AllthingsD.com has confirmed with the Seller of the domain name, the Sweden-based computing company Xcerion has sold the domain iCloud.com to Apple. This confirms the story reported by GigaOm first reported Thursday, "though the Seller declined to say whether its rumored $4.5 million price tag was accurate." Apple has not always bought the matching domain for its products and still does not … [Read more...]
Marchex Making The Most Of Its Parked Domain RoyalWedding.com
With the one of the biggest event just day away, Marchex is making the most of one of its domain names, RoyalWedding.com The domain which is parked, has a countdown clock at the top to the start of the wedding, and has a picture of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in the middle of the page. The site even has a picture of Princess Diana's ring which The Prince gave to Ms. … [Read more...]
Why Is Anyone Surprised Over Yesterday’s Gambling Domain Seizures & Why No Publicly Traded Company Got Charged
Just days after Washington DC announced it was legalizing online gaming including online poker, the US Government charged the operators of the largest online poker sites PokerStars, FullTiltPoker, AbsolutePoker (using UB.com) all offshore companies, on charges of, violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, operation of illegal gambling business, conspiracy to commit bank and … [Read more...]
Yesterday Before Noon I Turned Down $500K In Offers; Domaining Is Like Deal Or No Deal
Yes its true. Yesterday before noon I had already turned down offers on 4 domains totaling just short of $500,000. The first domain was easy for me. VisitTurkey.com. I told the buyer I had just sold visitberlin.com for $230K and visitstockholm.com for $70K. The official tourism site for Turkey is goturkey.com, which I told the person making the offer, in the US GoTurkey.com, seems to … [Read more...]
“The Donald” Trump Grabs Trump2012.com Just in Case: But Trump2020.com Is In Pending Delete
There has been a lot of speculation whether "the Donald", that is Mr. Trump will make a run at the Republican nomination for President in 2012. According to radaronline.com he secured the domain Trump2012.com just in case. It loos like the domain which was registered since 2004 was just secured by "the Donald" in December 2010. However it appears Mr. Trump may have not been as forward … [Read more...]
Are The National TV Ads For MyMarriageMatters.org Really An Anti-AshleyMadison.com Campaign Or Great Guerrilla Advertising?
I've noticed over the last few days a commercial that's running on National Television, principally CNN, for the site MyMarriageMatters.org. The Commercials which seem to have been running for a few months is essentially a commercial against AshleyMadison.com, the site whose slogan is life is short, have an affair. The site itself, MyMarriageMatters.org, is pretty bare, just having the … [Read more...]
How Did a Domain With 9 Hyphens Make It To The Top Of Google?
Admittedly I know very little about who to get a site to rank high through SEO, but I found it strange that a search on Google returned as its top result a domain name with 9 Hyphens in it, well ahead of the word with no Hyphens. The word is "definitely". The top ranked result for the search term is d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com The site itself has little in the way of content and simply … [Read more...]