Tucows has a banner year and discusses rising aftermarket domain sale prices. Today Tucows reported record quarterly revenue of $26.4 million for the last quarter. That’s the seventh record revenue quarter in a row for the company. The company posted $97 million in revenue for the year; a record. Here are some other interesting facts ...
Domain names ‘can assist business growth’ Tuesday 14th February 2012 The process of selecting a domain name is “a vital step” in the growth of any new business, it has been claimed. Thomas Darré Medard Frederiksen, chief operating officer at One.com, said domain names can help broaden a company’s reach on the web if they ...
Company has more money to apply for top level domains. Publicly traded Top Level Domain Holdings Limited has added £9,031,139 (US $14.2 million) to to its war chest to go after the top level domain market, the company announced today. Top Level Domain Holdings owns Minds + Machines. The placement will be used for working ...
PING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to an trademark application for .Ping. It was filed by Karsten Manufacturing, which owns the PING line of golf products. Although the USPTO has a policy of not ...
I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But after an exhaustive analysis of 115 trademark applications, I’ve actually found that the U.S.P.T.O. is mostly on top of things when ...
NGOs and communities can apply for reduced fees for TLD even if the string represents a trademark. ICANN has relaxed a restriction on trademark top level domain names qualifying for its applicant support program for needy applicants. An updated guidebook for the program was released today. In the first public iteration of the plan, TLDs ...
Protests about the pending worldwide expansion of top-level domain names have picked up as the Jan. 12 rollout date approaches. Lawrence Strickling, a U.S. Department of Commerce official, weighed in with a Jan. 3 letter to the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which approved the upcoming expansion last June. As of the ...
Lawrence Strickling, the Commerce Department’s assistant secretary for communications and information, urged the Internet Corporation Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to rethink its plan to allow for new domain-name endings in a letter on Tuesday. “In meetings we have held with industry over the past weeks, we have learned that there is ...