You might put your little one's safety to sleep before reading this ghostly tale of a company that just spend cold hard cash to promote its new domain name W3ddingDJ.com A Press Release was put out by Seward Park Tech, "a DJ and Lighting company servicing the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut otherwise known as the Tri-State area" or otherwise know as the number one media market in the … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2013
Runnable.com Raises $2 Million After Buying It’s Domain For $2,500 On Sedo
According to Term Sheet, Runnable, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based “centralized location for finding code,” raised $2 million in seed funding. Sierra Ventures led the round, and was joined by Resolute.VC and individual angels. The domain name Runnable.com was acquired for a whopping 2,000 Euros, a year ago through Sedo.com which equates to less than $2,500. I have said it before but do NOT … [Read more...]
Godaddy Is Back For The 10th Consecutive Super Bowl With Two Ads; No Word On .Co
"For a 10th year-in-a-row, GoDaddy is going to be in the Super Bowl commercial line-up according to a press release it issued today. Godaddy has purchased two thirty-second spots, one in each half of the game to be broadcast on FOX February 2. "At least one of the two spots will feature Danica Patrick, who has already been in more Super Bowl commercials than any other … [Read more...]
Neustar Reports: Revenue Up 8%; & Acquired Aggregate Knowledge, Inc For $119 Million
Neustar, Inc. (NSR), the back end provider of the ccTLD's, .Us .Co and the TLD of .Biz and for hundreds of new gTLD applicants today announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013, and in a separate release stated that it has acquired Aggregate Knowledge, Inc., a leading campaign and predictive analytics platform, for approximately $119 million in cash consideration. Results for … [Read more...]
Famous Four On .Sport Decision “We Will Rigorously Pursue All Legal Avenues To Have It Reversed”
Famous Four Media issued a statement on the ICC decision granting an objection to Famous Four Applications for .Sport, finding that the other applicant for the gTLD. Sport, SportAccord represented the community of Sports, saying that they intend to "rigorously pursue all available legal avenues available to it to have the decision independently reviewed by ICANN and/or others as the case may be, … [Read more...]
Wrap Up From OTA’s New gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop: Collision Issue Is Like Y2K
The Online Trust Alliance's (OTA) held a new gTLD Domain Collisions Workshop yesterday in Herndon, VA over what "many stakeholders believe there are significant risks of "domain collisions" occurring with the introduction of the new gTLD's The workshop ran well over 7 hours and the overriding theme is that the domain collision issue is a lot like Y2K. Domain collisions are the result of a … [Read more...]
PhoneTracker.com Sells For $50K & GiveSmart.com For $40K on Sedo
A couple of domain name sales hit the Sedo.com wire today. PhoneTracker.com just sold to Spy Phone Labs LLC. According to Estibot the domain name PhoneTracker.com last sold in 2008 for $5,877 The domain name was previously held at Moniker under privacy. The domain name GiveSmart.com was just sold to GiveSmart US, Inc. for $40.000 The domain was formerly owned by of Brian Carrozzi … [Read more...]