Blain Reinkensmeyer wrote a blog post on stocktradingtogo.com that they have acquired stocktrader.com and will be moving the site to that domain name. He also gave a number on StockBrokers.com. Apparently that domain was acquired for $185,000 in 2011. When I purchased StockTradingToGo.com the domain in 2007, I had no idea what the future held. I loved the market, I had a new found love for … [Read more...]
Namecheap Launches Respectourprivacy.com To Save Private Whois Registrations
Namecheap.com, in association with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Fight For The Future (FFTF), launched the website Respectourprivacy.com to allow people to file a comment with ICANN letting them know they object to the proposed rule that would greatly restrict the use of privacy or proxy services on whois records of domain names. ICANN public comment period closes on July 7th … [Read more...]
.Sucks Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise
The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499, with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd. If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price, then Vox … [Read more...]
AT & T Researchers Look at Spotting Malicious Domains Using Word Segmentation
Two researchers from AT & T, Wei Wang and Kenneth E. Shirley had a domain related paper published on the Cornell University website ArXiv.org. The paper looks at whether using certain word patterns and data can be useful in spotting malicious domains. From the paper: In recent years, vulnerable hosts and maliciously registered domains have been frequently involved in mobile attacks. In … [Read more...]
Some of Kim Dotcom’s Mega Domains Expired and are up for sale
According to TorrentFreak.com some of the domains belonging to Kim Dotcom have expired and are now listed for sale. Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak the domains were not supposed to expire. “This should not have happened,” he says, adding that someone else in his team handled the registrations. Huge Domains picked up one of the domains. From the article: After the seized Megaupload and … [Read more...]
Almost All Of Free .Berlin Domain Names Have Expired 37K So Far
.Berlin had over 31,000 domain names expire yesterday adding to the previous day where over 36,000 domain names expired. .Berlin about a year ago allowed free domain registrations for 2 days, which totaled somewhere between 70,000-75,000 domain names with two registrants picking up almost 70,000 domain names just between the two. Now that these free domain names have come up for renewal it … [Read more...]
Overstock Buys 3 Domains & 3 Social Net Handles For 150 Bitcoins
Exclusive to TheDomains.com: Overstock bought three domain names and three social media handles for 150 bitcoins, in December 2014, which at the time were valued at $50,000 ($380 per BTC) from Anonymous Media LLC. which is a/k/a Dotted.in Overstock bought the domain names O.ly, O.vu and O.cr as well as the social networking handles of twitter.com/O; vimeo.com/O and O.tumblr.com for 150 … [Read more...]