The results from our latest poll question are out and most don't think Go Daddy should be crawling under their desk as one IPO analyst remarked. Google getting into the registrar space caused quite a stir a few weeks back. We had 240 voters and 19% do not see Google in the top 20. 13% see Google in position number 10 and 12 % see them in position number 20. What Will Google Domains Market Share … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Dell To Accept Bitcoin
Dell has become the latest company to accept Bitcoin, the company posted on their website they will now be accepting Bitcoin and providing a 10 % discount on an AlienWare purchase to those using Bitcoin as their payment option (up to $150). From their website: Now you can buy digital with digital – starting today, we’re accepting bitcoin on Dell.com. We’re piloting bitcoin, the world’s … [Read more...]
Very Quietly .Luxury Which Had a Domain Registration Fee of $799 Passes 1,000 Registrations
We haven't heard much about .Luxury since the new gTLD launch with the eye popping price of up to $799 per domain, per year registration for a non-premium domain. Since the launch which saw over over 600 hundred Sunrise applications of brands grabbing their new .Luxury gTLD's. However since the launch .Luxury has added another 400 … [Read more...]
Businessweek: Pitbull Looking at Domainer Merlin Kauffman $7.5 Million Bitcoin Fund
Bloomberg/Businessweek.comm, just published a piece on the hip-hop artist known as Pitbull, one of our South Florida celebs and his business ventures outside of the music world. According to the article Pitbull's attorney is trying to get his client Pitbull to possibly invest in Bitcoin and are looking forward to a meeting none other than Merlin Kaufman, who in addition to being a world-class … [Read more...]
Yahoo’s Share of Search Is Under 10% For 1st Time Ever & All Time Low
SearchEngineLand.com, is reporting that Yahoo's share of search traffic has fallen below 10% for the first time and marks an all time low. ""Yahoo’s share has now fallen below 10 percent. "This is an “all-time low.” The combined Yahoo-Bing “search alliance” share remains flat at 29%: Bing growth has almost entirely been at Yahoo’s expense. Here are the figures for June: Google: … [Read more...]
Did Lebron James Lease or Buy Lebron.com? After 6 Years Domain Points To LebronJames.com
CBSNews.com published a blog post about a week ago about a domain investor who owns Lebron.com since 2008. The story, which in a very positive light, chatted about a domain investor, Patrick Nagle. whom they described as a "Tech-savvy Maryland businessman". "As millions of basketball fans search online for news of what team free … [Read more...]
Arena Football’s OrlandoPredators.com Gets Lost In Sale & Now Points To Sexual Offenders
The arena Football team the Orlando Predators was recently sold and the one thing that seem to have gotten lost in the sale is its domain name. According to a story in the orlandosentinel.com, the domain which served as the previous official site of the team OrlandoPredators.com now redirects visitors to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's archive of sexual offenders and … [Read more...]