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.eu saw its registrations sink substantially in 2018, largely due to Brexit, which affected its revenue and profit. Registry EURid said yesterday that it was managing 3,684,750 .eu domains at the end of the year, down by 130,305 over the year. It’...
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April 16, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid, financials
KPMG has become the latest company to dump its .com domain in favor of its dot-brand gTLD. The company recently announced that it is now using home.kpmg as its primary web site domain, replacing kpmg.com. The migration appears to be complete already. U...
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April 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dot-brands, kpmg, pwc
Cyprus based registry upstart DotMusic Ltd has confirmed that has secured the rights to the .music gTLD. Founder and CEO Constantinos Roussos tweeted the news overnight. Excited to announce that after more than a decade, DotMusic has prevailed and will...
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April 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dotmusic, piracy
Amazon has switched two thirds of its large portfolio of new gTLDs over to Nominet’s back-end registry services, replacing Neustar. Judging by changes to IANA records this week, Amazon has moved 35 gTLDs to Nominet, leaving 17 at Neustar. A Neust...
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April 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dot-brands
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Italy’s sixth-largest bank, has become the latest new gTLD owner to tell ICANN it no longer wishes to run its dot-brand. It’s the 47th new gTLD to request termination of its registry contract. The affected TLD is...
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April 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.bnl, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Domain Registries, dot-brands
Google won’t be the registry for the .music gTLD. The company, along with pure-play registries Donuts and Radix, late last week withdrew their respective applications from the .music contention set, leaving just three possible winners in the runn...
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April 8, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, dotmusic, far further, mmx
The hard-fought battle for .music appears to be over. I’m not yet in a position to tell you which of the eight applicants for the new gTLD has been successful, but I can tell you some of those who were not. Two applicants have this week withdrawn...
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April 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cpe, Domain Registries, domain venture partners, dotmusic, far further, rfr
Knock Knock Whois There, the WordPress-affiliated .blog registry, said today that it has topped 200,000 names for the first time. The milestone comes after about 28 months of general availability, during which growth has been slow but stable. The compa...
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April 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Automattic, Domain Registries, kkwt, knock knock whois there, wordpress.com
New gTLD registry MMX, aka Minds + Machines, suffered a huge net loss in 2018, largely due to its disastrous .london contract, even while its operating fundamentals improved. For the year, MMX reported a net loss of $12.6 million, compared to a 2017 pr...
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April 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.london, Domain Registries, dpml, financials, london & partners, LP, Minds + Machines, mmx
Portfolio registry Donuts is to jack up prices on most of its 241 gTLDs by up to 9% later this year. Base-rate price increases of between 6% and 9% will his 220 TLDs, while 16 will remain at their current pricing. The increases, which do not affect reg...
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April 2, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries