Centralnic has announced that it is acquiring Hexonet, which also owns 1API. The deal, which was announced today, will see Centralnic pay up to €10 million to acquire the German and Canadian based company. As a company focussed on domains there is of course a lot of recurring revenue: Like CentralNic, Hexonet has a high level of recurring revenues and excellent … [Read more...] about Centralnic Acquires Hexonet / 1API
registrars
Key Systems Takes Over AlpNames’ Domains
ICANN is transferring all domains from defunct registrar AlpNames to the Key Systems group of companies. Officially the transfer is to three different registrars, though all three are owned and controlled by Key Systems. The gaining registrars are: Moniker Online Services LLC for .biz .com .info .net .org Key-Systems GmbH for .proKey-Systems LLC for all other gTLDs … [Read more...] about Key Systems Takes Over AlpNames’ Domains
Tucows Acquires Ascio
Tucows has acquired Ascio, a Denmark based registrar. Ascio is a good fit for Tucows, as it is a 100% reseller focussed business which offers a broad range of both ccTLD domains and gTLDs. The company offers a range of tools to help resellers easily see which policies apply to the various domain extensions, as well as a number of integration options that work well with … [Read more...] about Tucows Acquires Ascio
ICANN Terminates AlpNames
AlpNames has been sent a notice of termination by ICANN. Unlike many termination notices that specify a future date the one they were sent is has immediate effect. As reported in multiple fora over the last few days AlpNames had gone offline, and at time of writing still is. They've also become unresponsive. It's on the basis of this that ICANN decided to terminate their … [Read more...] about ICANN Terminates AlpNames
Coming Soon IEDR Policy Board Elections
The .ie ccTLD has had a formal policy development process for the past few years. There's now a fairly clear process that can be followed to either modify existing policy or to introduce new ones. You can read more about the policy development process IEDR follows here. One of the important parts of the entire process is the Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) which is made up … [Read more...] about Coming Soon IEDR Policy Board Elections