Clarivate put out a press release today with regards to domain management and security. No surprise as domain names become more valuable and meaningful to organizations around the world. The 2020 survey was conducted by independent research firm Vitreous World and surveyed 1100 IT, legal and marketing decision-makers around the world from seven countries, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, … [Read more...]
Newz.com buyer revealed
Riz from EmpireNames.com sold Newz.com for $70,000 in December. He had purchased it just three months before for $15,500. Riz mentioned he did so with the help of Epik's Rob Monster. The buyer is Contents.com out of Milano MI, ITALY. They own several websites around the world. They also are involved in technology and tools for publishing. They operate on Contents.com and Contents.media. A … [Read more...]
Checkout.com raises $450m a look at the history of this premium .com
Checkout.com just raised $450 million, according to TechCrunch, the company wants to build a one-stop shop for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. It focuses on large merchants and tries to make its product as customizable as possible so that you integrate it as an infrastructure partner in your product. Looking back at the … [Read more...]
Will Registrars ban or delete “hate” domain names in the future?
Disclaimer: This post is for adults only, should not be read around children or at work, the subject of the article deals in words many will find offensive or possibly be triggered by. With social networks censoring being in the spotlight this week. Someone asked about hate related domain names eventually being shut down. On Namepros @Jeffrey asked, Will Registrars ban or delete "hate" … [Read more...]
Patterns.com confirmed stolen
Bill Hartzer confirmed to me that he spoke with the owner of the domain name. Their IT guy eventually said that Netsol told them that it was part of the netsol data breach a year ago. Bill did notice that the theft looked to be more recent. "But if you look at the whois archive it was stolen on 12/7/2020.' It's still at BizCN and has not been returned to the owner's account currently. … [Read more...]
Someone screwed up and let PAA.com drop – Owned by General Electric
CSC Global describes themselves as: As the world's leading corporate domain name registrar, CSC is the only company in the unique position to offer the most innovative, next generation domain management and security solutions, coupled with online brand and fraud protection. The domain name Paa.com was registered with them: Domain Name: PAA.COM Registry Domain ID: … [Read more...]
New disclaimer alert for GoDaddy Appraisal tool
Over the weekend I noticed a little triangle as an alert when using the GoDaddy appraisal tool. Disclaimer The Estimated Value is based on an algorithm utilizing data GoDaddy has available to it to help estimate predicted sale price of domains. However, we do not make any guarantee or other promises to any results that may be obtained from your purchase or sale of any domain, and this is … [Read more...]