Here’s the press release I received this morning:ĭomainer and GoDaddy brokerage team finalizes purchase of, facilitated by Prior to that, GDPR obscured the registrant of the domain name. The domain name has been privately registered since March of 2021. The domain name is currently registered at GoDaddy under Whois privacy. The buyer and seller of are not publicly known at this time. It is the second largest publicly reported sale in the past few years, following the $30 million sale of in 2019. This is one of the largest publicly reported domain name sale of all time. According to the release, the deal was brokered by and GoDaddy. The goal is not to protect others business models and hide behind issues such as “registry abuse” which can be dealt with using the appropriate mechanisms that deal specifically with those type of violations.The domain name was acquired for $15 million, according to a press release I was sent by a representative from. I am afraid that without implementing the necessary mechanisms for new entrants to incorporate their business models, the whole new gTLD launch will be destined to be a complete failure.
New TLDs are inherently handicapped relative to the dominant extensions. However, mechanisms to level the playing field should be allowed and exceptions for new entrants to be allowed, especially ones with social benefits. com would ever be replaced or seriously competed against. The issue is Verisign has over 80 million registrations and there is no way.
#DOMAINER CONSTANTINE REGISTRATION#
If I were ICANN I would incorporate domain registration caps as criteria, which would not allow registries such as Verisign, Afilias, Neustar or registrars such as Godaddy and Enom/Demand Media to integrate. With hundreds of new TLDs, this concept it flawed.
The excuse by the incumbent registries are that there will be abuse of registry data will result in higher prices and unavailability of higher value domain names. If any decision is made to thwart new entrants in the new TLD space, I believe there will be more anti-trust litigation. Especially with the whole issue of Registry-Registrar separation still pending. Shares of VeriSign have started trading lower shortly after the release of the ruling from the court.Ĭongratulations to Bret Fausett and CFIT. com registry would certainly result in lower wholesale. Should VeriSign ultimately lose, it would shake up the domain name registry market and the economics of the business. He said one of two things will happen from here: either VeriSign will petition the Supreme Court to hear the case, or it will go back to the district court for a trial. I talked to Bret Fausett, one of the attorneys for CFIT, moments ago. Today the court of appeals denied that motion for a rehearing. VeriSign essentially appealed that ruling, asking for a rehearing. Last year the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the district court had erred. The district court dismissed the case, and CFIT appealed. The background: Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) sued VeriSign for its no-bid contract with ICANN, among other things.
Today the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied ( pdf) VeriSign’s motion for a rehearing of its case with Coalition for ICANN Transparency, and the court amended the opinion it released last year on the matter. One year after a big legal setback, VeriSign has been setback again by the same court.
#DOMAINER CONSTANTINE TRIAL#
Court of Appeals denies VeriSign’s motion, setting up a potential trial over the company’s.
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