Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq: NAME), today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. Share are up fractionally in aftermarket trading. First Quarter 2015 Financial Highlights Registrar services revenue increased 12% to $42.0 million compared to $37.5 million primarily due to new gTLD registrations, improved performance by existing resellers and the … [Read more...]
What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing
As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible registrations, a lot of trademark infringing registrations and some domain I wish I would have registered. On the horrible side I found the soon … [Read more...]
TheVerge.com Calls Purchase of RandPaul.com For $100K “Ransom”
TheVerge.com is apparently on the Verge of calling anyone who owns a domain name and is looking to sell it a Cybersquatter and somehow is calling on the next President of the United States to outlaw the practice of buying a domain name and selling it. The story is about Rand Paul purchase of RandPaul.com for $100k yesterday calling payment of $100K "Ransom" "Rand Paul's presidential campaign … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: QD.com, Circle.com, HorseRanch.com and More Domains
Welcome to the latest and greatest domain movers where we detect domain names on the move that have been recently acquired, registered or just moving for one reason or another, mainly all by large companies! These are often early detections and lead to new products, brands, services, advertising campaigns and much more. Here we go with the latest, and if you like this series, checkout some … [Read more...]
New gTLD 1st Day Domain Names Totals: .Video 3,271 & .Sale 2,160
Rightside launched two new gTLD domain name extensions into general availability (GA) yesterday .Video and .Sale Including all domain name registered in the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those that paid a higher fee during the Early Access Period (EAP) to register domains before GA .Video wound up with 3,271 domain name registered and .Sale has 2,160 registered domain names. .Video … [Read more...]
Beautiful People Magazine Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BeautifulPeople.com
Beautiful People Magazine, Inc. has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) The Magazine filed a UDRP on five domain names: BeautifulPeople.com BeautifulPeople.net beautifulwomenonly.com gaybeautifulpeople.com beautifulpeoplegay.com The three member panel of Jeffrey M. Samuels Esq., Jonathan Hudis Esq. and Alan L. Limbury Esq. found the Complainant knew … [Read more...]
.Club Celebrates It’s 1st Birthday & You Get The Present: $1 Domains At Godaddy Today Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXGXaTJ-hwQ&feature=youtu.be It's .Club 1 year birthday and in celebration Godaddy.com is offering .Club registrations for just $1 (plus $.18 ICANN Fee) for just today, with no limit (so is Moniker.com) Here is the press release from .club celebrating its birthday: "While much media attention has been focused on the defensive … [Read more...]