Epik lost tens of thousands of domains under management in January, as customers spooked by the company’s financial troubles transferred their names to other registrars. The latest registry transaction reports show a net transfer loss of 30,596 domains in the month, with 32,287 outbound and 1,691 inbound transfers. That’s a pretty big leap up from [...] Continue reading →

.uk registry Nominet has opened up its 2023 elections for a new non-executive director. The company is looking for a NED able to serve a three-year term starting at the AGM in the fourth quarter. Director Phil Buckingham’s current three-year term is up in September. You don’t need to be a Nominet member to apply, [...] Continue reading →

CentralNic has disclosed its earnings expectations for the first quarter, and revealed it has diversified its pool of advertising partners. The company expects revenue for the three months to March 31 to come it up 24% at $194.9 million, with adjusted EBITDA up 15% at $21.3 million. Excluding acquisitions, year-on-year organic growth for the trailing [...] Continue reading →

Epik CEO Brian Royce has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against him, as the company denies it defrauded a customer out of $327,000 in a botched domain purchase. Royce was named alongside Epik companies and former CEO Rob Monster in a legal complaint last month by customer Matthew Adkisson, who had tried to [...] Continue reading →

Future new gTLD application rounds will likely have three extra travel-related strings up for grabs, after the barely-precedented decision by a registry operator to dump three generic, non-branded strings. Travel Reservations Srl, the registry owned by Despegar, one of South America’s largest online travel booking services, has told ICANN to tear up its contracts for [...] Continue reading →

Language proposed for Verisign’s .net registry contract that some say would give governments the ability to arbitrarily seize domains is already present in the company’s .com contract. As I reported earlier this month, the .net Registry Agreement is up for renewal and ICANN has opened up some largely uncontroversial proposed changes for public comment. ICANN [...] Continue reading →

There are many ways ICANN could eventually wind up shutting down flailing registrar Epik, but it might face a nightmare of its own when it does. Epik appears to have been suffering from serious cash-flow problems for the last several months, with some customers still complaining this week that they haven’t been paid money owed [...] Continue reading →