Emily Gosden wrote a piece for The Telegraph about Buckingham Palace buying domain names as a precautionary member. Of course the domain industry was a flutter back in July 2013 when Luc Biggs registered the domain GeorgeLouisAlexander.com.
Biggs did a guest post on DomainInvesting.com that he offered the domain to the Royal Family.
Buckingham Palace has bought up dozens of website addresses for members of the Royal Family to protect their online identities, fuelling speculation it will launch websites about them.
Online records show that an official at Buckingham Palace registered a series of domain names including countessofwessex.com, theprincessroyal.org, dukeofkent.org and earlandcountessofwessex.com at the start of this month.
One wonders if Mr. Biggs made the offer to the Royal Family if they would now take the domain. The domain is currently parked on Sedo and listed for sale.
The fact that this is newsworthy — and it is newsworthy — shows just how far the public has to go regarding domain awareness.
Some day this will be taken for granted — like having a body guard for the Queen.
All fresh reg’s of course. They won’t buy Bigg’s domain out of principle.
I did a post about ‘Moment Domains” this is where domainers buy up domains of the moment, ie. the birth of Prince and Princess of Wales baby George, this is just one day in the calendar, and life moves on, as will George Alexander Louis, such as, when he becomes a title in due course etc. Many domains around this subject were bought as you would expect by giddy investors.
As, noted above, Bucking Palace have sourced their own branding domains.
Albeit, none are revolved around the baby George, I’m sure they will find an alternative, and one that will fits his domain.
Best, Howie.
Originally Howie they did not have to buy, it was offered to them for free.
I’m aware of that. Cheers Raymond.
Ohh sorry, didn’t read your post properly.. for free! OK fair enough. What can you do? The Royals just don’t like secondhand goods!
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