CBSNews.com published a blog post about a week ago about a domain investor who owns Lebron.com since 2008. The story, which in a very positive light, chatted about a domain investor, Patrick Nagle. whom they described as a "Tech-savvy Maryland businessman". "As millions of basketball fans search online for news of what team free … [Read more...]
After Losing MyArt.com in UDRP, Fed Court Awards Owner Domain + Damages + Attorney Fees
According to a post on the site of the law firm Lewis & Lin, the domain owner of MyArt.com who lost a UDRP in April, filed a lawsuit in federal court and not only stopped the transfer of the domain name but got an award of statutory damages, attorney’s fees and litigation costs. We wrote about the UDRP back in April of this year and noted it was the 2nd UDRP filed by the same complaint on … [Read more...]
TheFullStory.com Raises $1.2 Million After Buying The Domain In December for $2,477
The domain name TheFullStory.com was sold on Godaddy.com/Afternic.com in December last year for $2,477. Today the company was covered by TechCrunch.com after raising $1.2 Million Dollars. According to TechCrunch, TheFullStory.com is "trying to minimize those endless hours spent on the phone by capturing everything a user does on a company’s product using a simple script. FullStory … [Read more...]
Secret.ly Bought For $3,500 On Sedo 9 Months Ago Raises $25 Million At $100M Valuation
It was just back in March that the New York Times chatted about, what was at that time, a 5 week old app called Secret which uses the domain name Secret.ly Today the company announced it has raised an additional $25 Million dollars, on top of the $8.6 million the company announced it raised in March from a number of well-known investors, including Alexis … [Read more...]
.XYZ Debuts on RegstrarStats.com As The 8th Most Registered Top Level Domain Extension
.XYZ has become the 8th most registered Top Level Domain according to RegistrarStats.com. .XYZ domain registrations are only surpassed by .Com, .Net, .Org, .Info, .Biz, .US and .Mobi (actually .US is a ccTLD not a TLD) This is the first day I have seen .XYZ stats picked up by RegistrarStats.com which shows .XYZ picking up over 4,000 registrations and the only one of … [Read more...]
RapGenius.com Upgrades & Rebrand To Genius.com
The website RapGenius.com announced today that they acquired and were re-branding to the killer domain name Genius.com The domain name Genius.com was previously owned by Genius.com, Inc. of San Mateo California. In June 2014 the whois record changed for a short time to Tony Wong of Callidus … [Read more...]
Founder of Mt. Gox To Sell BitCoins.com In HA.com Domain Auction On July 24th
The URL Bitcoins.com will hit the auction block on July 24, 2014, as Part of Heritage Auctions’ Domain Names & Intellectual Property Auction. The domain name is being sold by Mark Karpeles, the controversial founder of the failed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, and is expected to bring more than $750,000. "We are hoping, with the sale of Bitcoins.com, to provide some relief to the people … [Read more...]