According to ifeng.com, a Chinese publication, on July 30, Changping police announced the busting of the an online domain name brokerage scam and detained over 100 suspects. "The scam company, with over 130 employees, markets itself as a subsidiary of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), operating under the cover of domain name brokerage. Its “business development” team … [Read more...]
Rightside Names Board Of Directors
Rightside Group, Ltd., (NAME) today announced through a press release the members of its board of directors and executive management team following the completion of Rightside’s spin-off from Demand Media, Inc.® on August 1, 2014. I Rightside Board of Directors Rightside’s board is composed of three independent members and two non-independent members. The board is structured with three … [Read more...]
Exclusive – Interview with the Buyer of Digital.com, Richard Kershaw
Digital.com sold in the Heritage Auction for $325,000 and with the buyer's premium the total price to the buyer came to $373,750. After the auction we communicated with the gentleman who purchased the domain name, Richard Kershaw. We decided to ask Richard a few questions about what he does, why he purchased the name and how high he would have bid if there was a bidding war ? TheDomains.com: … [Read more...]
Verisign Reports: 128.9 Million .Com/.Net Domains; 57.2% Profit Margin & $1.5 Billion In the Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), the registry for .Com and .Net reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2014 after the market closed today and lets face it .com and net growth are basically stalled. VeriSign, Inc. reported revenue of $250 million for the second quarter of 2014, up 4.6% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $100 million and diluted earnings … [Read more...]
Businessweek: Pitbull Looking at Domainer Merlin Kauffman $7.5 Million Bitcoin Fund
Bloomberg/Businessweek.comm, just published a piece on the hip-hop artist known as Pitbull, one of our South Florida celebs and his business ventures outside of the music world. According to the article Pitbull's attorney is trying to get his client Pitbull to possibly invest in Bitcoin and are looking forward to a meeting none other than Merlin Kaufman, who in addition to being a world-class … [Read more...]
Did Lebron James Lease or Buy Lebron.com? After 6 Years Domain Points To LebronJames.com
CBSNews.com published a blog post about a week ago about a domain investor who owns Lebron.com since 2008. The story, which in a very positive light, chatted about a domain investor, Patrick Nagle. whom they described as a "Tech-savvy Maryland businessman". "As millions of basketball fans search online for news of what team free … [Read more...]
.XYZ Debuts on RegstrarStats.com As The 8th Most Registered Top Level Domain Extension
.XYZ has become the 8th most registered Top Level Domain according to RegistrarStats.com. .XYZ domain registrations are only surpassed by .Com, .Net, .Org, .Info, .Biz, .US and .Mobi (actually .US is a ccTLD not a TLD) This is the first day I have seen .XYZ stats picked up by RegistrarStats.com which shows .XYZ picking up over 4,000 registrations and the only one of … [Read more...]