Nokia Corporation has put one of its domain names up for sale on SnapNames.com. The domain name Plum.com is the Moniker Premium Spring Auction that just started a few days ago with a reserve range of $100,000-$250,000. Its been along discussed topic in the domain community to what extent end users are involved in insider domain auctions and at least in this case, they are a seller. It … [Read more...]
Google Lays Out Plans For A “Dotless .Search” New gTLD
In a letter to ICANN today Google laid out its plan on how it plans on operating 4 new gTLD that it applied for as a closed Registry with the most interesting being plans for .Search which is plans on operating "a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/)." "To further elaborate on our plans to amend these applications, I am including a brief summary of our revised … [Read more...]
Verisign: 2012 Ends With 252 Million Domain Names: 121 Million .com/.net
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) just published it quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. announcing that more than 6 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 252 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of Dec. 31, 2012 The increase of 6.1 million domain names globally equates to … [Read more...]
Marchex May Hit The Domain Lottery As Apple Considers The iRing
(iRing concept from 2007 by Yanko Design.) According to Appleinsider.com, Apply is considering a product called the iRing. "The iRing will act as a "navigation pointer" for the television, and will allow the TV set to enhance motion detection and replace some of the functionality found in a remote." According to the report "Apple's rumored smart watch … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com Sells Over 42K Domain Names In March
Godaddy.com posted its sales totals for March 2013, reporting 42,600 domain sold on its platform in March. This is a substantial increase over February where Godaddy.com reported 34,985 Of the 42K+ sales: 762 Offer/Counter-Offer 22,566 Auction 19,332 Buy Now Here are the top 10 sales of the … [Read more...]
China’s Jingdong Which Has 35 Million Active Users Buys & Rebrands As JD.com
The domain name JD.com has been purchased by China's" leading direct B2C e-commerce company", Jingdong , who announced today that effective immediately, it's current domain, 360buy.com, will redirect users to JD.com According to the company, Jingdong had 35 million active users and 80 million registered users as of December 2012. "Jingdong is delighted to streamline its … [Read more...]
2K+ Domains Frozen By Court In Joel Williams Case: Is One Of Your’s On The List?
A Tennessee State Chancery Court issued a temporary injunction freezing almost 2,200 domain names. Many of the domains subject to the court order yesterday are not owned by any party to the lawsuit. In fact at five of the domain's on the list belong to my company, Worldwide Media, Inc., Other domains on the frozen list belong to other well known domainers including Telepathy, Inc., … [Read more...]