Last month, Research in Motion (RIM) who makes the blackberry devices had a huge service outage effecting millions of users in five continents for up to four days in which users were unable to access their email, Internet or messaging services. Today it the company is the new owner of the domain name BlackberryProblems.com. If you Google the term "Blackberry Problems" you will see some … [Read more...]
National A-1 Shuts Down Sextoys.com & ToySales.com
According to xBiz.com, National A-1 Internet has discontinued the operations of its adult novelty retail website SexToys.com and affiliate program ToySales.com, (however I'm still getting a resolving site at sextoys.com) This comes off of the announcement a week ago that National A-1 forfeited the domain Escorts.com (and presumable escort.com) to the Feds. Sextoys.com is another strong six … [Read more...]
BankSimple Acquires & Changes Its Name to Simple.com
BankSimple.com has been getting some nice press recently as an alternative to the "big banks". You can read about them here, and here, and here. Today in their blog Bank Simple announced they were changing their domain name to simple.com The domain name simple.com was owned by Walter Holdings Ltd. of Barbados. In July of this year, Jamie Dotweekly.com, noticed that the whois changed … [Read more...]
Will Chevy’s Newest Car Be Called “The Spin” ? As Chevy Registers ChevySpin.com & ChevroletSpin.com
Looks like Chevy is going to name its newest car the Chevy Spin. MarkMonitor.com registered the domain names ChevySpin.com and ChevroletSpin.com. I couldn't find a word on the Chevy Spin anywhere else on Google but may guess it will be some sort of hybrid. … [Read more...]
Amazon Lands Z.cn As A Shortener In China Which Reminds Us They Haven’t Launched Their .Co Domains
Amazon announced today its changing its brand name it uses in China from Joyo Amazon to Amazon China. Amazon also announced that it has obtained the domain name Z.cn, which is re-directing to Amazon's Chinese official website at Amazon.cn. According to the one story I found on the domain, there was no discussion of how Amazon obtained the domain or how much they paid for it. The domain … [Read more...]
Klout: How The $40 Million Dollar Company, Bought its Domain Name Klout.com For $5,000 Cash
TechCrunch.com just covered the story of how the tech company Klout obtained the domain name Klout.com for $5,000 cash. And when they say cash, they mean cash in an envelope. According to CrunchBase, Klout has received $40 million in funding so far. Prior to obtaining the .com domain, the company used Klout.net for it's site. Click here to read the entire story. … [Read more...]
Ads On Parked Pages Using A Google Feed Are A No Go On GoGo
GoGo is the carrier, the ISP if you will, if your on a plane and on the I, nternet. Checking it out today I noticed that in typing in some of our domains that are parked with InternetTraffic.com today on a flight, while the pages resolve no ads are showing. The area where the ads normally show is blank although the header and footer of the page appear as does the inquiry link. I check a … [Read more...]