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Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) reported earnings after the close. The final .com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2020 was 73.5 percent compared to 73.8 percent for the same quarter in 2019. Financial Highlights Verisign ended the first quarter ...
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April 22, 2021 Raymond Hackney
Domain Registries
InternetNZ has picked the winner in its registry replacement project RFP, which will see it switch the entire .nz back-end to the industry standard EPP protocol by the end of the year. It’s selected the CIRA Registry Platform from Canadian .ca re...
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April 19, 2021 Kevin Murphy
back-end, cira, Domain Registries, epp, internetnz
MMX plans to remove hundreds of thousands of domains from its premium list later this month, and reduce prices on a hundred thousand more. Dubbed The Great Release, the April 23 adjustment will see 725,400 names currently reserved at premium prices rel...
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April 12, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, mmx
Are we about to see our next gTLD registry implosion? ICANN has whacked the company behind .gdn with a breach notice and a threat that it may seize the TLD, after its Whois systems allegedly suffered days of downtime. According to ICANN, .gdn exceeded ...
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April 12, 2021 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, compliance, Domain Registries, ebero, intracom, Navigation-information systems, nis, rdds, Spam
.CLUB Domains CEO Colin Campbell says he’s planning to continue to promote the .club gTLD long after its acquisition by GoDaddy Registry, announced earlier today, closes. The deal was one of several announced last night by GoDaddy, the highlight ...
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April 7, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.club domains, assignment, Clubhouse, Domain Registries
Big news on the registry side of the business. GoDaddy is acquiring .Club, .design and 28 extensions from Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX). .Club has seen a lot of press lately due to Clubhouse and people registering .club domain names for their cl...
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April 7, 2021 Raymond Hackney
Domain Registries
GoDaddy Registry has just announced it is acquiring 28 new gTLDs from rival MMX, along with the TLDs .club and .design. The MMX deal is worth at least $120 million; the value of the other two deals was not disclosed. It’s one of the most signific...
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April 7, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, godaddy registry, mmx
Nominet has been accused of being “tone deaf” to its members’ criticisms after it appointed two staffers to its board of directors and named a recently ousted director as interim CEO. The .uk registry told members last week that Elean...
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April 7, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, egm, Namecheap, publicbenefit.uk
The Electronic Frontier Foundation thinks the acquisition of Donuts by “secretive” private equity group Ethos Capital represents a risk to free speech. The deal, which sees Ethos buy a controlling stake from fellow PE firm Abry Partners, cl...
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April 2, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abry, Domain Registries, eff, ethos
Growing new gTLD portfolio registry ShortDot has acquired another unwanted dot-brand, .sbs, which it intends to repurpose as an open, generic TLD. .sbs was originally owned by SBS, for Special Broadcasting Service, an Australian public-service broadcas...
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March 29, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.cfd, .sbs, assignements, Domain Registries, shortdot