.Club announced today on its blog, that they had a record-setting month in November selling $1,622,164.13 in premium domain names. In all .Club sold 326 premium domains in November. .Club continues to be fully transparent in its sales activities: November was a record-breaking month for both regular .CLUB registrations and premium name sales. It was our first month with more than $1 … [Read more...]
Is Amazon.com Getting into The Ticket Biz? Checkout These 3 New Domain Registrations
Amazon.com registered three very interesting domain names yesterday that may indicate a new business for the company. Amazon registered the domain names AmazonConcerts.com & AmazonConcertTickets.com and AmazonTheaterTickets.com yesterday through the brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMonitor.com. This might indicate that Amazon might be getting into the ticket … [Read more...]
Namecheap Holding Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale With “$10 Million in Savings”
Namecheap, a leading ICANN-accredited domain registrar and web hosting company, announced their major annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale. The two-day event offers over $10 million in savings and the lowest prices available for the year. Customers can save big not only on domain names and hosting, but SSLs, website builders, email hosting, and more. Rick Kirkendall, Namecheap CEO is quoted in … [Read more...]
There Are Now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars
During remarks made at the 54th ICANN Meeting being held in Dublin, Akram Atallah, the President of the Global Domain Domains Division of ICANN stated that there are now 2,121 ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrars in the world. ICANN has accredited 579 domain name registrars just since the last ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires 53, which was held June 21-25, 2015. ICANN has also dropped the … [Read more...]
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD's At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don't see on a website of one the largest corporation's on earth: … [Read more...]
Godaddy Wins 5 Year Case Against The Oscars (Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS)
According to Variety.com, A federal judge ruled that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) which owns and broadcast the The Oscars award failed to show that GoDaddy (GDDY) acted in “bad faith” with an intent to profit off of the Academy trademarks. U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr., in a 128-page opinion found that GoDaddy met its affirmative good faith safe harbor … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Ranks No. 1 In .IN Domain Name Market Share For With 33% Of Registrar Market
http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/godaddy-ranks-no-1-in-domain-name-market-share/45089, Godaddy the worlds largest domain name registrar has the highest market share for selling .IN domain names, according to the National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi). .IN is India’s Country Code Top Level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet. The domain name extension .IN, "is seeing significant … [Read more...]