TheHill.com is just one of the many media outlets that reported on a new online platform for the Black Lives Matter movement:: "The Black Lives Matter movement announced on Friday that it has an official platform for curbing police violence and reforming criminal justice in the U.S. The social activism group released its most comprehensive policy outline to date on a website titled Campaign … [Read more...]
Auto Zone Demanding Small Business Change Name and Give them their Domain Names
Here is an interesting story on Dcourier.com, Cycle Zone Motorsports & Marine is a family owned Arizona business that has been around since 2012. Auto Zone sent the company a letter demanding they change their name and hand over their domain names. Your use of a name and mark that included the term ZONE to engage in services that overlap with those offered by AutoZone under its ZONE Marks … [Read more...]
BankLoans.com for $1,000, Pendants.com for $1,500 is that something you might be interested in ?
If you are interested we need a time machine to go back to 1998. Namepros member Hookbox dug up a blast from the past that looks at some big time names for very cheap prices. Of course the timeframe was 1998 and not many understood the value or potential of domain names like Rick Schwartz did. The archive is from … [Read more...]
Ashley Madison Hacked Info Site CheckAshleyMadison.com Taken Down After DMCA Notice
On August 19, 2015 hackers released a huge amount of data from the breach at AshleyMadison.com and the race was on. Several websites were set up to allow users to "search" the data, allowing users to see if a specific email address was included in the release. One of those websites, according to TheHill.com is CheckAshleyMadison.com. That domain name was registered, well, yesterday on August … [Read more...]
“Straight Outta” Viral Meme Launched On Days Old Domain By Apple / Beats By Dre
Maybe you have seen those images flying around the web recently on Facebook and Twitter etc with the block term "Straight Outta" and then you can type in the term you wish... Well, that viral meme is the works of Apple Inc. / Beats By Dre / Universal Pictures and was launched on the domain name StraightOuttaSomewhere.com that was registered only 28 days ago on July 23, 2015 at corporate domain … [Read more...]
Did Microsoft Acquire Zikera, Owners of Groove Music App? Appears So!
Microsoft announced the rebrand of Xbox Music to Groove Music back in early July 2015 and ZDNet.com and many other sites questioned if Microsoft had acquired a company called Zikera, which was founded in 2009 and had over 1.5 Million downloads of its app according to CrunchBase. A Microsoft spokesperson said "we have nothing more to share at this time." according to the ZDNet article in early July … [Read more...]
Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD’s & Asks: Who Needs .com?
The movement is on! Google has greatly helped all new gTLD's and there are many mainstream media sites covering gTLD's daily. This is really great news in general for the domain industry as a whole and clearly the gTLD's! Although many of these stories relate to .com when talking about the new gTLD's, like a new one today from the WashingtonPost.com with a title of: "Who Needs .com? Domains … [Read more...]