The National Rifle Association, which applied to operate the new domain extension .NRA, registered its 1st domain names and we have the list for you. According to their application to ICANN to operate the new gTLD .NRA, "All domains under this TLD will be managed by the NRA, so they will only be made available to organizations and individuals that have been personally approved and … [Read more...]
.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free
The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the "free" Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to … [Read more...]
36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name
fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program from an end user perceptive. "Since May 2015, 2,465 banks have purchased one or more .BANK domain names— signaling their commitment to providing a … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports: 135.2M .Com/.Net Domains, Increase 3.4% : Has $1.9 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $266 million for the third quarter of 2015, up 4.2% from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $92 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the third quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $95 … [Read more...]
DNF.com Has Sold
DNF.com has sold the domain which forwarded to DNForum.com is now owned by a registrant in China. The domain recently stopped forwarding to the forum and was parked at SEDO. The amount is undisclosed. The domain name was registered in 1996. The domain is now registered at the Chinese domain name registrar, ename.com Registrant Contact Name: ZHENGTIANBING Organization: ZHENG … [Read more...]
After Offering $400, Brian Fera Loses UDRP To Grab Two Letter Domain Wi.com
Brian Fera of Heppenheim, Germany, just lost its attempt to grab the two letter .com domain name of Wi.com in a UDRP The domain is owned by Media Options S.A.who was represented by Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC, The three member panel of Tony Willoughby, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. and Thomas Hoeren rejected the Complainant argument that its trademark in the term WICOM entitled it to Wi.com but … [Read more...]
New Study: 88% of Startups Have .Com Domain Names: 41% Are “Invented Names”
A new study out today by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based research firm, whose domain name is Clutch.co, shows that 41% of newer, venture-funded startups have invented names, almost three times the amount of invented names in comparison to other high growth companies. "The influx of invented names could be in response to the desire for a dot-com domain extension. Clutch's data showed that 88% of … [Read more...]