Amazon.com registered three very interesting domain names yesterday that may indicate a new business for the company. Amazon registered the domain names AmazonConcerts.com & AmazonConcertTickets.com and AmazonTheaterTickets.com yesterday through the brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMonitor.com. This might indicate that Amazon might be getting into the ticket … [Read more...]
7X Bigger Than Las Vegas In Gambling Revenue, Macau.com Hits The Market
Earlier this month we learned that LasVegas.com sold back in 2005 for what could be up to $90 Million Dollars. In August the sale of Vegas.com was announced to a public company in a deal that could be worth $38 million dollars. In both instances, Vegas has consistently set the record valuation marks as the most valuable destination-specific website in the world. Now the website and domain … [Read more...]
.XYZ Has More Domain Registrations Than Donuts 183 gTLD’s Combined
According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has more domain registrations than all of Donuts strings combined. Donuts has 1,527,510 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com (including 35,306 which are upcoming delete) while .XYZ has 1,560,576 active domains according to namestat.org. There are 183 new gTLD's of Donuts in general availability (GA) meaning they can be registered on a first come … [Read more...]
.Club Breaks 420,000 Registrations Adding 100K In Two Weeks
The new gTLD .Club has broken through the 400,000 registration mark. Colin Campbell co-founder of .Club announced on Twitter yesterday that all NNNNN.club domain names were all registered just 2 weeks after all NNNN.club domain names sold out. Those registrations helped move .club to over 420,000 registrations according to ntldstats.com, which is 100,000 new domain names registrations since … [Read more...]
CES Conference Drops Its Domain Ce.org For CTA.Tech
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) parent company of the giant electronic show, CES which is held every January in Las Vegas, has dropped its 2 character .org for a new gTLD, .tech domain name The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the non-profit organization unveiled its new name, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and introduced its new logo on November 11th. The company … [Read more...]
Namecheap Holding Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale With “$10 Million in Savings”
Namecheap, a leading ICANN-accredited domain registrar and web hosting company, announced their major annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale. The two-day event offers over $10 million in savings and the lowest prices available for the year. Customers can save big not only on domain names and hosting, but SSLs, website builders, email hosting, and more. Rick Kirkendall, Namecheap CEO is quoted in … [Read more...]
Owner of NewForests.com.au Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Hijacking on 16 Yr Old .Com
New Forests Asset Management Pty Limited of North Sydney, Australia, represented by Clayton Utz Solicitors, Australia was just found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name newforests.com after offering just $4,000 to by the domain The company owns the domain name newforests.com.au which was registered in June 2006 The domain name NewForests.com was registered back … [Read more...]