.Club sold $90,000 in premium domain name sales in February 2016. According to a blog post on it's site, .Club, without any auctions being held during the short month, 17 different registrars and Sedo contributed to a "very respectable Premium Name Sales total of $89,236.65. This brings the total cumulative premium name sales for .CLUB to $3,629,874.44." "During the month of February 2016 … [Read more...]
Chinese Domain Registrar Moves from 72e.Net To 72.Win
According to a press release out today, Foshan DiYong Network Co. Ltd, a domain name registrar in China has decided to change their domain name, from 72e.net to the new gTLD 72.win. .Win is owned and operated by Famous Four Media, and Richard Downs, VP of Sales at Famous Four Media had this to say in the PR: “We are over the moon with the growth of the .WIN domain extension. “We are … [Read more...]
Network Solution Is Stuffing .Design Domains Into Customers Accounts As “Brand Protection”
Network Solutions which stuffed .XYZ domain names into customers account for free, is at it again this time with the new gTLD .Design. Customers of Network Solutions are receiving notices that they are being given a free .Design domain, matching a domain name owned by the customer in a Network Solutions account, under the premise of "Brand Protection" using the "C" word many times; yes … [Read more...]
New gTLD Add Over 1 Million Domain Registrations in Just Last 5 Days
According to ntldstats.com, the number of new gTLD's domain registrations grew by 1.1 million domains, in just the last 5 days. In terms of percentage of increase, the 1.1 million increase in new gTLD domain names, is close to a 9% increase in just 5 days. On February 13th, there were a total of 12,675,000 new gTLD domain names registered. Today on February 18th, ntldstats.com shows the … [Read more...]
Tucows Announces $40 Million Stock BuyBack Program & Is Up Over 8% To $20 A Share
Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) announced after the market closed yesterday "that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program to repurchase from time to time up to $40 million of its common stock in the open market." "The new $40 million buyback program will commence February 10, 2016 and will terminate on or before February 9, 2017. " "The Company’s previous buyback … [Read more...]
.XYZ Says They Just “Blew Past” 2 Million Domain Registrations
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just sent me over a note that the new gTLD .XYZ has "blew past 2 Million domain name registrations". According to ntldstats.com .XYZ was sitting at 1,967,963 domain registrations as of the last zone update, however there has been a huge surge in 6 number .XYZ domain names from China (NNNNNN.xyz) (also known as 6N domains) of over 100,000 domain … [Read more...]
.Law Gets 5K Registrations in 1st 90 days: We Break Down The Numbers
According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the new ".law" and .abogado (Lawyer in Spanish) top-level domains, "announced that .law has successfully completed its first 90 days since general availability having fulfilled more than 5,000 verified registrations, with over 700 premium names including numerous domains which have sold for $100,000 or … [Read more...]