It was reported earlier this month that Johnson & Johnson has been showing success with a preclinical trial for an HIV-1 vaccine: The article quotes lead author Dan H. Barouch, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School chatting about Johnson & Johnson vaccine: "We are very encouraged by the results of … [Read more...]
Trump Trademarked “Make America Great Again” in 2012 but Missed The .Com When Dropped in 2014
Its pretty hard to find a picture of Donald Trump in the last few weeks not wearing a baseball cap with his now famous tag line of the his 2016 Presidential run of "Make America Great Again' You might be surprised to find out that The Donald filed a trademark on the term back in November 2012. However the trademark was filed for opposition in 2013 and not finally granted until July, 14th … [Read more...]
RightoftheDot.com Opens Submission For Auction At Domainfest.Asia With 4.CN
RightoftheDot.com (ROTD) will be conducting a Premium Online Domain Auction in cooperation with the leading Chinese Domain auction company 4.CN and in association with DomainFest.asia which will be held in Macau China, September 4th through 7th, 2015. ROTD has officially opened up submissions for the auction which will run from September 2 through September 10th catered to the Chinese and … [Read more...]
Did OnlineEducation.com Sell for $3.3 million ?
I want to point out the tip for this article came courtesy of JS Lascary, he noticed some info related to QuinStreet a publicly traded company (QNST (NASDAQ) $6.03 -0.15 (-2.43%) that is an online performance marketing company providing technologies for businesses to identify their targeted audiences. They have purchased a number of high profile domains over the years, back in 2010 they paid … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling On New gTLD’s and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead
Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: ""IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable alternative TLD’s will marginalize the totality of .com’s mindshare in future. Speaking as the owner of a large portfolio of valuable dot com names, I once felt comfortable explaining that people should … [Read more...]
Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don’t See Anybody Abandoning .Com for .Brand or Another TLD.”
In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst - Topeka Capital Markets): "In your .brand customer base that you are working with, what's your sense of how they are thinking about it from the perspective of -- are they going to move from .com to .xyz or whatever? Or are they more thinking that this will be an … [Read more...]
Record Setter: Bidding on Dropped Domain 358.com Reaches $430K With 2+ Days to Go
The domain name 358.com dropped yesterday and shortly after the closed auction started on Snapnames.com, bidding reached $80,000. This morning the high bid on the domain name is $430,000. As you can see there are 7 bidders who bid $250,000 or more. While three number .Com domain names are extremely valuable, I would hope at this level that SnapNames has verified all of these accounts … [Read more...]