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 ...
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 ...
FTC says adding just 22 new TLDs would be “aggressive”. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent a letter (pdf) to ICANN asking it to significantly curtail its plans for new top level domain names. The FTC believes the mass introduction of new top level domains will lead to more fraud on the internet including ...
The Federal Trade Commission in a Friday letter urged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to rethink its plan to allow for new domain-name endings, warning that the current plan could harm consumers and hamper law enforcement. “If ICANN fails to address these issues responsibly, the introduction of new [generic top-level domains] ...
Advertisement A coalition fighting the new scheme for adding domain names to the Internet has announced the addition of a large number of companies and associations to its ranks, giving a bigger voice to the lobbying effort in Washington. To date, 87 major national and international business associations have joined with the Association of National ...
Web addresses are about to get a major facelift, and small companies could see higher costs, and few gains, when a flood of new online domains take effect. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [ICANN] is pushing forward with its plan to add as many as 1,000 new top-level domains to the familiar line-up of ...
Ready to pour $185,000 into nailing down your E-Commerce site’s domain name all over again? Starting in January 2012, retailers will be able to apply for new top-level domains (TLDs) that will give them Internet addresses that end with their brand—.macys instead of macys.com, for example. But on October 21, the National Retail Federation (NRF) ...
Have a Spare Half Million? Get Your Own Domain Name! With just 85 days to go until you can get your very own top-level domain name, Web registry CentralNic has launched a service for the more…discerning buyers. ICANN, the international organization that sets the rules for domain names, approved new top-level domains in June, allowing ...