According to a press release by the company, NameCheap.com an ICANN accredited registrar says they now have broken the 2 Million mark in domain names under management. "Reaching 2 million domains is an incredible milestone for us," Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap said. "We're a service-oriented business that prides itself on providing the best deals with a support team that strives to … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
New York Is Excited About The New gTLD’s & It’s Upcoming .NYC Extension
The city of New York put out a press release on the new gTLD's and clearly are excited about the prospects of their soon being a .NYC ""Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) announced it will dramatically expand its domain offerings and will begin accepting applications for new domains in January 2012. Once approved, this will allow for the … [Read more...]
O.Co a/k/a Overstock.com Wins The American Business Award For “Best Overall Company of the Year”
"O.co, also known as Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK), today announced that it won two 2011 American Business Awards in the following categories - Best Overall Company of the Year (Up to 2,500 Employees) and Executive of the Year (All Other Industries) for its CEO Dr. Patrick Byrne. " O.co SVP of Customer Experience Stormy Simon was a finalist in the Customer Service Executive of the Year … [Read more...]
Google Hits a Record 1 Billion Visitors In One Month
According to cnet.com, Google hit a record with 1 BILLION visitors in one month. Cnet.com, citing stats from Comscore, says that Google got over 1 billion visitors in May 2011, "the first time ever that a site has drawn that many visitors in one month" "The number of unique visitors to Google's sites rose by 8.4 percent from 931 million a year ago to just over a billion 1,009,699,000 to be … [Read more...]
AdAge.com: “Doing Good”; “Why Your .Com Should Be a .Org, Too”
According to Adage.com there is a movement by large companies not only to own the .com version of their domain name, but the .org as well. ""I've noticed an emerging trend in the domain name space as a result of the increasing emphasis on "doing good." "Until recently, the domain strategy of choice was to use a single domain name extension to house all a company's online activity, while … [Read more...]
NewYork.Net At $45K With Over an Hour to Go; Bosnia.com & Gibraltar.com Also Closing Today on Bido.com
A few domain auctions are ending today on Bido.com The domain name NewYork.net is currently at auction on Bido.com and the high bid is already at $45,000. The auction ends at around 3pm EST today. The "Bido.com" price is $90,000 The domain Bosnia.com also is at auction at Bido and has a high bid of $15K which is ending around 4pm EST with a "Bido Price" of $250K Gibraltar.com has a … [Read more...]
Network Solutions Hit With DDoS Attack & Domain Names Become Inaccessible
I received an email from a reader of TheDomains.com a few hours ago that there domains that were registered with NetworkSolutions.com were not resolving and now According to NetworkSolutions.com blog, the company confirms they have been undergoing an Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for the past two days: ""Network Solutions experienced a distributed denial of service attack Monday … [Read more...]