Kieren McCarthy published a post yesterday entitled "The Great British domain name rip-off: Overcharged .uk customers help pay for cheaper .vodka; Time for competition authorities to take a hard look at Nominet" Here are some of the highlights of the story ".UK domain name holders are being overcharged while the company behind it wins contracts by undercutting the market in what may be illegal … [Read more...]
Rightside Launches .Games & Shares Rise Over 5%
Rightside Group LTD (NASDAQ: NAME) launched the .GAMES domain extension today. The Sunrise Phase where trademark holders could preregister names, .GAMES became Rightside’s number-one performing new top level-domain (TLD), seeing applications from virtually every major studio, including Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Nintendo, and Ubisoft … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Starts Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry Domains
On Thursday Frank Schilling North Sound Names started to delete the registrations for the approximately 230,000 domain names it registered in Uniregistry new gTLD extensions. Yesterday over 100,000 domain names owned by North Sound Names in Uniregistry strings were deleted. About a month ago Uniregistry announced it would be releasing over 1,000,000 domain names it had reserved and … [Read more...]
Verisign: As Of June 30 There Are 334.6 Million Domains In The World; Up 12.9% From Last Year
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 334.6 million across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2016. The increase of approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations globally equates to a … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Minds + Machines Lost Registrations Result of Registry Deletions Not Non-Renewals
Yesterday we reported that Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) lost on average around 30% of its registrations in 13 of its new gTLD's due to non-renewal. Today we were informed by Minds + Machines that the deleted domain names were not the result of non-renewals; but was the result of Minds + Machines "unwinding its Emerald Names initiative and moving premium inventory back into the retail channel that … [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...]