TechCrunch.com just published a story on Adam Strong and Alan Townsend's purchase of Logo.com through their company Logo.com, LLC. Nice to see for the second day in a row a domain industry story picked up by TechCrunch.com We wish Adam and Alan best of luck with their acquisition and new venture. … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers Divyank Turakhia From Directi
TechCrunch just published a post all about Directi's founder Divyank Turakhia. The post also contains a video interview with Div by the author of the post Robin Wauters. The interview was done at the same conference we wrote about yesterday that Div attended called "The Founders. Div is now at Ad:Tech in New York where it will be officially launching its media.net product that Andrew … [Read more...]
“Lords Of Cyberspace” Are Founders Of Twitter, YouTube, Skype Bebo & Divyank Turakhia of Directi
Divyank Turakhia, Founder of Directi, has just been named along with the founders of Twitter, YouTube, the Skype and Bebo as the "Lords Of Cyberspace" According to A story 1st published by The Irish News and now picked by the Irish Independent, Divyank one of the biggest players in the domain industry, attended a conference in Ireland called "the Founders" which ran along side a long running … [Read more...]
Comedy.tv, Pets.Tv. Recipe.tv: Great Domains With Matching Shows On The Air: All Owned By Byron Allen
Byron Allen has done something most domainers can only dream of. Marry great .TV domain names with actual on air broadcast television shows. Some of the domains Mr. Allen's company owns are Comedy.tv, Pets.TV, Recipe.Tv, Cars.TV and ES.tv. All but Cars.tv are actual television shows running in syndication on on broadcast television around the country. Bryon Allen's company is called … [Read more...]
SnapNames/Oversee.net Settles Class Action & Case With Brady
Oversee.net just announced that it has settled two outstanding cases from the Brady Bidding Scandal. One was a class action bought by some of the bidders on the SnapNames.com system that were effected by Brady's bidding. The other case settled today was the action that Oversee brought against Brady seeking $33 Million dollars. For our own account at SnapNames.com we took our settlement … [Read more...]
WTR: 81% Of Global Brands Applying For New gTLD’s Will Make It, Rather Than The .Com Their Master Brand
According to a study conducted by World Trademark Review (WTR) magazine found that of those brands planning to apply to run a new generic top-level domain (gTLD), 81% plan on making their gTLD their master brand. I think most in the domain industry believe that if global brands apply for their own gTLD they would still use their .com as their main internet presence. However if this study is … [Read more...]
Washington Came To TRAFFIC: Why Don’t You Care?
The domain industry again has an opportunity to have a voice Washington with those who pass laws and make regulations. Almost since starting writing thedomains.com I have been talking about the need for domainers to make sure they have a voice in Washington as trademark groups lobby everyday to broaden and strengthen trademark laws so that they can come after your more of your domains, cheaper … [Read more...]