Internet domain group CentralNic (LON:CNIC) has appointed tech mergers and acquisitions specialist Mike Turner as the internet domain firm’s new non-executive chairman. Turner, a partner and head of technology media and communications at law firm Taylor Wessing, joins the company immediately Chief executive Ben Crawford says Turner’s “deep expertise and vast network” will be invaluable to … [Read more...]
Centralnic passes Donuts as Backend Provider For New gTLD Domain Names
According to ntldsstats.com, CentralNic has passed Donuts in the number of domain names it is providing backend registry services for new gTLD domains. ntldstats.com is showing CentralNic having 1,426,647 new gTLD's under its backend management while Donuts is sitting at 1,425,466 domain names, each representing about 20% of all new gTLD's. However CentralNic is the backend provider for just … [Read more...]
CentralNic Sells $1 Million Dollars In “Domains” Was It GB.com?
Early this morning CentralNic published an press release Press Release saying they had sold $1 Million dollars in unidentified domain names and would be using will use the cash to buy more premium web domain names. In the release CentralNic says they own around 20,000 premium domain names that they started acquiring in the 2nd half of 2014. This morning the domain name GB.com, which they … [Read more...]
CentralNic Adds NCC Group’s Domain Assured Service
According to a press release, CentralNic, has partnered with global information assurance specialist NCC Group, in order to protect its growing list of clients from domain abuse. NCC Group’s Domain Assured service uses expert threat intelligence to deliver a complete picture of a domain’s threat landscape, which allows registry operators to monitor the overall health of their domain portfolios … [Read more...]
After Shares Hit An All Time Low, CentralNic Issues an Update On Their gTLD’s
After its shares hit an all time low yesterday, CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) issued an update on "CentralNic gTLDs" CentralNic is a back-end provider for new gTLD's Shares rose today 1p to 24p. " CentralNic is pleased to report that following successful completion of auction processes, the gTLDs .online, .site, .tech, .love, .forum, .fan, .rent, and .realty will be made available to … [Read more...]
CentralNic Sells $2.5 Million in Premium Domains: Sounds Like Non-New gTLD Related
CentralNic (LON:CNIC) announced on Monday it has sold premium domain names for US$2.5mln. Sounds like those domain names were not of the gTLD variety. On the gTLD front CentralNic said they to be the exclusive registry service provider to at least 35 new TLD's over the next 2-3 years. The group has also been confirmed as the exclusive global distributor and billing agent for the … [Read more...]
Internet.bs Releasing 9.5 Million Available .Com Registered in Other Extensions
The domain name registrar, Internet.bs is "releasing a list of 9.5 million .COM names which are currently registered under other TLD spaces yet remain unregistered under .COM." According to a press release we received: "There is so much potential amongst these names for high value .COM domains that have so far gone undiscovered. The list is being released in stages, beginning today with … [Read more...]