Google dealt a blow to Payday lenders and domain investors who have invested in payday loan type domains. A few years back I knew some people getting big parking clicks with Payday loan domain names. From a parking or developed site monetized by AdWords, it is a negative, but since the industry is still in business it could mean owning the very best names in the niche have gone up in value. The … [Read more...]
Rightside Explains Premium Domains & How They Sold 675+ @ $1K a Year; & $5M+
Drew Macpherson who says he is the head of the Premium Team at Rightside (NAME) explains Rightside definition of a Premium mew gTLD domain and the various levels they have. In the post Rightside says they have sold over 675 domains at an annual renewal of $1,000 or more per year. Here is the highlights of the blog post "I’ll be one of the first to admit that new TLD registries didn’t do … [Read more...]
DomainX 2016 Selects India Shangri-La’s; Eros Hotel & We Have a 40% Discount For Our Readers
DomainX 2016 announced that they hare holding their "massive event" at Shangri-La's - Eros Hotel, on New Delhi to be held on August 5th, 6th and 7th, 2016! and is offering readers of thedomains.com a 40% discount off the registraton fee for today only. According to a press release we received, DomainX gets together the country’s top domain name industry professionals and provides them a … [Read more...]
1 & 2 Character Domain for .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading .CFD, and .Spreadbetting
"IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), has released one and two-character domains across its portfolio of financial Top Level Domains (TLDs), (new gTLD's) which include .Markets, .Forex, .Broker, .Trading, .CFD, and .Spreadbetting. Prices start from $200, with the domain names are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The lineup of domains available includes: Z.forex, 8.markets, … [Read more...]
Fox Registers Feud.tv for Upcoming Series
The domain name Feud.tv was registered at Mark Monitor by Twentieth Century Fox for their upcoming series Feud. The series will look at famous feuds throughout history. The first season will be legendary actresses Bette Davis vs Joan Crawford. From Moviefone: FX has ordered yet another anthology series from Ryan Murphy, the mastermind behind "American Horror Story" and "American Crime Story," … [Read more...]
Google Finally Acquires the Domain AndroidTV.com
Google has finally acquired the domain name AndroidTV.com Google lost a UDRP on the domain name back in March 2014 after the panel said the dispute was outside the types of disputes the UDRP was set up for. You can read our summary of the UDRP here. In April 2014 Google announced that they were launching a product called Android TV. Google did in fact launch Android TV and … [Read more...]
Another Game of Domain Name Whack -A – Mole
Over the years we have seen several piracy type websites jump from domain name to domain name. The Pirate Bay famously lost their .se domain and moved on to several like .la,.mn,.gd,.am and .vg. All of which have been since shut down. Ars Technica published an article about Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27-year-old bioengineer turned Web programmer from Kazakhstan who is living in Russia. Elbakyan is … [Read more...]