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ICANN says no sale on .org

April 30, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Miracles do happen ICANN get's it right on Dot Org The ICANN board announced that Ethos Capital will not acquire the PIR Registry. Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN. Full announcement Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change … [Read more...]

Radix Temporarily Waives Off Domain Restoration Fee

April 28, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Radix (an advertiser here) is temporarily waiving the restore fee on all their strings. This is being supported by 75 registrars who have enrolled in the program. Here is the full release In an effort to reduce customer burden on domain-related spending during current market conditions, we are supporting a temporary waiver on the Restore Fee for all Radix TLDs. This waiver is in effect … [Read more...]

GoDaddy buying Neustar’s registry business

April 6, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY), announced they will acquire the registry business of Neustar. The company shares were up 12.96% in regular trading. GDDYGoDaddy Inc.58.82+6.75+12.96% Back when GoDaddy withdrew their appliaction for .home they noted: It was noted that it was withdrawing its applications to focus on its core registrar business, thereby removing competition with competitive … [Read more...]

Verisign reports earnings, com/net renewals were 75% in Q2

October 25, 2018 by Raymond Hackney

Verisign reported earnings for third quarter 2018, revenue was $306 million for the third quarter of 2018, up 4.6 percent from the same quarter in 2017. Verisign reported net income of $138 million and diluted earnings per share (diluted “EPS”) of $1.13 for the third quarter of 2018, compared to net income of $115 million and diluted EPS of $0.93 for the same quarter in 2017. The operating … [Read more...]

Google Did .APP Differently; Gets just Over 500 Registration On Day 5 Of EAP: Here’s Our Take

May 6, 2018 by Michael Berkens

Google launched the new gTLD .App into the Early Access Program (EAP) this week and the results I believe are unlike any previous major new gTLD launch.  .App went into day 1 of the Early Access Program (EAP) on Tuesday allowing early registration of domains for a one time extra fee.  Fees as always vary by registrar but day 1 pricing was around $12,000 for the EAP fee plus the cost of … [Read more...]

Google’s New Domain Extension .APP Gets Over 1,300 Registrations On Day 4; Now Almost $3.5 M In EAP Fees

May 6, 2018 by Michael Berkens

Google’s new .App domain extension is off to a huge start. After posting over 3,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was open to just to trademark holders; .APP generated over $1.7 Million in Early Access (EAP) Fees in its first 2 days and added over 700 registrations in day 3 of EAP. The prices vary by registrar but using $1,100 as a day 3 EAP cost, Google’s EAP haul after 3 days … [Read more...]

Google’s New Domain .APP Gets Over 700 More Registrations In Day 3; Now Over $2.5 Million In Just Early Access Fees

May 4, 2018 by Michael Berkens

Google's new  .App domain extension looks like a big winner. After posting over 3,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was open to just to trademark holders; .APP generated over $1.7 Million in Early Access (EAP) Fees in its first 2 days and added over 700 registrations in day 3 of EAP. The prices varies by registrar but using $1,100 as a day 3 EAP amount puts Google's EAP haul … [Read more...]

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