According to a story out today in itnewsonline.com Famous Four Media (FFM) is now selling premium domain names in some of their new gTLD extensions through the registrar channel. Since launching the premium domain program three months ago FFM has sold 320 domains ranging in 8 pricing levels. "In the month of August, Famous Four Media reported a transaction value for premium names in excess of … [Read more...]
Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering "personal domain names" just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don't control their social media pages, the underlying social media company's do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media … [Read more...]
Comcast Launches “Watchable” Video Service, Reported Paid “Six Figures” For Domain
Comcast has launched a new digital video platform to take on YouTube, Facebook and more with the brand name of Watchable. Comcast has secured the exact matching .com domain name to use for its newest video brand, with the stand alone website being at: Watchable.com The latest product, Watchable.com, is a free video service and focuses on videos from online services like Vice, BuzzFeed, … [Read more...]
Readers Digest Corp Re-brands To Trusted Media Brands, Inc & Buys TMBI.com For It’s Website
In a historic move, The Readers Digest Association, Inc. has changed its corporate name after 93 years, to Trusted Media Brands, Inc. Back on June 1, 2015 TheDomains discovered that The Readers Digest Association had acquired the domain name TMBI.com from Get On The Web, but we were not sure “why” at that time, but now we do know why. TMBI.com had a $16,950 asking price by Get On The … [Read more...]
After Setting Records On Kickstarter, Smartwatch Company Pebble Secures Pebble.com
Smartwatch company Pebble Technology first made headlines 3 years ago when it raised $10 Million dollars for the e-paper watch on Kickstarter. In early 2015, Pebble broke Kickstarter records when it crowdfunded Pebble Time raising $1 Million in 49 minutes and then set a record for raising the most money on Kickstarter, over $20 Million dollars for its smartwatch Pebble Time. The company … [Read more...]
ICANN Releases Results of Its 1st Global Registrant Survey
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. Here are the key findings: Awareness of new gTLDs is higher among registrants of domain names than among general Internet users; 65% of domain registrants reported awareness of at least one new gTLD versus 46% of general … [Read more...]
Domain Holding Brokers The Sale Of Bluestar.com for $90K: A Very Interesting Story
DomainHoldings.com has brokered the sale of the domain name Bluestar.com Hobi Michalec wrote a post giving a lot of details about the sale, how it was negotiated and the different price points that were offered by two different companies along the way. What makes the story particularly interesting is that the Seller wound up selling the domain for $10,000 less, to the 2nd highest bidder, as … [Read more...]