About a month ago we told you that around 2,000 domain names owned by Joel Williams/Dream Sellers/In Stealth Mode had been frozen by a state court after certain parties claiming rights in and to those domain names filed for an injunction with a Tennessee Court. At the time we noted that the parties filing the suit must have had an old list of domain since so many of the domains on the list were … [Read more...]
Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google
Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwords product. Here is an except of the interview which you can read here. ""Ten years ago today, my business partners and I sold Applied … [Read more...]
FreshDrop Rolls Out Drop Catching/Backorder Program With Prices @ $18.95
FreshDrop Inc., today announces their new domain backordering service which has been opened in beta, is now open to the public and goes by the name Pheenix.com Pheenix customers are allowed to backorder .com and .net domain names for a low price of $18.95 per caught domain. Domain backorders currently is on a 'First come, First Served' basis with only one customer being able to reserve a … [Read more...]
TRAFFIC Changing Venues In Florida & Returns To Vegas in 2014
The organizers of the TRAFFIC Conference sent out an email today saying that it would be changing its Venue in Florida in 2014 & 2015. Also TRAFFIC will be returning to Las Vegas in 2014 as well: ""In some other news, we have now signed contracts thru 2015 in Florida at a new venue starting in 2014 and also in Las Vegas at the Bellagio thru 2014." TRAFFIC has been held at the past two … [Read more...]
Homeland Security Issues Bulletin Using TheDomains.com List Of Boston Domains
It was a pretty busy week for us at TheDomains.com. Our stories on the registration of domain names here and here, was picked up by news outlets all around the world and was the basis for a bulletin put out by the Department of Homeland Security. The bulletin was issued one day after our initial posts on domain registrations involving the tragic events in Boston by The National … [Read more...]
Chicago.com Announces Strategic Marketing Partnership with Chicago Tribune Media Group
We have been covering the story of Chicago.com sale of subdomains and email addresses for over a year. Chicagobusiness.com, did a very nice story yesterday on Josh Metnick and what he has and plans to do with Chicago.com We have noted that Chicago.com in many ways maybe the first new gTLD as its business plans for the sale of subdomains and email addresses using the vanity Chicago.com is … [Read more...]
After Being Named Suspect In Boston Bombing Dzhokhartsarnaev.com Domain & Site Goes Live
Within minutes of authorities releasing the name of the remaining suspect in the Boston bombings Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the domain name DzhokharTsarnaev.com was registered and the Domain goes to a site containing pictures of the suspect as well as some news stories about him. The domain was registered under privacy. As of now, there is no advertising of any kind on the domain. The domain name of … [Read more...]