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%…
Category: Domains
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….
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…