Is Apple planning on going head to head with Clear Channel's iHeartRadio.com which has its music festival called iHeart Radio Music Festival? Well, Apple Inc. registered 11 new domain names relating to a Music Festival on August 4, 2015. Those new domain names are: AppleiTunesMusicFestival.com, AppleMusicConcert.com, AppleMusicConcerts.com, AppleMusicEvents.com, AppleMusicFest.com, … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
Domain Movers: LifeMoment.com, TrackKey.com & More Domains
Here are the latest Domain Movers that I have detected that are all corporate related. These domain names will often relate to a future project of some sorts, like a future advertising campaign, new product or service etc. Check.com GmbH has acquired the domain names Ceck.com and Check.co ($10,099) both at Sedo. Check.com was acquired in September 2014 for $1 Million in a private … [Read more...]
Can The FTC Sue You For Lax CyberSecurity ?
A couple years ago after some famous website hack, I was sitting in a Chipolte and said to a friend that somewhere down the road companies are going to get sued big time for getting hacked if they were lax in their security. My friend told me I was an absolute moron. His take was that a company did not ask to be hacked and would have no way of knowing if they would be hacked. So today I was … [Read more...]
Meet The Owners of The Domain Name Twins.com & It’s Not MLB But Actual Twins
Grantland.com did a long and very detailed article about "the website MLB couldn't buy" and that website in reference is to one of only 3 domain names NOT owned by Major League Baseball (MLB), Twins.com. The story states: The Millers told me that they staked their claim to Twins.com so early that they got it for free. It was the era of Internet land grabs, when all one had to do to rope off a … [Read more...]
One Guys Registered 15 Domains At $12,500 On .Loans/.Credit
.Loans and .Credit were two of the new gTLD extensions that went into the 1st day of the Early Access Program for collision domain names (EAP) Period yesterday and one guy, Ken Bramon of KB Productions Kirkland Canada spent around $180,000 registering new gTLD domain names. The wholesale cost to registrars a domain name is day one of EAP is $10,000. As each registrar sets the retail price … [Read more...]
RightoftheDot/4.CN Domain Auction from DOMAINfest.asia is Live & Over 30% Have Bids
The online auction that RightoftheDot.com along with 4.CN are holding, in conjunction with DOMAINfest.asia, went live yesterday afternoon and out of the 531 domain names in the auction, as of publication 165 of them have bids which over 30% of the domains in the auction. Moreover 50 of the 165 domain names with bids have more than one bid. There are 14 days to go to auction starts to … [Read more...]
Thomson Reuters Acquires Premium Domain Name TR.com
According to whois records, MarkMonitor's parent company, Thomson Reuters has acquired the premium two letter domain name TR.com from Wolters Kluwer US. Wolters Kluwer has owned TR.com since August 2005 and was using the domain name for Telecommunications Reports under the business name CCH Incorporated. Thomson Reuters Corporation is a major multinational mass media and information firm … [Read more...]