So last week we wrote about another game of whack - a- mole pertaining to Sci-Hub and their jumping from one extension to another. I used The Pirate Bay as an example of this game. A reader accurately pointed out that the site was back on it's Swedish extension .SE. Well today a Stockholm court of appeals upheld a ruling from last year that will take the domain names ThePirateBay.se and … [Read more...]
.Com Passes 127 Million Registrations For 1st Time
According to Verisign, the number of .Com registration passed 127 million for the first time. It was on March 5th, 2016 that the number of .Com registrations passed 126 million, so .Com added a net of 1 Million domain names in just over 2 months. Out of the 127 million .com domain names, just over 126 million are in the "Active Zone File". 126 million .Com domain names is also an all … [Read more...]
DomainX 2016 Selects India Shangri-La’s; Eros Hotel & We Have a 40% Discount For Our Readers
DomainX 2016 announced that they hare holding their "massive event" at Shangri-La's - Eros Hotel, on New Delhi to be held on August 5th, 6th and 7th, 2016! and is offering readers of thedomains.com a 40% discount off the registraton fee for today only. According to a press release we received, DomainX gets together the country’s top domain name industry professionals and provides them a … [Read more...]
1 & 2 Character Domain for .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading .CFD, and .Spreadbetting
"IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), has released one and two-character domains across its portfolio of financial Top Level Domains (TLDs), (new gTLD's) which include .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading, .CFD, and .Spreadbetting. Prices start from $200, with the domain names are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The lineup of domains available includes: Z.forex, 8.markets, … [Read more...]
Google Finally Acquires the Domain AndroidTV.com
Google has finally acquired the domain name AndroidTV.com Google lost a UDRP on the domain name back in March 2014 after the panel said the dispute was outside the types of disputes the UDRP was set up for. You can read our summary of the UDRP here. In April 2014 Google announced that they were launching a product called Android TV. Google did in fact launch Android TV and … [Read more...]
Trump Domain Registrations Last 48 Hrs: VP Guesses, Support & Insults; Stupid & Funny
Since Donald Trump became the Presumptive Nominee of the Republican Party on Tuesday Night there have been over 150 domain registrations about his campaign including Vice President predictions, some supportive of Trump, other registrations are against Trump, some are pretty funny or down right insulting depending on your views. Some domain reflect that not everyone who hates Trump also loves … [Read more...]
Namejet Reports Over $1,250,000 In Domain Sales In April
Namejet.com reported over $1,250,000 in domain name sales in April 2016. Only domain names that sold for $2,000 or more are included and only those domains that sold and were paid for in April are included All sales were led by 746.com at $121,000 The next 4 highest sales were 3 letter .Com domain names. 11 out of the top 14 sales in April were three-letter .com domain names including … [Read more...]