Africa.com has become the latest site to sell Subdomains and according to the registry trademark holders have already grabbed a bunch. According to Ope Odusan, Managing Director, Africa.com: "The world’s largest and most high profile brands have been among the first to acquire domain names ending with the new extension .africa.com. “In the first few weeks since we started offering … [Read more...]
Mashable: NSA.Org Owner Selling Subdomans and Email Addresses For $100
According to Mashable.com, the owner of NSA.org just started selling email addresses for $100. According to the story, Chris Fisher, is registered the domain in 1995. "At the time, since they were cheap, he said, he harvested various domain names. Fisher claims he even registered tacobell.com." "Since then, he has kept the domain, and even turned down offers from people who wanted to buy … [Read more...]
2.5 Million New Followers Of Twitter Accounts In Last 30 Days Can’t Be Wrong; Domains Are Hot
TheDomains.com has maintained a Twitter account for just about as long I we have been publishing the blog which is coming up to 6 years. In the last 30 days I have noticed a huge spike in new followers to @thedomains that have a huge amount of followers themselves. These are business oriented accounts, publications, money making guru's and people from outside the domain name … [Read more...]
Marchex’s Archeo Puts Up Its Zip Code Portfolio For Sale After Selling 1 Domain In The $50K-$100K Range
As I reported earlier today, Marchex's (NASDAQ: MCHX) Archeo unit put up over 200,000 domains for sale on its new marketplace archeodomains.com. Yesterday in my chat with Rod Diefendorf the COO of Marchex I asked about Marchex project involving thousands of Zip Code .com domain names they company has acquired. Basically that project is off the table and all the Zip Code domains are for … [Read more...]
Nominet Opens Comment Period On Whether .UK Domains Should Contain “Offensive Words”
Nominet which runs the .Uk domain naming system, just opened up a comment period on whether .UK domain names should be allowed to contain "offensive words or phrases". "Nominet is today launching a review of its registration policy for .uk domain names. " "The scope of the review focuses on whether there should be restrictions on the words and expressions permitted in .uk domain name … [Read more...]
6 Months After Getting 400,000 Euro Bid on Sedo, 8888.com Sells
Back in March the domain name 8888.com got a bid of 400,000 Euro's on Sedo.com but that bid was cancelled by Sedo.com Now a reader has spotted that the domain name 8888.com has transferred ownership. Back in March the domain name was owned by Guo Xiaosong of Nanjing, Jiangsu China and was going to a Sedo for sale page. It looks like the domain ownership changed back in August to … [Read more...]
Medium.com: “Trading Domain Names Should Be Banned”
In a blog post that appeared in Medium.com entitled "Trading domain names should be banned ; Why? Because it hurts businesses and does not generate any value for anybody" The post was written by Zsombor Lacza who describes himself as a "scientist, orthopedic, skier, sailor, biker, inventor, and photographer" Apparently the author who started his own company had to do without the .com … [Read more...]