The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry. Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to get first jump at new gTLD domain names to get registered in Sunrise ahead of all other under common words like "the" Actually there maybe no … [Read more...]
One Week Before The Super Bowl; Wow Check Out What’s On Houston.com
Super Bowl 51 is being played in Houston Texas a week from today and just went to Houston.com to see what was going on in town around the game and found a pretty big surprise: So the biggest sporting event in the country is coming next week with all the tourism, concerts, parties that comes long with the Super Bowl and Houston.com has just "Coming Soon" up? According to Screenshots.com … [Read more...]
CENTR Report: 309.4 Million Domains At End of 2016
DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report published its CENTR’s quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). At the end of Q4 2016 there were 309.4 million domain names across all top-level domains (TLDs) globally. Net growth over the quarter was around 1.03 million (0.3%) - a large decrease compared … [Read more...]
.Club Announces New Broker Program & Financing Plans For 2017: Sells Nearly $1 Million in Premium Domains In 2016
.Club announced today New Broker Program & Financing Plans for 2017, while reporting its Premium .Club Name sales for 2016 and detailed sales information for the Q4 of 2016. As for the Premium Domain name Sales for 2016: "During 2016 nearly 2,000 premium .CLUB names were sold, via auctions, through the registrar channel and aftermarket platforms, and directly by the Registry, … [Read more...]
Rightside Sells Enom to Tucows For $76.7 Million Cash
Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME), today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of eNom to Tucows Inc. (TCX) for $83.5 million, less a net working capital adjustment of $6.8 million, resulting in net cash at closing of $76.7 million. eNom has approximately 14.5 million domains under management and generated approximately $116.5 million in revenue through Q3 2016, primarily … [Read more...]
.Com Registrations Back Over 127 Million
According to Verisign the number of .Com domain names in the Domain Name Base are back over 127 million after dropping below that number briefly in December. It seems that the huge domain registration volume that occurred in the 4Q of 2015 have now recycled through. Those domain names that were dropped after the first year of registration have now dropped and its back to business as … [Read more...]
FakeNews.com Vs Fake.News Both Asking Six Figures Who You Got?
Well the hottest topic of the week and one of hot issues coming out of the election season is "Fake News". The topic does not seem to be going away anytime soon We made contact in the last couple of days with the representatives of the domain name FakeNews.com as well as the new gTLD domain name Fake.News. The response I received from the representative of FakeNews.com after filling out … [Read more...]