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NamesCon opens registration for January virtual event

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Early bird tickets are now available for online event.

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Registration is now open for NamesCon Online 2021.

The virtual event will take place January 27-29, 2021. This is about the same time that the in-person event was scheduled. Like many events, the raging pandemic has pushed the event online.

NamesCon held a virtual event in September that received generally high marks. Some of the benefits of virtual events vs. in-person events are that they are cheaper to attend, it’s easier to visit the sessions, and networking can be more fruitful.

Early bird registration through November 30 is $59, at which point the price will increase to $79.

NamesCon is also accepting session pitches for the event.

Verisign reports earnings, 10.9 million new .com/.net registrations

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Versign reports earnings, including a strong quarter for new registrations.

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Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the domain name registry for .com and .net domain names, announced third quarter earnings after the market closed today.

Revenue was up 3.1% year-over-year to $318 million. The company’s topline generally moves slowly but should spike next year as it implements a 7% price hike on .com domain names.

Profit increased from $154 million in Q3 2019 to $171 million in Q3 2020, aided by a $24 million income tax benefit. This suggests that profit would have actually decreased without the tax benefit. It will be interesting to see the P&L when it’s published.

The quarter ended with 163.7 million .com and .net domain names under management, up 4% year-over-year, and up by 1.65 million domains quarter-over-quarter. 10.9 million new domains were registered in .com and .net during the quarter. That’s a million more than were registered in Q3 2019.

The total base of .com domain names eclipsed 150 million last month.

Trademarks suggest more domain services in the works

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These trademark applications are for domain name services.

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A lot of entities and people have filed trademarks related to domain name services lately. Most of these have been filed on an intent-to-use basis, meaning the companies haven’t used them in commerce yet. Here’s a rundown of some of the applications.

ALD Holdings, LLC, a company in Montana, filed for Pamphlet for “Providing a web hosting platform for simple and secure domain transactions” and Learn Domains for “Business consulting services in the field of domain name investing”.

Gordon Hayes filed for Impossible to Forget for “Reseller services, in the field of internet services, namely, distributorship services in the field of domains and domain names; domain name brokering services, namely, procuring of contracts for the purchase and sale of domain names; providing information about domain names for sale; reseller services, namely, distributorship services in the field of domain names.”

WebGrow, Inc. in Massachusetts filed for an intent-to-use trademark Domains for Marketing for “Marketing services in the nature of assisting companies with their marketing, branding and sales by procuring, developing, and providing for sale, rent or lease, as well as by consulting regarding, internet domain names and websites”.

DNPG LLC in Boston filed an intent-to-use trademark Attentive for “business consulting and advisory services in the field of domain name investigations, acquisitions and brokerage”.

Finally, remember the guy who is trying to trademark Premium Domain? His latest filings are for App and App.Inc for “Leasing of internet domain names, namely, leasing of premium domain names, and domain name leasing services” and App.Inc.

IPinfo launches domain data service Host.io

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Service can be used to pull d0main data into applications.

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Part of Host.io’s record for DomainNameWire.com

Seattle-based IPinfo has launched Host.io, an API and website offering domain name data.

Users can quickly get domain data such as host, backlinks, outlinks, redirects, and DNS info including MX records. While other services offer similar data, the primary feature is Host.io’s API that lets developers integrate the data for applications such as security.

I ran several of my domains through Host.io. The data were interesting, although it certainly didn’t capture all links.

For DomainNameWire.com, it also showed domains that redirect to the site as being co-hosted with it.

Host.io also has a top 10 million domains list that it is giving away for free. It’s based on a proprietary ranking algorithm and doesn’t come with additional data, but it could be useful for people who need a large list of active domain names.

NamesCon delays in-person events but plans another virtual conference

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No travel necessary for next NamesCon event.

NamesCon organizers have decided that the regular annual conference slated for January 2021 will be a virtual event.

The event was scheduled to return to Austin for a second year. But ravel is unlikely to be easy by January with COVID-19 still raging around the globe.

Instead, NamesCon will hold the event online. Last month it held a virtual conference that received good reviews.

Virtual events are no substitute for in person events but do have some advantages.

NamesCon hopes to hold an in-person event in Budapest July 15-17, 2021. This year’s Budapest event was postponed due to COVID.

There will be an in-person event stateside in late 2021 if things get back to normal. NamesCon plans to host a live/virtual hybrid event sometime in the fall.

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