Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry just offered Rightside (NAME) $5 Million dollars cash to buy four of their new gTLD extensions; .Army, .Vet, .Dentist, Dance. The four extensions were uncontested, meaning Rightside did not have to buy them in an auction and got them for the $185,000 application fee per string. The four extensions according to ntldstats.com have a total of less than … [Read more...]
Namejet Increasing Minimum Price on Pending Delete Domains To $69 from $39 Today
I just got an email from Namejet.com that effective sometime today their "promotional pricing" of $39 minimum on backorders on Pending Delete domain names is ending. The new minimum backorder for Pending Delete domains will now be $69. "This is being done as part of a broader initiative to increase our drop-catch efficacy and to improve the overall customer experience on NameJet by better … [Read more...]
Google + 5 Registries Release Domain Test: “Developers Can Test Compatibility with new gTLD’s”
Google registry released a new tool "Domain Test" which is a "tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). " Domain Test was "developed by Google and launched in a partnership between Google Registry and Ausregistry, CentralNic, Donuts, RightSide, and Uniregistry. Domain Test is an open source project available under the Apache … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports Almost $2.8 Million In Sales For February 2016
Namejet.com has posted its February 2016 sales data . In all Namejet.com sold 287 domain names for $2k and above for a total of $2,787,626. To be included in the report the domain must have sold for $2,000 or more and have been paid and closed before the end of the month. Some of the domain names that were sold as part of the Right of the Dot auction at Namescon are included in this … [Read more...]
Rightside Establishes Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise in China & Plans To Be Licensed in 2016
Rightside (NAME) announced today its expanded operations in China by establishing a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). Rightside says that there are almost 90,000 domains registered in the their portfolio of 39 new gTLD's in the Chinese market, with .LIVE, .NEWS, and .PUB being the most popular. There are currently 5.4 million new TLDs registered in China, which represents 45% of all … [Read more...]
Rightside Lays Off “Around 6% of It’s Employees”
I received several reports over the weekend that Rightside (NAME) laid off some of its work staff late last week. I reached out to Taryn Naidu CEO of Rightside who had the following statement: ""In an effort to lower the overall cost structure and realign our resources on more strategic parts of our business, we made a difficult decision to layoff around six percent of our employees last … [Read more...]
Rightside Adds Short New gTLD’s With Normal Renewals To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Rightside® (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that it will be participating in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference that will be held next Monday, January 11th at 2PM EST. All domain names carry a normal renewal fee for the relevant extension, None carry a premium renewal fee. In keeping with the recent boom of 1, 2, and 3-character second-level domain … [Read more...]