Several domain name registrations made by Sony yesterday, through corporate domain registrar and brand manager Mark Monitor, indicate a movie my be in the works about Sean Combs a/k/a Puff Daddy. At the moment Puff Daddy has been touring with the "Bad Boy Family Reunion 2016" Bad Boy Records, is a division of Sony Music and has released Cd's by The Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, 112, Total, … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Rightside Launches .Games & Shares Rise Over 5%
Rightside Group LTD (NASDAQ: NAME) launched the .GAMES domain extension today. The Sunrise Phase where trademark holders could preregister names, .GAMES became Rightside’s number-one performing new top level-domain (TLD), seeing applications from virtually every major studio, including Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Nintendo, and Ubisoft … [Read more...]
.NYC to Hold 1st Ever Premium Name Domain Name Auction of 20 .NYC Domain Names
.NYC announced it would be holding its 1st premium domain auction to begin on October 24th. Only businesses, organizations and individuals with a physical address in the five boroughs are eligible to register these premium .nyc domain names, with some of the most sought-after web addresses being made available for the very first time – from apartments.nyc and brokers.nyc to realestate.nyc and … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Sales led by Smiile.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and Smiile.com was the top sale at $18,000. These kinds of names have been trending at BrandBucket over the last few months. The extra vowel in the middle or the repeating letter at the end like Fiverr have been getting accepted regularly. BrandNames.net selling for $8,888 was a great price in my opinion. No new gtld sales this week and only one .org for that … [Read more...]
TV Station Loses Bid To Get WDBJ.com Domain Name Through UDRP
Gray Television Group, Inc. just lost a UDRP in an attempt to grab the domain name wdbj.com. The Complainant is the owner of numerous television stations in the United States, including WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, which it purchased from WDBJ Television Inc. in 2015. WDBJ is the call sign for this station, which broadcasts on Channel 7 The Complainant owns United States Patent and Trademark … [Read more...]
The app market is slowing down
comScore published a study that showed we might be reaching the peak for app downloads. The report showed that 49% of all smartphone users don't download any apps per month. They published an infographic to highlight their study. Download Report and Infographic … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Starts Deleting Its 230,000 Uniregistry Domains
On Thursday Frank Schilling North Sound Names started to delete the registrations for the approximately 230,000 domain names it registered in Uniregistry new gTLD extensions. Yesterday over 100,000 domain names owned by North Sound Names in Uniregistry strings were deleted. About a month ago Uniregistry announced it would be releasing over 1,000,000 domain names it had reserved and … [Read more...]