VTS (formerly View The Space) announced today that they received a $3.3M strategic investment from real estate private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE:BX). The company also announced they have re-branded View The Space as VTS. The company acquired the domain name VTS.com around January 8th. The previous owner of the domain was the Del Mar Electronics Show of La Jolla, … [Read more...]
Qihoo 360 Re-brands Its Search Engine So.com To Haosou.com
According to chinainternetwatch.com, Qihoo 360 has taken a shorter brand and made it longer, launching its new search brand Haosou.com and re-directing the traffic from its previous search engine domain So.com to Haosou.com. "360 changed its search engine brand name and its logo trying to help users easily remember and understand. One insider believed that Haosou is more applicable in … [Read more...]
Andrew Rosenser Launches Ganjapreneur; Cannabis Domain Name Market
Andrew Rosener os MediaOptions.com today announced today that its Ganjapreneur.com, a website dedicated to cannabis business news and culture, the launch of their Cannabis Domain Name Market, Andrew whois is the Founder and CEO is quote as saying: “Ganjapreneur is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs in legal cannabis space optimize and grow their business, and … [Read more...]
DegreeDirectory.org UpGrades To Learn.Org
According to a press release out today the website, DegreeDirectory.org announced that it acquired and rebranded to the domain name Learn.org. The domain appears to have been owned by Privacy Advocate at Domains.com and parked at Sedo.com I haven't see the sale publicly reported anyway yet but its certainly a great domain. "The rebranding coincides with Learn.org's renewed emphasis on … [Read more...]
Inc.com Asks “Will New Top Level Domains (New gTLD’s) Even Matter in 2015” Hint: No
Inc.com just published a post, entitled "Will New Top Level Domains Matter in 2015? Will new URL endings change web design and marketing in 2015?" The Inc.com story is about as negative on new gTLD's as I read recently and pretty much the opposite of Paul Stahura recent post on Circleid.com ""In 2014, the new Top Level Domains (TLDs) were introduced to much fanfare from the press and tech … [Read more...]
My Favorite Site of 2015: GiveMeYourMoney.co.uk
Its only January 2nd but I already found my favorite site of 2015, givemeyourmoney.co.uk If your wondering how I can across the site, we own the domain givemeyourmoney.com and I got an offer on the domain today and of course checked out other sites using the same domain with a different extension. I'll try to reach out to the owner of the domain to see how much he has received. … [Read more...]
.Net’s Fall Below 15 Million Registrations
The number of domain names in the .Net zone file fell below 15 Million as of the last update by Verisign There are now officially 14,998,816 .Net domain registered. .Net first passed the 15 million mark in August 2013. At the end of the first quarter of 2014 (March 31st 2014) there were around 15.2 million registrations according to Verisign. However the reduction in .Net domains which … [Read more...]