Investors in VeriSign may not know much about domain names, but they sure didn't like the appellate courts ruling on Friday, allowing the suit against VeriSign to continue. (We told you in the post its was a big deal). Share of VeriSign closed at $19.90 a share down over 14%, after hitting a intraday low of $19.46. Over 20 million shares traded hands on Monday, the first trading day after … [Read more...]
Appeals Court Reverses & Allows Suit Against Verisign To Go To Trial: This Is A BIG Deal
A lawsuit was filed in 2005 over the no bid, VeriSign contract, with ICANN which gave VeriSign a monopoly to administer the .com and .net registries., by the Coalition for ICANN Transparency (“CFIT”). Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, reversed the lower court, and allowed the case to proceed against VeriSign, in the case of: CFIT v. VERISIGN, INC. The court … [Read more...]
Hate UDRP’s: Say Hello To Something Much Worse, The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS): Get Ready To Lose Your Domains
Trademark holders, unhappy with UDRP's, a system under which they already have over a 85% win rate, formed a group, The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), which was given committee status by ICANN's Intellectual Property Constituency "to give additional protection to trademark holders in the implementation of new gTLDs". If you want to see a list of members of the IRT click here. The … [Read more...]
How Accurate Is Alexa.org?
We all seem to rely on web ranking services, in valuing domains we are looking to acquire and one of the tools many domainers use, including myself, is Alexa.org Alexa.org basically uses the information from those who have downloaded its toolbar (and specifically allowed Alexa to use the info) as a sample of Internet usage and than ranks sites by estimated traffic based off those users. I … [Read more...]
HitWise: Paid Search Down 26%
The research firm, HitWise is reporting a record drop in Paid search advertising over the last few weeks. HitWise reports that the share of search traffic to websites generated from paid listings has dropped to about 7.25% over the four weeks ending May 9th, down from 9.8% during the same period a year ago, representing a decline of 26%. """This trend is apparent across 16 of the 17 Hitwise … [Read more...]
VeriSign: Domain Growth “Better Than Expected” up 9%
VeriSign in reporting its quarterly earnings issued today, had some interesting comments regarding registration and renewal rates for the 1st quarter of 2009 and some predictions for the next quarter. Here are some comments from their report: ""VeriSign saw better than expected growth with for registered names in dot-com and dot-net, totaling 92.4 million names at the end of the quarter. … [Read more...]
The Fastest Way To Register A Domain? TweetName.com: Lets You Register Your Domain Through Twitter
Tech Crunch just published a post about TweetName, the service that lets you register any .com, .net, org or .biz, by just sending a Tweet. ""Once you log into Tweetname for the first time, the site uses OAuth to connect to your Twitter account. You fill out your credentials, including name, address, credit card info, billing info and then Tweetname automatically follows you and arranges for … [Read more...]