In what I consider to be another head scratcher, Hosting.com has dropped the .com from its brand and re-branded to just HOSTING. According a press release posted on the companies website, ""HOSTING, formally Hosting.com, a leading provider of enterprise-class, managed cloud hosting services, announced its new company name, new logo, and new branding that reinforce its commitment to midsized … [Read more...]
If Apple Plans On Naming Its Smart Watch the iWatch, Anything.com Is Going To Be Happy
This weekend big tech buzz has been about an Apple smart watch. If Apple is going ahead with the product is most likely going to be called an iWatch. Anything.com which owns one of the best domain name portfolios in the world, happens to own iWatch.com as well. Actually Anything.com is the original registrant of this domain name back in 1998, which was three years before Apple even came … [Read more...]
The “Real” Sky Waitress Is Quite The Domainer: SkyWaitress.com
If you watched the Godaddy.Co Super Bowl Commercial you know that the star of the ad was the "Sky Waitress". Well it looks like the real Sky Waitress is quite the domainer. No I don't mean the actress that played the Sky Waitress in the Godaddy.co commercial , but the blogger and owner of the domain name SkyWaitress.com, a married and expecting mother to be by name of Abigail. "I’m a … [Read more...]
Inc.com On Value of Killer Domain: Purchased For $12K Turned Into $19 Million Yr Business
Inc.com just published the story of Jesse Stein who bought the domain SportsMemorabilia.com for just $12,500 and turned it into a $19.5 million retail business. Its a domainers dream story. SportsMemorabilia.com was purchased by Mr. Stein in 2006, for $12,500 from Moniker.com in March 2006 At the time it was a parked domain and in "just six years Stein turned it into a recognized retail … [Read more...]
SnapNames Become Exclusive Drop House For DomainMonster.com & Host Europe
Host Europe, a one of the top three hosting company in Europe and owner of the largest registrar in the UK, is as of now sending all of their expiring domains to SnapNames.com on an exclusive basis. That means all domain names dropping from the registrars that are a part of the Host Europe Group; DomainMonster.com, 123-Reg.co.uk, and Heart Internet will now be dropping all of their domain on … [Read more...]
Now We Know Why Apple Didn’t Apply For .App As They Open AppStore.com For Vanity Domains
When the applicants for new gTLD's were announced by ICANN in what was called the "big reveal" one of the biggest surprises we noted was the absence of an Apple application for .App. Now it seems we know why Apple passed on applying for the new gTLD .App, the are going to let developers use Vanity Domains off of its AppStore.com According to Cnet.com and Techcrunch.com, Apple's plan was … [Read more...]
Chicago.com To Auction Off 100-300 Subdomains & 1 Is Outranking Established Site
We have been following the selling of dotChicago(sm) domain names, since Josh Metnick the owner of Chicago.com first started chatting about selling subdomains off of Chicago.com Today Josh let us know that he plans on auctioning off 100-300 Chicago.com subdomains this spring. What is the value of hotels.chicago.com? sushi.chicago.com? lawyer.chicago.com? cars.chicago.com? … [Read more...]