Digital advertising company CPX Interactive today announced the formation of a corporate advisory board and named as one of the six members domain industry Veteran Scott Richter. "Scott Richter is CEO of Media Breakaway, LLC, a leader in online performance marketing, delivering full service, results-oriented solutions through the company’s divisions: Affiliate.com, TheParkingPlace.com and … [Read more...]
Industry Veteran Jodi Chamberlain Launches 32Events.com & The Executive Network
Jodi Chamberlain launched 32events.com today an event management company dedicated to providing seamless event coordination for everything from social parties to industry trade shows and business engagements. Jodi has been involved in the domain space for a while, serving as President of TeamLauncher.com, worked with Rick Latona when he was putting on TRAFFIC conferences in 2009 and 2010 and … [Read more...]
Directi Powers 6.5 Million Domains Has 1,000 Employees & Is Valued At $350 Million
Some interesting facts were released by Directi, in an interview Bhavin Turakhia CEO with TechCircle.in. "What is Directi’s current valuation?" "We haven’t done a recent valuation exercise, but we currently quote that the group as a whole is valued around $350 million." What has been your Y-o-Y growth rate? Name the top three businesses of Directi in terms of revenue … [Read more...]
DomainHoldings.com On A Tear Selling Domains In September Is Hiring Domain Brokers
Domainholdings.com announced on its blog today that they are hiring. With unemployment especially those long term unemployed or underemployed its great to see a company in the domain industry still adding staff. DomainHoldings.com according to various Facebook postings has been on a tear in September selling domains, unfortunately all are under NDA but here are some sales: 8 character … [Read more...]
Are 35 Million Domains/Sites Hosted On Godaddy.com Down?
According to DailyChanges.com there are almost 34 million domain names are hosted on Godaddy's DomainControl.com servers which appear to be down. In addition another 1.2 million are hosted on Godaddy's CashParking.com servers which also appear to be down. I did a spot check of domains and sites located on both servers and all appeared to be down. As Godaddy.com outage continues it looks … [Read more...]
ICM Hires The Laywer Of The CFIT/Verisign Case, Bret Fausett
Two weeks ago we wrote a post on how a federal court used the opinion in the CFIT vs. Verisign case to deny both ICM and ICANN motion to dismiss in the suit brought by Manwin the owners of YouPorn.com against ICM on antitrust grounds. Today comes word that ICM the operator of the .XXX TLD has retained Bret Fausett. Esq, who was " the chief litigator in the CFIT v. Verisign case and a … [Read more...]
Over 25% Of All .Pro Domains Went Into Pending Delete Status Yesterday
I was tipped off from a reader that the some 42,000 .Pro registrations went into Pending Delete status yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com According to the ICANN report the .Pro registry filed in April (last one on record) there were some 149,000 .Pro domains registered. 40,000 domains represents over 25% of all registered .Pro domain names (as of April). I reached out to the … [Read more...]