Major acquisition shakes up domain name investor landscape. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is acquiring the Uniregistry registrar and marketplace, Frank Schilling's Name Administration domain name portfolio, and other associated assets for an undisclosed ... Continue Reading53 Comments
Frank Schilling wins cybersquatting dispute
· Policy & LawIndian insurance company falls short in UDRP. Frank Schilling's Name Administration has successfully defended the domain name CareHealthInsurance.com in a UDRP. The three-person World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel determined ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Frank Schilling successfully defends OceanBreeze.com domain in UDRP
· Policy & LawCompany filed cybersquatting claim after failing to buy domain. Frank Schilling, with the help of attorney John Berryhill, has defended his company's domain name OceanBreeze.com in a UDRP. The case was filed by JC Global. That company sells air ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Uniregistry gets patent for domain management and transfer system
· Domain RegistrarsPatent is related to its system for monitoring domains not registered at Uniregistry. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,807,053 (pdf) to Uniregistry for "System and method related to domain name tracking and ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
My thoughts on employee turnover at Uniregistry
· Domain RegistrarsHere are some probable reasons you're seeing visible turnover at Uniregistry. On Friday, Konstantinos Zournas at OnlineDomain wrote about something people have been mumbling about on message boards for a couple months now: turnover at Frank Schilling's ... Continue Reading17 Comments
Frank Schilling talks domains – DNW Podcast #149
· PodcastsFrank Schilling talks about the state of the domain name industry. Domain investor and Uniregistry founder Frank Schilling comes back on the program to talk about what's going on in the domain world: new top level domains, Donuts taking over Rightside, ... Continue Reading18 Comments
You’re not Rick Schwartz. So don’t try to emulate him.
· Domain SalesYour own circumstances probably don't align with the most successful domain name investors. This isn't an article picking on domain name investor Rick Schwartz. I'm just going to use him as an example. Rick has made a lot of money investing in ... Continue Reading21 Comments
Top 5 Domain Name Stories from March
· UncategorizedNew TLD price changes dominated the discussion. The first quarter of 2017 is now in the books, and the initial tax deadline in the U.S. is quickly approaching (yikes!). But before we think about taxes, here's a look back at what happened in the domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Frank Schilling explains price hike – DNW Podcast #127
· PodcastsSchilling explains why he decided to increase prices on some of Uniregistry's TLDs. Frank Schilling's Uniregistry created an uproar last week when news leaked that the company was preparing to drastically increase the cost of some of its domains as ... Continue Reading60 Comments
How much it costs to run a domain name registry
· UncategorizedNot much, but some TLDs don't have many registrations, either. Frank Schilling's Uniregistry registry is drastically increasing prices on some of its top level domain names. Schilling told DomainIncite: If you have a space with only 5,000 ... Continue Reading11 Comments