Verisign has announced the winners of the #InternetOfficial contest for month 3. The month 3 winners are: delectablegarden.com GeorgiaWeddingCakes.com CancerSniff.com WarmEscapes.com BridesWithABudget.com Congratulations to the last 5 #InternetOffical winners! The Grand Prize round will launch on Friday, June 12 and end on Saturday, June 27th. Staring June 12th you can … [Read more...]
Gmeil.com 11 Year old Typo For Gmail.com Sells At Auction For $3,255
The domain name Gmeil.com, which is a pretty clear typo for gmail.com, just sold in a domain drop auction for $3,255 The domain name dropped on June 7th and was caught by the domain catcher dropcatch.com The domain name has an original registration date of 2004, so Google had over a decade to go and get the domain through a UDRP. According to Screenshots.com the domain has been parked … [Read more...]
Tesla Is The 5th Top Keyword Registered In .Com in May
Verisign just published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET for May and noticeably Tesla is sitting at number 5. Of course Tesla is a car maker and a trademarked term. So it seems very interesting that this term would be in the top 10 keyword registered domain names in .com for May The word "Option" led both the .com and the .net list pdf is another trademarked term by Adobe … [Read more...]
Want Milk.com? The Owner Might Sell It For $10 Million
Interesting story today in Vice.com about the o domain name Milk.com which is still owned by the original registrant Dan Bornstein who registered the domain way back in July 1994 when domain names were free. In an interview with Mr. Bornstein he revealed he registered Milk.com just to use as a cool email address, never thought it would be worth a lot millions and he would probably sell it for … [Read more...]
Airline Uses a .WS To Make a URL Strictly out of Emojis
Adweek published an article about an airline that was trying to reach millenials, They decided to use a .WS in the campaign and make the url entirely out of Emojis. From the article: Norwegian Airlines decided its target millennial audience was probably up to the challenge, though, so earlier this week it partnered with several Danish influencers on Instagram to spread the cryptic URL … [Read more...]
Media Options Acquires MJ.com to be apart of Ganjapreneur Network
In a tweet a few minutes ago Media Options announced they acquired MJ.com to add to their growing Ganjapreneur network. Congratulations to Andrew. For those who may not be familiar MJ is used in some circles to refer to Marijuana/Mary Jane. Plus you never know if one day Michael Jordan comes a calling he has the bankroll to pay maximum end user price. MediaOptions is proud to say it has … [Read more...]
Search Engine Journal: If The .Com You Want Isn’t Available; Find Another .Com
Searchenginejournal.com, just wrote a post asking What is "The Best Domain Extensions When a .COM is Not Available" and seems to conclude it's another .com ""What do you do when the domain name or suffix you want is not available?"" "You may want to evaluate whether another gTLD (generic top-level domain) would work. The core group of gTLD’s is comprised of the com, info, net, and org … [Read more...]