Someone over the weekend asked me if I thought they should get their name + sucks.com? I didn't think they needed it and certainly don't need to spend the money securing a .sucks domain. It did get me to looking at industry participants and see if they decided to go the nameSUCKS.com route. RickSchwartzSucks.com was registered in 2000 and points to … [Read more...]
A tale of three disputes
Many times over the years someone will try to pinpoint the % of the .com value in .net and .org. While there is no formula and plenty of outlier sales distort the data set, this week we have a look at a one word, common English name in .com, .net and .org. Dispute.com was regged 22 years ago, with the .net and .org following one year later. Dispute.com which we did a best guess contest on to … [Read more...]
Coin.Store tops the list of first half premium sales for Radix
Radix (an advertiser of TheDomains) put out their premium report for Radix TLDs for the period 1st Jan to 30th June 2018. Coin.store was the top premium registration. A developed website out of China. Some of the key highlights of this report are: Radix crosses $1.1 Million in Premium Revenue across 1200 domains Revenue split: 51% revenue comes from new registrations and 49% … [Read more...]
Copper.com has a new owner
ProsperWorks is a company that is in the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) space. They just announced on their blog that they have now rebranded to Copper.com. Copper.com was previously being used by Iglou Internet Services, under the name Copper Electronics. You can see a snapshot of the old website here. No mention how much they paid for the domain which was registered in 1994. Tip … [Read more...]
Duck Duck Go founder asks Google to sell them Duck.com
So there was an interesting article on CNET today about Duck.com. Google acquired the domain back in 2010 when they acquired ON2. But there is confusion, most people when they hear duck and search think of Duck Duck Go. When people typed in Duck.com they went to Google.com. Duck Duck Go did not like that. So Google decided to make some changes and provide a link to their rival search engine, … [Read more...]
BTM.com in pending delete as investor forgets to renew
It looks like Elequa from Future Media Architects forgot about one of his valuable 3L.com domains. I saw a post on Namepros about BTM.com being in pending delete and while I thought it would be a company that got acquired and the name got lost in the shuffle, it was not. It's actually owned by a well known domain investor. I did text Elequa to let him know to see if he can get something … [Read more...]
Is .co starting to hold back mediocre domain names?
Holding back and reserving what one would consider "premium" names is nothing new in domaining. Verisign has taken back drops on premium .tv domains many a time. Certain new gtld registries have done the same. There is usually not a desire to hold back average or what some might even consider below average names. I was reading a post on Namepros and a member (Crysis) uncovered a bunch of .co … [Read more...]