According to a story in AdAge.com today, The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has launched a $20 million ad campaign rebranding its former visitlasvegas.com website into simply LasVegas.com The domain name VisitLasVegas.com now is simply forwarding to LasVegas.com The story goes on to say "The national campaign features a middle-aged man aptly named Mr. LasVegasDotCom" Already … [Read more...]
Citing New gTLD’s Forbes Asks: Did MLB Overpay For Rockies.com?
Forbes.com just published an article asking "Did MLB Overpay By Spending $1.2 Million For Rockies.com?" "All it took was $1.2 million dollars for Major League Baseball (MLB) to purchase the domain name Rockies.com, a URL that was formerly owned by the Canadian tourism portal Tourism Canadian Rockies. " "The ownership of a professional sports franchise’s name as a URL is a very valuable … [Read more...]
Discover Card Buys Discoverit.com
Discover Credit Card which already owns Discover.com, quietly acquired the domain name Discoverit.com back in July of last year. The domain name is not yet resolving but would be a great call to action type of domain and we would expect to see it used by the credit card company in a future ad campaign. If you want to see how … [Read more...]
Purchased for Less Than $5K In May, SnapChat.com Is The “2013’s Billion Dollar Startup”
BusinessInsider.com just covered SnapChat.com which it just calls "2013's Billion Dollar Startup" What the article didn't tell you is that the domain name SnapChat.com was just purchased in May of 2012 for less than $5,000 at Sedo.com The domain, SnapChat.com was acquired for just $4,900 according to the Sedo.com weekly report that we published on May 8th 2012 The SnapChat App is the 5th … [Read more...]
After Buying IRA.com, Jackness Hits Gold Again With Purchase Of Treadmill.com For 80K
He maybe the best domainer you never heard of Michael Jackness. In May 2011 we reported on how who Mr. Jackness who had just purchased the domain name WebSiteHosting.com in January 2011 for $190,000 had flipped the domain for $415,000 Then in July of of 2011 Mr. Jackness purchased OnlineDegree.com for $120,000. A few weeks later Mr. Jackness company, Terran Marketing bought another … [Read more...]
.Co Registry Lands On ABC/Univision: “The Americas: 13 to Watch in 2013” List
In a story just out by ABCNews/Univision entitled "The Americas: 13 to Watch in 2013" sitting among people and topics like the President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto, Hugo Chavez and President Barack Obama, the .CO domain name registry came on at number 11 on the list: "This year we saw some major changes in the Americas in regards to business, technology and politics. 2013 should be all the … [Read more...]
Domain King, Rick Schwartz Closes Out 2012 With A $250K Deal on A Hand Reg Domain
In a email sent out to domain holders on the JointVentures.com project, the Domain King Rick Schwartz announced that he just closed a deal on a hand registered domain name which will return him over $250,000 over the next 8 years ""I have also just closed a deal this morning with a domain that I hand registered in 2002 and have an 8 year deal with. The total value of those payments are in excess … [Read more...]