Anheuser-Busch, LLC has purchased the domain name BestDamn.com with the help of domain buy service The Treadstone Group, Inc. / Ross Bulla about July 27, 2015 according to whois records. The domain has been registered since June 23, 2000 and prior whois records showed the domain owned by “Best Damn Dot Com” and a registrant email address of “jsullivan@gpac.net” To go along with the BestDamn.com … [Read more...]
Alibaba Teams Up With China’s 2nd Largest TV Station To Launch Hitao.top
According to the .TOP registry the biggest IT/E-commerce company in China, Alibaba.com, together with the second biggest Chinese TV Station Hunan TV, (second to only CCTV) combined to launch a website on a .Top domain name for its new B2C website, 嗨淘全球, which targets female customers aged between 18 to 35 with imported cosmetics and mother & baby products. The sublinks of their … [Read more...]
Donuts Sells Around 800 Two Character New gTLD’s Domains In The Early Access Program
According to Donuts they sold around 800 Two Character New gTLD's domain names in its Early Access Program (EAP) which ended yesterday. Donuts released around 200,000 Two Character New gTLD's domain names last week, meaning domain names that are two letters (LL), a letter and a number (LN), a number and a letter (NL) and two numbers (NN). The Early Access Program allowed customers to … [Read more...]
Will .Film Prevent Squatting from Unofficial Third Parties ?
Will .film help in the battle against cybersquatting ? ScreenDaily.com published an article on the Melbourne-based Motion Picture Domain Registry (MPDR) and their launch of .film, an extension dedicated exclusively to film content. From the article: The producers of Toronto selections February and Septembers Of Shiraz have already registered their official site with the suffix as the … [Read more...]
Donuts Gets At Least 20 Two Letter Domain Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP For up To $12,500 Each
Donuts released over 200,000 two character domain names across all of its extensions in its Early Access Program (EAP) and we counted at least 20 registrations, on Day 1 although we are sure there are more. The domains that were registered on day 1 ranged IMHO to great domains well with the money to domains I wouldn't have registered in General Availability. The wholesale cost for a EAP day … [Read more...]
CSC September New gTLD Report: .News & .Sexy Are Hot
The brand protection and domain name registrar CSC published its New gTLD Utilization Report for September late last week and had some interesting findings. We picked through the report and found what we believe are the highlights. You can review the entire report here. CSC publishes a New gTLD report every two months, and it's "designed to update digital marketers and their peers in … [Read more...]
Google Registers Alphabet.Sex in Sunrise: How Did They Do That? + More Generic’s Reg As TM
Google has added another domain name to its growing Alphabet brand, this time Alphabet.sex which got registered yesterday. But Google registering another Alphabet domain name is not the story. The issue is how did Google get that domain name registered in Sunrise when to register a domain name in any new gTLD Sunrise period the registrant has to have a registered trademark for the term and … [Read more...]