According to an article in kippreport.com, the domain name TheMiddleEast.com is on the market for $2.5M dollars. The article features an interview with Keith Shanahan, "a dot com investor and owner of 600 valuable domain names including TheMiddleEast.com". “There are many wealthy individuals out there who either haven’t come to terms with it or simply don’t realize the value of investment … [Read more...]
LeftOfTheDot.com Partners With Christmas.com: “We Own Christmas.com”
Just in time for the holiday shopping seasons, our friends at LeftoftheDot.com have partnered up with the owners of Christmas.com to operate the site. This is according to a story in the Mapleridgenews.com. LeftoftheDot.com in partnership with the original domain owner, "is bringing the address alive and hoping this Christmas will be a boost to the company that matches small companies with … [Read more...]
Another Killer Domain Hits The Market: Televisions.com
According to a press release out this morning Right Of The Dot™, LLC is the exclusive broker for Televisions.com. "The domain name Televisions.com, including a package of six other regional and top level domains will be sold exclusively through the broker Right of The Dot™,LLC, the domain name consulting, sales, and valuation experts." "The domain names listed in this package include … [Read more...]
Our Chat With The Owner Of Urban Times On Why They Moved From a .Com To A .Co
We had a chance to chat with Charlie Hilton-Petrou who changed the domain name of his site from a .com to a .Co domain last week. We wrote about the planned move of the Urban Times which used the domain name theurbn.com and decided to switch over to urbantimes.co There were plenty of comments to the previous post, many quite negative of the move so Mr. Petrou wanted to explain his … [Read more...]
One of The Best Domains In The World Goes Up For Sale: Music.com
According to a press release out this morning, the domain name Music.com is up for sale exclusively with DomainAdvisors.com Beyond being in what is in my opinion one of the top 10 generic .com domain names, there are 8 applicants for the new gTLD .Music, including Google and Amazon. According to the press release , Music.com gets "approximately One Million visits per month". Here is what … [Read more...]
CADNA Reports: 27% of U.S. Congressional Members’ Domain Names Used in Identity Squatting: What A Bunch Of Crap
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) published a report today concluding that 27% of congressional members' domain names are used in identity squatting. I don't know what the difference is between cybersquatting and identity squatting other than trying to label the same conduct in a new fashion which makes it sound worse. As In, Oh last year we had cybersquatting and now look we … [Read more...]
Medicare.com Another Category Killer Domain Is Turned Into A Multi-Million Dollar Business
The Nashville Business Journal, had a feature story on how another catgeorgy killer domain has become a mulitmillion dollar business. In this case the domain is Medicare.com and the owner, Bill Kimberlin "has led his company to nearly 900 percent growth over the past three years. “We’re just getting started,” he is quoted as saying. ""The online Medicare information group had 2011 revenue of … [Read more...]