I didn’t write much leading up to the Verisign (VRSN) acquisition of .Web for $135 Million this week, but I have plenty of thoughts on the subject. First and foremost it’s a…
Category: Rightside
Donuts Offers To Buy All Of Rightside new gTLD’s For $70 Million Cash
Donuts Inc., publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s (NAME) entire registry of generic top-level domains (gTLDs, also known as domain extensions) and related assets for $70 million in an…
Rightside Hits 52 Week High on 10X It’s Average Volume
Share of Rightside (NAME) hit a 52 week high today on big volume. Shares closed at $9.31 + $.23 as shares hit a 52 week intra-day high of $9.51 on 265,271. The…
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Group 3,445; .Salon 364
Donuts released two new gTLD’s into General Availability yesterday (GA) when domains could be registered on a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including all domain registrations during the Sunrise Period for trademark…
Rightside Explains Premium Domains & How They Sold 675+ @ $1K a Year; & $5M+
Drew Macpherson who says he is the head of the Premium Team at Rightside (NAME) explains Rightside definition of a Premium mew gTLD domain and the various levels they have. In the…
Rightside Gets .Games Will Launch in 3Q; Uniregistry Launching .Game This Week (Sunrise)
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016, starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Donuts was the sole…
Hexonet Launching Backorder Service For Dropping Donuts & Rightside New gTLD’s Domains
The domain name registrar Hexonet just announced they are starting a backorder service for dropping new gTLD domain names starting on May 1st for Donuts and Rightside strings. Prices vary by the…