In a post on its corporate blog, Namecheap.com, the domain name registrar, announced it found an attack overnight and blocked over 30,000 IP's that were attempting to gather the "username and password data gathered from third party sites that were trying to be used to try and gain access to Namecheap.com accounts." This is different than most attacks because Namecheap was not the target of the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
1st Asset Backed Crypto Currency: Sync Coin Secured By Domains Trading At Same Price As Bitcoin
Sync coin is the first asset-backed, profit-sharing currency and the asset the currency is back by is domain names. According to a press release, Sync Foundation and SyncFund.com co-founder, Mike Fiol, who has been in the domain industry for many years. is quoted in a press release, that the total supply of Sync is only 1,100 and now they are asset-backed, profit-sharing … [Read more...]
Sedo Numeric Auction Starts Wednesday 49 extensions represented
On Wednesday Sedo will start its numeric auction of 265 domain names that run the gamut of super quality to wait what ? There will be 49 different extensions represented including .mobi, .enterprises and .name. Here is the list of … [Read more...]
So When Does Amazon Buy Twitch.com ?
Twitch.tv was purchased this week by Amazon for $970 million, the little experiment that grew out of Justin.tv has become a major player in online video. For a long time it was rumored that Google would acquire Twitch. Now we know it is Amazon and two questions remain, 1) When will Amazon buy Twitch.com ? and 2) For how much ? The UFC also had an issue with the .com getting spillover traffic … [Read more...]
It’s David Vs Goliaths For Control of .Music
Harley Brown wrote an article for Billboard.com about the upcoming battle for .music. The indies vs Google and Amazon. The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) has announced its support for the music industry to control .music. A2IM believes that if Google or Amazon win the .music extension that they will obviously put profits ahead of industry and artist concerns. In a … [Read more...]
Where Do You See The Value of Numeric.com Domains Going ?
Our latest poll takes a look at Numeric.com values. Numerics have continued to be one of the strongest categories for domain investors, fetching excellent prices and also being a very liquid category within the space. Michael has mentioned a few times that he has had several parties interested in 345.com which he owns. There have been multiple offers over $500,000. 4.CN completed its largest … [Read more...]
.Bio Generates $250K in Revenue In Its First Week
Starting Dot Ltd. the registry operator for new generic top-level domains (new gTLD) .BIO, .ARCHI & .SKI, , put out a press release today announcing that over 4,100 .BIO domain names have been registered at the end of the first week generating over a $250,000 USD in revenue. "The .BIO launch ranks in the top 15 in terms of new gTLD first week retail revenue* and validates the popularity of … [Read more...]