Registry Services

Afilias to Acquire .GLOBAL Top Level Domain

Afilias, the world's second largest domain name registry, today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Dot Global Domain Registry Limited in Dublin, the registry operator for the .GLOBAL Top Level Domain.

End User Radix Premium Domain Sales – May 2019

At Radix, we're always on the lookout for websites on our TLDs that stand out from the rest. In this post, we look at four end-user premium domain name sales, or "Marquees" as we'd like to call them, that were registered in May 2019.

Verisign Q1 2019 Domain Name Industry Brief: Internet Grows to 351.8 Million Domains in Q1 of 2019

Verisign today released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the first quarter of 2019 closed with 351.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.1 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2018.

Radix’s Karn Jajoo Talks GDPR Benefits, Positive Outlook of New gTLDs and Radix’s Impressive Growth

In a recent interview with Karn Jajoo, Head of Premium Portfolio at Radix, he discusses Radix's impressive growth in 2018, the positive impact of the EU's GDPR has been it's spawned privacy discussions in developing countries with local data privacy laws and more.

Verisign Q4 2018 Domain Name Industry Brief: Internet Grows to 348.7 Million Domains in Q4 of 2018

Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief showing the fourth quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 348.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs) - an increase of approximately 6.3 million domain name registrations, or 1.8 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2018.

Radix Reports Over 45% Growth in Profitability for 2018, Revenue Grows by Over 30%

In the total annual revenue of $16.95M, 27% has been contributed by standard registrations and 60% by standard renewals. Radix's premium domains cumulatively generated over $1.9M in revenue, of which 56% can be attributed to premium renewals.

Afilias Appoints Keith Lubsen as Chief Business Officer

Afilias has promoted Keith Lubsen to the newly created position of Chief Business Officer, responsible for general oversight of finance (including profitability), mergers and acquisitions, and legal aspects of the company, all areas he has been involved with for some time.

Afilias Appoints Ram Mohan as Chief Operating Officer

Afilias today announced that it has promoted Ram Mohan to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer, responsible for most of the day-to-day operations of Afilias and its global subsidiaries.

Neustar Logs Into Digital India as the New Technical Services Provider for Country’s .IN Domain

Neustar Data Infotech (India) Private Limited, a subsidiary of Neustar, Inc., today completed the transition of India's .IN country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) to Neustar's Registry platform.

New TLD .SITE Passes One Million Registrations, Reports Radix

Radix today announced that its new Top-Level Domain .SITE has surpassed 1 million domains under management. This makes Radix the first nTLD portfolio registry to have two of its TLDs, .ONLINE and .SITE, in the coveted "1 million club".