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.CLUB Domains had $7.2 million of revenue in 2017. That’s according to Inc magazine, which ranked the company at 1164th in its 2018 Inc 5000 list of the fastest-growing US-based companies. Growth over three years for .CLUB, which is listed as hav...
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August 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.club domains, Domain Registries
Telecity Group, which used to be a major London-based internet collocation facilities operator, has told ICANN it no longer wishes to run its dot-brand gTLD. .telecity will become the 38th dot-brand gTLD to terminate its registry agreement. The company...
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August 15, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.telecity, Domain Registries, dot-brands, equinix, telecity group
American insurance giant Allstate has dumped one of its two dot-brand gTLDs. The company, which had $38.5 billion revenue in 2017, has told ICANN it no longer wishes to run .goodhands, which is a partial match to its long-time “Are you in good ha...
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August 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.goodhands, Allstate, Domain Registries, dot-brands
Famous Four Media’s portfolio of gTLDs is under new management after an investor rebellion, contrary to what I speculated earlier this week. FFM’s stable, which includes the likes of .men and .science, is now being managed by a company call...
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August 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, Domain Registries, domain venture partners, engineers gate, Famous Four Media, ffm, global registry services, grs domains
Famous Four Media’s portfolio of gTLD registries is now under the control of a new company, Global Registry Services Ltd, which has promised to abandon its failed penny-domain strategy and crack down on spam. The company, which goes by the name G...
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August 7, 2018 Kevin Murphy
bankrupcty, Domain Registries, domain venture partners, dvp, Famous Four Media, ffm, global registry services, grs, grs domains, insolvency
Minds + Machines has abandoned plans to launch .luxe as a gTLD for luxury goods and instead made a deal to sell it as an address for cryptocurrency wallets. If you thought it was a silly move marketing .ws as meaning “web site” or .pw as &#...
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August 3, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.luxe, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Domain Registries, ens, ETH, Ethereum, ethereum name service, Minds + Machines, mmx
Membership votes of the Australian ccTLD registry auDA could now essentially be captured by just two companies, potentially including new back-end provider Afilias, according to data from a disgruntled former director. According to Josh Rowe’s an...
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July 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
arq, auda, crazydomains, Domain Registries, dreamscape, grumpier
It seems China’s Draconian licensing program for TLD registries is not limited to foreigners. Chinese internet giant Baidu on Friday became the latest new gTLD registry operator to get the nod to run a TLD by the Ministry of Industry and Informat...
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July 24, 2018 Kevin Murphy
baidu, Domain Registries, dot-brands, miit
Switch, the Swiss ccTLD registry, has started publishing a monthly list of the .ch domains with the most DNS traffic, a list that Switch itself currently tops. The list ranks the top 1,000 .ch domains by the number of DNS resolvers that have queried th...
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July 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Com Laude, Domain Registries
Mike Texas is in fact noted conspiracy theorist Mike Adams. New gTLD registry Donuts confirmed with DI over the weekend that the buyer of six figures worth of “platinum” .news domain names used a fake name. The company last week said that a...
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July 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, fake news, natural news, webseed