A lot of people in the domain world miss Rick Schwartz since he retired. His "Biggest Fan" who writes onlinedomain.com openly stated last week he was eagerly waiting for a new post from Rick on RicksBlog.com. The Domain King remains retired but of course he still owns a lot of domain names and gets offers to which he responds to. Rick shared with me an exchange he had with a someone … [Read more...]
New York Man Looks to Cash In on PrincessCharlotte.com
Here is a story from Mirror.co.uk about a New York man who hit the jackpot, at least in the opinion of some. Michael Katz hand registered the domain PrincessCharlotte.com four years ago, now that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their second child Charlotte, Mr.Katz is getting offers. The title of the article is a bit misleading, "PrincessCharlotte.com owner makes net gain of £6,000 … [Read more...]
Expired Domain Leads To Anti-Gay Protesters Accidentally Promoting Gay Porn Website
Everyone should keep up to date with their domain names and make sure they don't expire. That is especially important when it comes to live websites, more so when you are advertising that website. There was a story on PinkNews.co.uk about some religious group in North Carolina protesting a rock festival using a sign that pointed to what they thought was their website. Problem was the domain … [Read more...]
BTC.com Launches New Platform For Bitcoin Users: $1M Purchase Price is a “Long Term Lease”
BTC.com announced today a new platform for the world’s Bitcoin users on "the million-dollar domain". We also learned from the press release that the BTC.com sale for $1 Million dollars is "long term lease agreement" and that BTC.com plans on selling subdomains. We had an interview with the Broker who sold the BTC.com domain name which you can check out here Here is the press … [Read more...]
GM Becomes 1st Fortune 50 Company To Launch a Site On a New gTLD: GeneralMotors.Green
General Motors has become the 1st Fortune 50 Company to launch a site on a new gTLD domain, in this case GeneralMotors.green Although other bloggers have pointed out Fortune 50 companies have acquired and activated new gTLD domain names, they are mostly re-directing the new gTLD domains to existing .com sites. GM maybe the 1st to actually launch a targeted site on a new gTLD … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Same.com For $233,333
Sedo reported that 673 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million Dollars 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: Same.com at $233,333 · Top ccTLD: Veilingen.nl at 31,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: Laws.org at $10,000 Here are the reported sales: Domain … [Read more...]
Chinese Public Co Stock Gains 10% On Purchase of P2P.com Which Was Once Stolen
FT.com is reporting that the shares in the shares in a Shanghai-listed real estate company known as Shanghai Duolun Industry rose by the maximum 10% daily limit after it changed its name to P2P Financial Information Service Co and announced it has acquired the domain name P2P.com The company said that the domain name p2p.com, was worth $100 million dollars "The website currently features a … [Read more...]