Godaddy has sold a bunch of three letter domain names including two .com's most to XiaoFeng Lin of China in the past two days. The other buyers appear to be from China as well: qcc.com fcd.com 521.net 5437.com bcf.net bmn.net bpx.net bqg.net cxh.net dyj.net fjs.net fzf.net fzh.net gky.net jzq.net klr.net ksp.net kyp.net … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2016
.Win Becomes 4th New gTLD To Break 1 Million Registrations
The new gTLD .Win has become the 4th new gTLD to break the 1 million domain registration mark. According to RegistrarStats.com, which also takes into account deleted domains .Win has 1,000,093 domains registered. The other 3 new gTLD's that have over 1 million domain names are .Wang (1,064,728); .Top (2,793,356); and .XYZ (6,195,695). 4 of the top 10 gTLD with the most registrations are … [Read more...]
ClintonKaine.com Seller “I still have control of ClintonKaine.com through my Blogger Account”
Jeremey Pegg is the gentleman who sold ClintonKaine.com for $15,000 on Flippa. He tweeted out yesterday the following: $13,200 appeared in my bank account today, yet I still have control of https://t.co/LYK8bbPhkl through my Blogger account — Jeremy Pegg (@JPGclog) August 20, 2016 The website is a Harry Potter fan fiction site portraying Hillary Clinton as "Hillary Potter" … [Read more...]
Garry Chernoff and Nat Cohen To Be Inducted Into The Domain Industry Hall of Fame
Two legendary domain investors; Garry Chernoff and Nat Cohen, will be inducted as the newest members of the Domain Industry Hall of Fame during The Domain Conference in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, September 13th the Keynote and Awards Luncheon Both are ICA members, and Nat Cohen serves on the Board of the ICA. Both have some of the best domain portfolio's in the world. A well deserved … [Read more...]
11 SEO Myths Debunked
Tereza Litsa took a look at some common SEO myths and provided a rebuttal to each one. In total Tereza covered 11 topics, starting with "Seo is dead" to the old adage, "Don't worry just create great content." The article is well worth a read if you are doing some development on your domain names. I thought number 8 was important for domain investors to look at, "Link building is dead." There … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed On ZL.com By German Law Firm
The domain name ZL.com has been hit with a UDRP The Complainant is Zirngibl Langwieser Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft which seems to be using the domain name zl-legal.de. Yes the Complainant is a law firm with offices in Munich, Vienna, Frankfurt and Berlin. According to their site they do refer to themselves repeated just as ZL As for the domain name ZL.com it is registered at Fabulous … [Read more...]
A surprising number of users can’t recognize Paid Ads in Google Search
Graham Charlton published an article on how many users can't recognize a PPC ad in Google search. Now I remembered reading another article a few months back which Charlton referenced in his latest article. The latest findings show 55% of respondents did not know the difference between paid listings and organic listings. Check out the entire article on Clickz.com for a detailed breakdown by … [Read more...]