CSC released their new gtld utilization report for April. Using Alexa as one barometer it seems that the number of new g's in the Alexa top one million has risen by 30% since February. One of the thing the report pointed out was what is being used left of the dot. I think many believe there needs to be uniformity. WWW back in the day let less proficient users know something was a website. So … [Read more...]
Richmond Mayoral Candidate Registers the Competition
Mark Robinson at RichmondMagazine.com wrote a piece on some dirty domain politics. Nate Peterson who is just 25 years old and has never held office wants to run for Mayor of Richmond. After registering NatePetersonformayor.com he decided to register the names of several other prospective candidates. From the article: Aside from the paperwork, Peterson has also taken strides to establish his … [Read more...]
Buying A Domain Name to Get A Twitter Handle – Wrong or Genius ?
Joel Runyon publishes ImpossibleHQ.com and he wrote an interesting article about getting the Twitter handle he needed by buying a domain name. Some may not agree with the method because Joel did a workaround that did not include getting Twitter to give him the handle. From the article: Here’s how I did it. Background I started PaleoMealPlans.com a few months back – in conjunction with the … [Read more...]
Mark Zuckerberg buys domain for $700 from Engineering Student
There was a story in the Times of India about an engineering student selling a name to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Tip of the cap to AlokDomain From the article: Amal has 'beaten' the master at his own game and closed a deal with FB, trading the registration rights of maxchanzuckerberg.org on Monday. FB approached Augustine for the domain name registered by him as it was … [Read more...]
Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs). The increase of approximately 15 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 5% over the third quarter of 2015. … [Read more...]
Tinder Files UDRP to Get The Domain TinderBuster.com; But Is The Target SwipeBuster.com?
An interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com SwiperBuster.com is not a parked page but a service which allows people to see whether someone is active on the app. People might want to search for their significant, boss, friend, family or even favorite or hated politician for a $5 fee. All you need … [Read more...]
Minds+Machines Rebranded Domain MMX.co Purchased For $2,200
Minds + Machines announced yesterday, it was re-branding its website from MindsandMachines.com to the domain name MMX.co. The domain name MMX.co was on Sedo weekly transaction list back in May 2015 selling for $2,200. Minds + Machines has a market cap of around £69.03 which is around $97.5 million USD. If you're wondering, the domain name MMX.com is owned by Intel but does not … [Read more...]