Earlier this month we learned that LasVegas.com sold back in 2005 for what could be up to $90 Million Dollars. In August the sale of Vegas.com was announced to a public company in a deal that could be worth $38 million dollars. In both instances, Vegas has consistently set the record valuation marks as the most valuable destination-specific website in the world. Now the website and domain … [Read more...]
CES Conference Drops Its Domain Ce.org For CTA.Tech
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) parent company of the giant electronic show, CES which is held every January in Las Vegas, has dropped its 2 character .org for a new gTLD, .tech domain name The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the non-profit organization unveiled its new name, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and introduced its new logo on November 11th. The company … [Read more...]
Remember Those Free .Realtor Domains? They Do Not Appear Free To Renew
Remember when the new gTLD .Realtor rolled out giving members of the National Association of REALTORS as well as the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) the chance to register a free .Realtor domain name? .Realtor went to far to warn its members just over a year ago not to "pre-register or pay money to an outside company for a .REALTOR top level domain because NAR will oversee … [Read more...]
.XYZ Tops 1.5 Million Domains As Domain Registrations Return To Normal
.XYZ just broke through the 1.5 million mark in registered domain names which is net includes pending deletes. The CEO of XYZ Daniel Negari told TheDomains.com that he was ecstatic! and thinks they should break 2 Million within the next 6 - 9 months. In general domain world returned to normal numbers over the last few days as yesterday looked like a typical Sunday. Total new domains were … [Read more...]
AT.com Gets a $1.5 Million Bid At NameJet.com
On Thursday we told you that the domain name AT.com was added to the RightoftheDot domain name auction being held as part of the NamesCon Conference on January 11th 2016, for which pre-bidding is now opened on Namejet.com There is now a qualified $1.5 Million dollar bid on the domain name AT.com which of course is a even a more rare than a Two Letter .com which only has 676 possible … [Read more...]
Judge In 1st Verisign vs. XYZ Case Publishes 15 Page Opinion
The federal judge CLAUDE M. HILTON who granted a summary judgement in favor of .XYZ and Daniel Negari last month throwing Verisign's case for false advertising out, today handed down a 15 page Memorandum Opinion supporting the summary judgement decision and of course its very interesting. Here are the highlights: THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Defendants XYZ.COM, LLC and Daniel Negari … [Read more...]
Radix: .ONLINE Fastest New gTLD to Sell 100,000 Domains
Radix the registry for .ONLINE announced today that .Online is the fastest gTLD to sell 100,000 domains names since their launch less than 3 months ago. After a very successful launch which broke all new gTLD records with 38,000 domain names registered in the first 24 hours of General Availability, .online surpassed 100,000 domain registrations this morning. The 100,000th domain to be … [Read more...]