As we covered here a few times over the last few weeks, Facebook is having all kinds of problems with it's partners in Libra. Paypal dropped out and now the rest of the U.S. payment processing companies have dropped out. TheVerge wrote: The first to ditch Libra was Paypal, which withdrew on October 4th. Then, over the course of a few hours on October 11th, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and … [Read more...]
Can Facebook prevent it’s financial partners from abandoning Libra?
Since Facebook announced it's plans for Libra in June, many domain investors climbed on board the Libra domain name train. With a lot of excitement for both Facebook Libra and domain registrations, optimism was high. That optimism might need to be tempered a bit, an article in the Wall Street Journal speaks of financial partners like Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., and others are having second … [Read more...]
Bitcoin.com publishes a piece on crypto domain names
Jamie Redman wrote a pretty long piece about the buying, selling and discussion of crypto related domain names. Redman went through a lot of social media posts, referenced a discussion about crypto on Namepros and pulled out a bunch of sales. It would have been nice for Jamie to have left out the squatter moniker and just referred to people buying a selling as domainers, investors or … [Read more...]
Support for Facebook’s Libra is beginning to wane
The Next Web published a piece about some of the early backers of Libra looking to back away and maybe back out completely. The story written by Yessi Bello Perez takes a look at a recent report from FT.com (you need to subscribe to read it). It looks like the backlash from regulators is prompting some companies to think about it changing course. From the article: Now, the FT it’s spoken … [Read more...]
Short .ETH domains are kind of expensive
So a couple years ago Ethereum rolled out the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) The domains end in .ETH. During the rollout the .ETH domains had to be 7 characters or more. But now they are going to roll out the short .ETH domains. And they ain't cheap. EnCirca who just extended pre registration to August 9, are offering the following: 3-character domain names $19204-character domain names … [Read more...]
The largest .io sale of all time is going to be used for a Crypto app
Last month Swipe.io sold for $68,000 at Park.io. This marks the largest reported .io sale of all time. It looks like the name was bought by a crypto company and Swipe.io will be an app that allows users to spend 20+ cryptocurrencies from a non-custodial wallet. Interestingly there is a Swipe.io that is a game produced by Diginity Games. This is an actual game in both the App store and … [Read more...]
“Scammers flock to buy Libra domains”
Right after the Facebook announcement of Libra, I wrote an article about 1,000 Libra related names being registered almost immediately. The threat intelligence outfit Digital Shadows reported on all the registrations and that the company has already found several sites deliberately trying to trick consumers into thinking they are related to the new Facebook project. According to an article … [Read more...]
