Frank Schilling just Tweeted that the the total dollar value of "priced" domain names on DomainNameSales.com  is over $3 Billion dollars. The exactly total of priced domain names was $3,327,525,422. That's a lot of digits and a lot of money. I'm now told that the total reflects just Frank Schilling owned domain names which carry a Buy it Now price. I'm also told that "way less" of 1/3 … [Read more...]

I got a serious of emails the other day on a domain name we own Hablamos.com The offer came into us unsolicited and except for the amount which we quoted as in dollars, but for the purposes of the post is now referred to just being $xx,xxx; the emails are reprinted word for word: This is the email we received from vicentecurto@gmail.com "Hi, I'm Vicente Curto and I'm interested to know … [Read more...]

Back on December 19th we wrote about one new gTLD  applicant's plan to charge $25,000 for a .sucks domain registration in a post entitled; "You’ve Got To Be Kidding: $25K For A .Sucks Domain Name Registration" Today Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) called .Sucks "little more than a predatory shakedown scheme designed to force large corporations, small businesses, non-profits, and even … [Read more...]

California-based Agreed Escrow announce today it has partnered with GoCoin to become the first licensed Internet escrow service to allow clients to pay with Bitcoin and Litecoin through its site at Agreed.com. "Agreed is licensed by the California Department of Business Oversight to act as an Internet Escrow agent in escrows involving goods and services." "Agreed’s clients are now able to … [Read more...]

The Baltimore Business Journal has just covered John Ferber and his new venture  Bidtellect which is what the company known as DomainHoldings, Inc. is changing its name to. According to the article which quotes John: ""Bidtellect is an online platform through which advertisers bid in real-time for native ad spots. " "The company was founded in 2010 as a domain name brokerage called Domain … [Read more...]

Fred Krueger of Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) book entitled "Stop Drinking and Get Fit: A guide to personal transformation" is now in paperback and available at Amazon for purchase for $15.18. This new 200 page "Director's Cut" is a must have..." says Krueger Fred wrote on his Facebook page that he dropped close to 30 Lbs and had gotten under 15% body fat: "Phase 1 was … [Read more...]

The start of another week and already I have a nice set of spam emails. Sure I get many of these every day and 99.99% I send into trash without regard but this one caught my eye based off the domain listed (which isn't a bad domain) just a bad message ""Hello Worldwide Media Inc. My Name is Larry and I am representing the potential sale of CambridgeMovers.com We realized you may be … [Read more...]