On the Live Domain Sherpa show from TRAFFIC in Las Vegas, Rick Schwartz let the world know that he went on a buying binge with regards to new gTLD domains the past few days and now actually owns more new gTLD domains than I do. As we sit today, my company Worldwide Media, Inc. owns 455 new gTLD domain names. Mr. Schwartz who is a fellow Domain Sherpa, told the attendees at TRAFFIC that he … [Read more...]
Two Letter .Com; QM.com Hits The Market For 1st Time & Already Has a High Bid of $260K
RightoftheDot.com is exclusively brokering the two letter .com domain QM.com which is on the market for the first time. The domain is corporate owned not domainer owned. The owner is looking for offers of $500,000 or more. ROTD has a current high offer of $260,000 and just started brokering the domain less than two weeks ago. There are only 676 two letter .com domains For some well … [Read more...]
After Spending $5 Million For its Brand, JD.com $1.9 Billion IPO Hits Wall Street This Week
JD.com is going public this week as it IPO hits Wall Street. It was just a year ago in March 2013 that we told you, China’s” leading direct B2C e-commerce company”, Jingdong , who was operating as 360buy.com, purchased re-branded as JD.com. In February we found out the company may have paid as much as $5 Million for JD.com. The company is trying to sell $1.9 Billion dollars … [Read more...]
TheDomains.com Hits 80,000 Comments
The Domains hit a milestone last night of 80,000 approved comments. Lucky number 80,000 was Joseph Peterson with this comment. The first comment made on this blog was 12/5/07 by David Castello of CCIN. 80,000 works out to 11.72 comments per post and that average is much larger over the last two years. All of us here at The Domains would like to thank everyone who takes the time out of … [Read more...]
Our Interview With The CEO Of Maccabim.com On The Serial Cybersquatter Detector
Last week we wrote about a new product called the Serial Cybersquatter Detector (SCD) Network powered by DomainTools® and being run and marketed by Maccabim.com. As we expressed in the original post we had some issues a company using an automated system to to identify "Serial Cybersquatters" so we reached out to Jonathan Matkowsky, the Founder & CEO of Maccabim.com Ltd. who was nice enough … [Read more...]
Univision Launches Mobile Service & Got The Perfect Domain For It Through A UDRP
Engadget.com reported today that "Univision just partnered with T-Mobile to create a new Spanish-language cellphone service called Univision Mobile. "Underpinned by T-Mo's network, the new partnership will target the 56 million strong Hispanic American market with "custom-built" plans. Like its parent carrier, those will be contract-free starting at $30 for unlimited texts and calls and $45 for … [Read more...]
New gTLD’s Take 1st Toll On Existing String? .Mobi Falls Below 1 Million Registrations
According to RegistrarStats.com the Top Level Domain (TLD) .Mobi fell below 1 Million domain name registrations. .Mobi hit a high of 1.2 Million registrations in January 2014 before the new gTLD were released. .Mobi increased registration from late 2011, from below 1 Million hitting 1.2 Million on January. We can't peg the losses of 200,000 domain registrations since … [Read more...]