Verisign reports that they have lost .com domain name registrations over the past couple of days after it briefly reported that the number of .com registration passed 113 Million domains. According to RegistrarStats the number of registered .com domain names is sitting at 112,952,656 after it had a net lost over 17,000 registrations. However Verisign own stats which were just updated a few … [Read more...]
Days After The AFL-CIO Calls Coins The Term Kellogg Greed & The Company Registers Domain Names
Last week the AFL-CIO a published a story on hundreds of workers of Kellogg who its says have been locked out of one the company's plants in Memphis in a post call Kellogg Greed: Destroying Worker Dedication Around the Globe. News outlets picked up the story and the issue seems to be spreading to other plant's of Kellogg. The union in question the BCTGM launched a social media campaign … [Read more...]
The 26th Highest Domain Sale of 2010, Reportedly Stolen
There was a press release put out that reported the domain name imoveis.com.br stolen. The release says that the domain was purchased in 2010 for $300,000 and checking out the archives on DN Journal that sale is reported. iMoveis means real estate or homes in Portuguese. The press release details how they believe the name was stolen. Press Release: In 2010 it was worth 300,000 USD … [Read more...]
Another Banner Day For Domains As Total Adds is Almost 65,000; 35K From .Com
Domain name registrations continue to grow with a bunch of new gTLD going live and as people continue to register more of the orginal TLD's .com, .net and .org Yesterday new domain registrations over all TLD's (not counting ccTLD's) grew by a net of 64,430 domain name .Berlin added 4,408 new registrations on the day after it went live. A few new gTLD came out with their initial … [Read more...]
PR Trying To Sell A Domain: “I Think I Can Convince The Owners to Sell for $500K”
I saw this press release that was published today for the word Gamely.com which appears to be for sale and the subject of the press release. Not a horrible domain, but certain a very bad pitch in my opinion when it comes to price: "We are talking about the domain name Gamely.com. We asked the domain name expert Paul Wilson what figure he sees on this domain name and this is what he said: "I … [Read more...]
People Are Gobbling Up Hillary Clinton Domains
Time Magazine did a piece on the squatting of Hillary Clinton Internet squatters have been grabbing pieces of Clinton-related real estate in the hopes of a 2016 payoff Typing Hillary Clinton’s name into your favorite Web browser is becoming a more and more adventurous proposition. As the former Secretary of State mulls a repeat bid for the White House in 2016, an amalgamation of spammers, … [Read more...]
Donuts Letter To Those That Lost Eco New gTLD’s
Donuts just sent out a letter to all their customers that registered a new gTLD with the word Eco on the left of the dot, who had their domains taken back from the registry. The memo line on the email reads "Your Recently Deleted Name" As we stated earlier this week, we lost one such domain, eco.domains, so we got an email letter of our own and thought you would be interesting in seeing what … [Read more...]