Mike found this one, a domain name owned by Frank Schilling with a buy it now of $188,000. The domain is DavidJones.com, the domain was registered in 2000. Surprisingly the .net was registered one year earlier in 1999. The domain now shows brand protection firm Marksmen as the registrant. David Jones Pty Limited, trading as David Jones, is an Australian upmarket department store, owned … [Read more...]
Should Queen.dk being going after another domain ?
So the owners of Queen.dk have filed a UDRP on Queen.com. By most accounts this is seen as messing with the wrong dog at the pound. Rick Schwartz does not take kindly to people trying to wrongfully take his property. But when you listen to the last 6 years of pro new gtld talk, shouldn't Queen.dk be going after another domain ? Their business is flowers and there is a .flowers extension, … [Read more...]
After having higher offers for 20.com, was selling a mistake ?
So Jason Calacanis sold 20.com for $1.75 million as reported on his Twitter account. James Iles on Namepros confirmed the sale details. When Jason tweeted out that he was leaning towards selling, a couple well known domainers tweeted back. Morgan Linton told Jason to go for it: @Jason Do it! — Morgan Linton (@morganlinton) April 11, 2017 Andrew Rosener disagreed: @Jason … [Read more...]
Who was your first ?
What was the first name you ever sold and if you would like to list the sales price that's your choice. My first money generated from domaining was a lease. My first domain sale was XEF.com. … [Read more...]
Future tech was registered way before most heard the terms
Tech trends are talked about all the time in domaining, many invest in future tech and current hot keywords. Many of the technology names getting a lot of buzz and discussion were registered a long time ago. Here is a look at some of the best domains in tech and when they were registered. Ai.com - registered back in 1993 and owned by Thunayan K Al-Ghanim and his Future Media Architects. … [Read more...]
Top trending keywords for March, President, Fun, Chinese,Bots
Verisign released their top trending keywords for March and somehow President and Fun topped the lists in .com and .net. Chinese and Bots made the top 5 in .com. Max,value and ultra were in the top 5 for .net. The Raiders are there for the Oakland Raiders planning to move to Las … [Read more...]
Chinese Are 9 of Top 10 Biggest Registrants of New gTLD’s; Top 10 Own Over 10% Of All New gTLD’s
I was looking at ntldstats.com checking out the top registrants of new gTLD's and of the top 10 biggest registrants of new gTLD's 9 are from China. Moreover the top 10 registrants account for over 3.2 million registrations of new gTLD's. According to ntldstats.com there are 29,194,819 new gTLD's registered, meaning that the top 10 largest new gTLD domain owners account for just over 11% of … [Read more...]