Last week we wrote a story on Herman Cain who at the time had just surged ahead of the Republican field of candidates for President based largely on his 999 Tax plan. Yesterday the site Politico.com picked up the story found out that the owner of the domain name 999plan.com was none other than David Corn, the Washington editor of the liberal Mother Jones magazine and MSNBC/NBC News … [Read more...]
Washington Post: “Campaign 2012, Websites Are The New Real Estate”
The Washington Post published a story today entitled "Campaign 2012, Websites Are The New Real Estate" which talks about how candates are spending thousands of dollar buying up domain names, both for their campaign and defensively. "On Sept. 2, with Texas Gov. Rick Perry surging in the polls, someone purchased the Web addresses stickittorick.com, rickperrynot. com and buryperry.com." and all … [Read more...]
Herman Cain Is Surging In the Polls But He Didn’t Wrap Up His 999 Plan Domains: 999plan.com, 9-9-9plan.com
Herman Cain is absolutely surging in the polls and now leading the Republican Field based in large part to his 999 tax Plan. While Mr. Cain is a hugely successful self-made businessman he still have could used a good domainer on his staff to lock up some valuable domain names essential to his campaign. How essential? Mr. Cain now seems to be completing with Bing.com to buy space under … [Read more...]
Sands Casino Coming To Miami? New Domain Name Registrations: SandsFlorida.com: SandsFlorida.net; Venetianfl.com
Over the last couple of months there have been some stories about a huge casino complex that maybe coming to Miami and Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) is leading the charge. You can read some stories on it here, here and here The Sands of course operates the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, and in Macao, and the Sands In Singapore. Its also owns and operates Palazzo.com Today we noticed … [Read more...]
American Express Rolls Out Serve.com As It Mobile Wallet Solution In Another Domain Sale We Never Heard About
American Express rolled out its mobile wallet solution and its going with the domain name Serve.com for the product. The domain was owned by Datarealm Internet Services who was the original registrant of the Domain in 1995. Amex seems to have acquired the domain name in October of 2010. Its another one of the domain name sales we never heard about. "With Serve you can spend, send, and … [Read more...]
Zynga Announces Latest Game Castleville, But Did They Secure The Domain Castleville.com?
According to TechCrunch.com the gaming company Zynga just announced their latest game and its called Castleville. Castleville.com is under privacy at Godaddy.com and the domain doesn't really resolve at the moment. The domain was registered to someone in Shangha China using Tucows.com until August 8th when it went under privacy at Godaddy.com So if one had to place a bet, it looks like … [Read more...]
iMedia: “Why Your Brand Should Invest In A Category Defining Domain Name”
An article appearing in imediaconnection.com yesterday pointed out what most of us know, but many large corporations do not, the importance of having a Category Defining or category killer domain name. The article recounts Amazon's purchase of Quidsi Inc. for $500 million which owned the category killers of and Soap.com, and Diapers.com and goes on to state: "The ability to rank well in … [Read more...]