Today CentralNic, formally announced its plans for a September IPO on the AIM Market (“AIM”) of the London Stock Exchange. "CentralNic is a registry service provider which supports top level domains (“TLDs” such as .la) and second level domains (“SLDs” such as .uk.com), distributing and powering domain names that end with those TLDs and SLDs, such as www.artweek.la and … [Read more...]
Demand Media Reports: Revenue Up 9%; Registrar Revenue Up 4% Without Name.com + 10% With
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD),reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013. Q2 2013 Financial Summary: Content & Media revenue ex-TAC grew 9% year-over-year. This was driven primarily by 15% Owned & Operated revenue growth, which slowed sequentially from 26% year-over-year growth in Q1 2013, due primarily to traffic declines from lower search engine … [Read more...]
Godaddy To Rebrand .La Domain Names & Market Them In Los Angeles
According to The LA Times, GoDaddy, will kick off a marketing campaign Monday to re-brand .LA as the Web suffix for Los Angeles after partnering with CentralNic, the company that handles the database for .the .LA ccTLD. .LA is the ccTLD for Laos. Godaddy and CentralNic are apparently taking the upcoming new gTLD launch as an opportunity to re-brand .LA in the same light as other … [Read more...]
Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Owns Over 5% Of Verisign
Back In February we told you that Warren Buffets's Berkshire Hathaway purchased 3,685,700 shares of Verisign (VRSN) which at the time of acquisition represented an investment of around $165 Million dollars. Today according to Cnbc.com, Berkshire Hathaway added another 4.49 million shares last quarter and now owns 5.35% of VeriSign. ""While the introduction of a new category of "top level … [Read more...]
.CO To Launch IDN’s In Chinese, Japanese and Korean on April 15th
According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal trademark sunrise, landrush period or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages. "With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and … [Read more...]
Breaking: AdamsNames Operators Of .TC, .GD & .VC: “Key-Systems Highjacked Our Site”
We received two responses overnight to our story yesterday in which we told you that AdamsNames.com which operates the ccTLD's .TC, .GD & .VC had been hacked and its back end provider Key-Systems "locked the registry down" to proect it. However in the responses that we received from Adamsnames.com today one of which is in the form of an open letter to the Internet Community; they tell … [Read more...]
.Pw Gets Its 100th & 101st Registrar: NetworkSolutions & Register.com
Network Solutions and Register.com, Web.com brands, 2 of the world’s top 10 registrars became .PW Registry’s 100th and 101st accredited partners respectively today. According to a press release that we received today, ".PW – the Professional Web, has partnered with industry giants like eNom, Key-Systems, ResellerClub, Gandi, Name.com, Ascio and many more. With 100 registrars aggressively … [Read more...]