Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) announced after the market closed yesterday "that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program to repurchase from time to time up to $40 million of its common stock in the open market." "The new $40 million buyback program will commence February 10, 2016 and will terminate on or before February 9, 2017. " "The Company’s previous buyback … [Read more...]
.XYZ Says They Just “Blew Past” 2 Million Domain Registrations
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just sent me over a note that the new gTLD .XYZ has "blew past 2 Million domain name registrations". According to ntldstats.com .XYZ was sitting at 1,967,963 domain registrations as of the last zone update, however there has been a huge surge in 6 number .XYZ domain names from China (NNNNNN.xyz) (also known as 6N domains) of over 100,000 domain … [Read more...]
.Law Gets 5K Registrations in 1st 90 days: We Break Down The Numbers
According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the new ".law" and .abogado (Lawyer in Spanish) top-level domains, "announced that .law has successfully completed its first 90 days since general availability having fulfilled more than 5,000 verified registrations, with over 700 premium names including numerous domains which have sold for $100,000 or … [Read more...]
CENTR Reports There Are 311.5 Million Domains In The World
According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world. 158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD's including .com, .net and .org; 140.1 million are ccTLD's (country codes), 1.6 Million are IDN ccTLD's, and 10.9 Million are New gTLD's. The CENTR writes: "In absolute … [Read more...]
AlpNames overtakes GoDaddy As The 2nd Largest New gTLD Domain Registrar
According to ntldstats.com, AlpNames has just overtaken GoDaddy in terms of the number of new gTLD domain names under management. According to ntldstats.com AlpNames.com has 1,016,800 new gTLD's under management while Godaddy has new gTLD's 1,005,071. Alpnames was founded in 2013 in order to provide registrar services under the new gTLD program. AlpNames has a 8.81% of the new gTLD … [Read more...]
Google Adds abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com to its Collection Of Alphabet Domains
Google has just added another "Alphabet" domain name to its collection buying the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com. The domain name was most recently owned by the The Giardino Law Firm, Inc of San Antonio and by a domainer in Tennessee before that. The domain has an original creation date of 2003. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its … [Read more...]
Com Laude published its 3rd Report “Gazetteer of Domain Names”
Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries from .AAA to .ZUERICH as well as legacy gTLDs (.COM, .ORG, .NET, etc.) and all 300+ Country Code registries (.uk, .de, .fr, … [Read more...]