With all the news around GoDaddy ( NYSE: GDDY ) acquiring Name Administration Inc, and Uniregistry. There was some of the back and forth between .commers and new gtld fans. Some made comments saying see GoDaddy did not want the registry business because they are not high on new gtlds. That's not true, they made a decision years ago not to compete. They make money in other ways from new … [Read more...]
GoDaddy acquiring Uniregistry and Name Administration
The first blockbuster deal of the decade. Something that someone predicted to me who had no knowledge over the holiday season. I was having a conversation day after Christmas and someone said to me, "I bet you GoDaddy buys Uniregistry" I said why, they thought with Schilling not as high profile anymore that he would sell out. GoDaddy stock currently 69.89 USD +0.47 (0.68%) GoDaddy is not … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Starts Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry Domains
On Thursday Frank Schilling North Sound Names started to delete the registrations for the approximately 230,000 domain names it registered in Uniregistry new gTLD extensions. Yesterday over 100,000 domain names owned by North Sound Names in Uniregistry strings were deleted. About a month ago Uniregistry announced it would be releasing over 1,000,000 domain names it had reserved and … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Owns 40K+ .XYZ Domains & They Were Registered A While Ago
There were a several comments on our blog posts on .XYZ over the last few days raising the issue of whether Frank Schilling owns .XYZ domain names in his portfolio, with several commentators citing the fact the he does not even own the domain FrankSchilling.xyz (that domain name was registered yesterday to a company in the Cayman's). So I gave Mr Schilling a call last night to see how many .XYZ … [Read more...]
Schilling’s North Sound Names Is No Longer The Top Registrant of New gTLD’s
Frank Schilling's North Sound Names has been the largest registrant of new gTLD domain names for about as long as ntldstats has been tracking registrants. However North Sound Names has been knocked off from the top spot by West263 company out of China According to ntldstats, North Sound Names owns has just over 230,000 new gTLD domain names. "West263 Company" is the registrant of 253,459 … [Read more...]
.Auto .Car, .Cars Get 1st day Registrations at $60K Per Domain
The 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) opened up yesterday for the new gTLD's .Auto, .Car and .Cars with day 1 prices set at $59,049.99 for each domain name at Godaddy and there appears to have been some takers at that price. NEXTEV USA, Inc registered the domain names on January 12th: nextev.car we.car NEXTEV USA seems to be the US operations of a Planned Chinese car manufacture … [Read more...]
1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com’s At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction
Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th. Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet. Over the years I'm not sure if Frank has ever put up any of his privately owned .Com domain names in auction with no reserve. According to Estibot.com these … [Read more...]