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CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20%

December 8, 2015 by Michael Berkens

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...]

Judge In 1st Verisign vs. XYZ Case Publishes 15 Page Opinion

November 20, 2015 by Michael Berkens

The federal judge CLAUDE M. HILTON who granted a summary judgement in favor of .XYZ and Daniel Negari last month throwing Verisign's case for false advertising out, today handed down a 15 page Memorandum Opinion supporting the summary judgement decision and of course its very interesting. Here are the highlights: THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Defendants XYZ.COM, LLC and Daniel Negari … [Read more...]

XYZ & Negari Beats Verisign In Federal Court, Again: CentralNic Too

November 20, 2015 by Michael Berkens

.XYZ has just won another court battle against Verisign (VRSN). Back three weeks ago a Federal Court dismissed a case brought by Verisign against XYZ.com,  the registry for .XYZ and Daniel Negari personally alleging  false advertising by granting XYZ and Negari a short summary judgement opinion. Now in a second case in Verisign sued XYZ.COM, DANIEL NEGARI and CentralNic,  which is the … [Read more...]

.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free

October 23, 2015 by Michael Berkens

The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the "free" Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to … [Read more...]

Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start

October 9, 2015 by Michael Berkens

We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD's At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don't see on a website of one the largest corporation's on earth: … [Read more...]


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