A few days ago the Nationaljournal.com wrote a story about political domainer Michael Deutsch who has over 1,800 domain names including naturalcondom.com to yankeestadium.com to drinkmilk.com to stemcellresearch.com. Today MSNBC did on air interview for over 5 minutes with Mr. Deutsch about his domain activities. Here it is: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about … [Read more...]
DomainIndex.com Checks Up On 100 Oldest Domains: 12 Don’t Resolve; 35 Owned By Fortune 500 Co.
Domainindex.com published some research about the oldest 100 domain names and came up with some pretty interesting stats. From the 100 names registered between January 1, 1985 and November 30, 1987: 58 are now owned by a different entity from the one that registered it 35 are owned by Fortune 500 companies 7 are owned by pioneers of the web 12 Do not resolve 4 are Parked 84 are in … [Read more...]
Suit Filed Over Non-Payment of MD.Org Namejet Record Setting $555,650 Auction
On April 12, 2013, the domain name MD.org sold at a record setting NameJet.com auction for $555,650.00 to the high bidder ID of 'Winters" Today the seller of the domain name, Privacy LLC, (Privacy) filed a lawsuit along with NameJet, LLC (“NameJet”) against Scott Ross and "Does defendants 1-3" which "may include Ari Goldberger, Esq. and Larry Fischer", for breach of contract, in refusing to … [Read more...]
Comcast / NBC Sports Sells Versus.com For Six Figures to Startup Versus.io
The domain name Versus.com the former name of the NBC Sports Network has been sold by Comcast/NBC Sports for a "six figure sum" According to a story in VentureVillage.eu, The buyer is startup company that upgraded from the domain Versus.io According to the story, Versus IO acquired the domain name "after closing a Series A round recently and garnering reportedly 3.8 million visitors last … [Read more...]
Godaddy To Rebrand .La Domain Names & Market Them In Los Angeles
According to The LA Times, GoDaddy, will kick off a marketing campaign Monday to re-brand .LA as the Web suffix for Los Angeles after partnering with CentralNic, the company that handles the database for .the .LA ccTLD. .LA is the ccTLD for Laos. Godaddy and CentralNic are apparently taking the upcoming new gTLD launch as an opportunity to re-brand .LA in the same light as other … [Read more...]
TM Nightmare: 977 .Com/.Net Google Domains Registered Last Month Only 8 By Google
Over the years we have chatted about over reaching trademark holders and trademark group pushing for great protections and while we have been on the side of the domain holder, in all fairness we do have to admit that for a large trademark holder they have a nightmare on their hands when it comes to domain names. Take Google. In June 2013 we found 977 .com/.net domain names were registered … [Read more...]
LaunchRock Switches From .Com to .Co
LauchRock.co which bills itself as "A Platform For New Startups" has switched its main URL from LaunchRock.com to LaunchRock.co effective July 1, 2013. In a email sent to users, LaunchRock.com announced the change: """ From: LaunchRock <hello@launchrock.com> Date: 2013/7/1 Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: Keep your LaunchRock account from being retired Hello … [Read more...]