According to a press release today Oversee.net launched its newest site, AirportParking.com today, which "offers a fast, easy way for web and mobile users to find and compare rates, features and consumer reviews of off-site airport parking lots. " "Users can book their reservations at AirportParking.com, locking in the rate and a reserved parking spot. Compared to onsite airport parking lots, … [Read more...]
Godaddy Opens Seattle Office& Hires Executives of Microsoft Google & Amazon
Go Daddy announced today that is opening a permanent Seattle-area office in Kirkland or Bellevue, Washington n June. According to a Press Release out today, Godaddy is already operating out of a temporary office near Carillon Point in Kirkland, as Go Daddy has hired "veteran executives from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and eBay, among others. "The reason to join Go Daddy is simple ... you can … [Read more...]
Md.org Sells for $555,655 in an All Time Record For Namejet.com
The two letter domain MD.org name just sold for $555,5650 in what we think is an all time record for a sale on Namejet.com Interestingly its one of the only .Org domains to sell in the past two weeks on Godaddy.com or Namejet.com each of which had single letter and single numbered .org domains for sale with what appears to be reserves of $50K each. We are pretty sure that bidding on Md.Org … [Read more...]
Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses 21 Facebook Domains In One UDRP
Mike Mann's Domain Asset Holdings of Potomac, Maryland just lost a UDRP to Facebook, Inc on 21 domain names which it didn't even respond to The domain at issue … [Read more...]
Google Acquires YT.Be To Use As YouTube Shorterner
According to Thenextweb.com, Google has acquired the domain name YT.be, which it started forwarding to its goo.gl URL shortening service today. "Presumably, Google will use the domain name for shortened links to YouTube videos. " "Today, the company uses another .be domain name to do that, namely youtu.be, as you can tell from this totally randomly selected tweet: I have it on good … [Read more...]
CADNA Wants ACPA Amended To Increase Penalties & Cover PPC Providers & Parking Companies
The Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) issued a paper last night calling for lawmaker to increase the penalties for Cybersquatters and to expand the parties that are held responsible for cybersquatting, not only the domain holder, but basically everyone in the monetization food chain, which would including parking and PPC companies presumable the upstream providers including Google by … [Read more...]
Verisign: 2012 Ends With 252 Million Domain Names: 121 Million .com/.net
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) just published it quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. announcing that more than 6 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2012 The increase of 6.1 million domain names globally equates to … [Read more...]