Registrar continues to divest of non-core assets. Domain registrar Tucows has sold its stake in domain name registry Afilias for $7.4 million. Tucows owned 7.38% of Afilias, which pegs a valuation on the registry of about $100 million. However, the ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Afilias Accidentally Deletes .Info Domains from RGP
· Expired DomainsRegistry for .info takes back domains mistakenly dropped. .Info registry Afilias accidentally deleted some of the domain names that were in the redemption grace period this past weekend. Some of the domains were snapped up by new registrants and from ... Continue Reading4 Comments
GoDaddy Playing Hardball with NeuStar?
· Domain RegistrarsPricing at GoDaddy for NeuStar's .us and .biz domains is oddly high. In February I wrote about GoDaddy's price increase for .biz domain names. The registrar was charging $14.99 for .biz domain names, even though its wholesale cost at the registry is ... Continue Reading8 Comments
.Org Domain Name Prices to Jump 10%
· Domain RegistrarsPublic Interest Registry to raise wholesale prices of .org domain names. Public Interest Registry, the registry for .org domain names, has notified ICANN that it is increasing wholesale prices 10%. The annual wholesale price for .org domain name ... Continue Reading5 Comments