Two of the largest newspapers in the country have Front Page stories about domain names and its all about new gTLD and new ccTLD's like .Co and .Me Yes I know a LOT of you are getting tired of stories about new gTLD's and .Co but this is what the mainstream press is covering and covering hard, so on to the stories The New York Times article entitled "For Countries That Own Shorter Web Site … [Read more...]
Deals.com.au Sells For $100K & Company’s Are Grabbing Up Their Own Typo’s
We don't cover the .Au (Australian) oftern but there are two different stories out today. The domain name Deals.com.au sold for $100,000 according to the dailytelegraph.com.au to a Company Zoupon which is the "fifth or sixth largest" group buying website in Australia claiming around 400,000 members including our Facebook fans and Twitter followers. ""By purchasing deals.com.au, the … [Read more...]
Huge .co.uk Sale For $7.5M-$14M: Mortgages.co.uk, Investments.co.uk, CreditCards.co.uk, LifeInsurance.co.uk, HealthInsurance.co.uk, Savings.co.uk
We usually don't hear about too many huge deals involving .co.uk domains but this one is certainly a blockbuster. A public company in the United Kingdom purchased some of the best possible insurance and financial .co.uk domain names for a total of £4.6m, rising to up to £9m depending on performance. Based on exchange rates, this equated to a sale of around $7, 355,500 with possibly as much … [Read more...]
Diapers.Eu and Soap.TW Sell For Over $5k Each In the Wake Of Amazon’s $540M .Com Purchase
Domainers seem to be chasing diapers and soap domains, in the wake of Amazon purchasing the company that owns the developed sites, diapers.com and soap.com for $540 Million. In the last few days the domain name Diapers.eu sold for 4,200 euros (approx $6K) and today the domain Soap.tw sold for 5,000 euros (approx $7K). Soap.tw for $7k? That's seems like an a lot of money for an extension … [Read more...]
Is Apple Going To Go With A Hack? Report Says Yes: iTun.es
According to MacRumors", Apple might use a domain hack for its new iTunes Ping program. The story says that Apple which has has owned the domain name hack of the hack of iTun.es, since December 2006, when it was registered by Mark Monitor, could windup using its as a link shortener for its new Ping product links for Twitter. iTun.es currently forwards to Apple.com If true this would mark … [Read more...]
Days After Vb.LY was Seized, The Libyan Registry Issues a Statement & Warning
Today, days after the domain shorter Vb.ly was basically seized by the registry of the Libyan ccTLD .Ly, we have a statement from the registry regarding this seizure. Basically as you can read below the Libyan government has decided that it wants any .Ly domain with 4 or less letters to be reserved for people and companies located in Libya. This should be a cautionary tale that ccTLD's are … [Read more...]
“1st Fund” To Invest Only In Domains Launches August 1st Promises To Make Domains Accepted As An Asset Class
Here is what maybe a huge step for Domains to become a real world asset in the wider investment community. In a press release today, a company called the The Domain Developers Fund says they will officially launch on August 1. "The DDF offers institutional and private investors equity investments in Internet Domain Names." "Its the first fund to invest in domain names … [Read more...]