CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release "the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering." According to the press release Instra in the year to June 30 posted … [Read more...]
Census.com, In Last Namescon Auction Sells To Mark Monitor Client
The domain name Census.com which was in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon in January 2015, just sold to a Mark Monitor client as the whois information changed yesterday. The domain name Census.com was one of my favorite picks from that auction. The domain name had a auction reserve of between $100,001 - $250,000 It will be interesting to see who wound up buying this … [Read more...]
.Global Is Giving Away A Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.Global Was The 1st
.Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas. The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won! You need to enter the contest each day for a chance to win the domain name for that day. Today's free … [Read more...]
Radix: .ONLINE Fastest New gTLD to Sell 100,000 Domains
Radix the registry for .ONLINE announced today that .Online is the fastest gTLD to sell 100,000 domains names since their launch less than 3 months ago. After a very successful launch which broke all new gTLD records with 38,000 domain names registered in the first 24 hours of General Availability, .online surpassed 100,000 domain registrations this morning. The 100,000th domain to be … [Read more...]
CentralNic Passes 2 Million Registrations of New gTLD
CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names. Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names. The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+ is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names. CentralNic passed … [Read more...]
RightofTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Is Opened for Submissions
RightoftheDot.com is holding a live and online auction with Namejet.com from the Namescon conference. RightoftheDot.com has now formally opened up submission for the auction. We are looking for great domain names, especially one word .com and new gTLD'sm along with short domains in all extensions, along with brand domains, category killers, Geographic domains. Domains should have a low … [Read more...]
36% Of All US Banks Have Purchased a .Bank Domain Name
fTLD Registry the operator for .Bank announced today that 36% of U.S. banks have purchased a .BANK domain name and many are planning as using them for their online banking operations making .Bank the first break out success of the new gTLD program from an end user perceptive. "Since May 2015, 2,465 banks have purchased one or more .BANK domain names— signaling their commitment to providing a … [Read more...]