partner and wholesale distributor for web domains, saw a 213% rise in bookings to £7.9mln in the six months to June 30, compared with £2.5mln in the corresponding period of 2014. Booked revenue was up 171% at £4.4mln versus £1.6 last year, while gross profit … [Read more...]

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