Google unveils GBoard, a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard. The company blogged about their new app available surprisingly only for iOS and currently only available in the U.S. Search is incorporated right into the keyboard as one would expect from a Google app. They made a video to introduce the … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2016
How Much of What You Read Do You Believe ?
There is a lot of information disseminated daily in the domain business. Talk of sales, auction reports, past successes, etc... Sorting through the 95,000 plus comments here at TheDomains, there have been a number of comments that question the validity of a certain person, sales venue, or press release. So how much of what you read day in and day out, do you believe to be true ? Vote below. … [Read more...]
27.CN sells for seven figures CNY
27.com hit a high bid of $1,510,702 and failed to sell this week on NameJet. 27.CN has managed to sell for seven figures CNY. The news was reported on Admin5.com. The sale took place on A5.net. The domain was registered in 2003. Kassey Lee from Coreile.com translated, 27.cn sold for 7 figures CNY on A5.net platform. 27 may mean 爱妻 (beloved wife), 爱钱 (love money), 爱吃 (love eating), 爱情 … [Read more...]
Swedish Court Gives Pirate Bay domains back to the Government
So last week we wrote about another game of whack - a- mole pertaining to Sci-Hub and their jumping from one extension to another. I used The Pirate Bay as an example of this game. A reader accurately pointed out that the site was back on it's Swedish extension .SE. Well today a Stockholm court of appeals upheld a ruling from last year that will take the domain names ThePirateBay.se and … [Read more...]
.Com Passes 127 Million Registrations For 1st Time
According to Verisign, the number of .Com registration passed 127 million for the first time. It was on March 5th, 2016 that the number of .Com registrations passed 126 million, so .Com added a net of 1 Million domain names in just over 2 months. Out of the 127 million .com domain names, just over 126 million are in the "Active Zone File". 126 million .Com domain names is also an all … [Read more...]
How will Google Banning Payday Loan Ads affect Domain Owners ?
Google dealt a blow to Payday lenders and domain investors who have invested in payday loan type domains. A few years back I knew some people getting big parking clicks with Payday loan domain names. From a parking or developed site monetized by AdWords, it is a negative, but since the industry is still in business it could mean owning the very best names in the niche have gone up in value. The … [Read more...]
27.com ends at $1,510,702 Unsold – One Reader did Win $50
27.com closed today at $1,510,702 on NameJet. The domain was unsold. NameJet user First kept fishing for the reserve price but they were not successful. Here are the bidders that bid seven figures: first $1,510,702 5/11/2016 2:20 PM kukku $1,100,000 5/11/2016 8:09 AM amyke $1,020,000 5/11/2016 12:42 AM q9999999 $1,007,999 5/10/2016 3:37 AM Reader DK wins our … [Read more...]