Clear Channel Communications it one of the largest owners of over the broadcast radio stations in the US, maybe the largest with 850 channels.
This year they held the iHeart Radio concert in Las Vegas, a two day affair in which some of the most popular music performers appeared including Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Alica Keys and Coldplay just to name a few.
The I Heart Radio Facebook page has almost 1.8 million likes.
They acquired the domain name iHeart.com in February of this year, which is now the centerpiece of what appears to be a new service that may take a serious run at Pandora and even Sirius/XM.
Clear Channel is the original registrant of iheartradio.com which was registered back in 2007.
Yesterday Clear Channel registered the domain names, ihearttraffic.com as well as iheartweather.com
They don’t own iheartsports.com, something they should have bought earlier this year as well before launching the product but wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to acquire that domain.
I own iHeart(Country).com which I acquired in an expired name auction a couple months ago.
Personally, I think it was an absolute steal at $xx and an awesome promotional/marketing campaign domain for what is a beautiful country with a multi-billion dollar tourism industry.
It recieved sporadic traffic until yesterday, 28th November, when ihearttraffic.com and iheartweather.com were registered. The visitors were from the US.
I am praying that this is not just coincidence and that Clear Channel will come a-knocking, ready to make my year with a bumper sale.
Good luck Leon.
Took ’em long enough.Over the air radio stations and networks are finally realizing that they’re gonna have to get online in a real way.Can’t argue with the strategy.I occasionally stumble on to the iHeart set-up through tunein.com.I’ll never use Clear Channel for music…but sports and talk absolutely.