We just received this email from Rook Media which bought DomainSponsor.com a few months ago. If you have an account at DomainSponsor.com you should have an email where they are asking you to change your password, while promising that they are going to combine the best parts of Rook Media and DomainSponsor to be "The Best Parking Platform of All Time" Here is the email: "While you’ve … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2014
Why Did Philip Morris Spend $1,500 To File A UDRP On Buying-Tax-Free-Marlboro-Cigarettes.com?
Philip Morris USA Inc, just won the rights to the domain name buying-tax-free-marlboro-cigarettes.com in a UDRP. The fact that the corporate giant won the domain is no surprise, but I have no idea of why the company would spend $1,500 in just filing fees to get control of a horrible domain name with 4 hyphens. According to Screenshots.com, the only page they have indexed is a placeholder … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total Just $900K
Over the past week, 561 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $900k. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: ridescout.com at 60,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: 888.ca at 20,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: loan.info at 18,500 USD Everyoption.com was our sale at $15,000 Domain … [Read more...]
.Black is Live Today But like The other New gTLD Colors, its on the Wrong Side Of The Dot
Today is the first day general availability for Afilias’ latest gTLD: .BLACK Its the fourth in a string of colored new gTLD domain names all operated by Afilias (.Red, .Blue, Pink) For us the issue for .Black, like the other colors, is Black is a term that used in normal language and commerce on the left of the term, not on the right. So its Black Cars, Black Card, Black Dress, Black … [Read more...]
Frequent Commentator On TheDomains, Joseph Peterson, Stars In Entrepreneur.com New gTLD Story
In a article just published by Entrepreneur.com asking the question "Should I switch my company's URL to one of the new domain extensions?" I was pretty surprised to read that the article was basically based on the thoughts of Joseph Peterson who is a frequent commentator on TheDomains.com Here are the first two questions and answers by Mr. Peterson Should any business with a … [Read more...]
As .Furniture Launches On Wednesday, Here Are Some Of Interesting Registered Domains
.Furniture goes into general availability on Wednesday August 27th where domain names can be registered on a first come, first served basis. Some very good domains were already taken in Sunrise by trademark holders and during the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid a one time fee for early access to the domain names. Furniture is a huge vertical. Its certainly something … [Read more...]
.Website Gets Over 630 Sunrise Domain Registration; 2nd Highest Of Any New gTLD
.Website may well be the next big new gTLD success story. According to Radix the registry the operates the .Website extension there were 634 domain names registered during the Sunrise period which is opened to trademark holders. With the 634 Sunrise domain registrations.Website has the second highest number of Sunrise applications of all new gTLD's to date A lot of the big brands grabbed … [Read more...]