I thought it would be interesting to see what the automated appraisal services had to say about the value of the domain king, Rick Schwartz $1,350,000 Million dollar sale of eBet.com If your a frequent reader of thedomains.com you know I'm not a huge fan of the online appraisal services but pretty surprised when I checked this domain today and found only 2 of 5 gave it a value in the five … [Read more...]
Verisign: Over 150 Domains Registered Over Government ShutDown
Verisign the registry for the .com and .net registry just released a graph showing a lot of activity with people registering domain names involving the Government Shutdown. It appears from the graph there have been over 150 domain names registered since October 1st containing the word :"shutdown" We also wrote a post about the domain name GovernmentShutdown.com on October 1st, so we are going … [Read more...]
Media Options Gets MO.co Domain From .Co Regsitry
Domain brokr MediaOptions.com announced tonight on its Facebook page that is acquired the domain name MO.co from the .Co registry. A press release is expected to be released sometime today, but as of now we don't know what MediaOptions.com paid for Mo.Co and how MediaOptions is planimg on using the premium two letter .Co domain. According to Andrew Rosener post on Facebook: "Press Release … [Read more...]
As The WikiLeaks Movie Gets Set To Open 2 Domainers, Schilling & Howe Get Ready To Cash In
As the movie about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entitled The Fifth Estate, whose URL is TheFifthEstateMovie.com, is getting ready to open 0n October 18, two well known domainers are primed to make some money off the movie which is already getting a lot of buzz. Frank Schilling's Name Administration owns the domain name FifthEstate.com while my Domain Sherpa weekly domain investor co-star … [Read more...]
Google/Mastercard/Amex/Paypal/Discover Go After After MugShots.com & Mug Shot Removal Sites
According to Cnet.com, Google along with credit card processors Mastercard, Amex, Discover and Paypal are going after sites like MugShots.com (Cnet actually put that one on top of their article which appears above) Sites like Mugshots.com, take public Mug Shot photos from law enforcement and put them up on the site where … [Read more...]
Autobytel Sells AutoWeb.com With Trademark For $1.5 Million To AutoWeb & Launches PPC Network
According to a press release out today, as part of a bigger transaction AutoWeb has acquired the domain name AutoWeb.com and related trademarks from Autobytel (Nasdaq: ABTL), for $1.5 million in AutoWeb stock. Here is the full release: ""Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq: ABTL), the company dedicated to helping automotive consumers and dealers connect online, announced it has invested $2.5 million in … [Read more...]
Twitter Says In Their S1 That Their Tweet Trademark May Become Unprotectable
According to USA Today, Twitter in its S1 the document it filed for its IPO states "There is a risk that the word "Tweet" could become so commonly used that it becomes synonymous with any short comment posted publicly on the Internet, and if this happens, we could lose protection of this trademark," Tweet is already in Merriam-Webster dictionary with the word defined as "a post made on the … [Read more...]