It's only fair to share…Facebook61TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferCentralnic’s merger with KeyDrive SA, parent company to Key Systems, was officially announced this morning. The deal will see Centralnic acquire KeyDrive’s entire share capital for a total of $36.5 35.8 million. KeyDrive is the parent company of Key Systems, RRP Proxy and Moniker, as well as corporate registrar Brand Shelter. While […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook3TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferThe New Zealand Domain Name Commission is taking legal action in Seattle against DomainTools. DomainTools, according to the filing, is in breach of the whois terms of use and by collecting and storing the whois data of .nz domains. The filing goes into a lot of detail about how the […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook3TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferNamesCon Europe (formerly known as Domaining Europe) was recently held in Valencia, Spain. Next year’s event, however, will be in Lisbon, Portugal. The exact dates and venue for the domain event have not been announced, though it’s meant to be held in June. The event organisers are already selling “early bird” […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook2TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferWeb.com, which is a listed company, has announced that it is to be acquired by an affiliate of Siris Capital Group, LLC. The deal is reported to be worth approximately $2 Billion USD. The company will have the ability to seek alternative offers: Web.com may solicit alternative acquisition proposals from third […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook14TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferAn Australian company has been €1.24 million (AU$1.95 million) for duping businesses out of over AU$2.3 million via a domain slamming scam. The case was taken by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) who claim that the company in question had sent out over 300 thousand fake renewal notices to […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook1TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferNDD Camp will be held in Paris on this Thursday June 21st. The event is free to attend, but registration is obligatory. The event features 3 parallel tracks with sessions covering a range of topics including: drop catching new TLDs aftermarket SEO online marketing managing domains content Full details of the […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook26TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferAs I predicted ICANN is pursuing its case against EPAG. They’re now not only appealing the case to a higher court in Germany, but are also trying to get the entire thing referred to the European Court of Justice. In an announcement late last night ICANN made it very clear what […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook1TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferCloudflare will be hosting their summit tomorrow in central London. The one day event will feature an interesting mix of international speakers, as well as senior staff from the cloud security company. Speakers on the day will include CloudFlare founder and CEO Matthew Prince. The full agenda is here. It's only […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook52TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferLast Friday ICANN took German registrar EPAG to court in Germany. German courts seem to be pretty fast, so instead of having to wait weeks or months to see how they’d rule, we’ve already got the answer. The German court in Bonn has ruled that EPAG (Tucows) is not obliged to […]
It's only fair to share…Facebook6TwitterLinkedinReddit0BufferAs I noted over the weekend, ICANN has instigated legal action against Epag, an ICANN accredited registrar based in Germany that is part of the Tucows group. ICANN claims that the case is to “preserve WHOIS data”, but Tucows asserts in their statement that the ICANN approach is flawed. It’s not […]
