As most of you, I just finished watching the Seattle blowout tonight in the Super Bowl and on the advertising front I'm going to declare Twitter Hash Tags the big winner and domain names and Facebook as the big losers. No matter what television commercials you loved or hated you had to notice the lack of domain names, the total absence of Facebook URL's and the overwhelming amount of … [Read more...]
Facebook’s Game of The Year Bought Its Domain For $2,500 on Sedo & Isn’t Using It
Facebook published its 2013 Games of the Year list in the 1st week of December. The game gets 100 million active monthly users. The company that makes the game, Pretty Simple SA out of Paris France, bought the matching domain name of the Game of the Year CriminalCase.com for $2,500 on Sedo a year ago. The domain name CriminalCase.com however remains parked today and has an Alexa rank of 9 … [Read more...]
Report: Dailymail.com “Sold For As Much As £1m-plus” (1.65 Million)
According to a story in TheGuardian.com, whose parent company operates Mail Online otherwise known as the Daily Mail & General Trust "has paid potentially as much as £1m-plus to secure the valuable domain name. DailyMail.com" One Million British Pounds Equal just over $1.650,000. According to the story "Mail Online is switching from a .co.uk to .com homepage address, following … [Read more...]
Justin Bieber Arrest Inspires Over 55 Domain Registrations From Funny To Scary
As most of you know 19 year old pop sensation Justin Bieber was arrested down here in South Florida yesterday for DUI and some other charges related to allegedly drag racing down South Beach The arrest has led to over 55 .com and .net domain registrations in just about 24 hours. Some of the domain names are one's that naturally fit the situation such as BieberArrest.com, BieberArrested.com, … [Read more...]
Google Unveiled Smart Contact Lens, we look at who owns the best domain names
A week ago Google introduced their smart contact lens project. Google wrote on its blog in a post which has over 5800 comments: We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. We’re testing prototypes that can generate a reading … [Read more...]
WSJ: There Real End Users Looks Forward To Moving Their URL To A New gTLD
The Wall Street Journal has become the another major publication to publish a story about the launch of the new gTLD program and has actually talked to some real people, small business owners who are looking forward to registering a new gTLD to replace their longer .com The Story is entitled "Sell Bike's? There's a Web Domain For That" "The World Wide Web is about to get a lot … [Read more...]
Look out New Gtlds, Here Come Star Domains
Forget about new gtlds we have Star domains W.Kenneth Ryan has a dream and it is for a multiplexed naming system. Ryan has created the Asterisk browser to make for the possibility of his naming system, he shows an example of how it would work using Johnson.com for example. This browser makes domain name translations completely invisible to the user. Any name*number address will be translated … [Read more...]