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DomainTools Continues To Systematicall...
In a reply brief filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week, New Zealand's Domain Name Commission has accused DomainTools of continuing to harvest the personal data of .nz domain name registrants from WHOIS Records and offering this data to anyone with a credit card, thereby systematically violating the DNC's terms of use. The reply notes how DomainTools has continually abused the ToU, despite repeated correspondence from the DNC advising them so and a pre
Escrow.com Has Bumper 2018 With 57 Gro...
Today we have another instalment in our Q&A series, this time with Escrow.com. Escrow.com had a bumper year in 2018, with a 57% increase in domain transactions, but this was slightly tempered by the scammers and fraudsters online, while the 'the regulatory environment is growing more complicated and challenging every day.' Looking forward, Escrow.com is aiming to 'build the best online escrow service in the world. One of the greatest opportunities Escrow.c
Verisign 2018 Financial Results Reveal...
Verisign reported their fourth quarter and full year 2018 financial results Thursday which showed 153.0 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 4.5% increase and a net increase of 1.29 million registrations in the 12 months to the end of 2018.While Verisign doesn't break down .com and .net registrations in their financial results, in their latest Domain Name Industry Brief for the third quarter 2018, where there were 151.7 mi
PIRs New CEO Jon Nevett Discusses .ORG...
In December 2018 the Public Interest Registry appointed Jon Nevett as their President and CEO. Today he's taking part in the Domain Pulse Q&A series. Jon discusses how the GDPR was the biggest thing to hit the domain name industry in 2018, saying it 'emerged in 2018 as a highlight, a challenge and an opportunity for the domain industry.' It had a particular impact on .org registrants with many smaller .orgs having fewer staff and resources to deal with th
New .EU and . Registrations Continue t...
There were 171,667 new .eu and .?? domain name registrations in the fourth quarter of 2018, but despite this growth, total domains under management decreased from 3,747,879 as of 31 October to 3,684,750 at 31 December according to EURid's Q4 2018 Progress Report released last week.Portugal, Norway and Cyprus, as in the third quarter of 2018, were again the countries with the highest growth with 13.2%, 9.1% and 4.9% respectively for the fourth quarter (11.0
Bitcoin GDPR Chinese Economy New gTLDs...
The domain name investor side of the industry is the focus of today's Domain Pulse Q&A where Giuseppe Graziano gives his views on the year just gone, the year ahead, GDPR and the relevance of domain names. On 2018, Graziano says the EU's GDPR had less impact than expected, but overall for investors its impact was slightly negative, while bitcoin is starting to impact on investors. For Graziano's GGRG, 2018 was a 'transition year' with some high value tran