According to a story out tonight in Chinatechnews.com, the buyer of the domain name 37.com for $2.1 Million dollars is Shanghai-headquartered 37wan.net a Chinese Gaming company The company officially renamed the company 37 Game today. Li Yifei, president of the company said "the market for web game exports is optimistic and it is a necessary way for gaming companies to expand into overseas … [Read more...]
Mashable Looks at “The History of the Domain Name”
Max Knoblauch did a post entitled "A Brief History of the Domain Name" Starting off with Symbolics.com owned by Aron Meystedt, to 1995 and the end of free domain names. 1998 and the privatization of the DNS and ICANN. 1998: Privatization of the DNS and ICANN In 1998, the Department of Commerce, under President Clinton's urging, issued a proposal for privatizing the Domain Naming System (DNS), … [Read more...]
Tencent Pays $15 Million For 15% Stake In JD.com
According to Wall Street Journal, the Chinese Giant, Tencent, has agreed to pay $215 million for a 15% stake in JD.com. JD.Com’s planning on a $1.5 billion IPO. JD.com, formerly known as 360buy.com, is a distant second in the Chinese e-commerce market to Alibaba’s shopping sites, Taobao.com and Tmall.com. It was recently revealed that 360buy.com paid $5 Million dollars for the domain name … [Read more...]
Apartments.com sells for $585 Million in Cash
Apartments.com the business was sold for $585 million. The current owner put out a press release announcing the sale today. The registrant info has not yet changed according to whois records. Apartments.com was registered in 1996, interestingly the domain had dropped two times before. The seller Classified Ventures also owns Cars.com Here is the press release: Classified Ventures, LLC … [Read more...]
Apple Announces Car Play Without Securing the .Com
Apple announced a new iPhone in car integration system and named it Car Play. Vlad Sanov reported for The Verge As was rumored on Friday, Apple is today finally ready to launch a new iPhone integration setup for car infotainment systems. Calling it CarPlay, the Cupertino company claims it's "designed from the ground up to provide drivers with an incredible experience using their iPhone in … [Read more...]
Cybersquatter Now Owes Donald Trump $32K Due To 4 Domain Registrations
According to an article just posted by the NYpost.com, A ""Canarsie cybersquatter who registered domain names related to Donald Trump and used them to skewer the real estate magnate must pay him $32,000 in damages, a Brooklyn judge ruled""J. Taikwok Yung first drew Trump’s rage in 2007 when he registered four websites — trumpindia.com, trumpbeijing.com, trumpabudhabi.com and … [Read more...]
Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A&E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV
About a month ago we interviewed Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 making it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. Tonight Kevin reported to us that the buyer is A & E Network who is using the domain name FYI.TV to re-brand its Bio network. The Hollywoodreporter.com confirms that A … [Read more...]