Seems like one of the hottest games in the world is Draw Something. It seems some 20 million people have already downloaded the App. Yes 20 Million in only 5 weeks. BusinessInsider.com has published two stories on the game today alone. One highlighting that over 4.5 million people played the game in the same hour the previous night, and one showing the growth of the popularity of the … [Read more...]
The Inside Story Of The Fastest Growing TLD .TK Adding 1M Registrations Per Month It’s Free & Soon #1
Over the last couple of Verisign Domain Industry Brief (March 2012 here, December 2011 here) one ccTLD has seemingly come out of nowhere to become the third largest ccTLD in terms of registration. The extension is is .TK and its the ccTLD of the tiny island nation of Tokelau located in the South Pacific, population 1,268. As of publication the extension has almost 8 Million active domain … [Read more...]
SalesForce Acquires Another Great Domain and Launches Site.com Today
According to several stories out today SalesForce.com has just its l;aunched another site on a great domain. The domain name is Site.com, is described as a product that which offers marketers and businesses a simple, cloud-based content management system. The domain name whois record changed 3 times just in February of this year from Site Services, Inc of Santa Clara to Domains Cable and … [Read more...]
Co.Com Hits The Sale Block With A “Multi Seven-Figure Price Tag”
According to a press release this morning the domain name Co.Com has been put up for sale. The domain that is owned by Paul Goldstone is being co-brokered by DomainAdvisors and SellDomains.com. The domain name received 4.5 million unique visitors and 14 million page views in 2011. Tessa Holcomb, Founder & CEO of DomainAdvisors. is quoted as saying: "There are few names that command … [Read more...]
Did Google Just Buy Chrome.com?
Chrome.com is owned by DealerTrack, Inc. which sent out an email to its customers notifying them that as of September 1, 2012 they will stop using the domain name Chrome.com The domain name Chrome.com currently forwards to the site ChromeData.com. However all the email addresses listed on the contact page end in Chrome.com According to the email that went out today, the domain name … [Read more...]
If A Big Co Goes To This Extent To Get A TM They Would Do The Same To Get A Domain: The Story Of Apple & The TM For iPad
Gizmodo.com wrote a post the other day entitled: "" This Is How Apple Swindled the iPad Trademark" Beyond being an interesting read about Apple and the iPad trademark it should serve as a lesson to all domainers as to the extend a large company will go to disguise itself to acquire a prime piece of IP property, be it a trademark or a domain name for penny's on the dollar Of course this … [Read more...]
The Founder Of Flickr Maybe On The Other Side, As PinWeel.com Threatens Over PinWheel.com
TechCrunch.com covered the story today over the what seems to be an upcoming battle between PinWheel.com and Pinweel.com What makes this story really interesting is that the co-founder of the correctly spelled PinWheel.com, Caterina Fake was the co-founder of the incorrectly spelled Web 2.0 type of domain, Flickr.com (missing the "e"). According to reports Flickr.com tried to buy … [Read more...]