Jeremey Pegg is the gentleman who sold ClintonKaine.com for $15,000 on Flippa. He tweeted out yesterday the following: $13,200 appeared in my bank account today, yet I still have control of https://t.co/LYK8bbPhkl through my Blogger account — Jeremy Pegg (@JPGclog) August 20, 2016 The website is a Harry Potter fan fiction site portraying Hillary Clinton as "Hillary Potter" … [Read more...]
Two Years After Starting Service in Prague, UBER picks up UBER.CZ
It looks like Uber acquired the domain Uber.cz. The domain is now registered at Mark Monitor. Almost two years to date that the service became available in Prague, the first city in central and eastern Europe where the Uber car hire service is available. The domain was owned by Internet CZ since 2008. … [Read more...]
Virgin Loses URS On The Domain Name VirginMedia.vip
Virgin Enterprise Limited of London, has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding on the domain name VirginMedia.vip which is owned by Wang Hong Wei of Beijing, China who did not even respond to the URS. The Examiner Mr. Peter Müller concluded that Virgin failed to provide "a single copy of a trademark certificate or a printout of an official trademark database. Therefore, the Examiner … [Read more...]
.Tel Which Once Had 340K Registrations Slips To Under 100K
.Tel which is not a new gTLD but gTLD that was launched in 2005, by January 2011 .Tel had around 340,000 domain registrations. By February 2014, when the new gTLD's started to launch .Tel had around 150,000 domain registrations. According to RegistarsStats.com, .Tel had a net loss of over 700 domain names yesterday bringing the total number of domain registrations to now under 100K to … [Read more...]
Guest Post: .WS Goes To China
This is a guest post by Alan Ezeir who is the Founder & President of Global Domains International, Inc which owns and operates the .WS registry which is the ccTLD of Samoa. I found it an interesting read not just for .WS domains but for all short domains in China. The following was written by Mr. Ezeir and was published unedited: ""I recently went to China with no expectations, just … [Read more...]
Playing The President/VP Domain Game? Asking Prices Up to $80K
TheHill.com published a story last night about an anti-Donald Trump super-PAC registering "a slew of web domains" in anticipation of the presumptive Republican nominee's running mate announcement later this week. Well it appears a "slew of domain names" were actually three .Gop domains; "trumpgingrich.gop, trumppence.gop and trumpchristie.gop, all three of which redirect to the group's … [Read more...]
Delaware.com Sold By Godaddy To The Delaware Company House LLC
The domain name Delaware.com has been sold to The Delaware Company House LLC whose current domain name is DelawareCompanyHouse.com According to it's site, "the The Delaware Company House is located at 8 The Green in Dover, Delaware. If you find us on a map, you’ll see we’re steps from the Chancery Court and the Old State House, a short walk from most any Delaware State office you may need to … [Read more...]