Facebook through their NPE Team has launched what many are calling a Pinterest like app. Facebook has been launching new consumer-focused apps under the developer name “NPE Team, from Facebook.” Whale was one such app that was created to make memes. That app has apparently already shutdown. Hobbi.com is owned by a gentleman in Malaysia and currently does not resolve. Apparently a domain … [Read more...]
Did Cocoon.com sell for $225,000?
This Week in Startups did a video with the founders of Cocoon. Cocoon is a special app for your most special relationships, designed to keep you close no matter where you are. You want to start at 14:50 - The host says that's a great domain name, a $250,000 domain name. Did you pay that much? More or less, the founders say less, we can say less than $250,000. The one founder said it's … [Read more...]
Corp.com possibly the most dangerous domain on the net?
A great article on KrebsonSecurity.com was posted that talked about an early domain investor selling a valuable and potentially dangerous domain name. According to the article Mike O’Connor a gentleman who started regging domains back in 1994 amassed quite a collection. Names such as bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. From the article: O’Connor … [Read more...]
Report: 28.99% of domains are re-registered by other users
Who Is Hosting This took a deep dive into the world of domain registrations and domain name renewal rates. They enlisted the services of Whois XML API, and put together their report. From the article: The Sample Whois XML API collected data on one million domains registered on the most popular eight TLDs by the number of domain registrations. All are gTLDs apart from the ccTLD .CN … [Read more...]
Elon Musk talks about the 10 years and $10 million to get Tesla.com
On the Third Row Tesla Podcast Elon Musk talks about the 10 year effort to buy Tesla.com. He mentioned the trademark for $75,000 buying the domain was a whole different nightmare that took us 10 years to buy that Tesla com domain. That cost was like 10 million dollars yeah that was crazy. Musk talks about the name might have been changed to Farraday which later a competitor took. Faraday … [Read more...]
Xiaomi founder, on the importance of a domain name
Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company founded by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Lox posted a link to a video of the founder of Xiaomi on the importance of domain names. Kassey Lee added: Well said, but Xiaomi is not easy to pronounce outside China so it's not globally oriented. That explains why they shelled out $3.6m to acquire Mi.com as its corporate … [Read more...]
“Domain trading can be the most rewarding hobby and a fantastic business if you understand it”
Nic.at published a look at domain name trading and referenced some words of wisdom from Rick Schwartz and contrasted them with a new trader starting out, Niels Buntrock. From the article: Several hours a week dedicated to domain trading Schwartz has to be something of an outlier in this industry, though. In an interview with domain.com he shares a number of his hottest tips for people … [Read more...]
