Company diversifies revenue stream with Microsoft deal. Domain name and online advertising company rollup CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) released news this morning. First, on the earnings front, the company expects to report $194.9 revenue for Q1 ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Epik threatens to sue Rob Monster, publicly asks him to resign
· Domain RegistrarsCompany tweets complaints about the company's former CEO, asks him to resign, and threatens to sue him. Epik's Twitter account has been inactive since Rob Monster left the company in September 2022. It's back and with a message for the company's ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Epik sued over misuse of funds
· Domain RegistrarsMan says company owes him over $300,000. A man has sued (pdf) domain name registrar Epik, its Masterbucks entity, former CEO Rob Monster, and current CEO Brian Royce after the company failed to return his funds in an escrow transaction. Matthew ... Continue Reading15 Comments
CentralNic’s annual report outlines big strategic shift
· Domain RegistrarsCompany plans to harvest some of its free cash flow. CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) published its annual report (pdf) this week. The rollup of domain name and traffic monetization companies is entering a new phase with a new CEO, and three things stuck out ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
GoDaddy gets patent for AI-based domain valuation
· Domain RegistrarsIt's one of many patents the company owns related to domain appraisals. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has been awarded U.S. Patent number 11,615,313 (pdf) for "Using a value for a domain name determined by a machine learning engine." Here's how the ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Gandi nixes free lifetime email with domain registrations
· Domain RegistrarsCompany will start charging for email beyond the first year of registration. Total Web Solutions acquired domain registrar Gandi this month to form a new entity called Your.Online. Its first order of business: generating more revenue by eliminating ... Continue Reading3 Comments
.Com winners: Gname hops into top 10 largest by .com DUMs
· Domain RegistrarsHere are the biggest and fastest-growing domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers November 2022. Gname ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Total Web Solutions acquires domain registrar Gandi, forming new entity
· Domain RegistrarsGandi will now be part of Your.Online. Domain name registrar Gandi is part of a new corporate entity. Officially, Gandi and Total Web Solutions (TWS) "merged" to create Your.Online. As part of the deal, Gandi.net will remain autonomous, ... Continue Reading3 Comments
CentralNic posts unaudited financials and claims to be an AI company
· Domain RegistrarsEveryone's an AI company now. Sometimes I feel like CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) releases its earnings the same way I was taught to write an essay in school: first, explain what you're going to write. Then write it. Then explain what you just ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
.Com leaderboard: Gname and GMO make moves
· Domain RegistrarsHere are the biggest and fastest-growing domain name registrars for .com domains. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers October 2022. Gname ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment