CoInvent Pulse is a business & technology festival that’s scheduled to take place in today in New York City . This event will be featuring 150 exhibitors and an array of business workshops. It's estimated to be one of the largest technology gatherings with thousands of attendees. The mission of the conference is to help founders, startups, and entrepreneurs grow and thrive in the New … [Read more...]
Domain Registration At a Record Pace 460,000, Yesterday
The huge surge in daily domain name registrations continued yesterday as over 460,000 domain names were registered across all Top Level Domains (excluding ccTLD). Traditionally the number of domain name registrations slow on the weekend, to the point where it's not unusual to see the number of .Com deleted, exceed the number of new registrations for the day, leading to a negative … [Read more...]
Last Call: 6 Number .Com’s: Less than 8K Left Out of 1 Million
If you're considering registering any 6 number Ccom domains (NNNNNN.com) I'm going calling "Last Call'. As of publication less than 8,000 NNNNNN.com remain available for registration. The possible number of 6 numbered .com domains is 1,000,000 including the dreaded number 4 and zero. We would expect all of these domain name to be registered by the end of the weekend. There is a huge … [Read more...]
Bloomberg: “Candidates Continue to Miss Obvious Domain Registrations”
Bloomberg just published another post on presidential candidates and the domain names they failed to register. In a post BNA.com calls out Jeb Bush for failing to register the matching domain of his "new campaign slogan--“Jeb Can Fix It!” "Jimmy Flanagan, a 2014 candidate for the Austin, Texas, City Council, had registered the domain name out from under the candidate." "Bush isn’t … [Read more...]
RightofTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Is Opened for Submissions
RightoftheDot.com is holding a live and online auction with Namejet.com from the Namescon conference. RightoftheDot.com has now formally opened up submission for the auction. We are looking for great domain names, especially one word .com and new gTLD'sm along with short domains in all extensions, along with brand domains, category killers, Geographic domains. Domains should have a low … [Read more...]
Report: Vegas.com Bought LasVegas.com in 2005 For Up To $90 Million Dollars
George Kirikos spotted an SEC document showing that Vegas.com purchased LasVegas.com in 2005, for what could be up to a $90 Million Dollars. "In June 2005 , VEGAS.com, LLC entered into an agreement for the purchase of LasVegas.com on the following terms: The agreement specified that a $12,000,000, one-time payment be made upon execution of the agreement along with monthly payments of … [Read more...]
Former VP of ICANN Hired By Facebook For “New Domain Name System Strategy & Management Team”
Denise Michel who was formerly with ICANN as VP of Strategic Initiatives and Advisor to the President, has been hired by Facebook to work on Facebook's new "Domain Name System Strategy and Management Team" which she says "will help improve the global framework for domain names, IP addresses, numbers and related elements." Denise "will be working across Facebook departments and collaborating … [Read more...]