Former world No. 1 tennis player Maria Sharapova had her domain name expire and it closed at GoDaddy for a whopping $22,250. 3 weeks ago Maria announced she is expecting her first child, so she has much bigger things on her mind than a domain name. She has 14,630,209 Facebook likes, 4.3M Instagram Followers. Ahrefs shows strong link profile. Domain Rating 60 Backlinks 66,478 95% … [Read more...]
Gordon Ramsay vs GordonRumsay.com
Gordon Ramsay is apparently dealing with someone trying to cause confusion with his name. In 2019, Kushnarenko Oleksii set up “gordonrumsay.com”, having changed just one letter of the star’s real website gordonramsay.com. In January, Mr Ramsay’s lawyers filed an official complaint to the World Intellectual Property Organisation insisting the Russian national was “typosquatting” the chef’s real … [Read more...]
StephenColbert.com expires goes for $633
If you are a television personality on a major network, I think it's a major mistake not to own your name in .com. Stephen Colbert had done The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014 and been on CBS with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since September 2015. He does not have the Twitter handle @stephencolbert, that account is suspended. He uses @stephenathome. He has 18.8 million … [Read more...]
There is freedom within, there is freedom without
The rock band Crowded House was formed in 1985 and on Sunday the domain name CrowdedHouse.com closed at $12,000 on GoDaddy. The name was owned by the founder Neil Finn who has his website at NeilFinn.com. The domain name was registered at 123 Reg not GoDaddy, now interestingly today the whois shows NameFind as the registrant. I don't know if all 123 Reg names go there first for the registrant … [Read more...]
Clinton Campaign Attacks Trump Using a .Biz
To go after Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump and how he would handle the economy, the Clinton campaign has rolled out the ArtofTheSteal.BIZ. A play on words from the famous Trump book the Art of the deal. Apparently the site will be updated on a regular basis. The first issue looks at how Trump would have fared if he just invested in an index fund vs what he has done. Donald … [Read more...]
Tuscany.com; Erotica.com; Penis.com Added At No Reserve To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Some amazing domain names were added to the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at Namescon late last week all at NO Reserve by CheapDomains.com, including one that has an Estibot value of over $5 Million Dollars. That domain name is Penis.com, one of the premier "adult" domains but which is one of those adult words you can say on broadcast television. Penis.com of course can be used as … [Read more...]
We Dug Up All The Tom Brady Emails Related to TB12.com
On Wednesday Deadspin.com posted an article about Tom Brady the quarterback of the New England Patriots and his legal battle with the National Football League. The subject of the story was an email leak that the NFLPA (Players Union) released in response in their lawsuit with the NFL. Deadspin which focuses on sports, touched upon one nugget of interest to domain owners, a potential domain … [Read more...]