Tucows posts lower domain revenue in Q2

Impact from large customer loss is mostly over. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) reported earnings yesterday. The company’s domain name business saw revenue decline 4% year over year to $65.0 million. It was up slightly quarter-over-quarter, however. Tucows said the decline was due in part to the continuing impact of a major customer insourcing their domain names [...]

Docking station maker Plugable attempts reverse domain name hijacking

Founder’s Reddit post hurt its case, but it would have lost anyway. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Leancode, Inc., maker of the Plugable (misspelling of Pluggable) brand of docking stations, guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Richard Harrison acquired the domain pluggable.com (correct spelling of the word) in February 2009. He used [...]