FoxNews.com has a story today on one of the "stars" of the new reality show "Baseball Wives" Anna Benson, which is on VH1. Benson seems to have a pretty colorful past which you can read about in the story. As far as domain names go this certainly caught our eye: "'Recently, she bought the domain names cheriknoblauch.com and jordanalenz.com, two of her “Baseball Wives” costars. “Now, they … [Read more...]
PCWorld Names New gTLD’s As One Of “Top 5 Major Changes Facing The Internet”
PCWorld.com just published an article entitled the "Top 5 Major Changes Facing The Internet" in 2012. The article starts off saying: "2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990's" Number 3 on the list is the new gTLD program that is opening up shortly on January 12th for … [Read more...]
Busta Rhymes Becomes Latest Celeb To Let His Domain Name Expire As BustaRhymes.com Drops Today
A few months ago we wrote how a famous athlete, Michael Vick, had just allowed his two domain names to expire and drop. Today another Celeb's domain name is facing deletion as BustaRhymes.com has expired and is deleting today. The domain name BustaRhymes.com has been registered to: Flip Mode Licensing, LLC c/o Pryor Cashman LLP of New York, NY Also listed on the whois record was … [Read more...]
Is Google Rolling Out A Political Site: It Registers GoogleElections.com
Yesterday Google, Inc., registered GoogleElections.com Google has had a blog dedicated to politics but this domain name registration may indicate they are planning on expanding coverage or planning on putting up a full on political site in anticipation of the 2012 elections? Google is no strange to politics and is reportedly spends million in Washington on lobbyists. So it will be … [Read more...]
How Much Traffic is Buy.XXX Losing To BuyXXX.com? We Know The Exact Numbers
We have written pretty frequently about ICM's launching of an all out ad campaign for the .XXX extension, with all Advertising leading back to Buy.XXX. You can read some stories on Buy.xxx here, here and here. So for the 1st time we can tell you EXACTLY how much traffic Buy.xxx is bleeding over to BuyXXX.com How do we know? We own the domain name BuyXXX.com. Yesterday we logged in … [Read more...]
NewYorkTimes.com Covers Chicago.com Plan To Sell Subdomains & Email’s Addresses For Up To $250K Per
An interesting story today in the NewYorkTimes.com on the owner of Chicago.com's plan to sell sub domains and eMail Addresses ending in Chicago.com "In 2001 Mr. Josh Metnick beat out The Tribune Company and bought chicago.com for $500,000" "Now his four-person operation is retooling the site to offer e-mail addresses with chicago.com domains." "He has sold a few names to friends and … [Read more...]
4gTurbo Is Coming To Verizon & T-Mobile But Neither Owns The Bang On Domains 4gTurbo.com Or Turbo4g.com
According to some recent registrations by Mark Monitor it seems a product known as 4gTurbo is coming to at least two carriers, AT&T and T-Mobile. Some recent domain name registrations include: 4gturbo.info 4gturbo.net 4gturbo.org tmobile4gturbo.com t-mobile4gturbo.com tmobile4gturbo.info tmobile4gturbo.net t-mobile4gturbo.info 4gTurbo.com is owned by a company in … [Read more...]