Penn State which certainly has had one of the biggest scandals in the United States over the last few years leading to criminal charges, the resignation of the President of the University and the legendary football coach Joe Paterno, has now let the domain name PennState.com expire. The domain name PennState.com is registered to Penn State formally known as the The Pennsylvania State … [Read more...]
Aftermarket.com Rolls Out Affiliate Program: $1 Each New Account; 25% Of Commissions
In an email sent out this afternoon, Aftermarket.com announced an Affiliate Program which they described as a "commission-based, revenue-sharing incentive program with a unique twist." "Park & Sell with us, and we'll reward you for referrals to Aftermarket from your parked domains." "We automatically place multiple referral links on every parked domain, giving you multiple opportunities … [Read more...]
CentralNic and Co.com Ink Deal
According to a press release we received today, Co.com LLC and CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) announced an agreement today, under which CentralNic will provide the technical registry services to make co.com domain names available through registrars worldwide. With the introduction of co.com, companies who missed out will have a second opportunity to get a generic and global domain name ending in .com … [Read more...]
Paul Sloan Author Of Mainstream Domain Articles; CNET & Business 2.0 Lands At Coupons.com
Paul Sloan, who has written some of the most read articles about the domain industry is the new head of communications of Coupons.com According to the bizjournals.com, "Coupons.com is among a record group of venture-backed companies that are valued at more then $1 billion." "In addition to his time at CBS Interactive's CNET, Sloan has worked at Fortune, Business 2.0, CNN Bloomberg and U.S. … [Read more...]
Fallout From New gTLD’s: What If Everyone Loses?
After years of debating the topic of how successful the new gTLD program will be and what the effect of new gTLD's will have on the value of existing extensions including .com. Mostly every post has wound up with people arguing whether .com's will win or the new gTLD's will win. Other including myself has voiced the opinion that many new gTLD's can become quite profitable without any hugely … [Read more...]
Lets Set The Record Straight; My 5+ Year Journey Through New gTLD’s
As the year closes I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at thedomains.com and what we have had to say about it since we started writing about it over 5 years ago. For many, you first heard of the new gTLD program on theDomains.com. Seeing that a monumental change to the naming system was coming we have written about it every step of the way Readers have all kinds of … [Read more...]
Verisign Is Taking Back Expired Two Letter & Two Number .TV Domains
Verisign the registry for the .TV registry is apparently taking back any expired new Two letter (LL.TV) .TV domain names as well as any two numbered (NN>TV) domain names. Recently a domainer that had a back order on a two letter .Tv domain and a two numbered domain received this notice from Verisign: "Thank you for contacting Verisign Support. I reached out to our Operations team to … [Read more...]