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…
Category: Domains
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…