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The old Famous Four Media gTLD portfolio has shrunk by roughly 60% since old management were kicked out. At the same time, the new registry is selling less than one percent of the domains it used to add each month. The 16 TLDs, now managed by GRS Domai...
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May 28, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, domain venture partners, Famous Four Media, ffm, grs domains
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 Two applicants have this week withdrawn...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
The web site of controversial registrar AlpNames has been offline for “days”, and rumors have started to circulate that it might not just a technical problem. At time of writing, alpnames.com resolves to a Cloudflare error page, warning tha...
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March 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, compliance, Domain Registrars, domain venture partners, downtime, dvp, Famous Four Media, ffm, namepros, outages, Spam
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
The leaders of Famous Four Media produced “forged documents” during a lawsuit filed by the company’s former chief operating officer, according to Gibraltar’s top judge. The new gTLD registry’s chairman and CEO were both, a...
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December 28, 2017 Kevin Murphy
alpnames, Domain Registries, domain venture partners, Famous Four Media, ffm, forgery