After announcing it selected the domain name abc.xyz for its holding company Alphabet, Google has been going around buying all sorts of "abc" domain names. Last week we told you that Google bought ABC.Global. Onlinedomain.com spotted 78 new gTLD's that Google registered using "abc. Last night .Club registry announced on Twitter that Google bought ABC.club. Also last night … [Read more...]
Donald Trump May Own Over 3K Domains But Doesn’t Own Trump.org & Isn’t Happy About It
Several mainstream websites recently wrote about how many domain names the Trump Organization owns, including BusinessInsider.com that said the Trump Organization owns 3,153 domain names. boingboing, weighted in with a story entitled "Donald Trump owns vast numbers of web addresses". Suntimes.com, published a story entitled "Donald Trump probably already owns your anti-Trump domain … [Read more...]
A Band You Never Heard Of Bitches About Having To Pay For Pavement.com or The FB Page
A interesting story in contactmusic.com, about a band from the 90's name Payment is bitching about not being able to simply get the domain name Pavement.com and/or a Facebook page by that name that is held by one of those nasty "Cybersquatters". Here is the title of the story: "Rockers Pavement Spent Years With No Official Presence On Social Media Because They Refused To Pay A Fortune To A … [Read more...]
Autobytel Buys Dealix, Owner Of UsedCars.com In $25 Million Deal
Publicly traded Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq: ABTL) has acquired Dealix, owner of UsedCars.com for $25 Million in an all cash deal. The registrant for the domain name UsedCars.com was CDK Global, LLC and they are a wholly-owned subsidiaries of Dealix. The transaction took place May 21, 2015 according to a press release by Autobytel. Autobytel is no stranger to premium generic domain names as they … [Read more...]
Report: Traffic to Alphabet.com Surges 5,000%; ABC.XYZ Gets 4 Million Visits in 2 Days
According to a story in the telegraph.co.uk today, traffic to Alphabet.com surged 5,000% since Google announcement on Monday. The Telegraph siting stats from Similar Web a "digital measurement service" says traffic to BMW owned Alphabet.com that saw "an average of 3,000 desktop visits" prior to Google announcement " surged to almost 60,000 visits following Google's announcement on Monday before … [Read more...]
Google Didn’t Even Contact BMW To Offer To Buy Alphabet.com
According to a story today in the KansasCity.com, it seems that Google did not even contact BMW, that owns the domain name Alphabet.com, to see if they would sell it before going with abc.xyz The article quotes a spokesman at BMW, who said "that the automaker was not informed ahead of time of plans by Page and Brin to create a company called Alphabet and had not received any offers to buy the … [Read more...]
Negari of .XYZ On Bloomberg TV On Dominance of .Com: “I Think It’s Over”
Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry was interviewed on Bloomberg Television today during the Bloomberg West show. .XYZ has been in the headline since Google announcement of the formation of its parent company Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. The co-host of the Bloomberg West show asked the following question: There are now a Lot of choice for a domain … [Read more...]