Rightside (NAME) just published a post about the new gTLD domain name Bloomberg.Market which as we wrote earlier today which led to a huge rally in shares of Twitter and more than 50 million shares being traded today which is more than double its average three-month volume. Within a few hours of our post Rightside shut the domain name down. Rightside, which is the registry for the new gTLD … [Read more...]
Enom.com Wins Rights to Enoms.com Just 15 years After it Was Registered
eNom.com won the rights to the domain name Enoms.com in a UDRP just 15 short years after the domain name was first registered and 8 years after the domain was registered by the current domain holder. By the way you got to love the name of the domain holder "Muhammad Enoms General delivery / ENoms.com has been registered just few days after Enom.com, therefore could not have been regstere" … [Read more...]
.News Sets Record With Of Over 400 Registrations on Day 5 of EAP; Now Over 1,000
The new gTLD .News has set what WE believe is a record number of domain name registrations in Day 5 of AN Early Access Program (EAP) and now has over 1,000 registration. In the Early Access Program registrants pay an extra fee to register a domain name ahead of general availability (GA) where domain names become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. On day 5 the … [Read more...]
.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+
Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that … [Read more...]
From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise Registrations
The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the registry has had in any of its new domain name extensions, just short of 500. Matt Overman of Rightside told TheDomains.com, "out of our entire portfolio of 36 active TLDs, .NEWS had the greatest number of Sunrise registrations, clocking … [Read more...]
Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD’s Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps
Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before "Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains" With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new … [Read more...]
State of Washington Says Domain Registrations Are Subject To Sales Tax
According to a ruling from the State of Washington this week "Internet domain name registration services are generally subject to retail sales or use tax. This article only addresses the initial sale of a domain name by a registrar. The Domain Name System helps users find their way around the Internet. Every computer on the Internet has a unique address, called an Internet Protocol (IP) … [Read more...]