Verisign released the results of a global survey today that was conducted by Merrill Research of 1,050 small businesses (SMB) with an online presence, to get a better understanding of SMB’s sentiment around the benefits, barriers, and preferences for creating an online presence. The results of the survey found that in the U.S., 9 out of 10 small businesses with an online presence prefer a .com … [Read more...]
Finances.com Purchased For $500,000
Finances International, Ltd. just announced they purchased the domain name Finances.com for $500,000. "Finances.com is to become home to one of the most interactive online portals dedicated to financial markets and financial management. " "The portal will be officially launched on November 1st, 2013. " The new financial resource will act as a free independent … [Read more...]
BuyDomains Asks: “Is The Most Popular gTLD (.com) Here to Stay?
On its company blog this morning BuyDomains Asks, is the most popular gTLD here to stay? TLD Overview (As of July 11, 2013) All TLDs 145,865,255 .COM 109,598,525 .NET 15,131,258 .ORG 10,343,917 .INFO 6,599,817 .BIZ 2,375,364 .US 1,816,374 "No one could have predicted the success of the … [Read more...]
LaunchRock Switches From .Com to .Co
LauchRock.co which bills itself as "A Platform For New Startups" has switched its main URL from LaunchRock.com to LaunchRock.co effective July 1, 2013. In a email sent to users, LaunchRock.com announced the change: """ From: LaunchRock <hello@launchrock.com> Date: 2013/7/1 Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: Keep your LaunchRock account from being retired Hello … [Read more...]
King.com Drops The .Com & Rebrands As King
According to Socialnewsdaily.com, King.com has re-branded itself by dropping the .com and going with just King, to celebrate it 10 year anniversary. Here is how the site used to look: This is how the site looks … [Read more...]
Here Are the Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam:
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign had filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. Last night we published Verisign's objection to .Cam as being too close to .Com In support of their objection, Verisign provided the Centere with two … [Read more...]
Here Is Verisign’s Objection To .Cam & Why They Think Its Too Close To .Com
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. As of today the objections are still not showing up on the on the site of the provider where the objection was filed but TheDomains.com got some detailed … [Read more...]