Smartcompany.com.au, tells the story tonight about an Australian domain name investor which sold the domain sold Hobart.com.au for $67,000 after purchasing the website for just $875 back in 2007. However, the domain seller suggests it may actually be a bargain price, given the problems of developing geographic domains. "Publishing Australia owner David Lye, who also runs the registrar … [Read more...]
BusinessInsider Covers EarPods.com: Domain May Sell For $2 Million
We posted about the domain name Earpods.com and how Apple failed to secure the domain prior to the last Apple event where the product was publicly announced last week. Now BusinessInsider.com has picked up on the story (unfortunately without giving us any credit) and is talking about a $2 Million dollars purchase price for the domain. "Want to feel super jealous of someone who struck gold … [Read more...]
Salesforce.com: Rypple Becomes Work.com today
According to a blog post, Salesforce.com has re-branding its Rypple website product to Work.com today. "Today only the Rypple website is being re-branded to Work.com, later in Q4 the Rypple app will be re-branded to Work.com." "We’ll be introducing some exciting new features when the Work.com is released in Q4. " "Below are some highlights about Work.com that appeared on the Salesforce … [Read more...]
So.com Sells For “Millions” of Dollars To Chinese Search Engine Qihoo 360
According to a story appearing in techinasia.com , a Chinese search engine, Qihoo 360 spent “millions” to buy the domain name So.com. According to the story, the the company shell out the millions for the domain because its "more than a short pronounceable word ,‘S’ stand for “safe” and ‘O’ stands for “open” in English. That’s in line with what Qihoo, which started out in the anti-virus … [Read more...]
Someone In China Just Registered The Domain Of Box’s New Product, BoxAccelerator.com
Today Box.com announced on their blog a new major release product called Box Accelerator. As we often point out, the company made the announcement without securing the matching domain name and someone in China registered the domain today and the domain is already parked. There are several news stories out today on the product already including Slashgear.com, Zdnet.com, FastCompany, and … [Read more...]
Blackberry New Domain Name Registrations May Tip New Products: Flow, Flick, Timeshift, Playon
Blackberry registered quite a few domain names yesterday many of which indicate the names of some future products, including the Blackberry Flick, Blackberry Flow, Blackberry Hub, Blackberry Peak and Blackberry Playon and Blackberry … [Read more...]
Apple Misses Securing The Domain Of Another New Product: Ear Pod & Maybe Infringing On TM For HearPod
According to PatentlyApple.com, Apple, Inc, rushed to get a trademark application filed in Europe last night for a new product it announced yesterday at its Apple Event, the Ear Pod. As we have discussed before Apple has been awful about obtaining domain names that match their products prior to announcing them and this is just other case. The domain name Earpod.com has been registered since … [Read more...]