The number of domains registered in new gTLDs slipped again in the first quarter, but it was not as bad as it could have been. Verisign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief, out today, reports that new gTLD domains dropped by 800,000 sequentially ...
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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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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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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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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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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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ICANN has rejected claims that the .sport gTLD contention set was settled by an arbitrator who had undisclosed conflicts of interest with the winning applicant. Its Board Governance Committee last week decided that Community Objection arbitrator Guido Tawil had no duty to disclose his law firm’s ties to major sports broadcasters when he effectively eliminated […]
