Six NFL/NBA players announced they moved their websites to new gTLD extensions this month: AJ Hawk – Linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals New Website: TheHawkcast.Show Gordon Hayward – Forward for the Utah Jazz New Website: GordonHayward20.Life DeMarre Carroll – Forward for the Toronto Raptors New Website: DemarreCarroll5.Life Brandon Bair – Defensive End for the … [Read more...]
Former Founder of InfoSpace Raises $6.7 Million For Blue.Tech
According to the seattletimes.com, entrepreneur Naveen Jain who founded Intelius and InfoSpace, has raised $6.7 million from investors for his newest venture, BlueDot, "which aims to form health-care and energy businesses from federal research". The company uses the new gTLD Blue.Tech for its website. The domain name Blue.Tech was acquired in a private transaction from the .Tech registry … [Read more...]
PlayBuzz.com Raises $15 Million; Domain Bought For $2,900 in 2013
Playbuzz.com is in the news today after raising $15 million dollars. According to VentureBeat.com, the company said it "raised $15 million in funding from Saban Ventures and Disney for its business of providing sponsored content. Playbuzz helps publishers and content creators distribute their content in ways that boost engagement and social distribution." The domain name PlayBuzz.com … [Read more...]
Namejet Increasing Minimum Price on Pending Delete Domains To $69 from $39 Today
I just got an email from Namejet.com that effective sometime today their "promotional pricing" of $39 minimum on backorders on Pending Delete domain names is ending. The new minimum backorder for Pending Delete domains will now be $69. "This is being done as part of a broader initiative to increase our drop-catch efficacy and to improve the overall customer experience on NameJet by better … [Read more...]
Google Launches Unfiltered.News
Google's parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a "new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a site which analyzes news feeds from around the world, and tells you which news stories are most missed by the media where you live. From there, you can see how these stories are being covered … [Read more...]
Google Moves Its Domain Name Registrar To Domains.Google
Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April's Fool's day when Google temporarily put up "com.google". This is for real and in a post Google says: Introducing domains.google — a new URL for Google Domains "We’re so excited about new domain name endings, we decided to use one ourselves! Starting today, you can find us at domains.google" "Like it? Get a … [Read more...]
Three Letter Domain, EHF.com Lost in UDRP
A three member UDRP panel just handed over the three letter domain name EHF.com to the European Handball Federation The panel of Flip Jan Claude Petillion, John Swinson and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was parked, listed for sale for $150,000, owned by someone who is in the business of domaining and was registered 5 years after the trademark of the Complainant was filed. It … [Read more...]