The Australian publication Channelnews.com.au, just declared Donald Trump as the “World’s Biggest Owner Of Domain Names”.
Yes according to the story, The Donald only has over 3,600 domain names.
My God how did no one in the domain industry recognize Mr. Trump as owning the most domain names in the world with 3,600?
In the domain industry we know there are companies that own 1 Million + domains and many that own hundreds of thousands of domains.
Even out little company sold just 70,000 domains last year or 20X the number of domain names that the “largest holder of domain names in the world owns”.
Here is how the story goes:
“Who is the biggest owner of domain names in the USA. The answer might surprise you – but, then again. perhaps not …
It is – ah, you guessed it – Donald Trump”
“Donald and his Trump Organization have bought up more than 3600 Web addresses”
Most of the domain registrations are defensive in nature which of course all major corporations engage in.
We have called out companies over the year who failed to register a bang on domain name defensive domain registration that the companies had to go after in a UDRP because they let someone else register it.
Compare how the media covered Taylor Swift when she bought defensive .xxx, .porn and .adult domains.
She was praised for her intelligent decisions to defend her brand rather than to allow trolls to register the domains:
Crooked Donald 🙂
Donald the horrible evil cyber-squatter 🙂
How’s that possible? Mike Mann has over 100000+ domains
Somebody should contact the editor and CEO of Channelnews.com.au and tell him that he don’t know what he is talking about! He might want to start reading “TheDomains.com” to get inform about the industry.
David Richards
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dwr@4squaremedia.com
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Congrats to the Donald on accumulating this Huuuuuuuge portfolio, a lot of people are saying its the best portfolio of domains ever.
Some of us get to say ‘our little company’ but not someone who has completed one of the largest (top 3?) domain portfolio sales reported in the industry, imo… 😉
Ian
Thanks but our company really is small its just been Judi and myself and the most outside staff we had any one time was 2.
“Compare how the media covered Taylor Swift when she bought defensive .xxx, .porn and .adult domains.
She was praised for her intelligent decisions to defend her brand rather than to allow trolls to register the domains:”
…which is a selective comparison among differing news sources.
Taylor Swift was criticized for going after the guy who taught her to play guitar:
http://time.com/3703807/taylor-swift-guitar-teacher-lawyer/
“Taylor Swift’s Old Guitar Teacher Says Her Lawyers Are ‘Bullying’ Him”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/23/taylor-swift-s-history-of-suing-friends-fans-and-foes-and-now-kimye.html
“Taylor Swift’s History of Suing Friends, Fans, and Foes—and Now Kimye?”
But I can’t imagine how anyone could have been told that something Trump owns is the biggest, best, etc..