Typosquatting on corporate names is not the only squatting game in town. TheNextWeb has a story about someone claiming to have made $760,000 in BTC by squatting on websites that reside on the Tor network. From the article: A scammer is claiming to have made 200 BTC ($760,000) through ‘typosquatting’ criminal dark web sites on the Tor network, over the past four years. The scammer says 800 … [Read more...]
Burl.com sells for second time in less than a year
Burl.com sold for the third time in 12 years and the second time in less than one year. The domain closed at $24,555 on NameJet and was the top close for Wednesday. The name sold for just $5,088 in April of 2018. That sale was down from the previous sale 11 years before at $5,805. The name was registered in 1996. Congrats to the seller. 382.6% ROI. … [Read more...]
Google gets fined €1.49 billion in Adsense antitrust case
Google has now got hit with their third huge fine from the EU, €1.49 billion, ($1.7 billion) this time around, which is the third highest fine they have had to pay. This was in regards to Adsense, Venture Beat wrote: In those previous filings, the EU noted that Google had originally required some sites, particularly bigger partners, to use AdSense exclusively if they wanted to use … [Read more...]
Will all marketplaces have to become licensed escrow agents?
In a thread on Namepros about Rob Monster and Epik, Joseph Peterson posted an interesting tidbit, one that if it plays out as Joseph speculates it could, will affect all the big players in the domain aftermarket space and domain investors as well. The history starts on another thread, it's very long and you can read it at your leisure if you desire. The short version was a thread that was … [Read more...]
Is it still too early for emoji domains?
Page Howe was mentioned in an article on ieee.org. The article took a look at emoji domains and why they do or don't make sense. Page has been outspoken about his belief in emoji domains and gets a couple paragraphs. From the article: People like Page Howe, a domain and digital asset investor, are bullish on URL emojis. “If I said to you, ‘you can be the teddy bear emoji dot double-u ess,’ … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Vivlio.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Vivlio.com led the way at $25,000. Mandom.com was second at 20,000 Euros, ($22,714). 48 .com sales 14 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Ostee.travel sold for 9,500 Euros, ($10,790). Domain … [Read more...]
That is some expensive pigeon shit
via GIPHY Think domain names are getting expensive? A racing pigeon just sold for $1.8 million. Apparently pigeon racing is big business in China. The National Post wrote a story, from the article: The victorious pigeon fancier, whose identity is a secret, spent more than $1.8 to land Armando, a Belgian bird considered to be the “best long-distance pigeon of all time”. The previous record … [Read more...]
