Just moments ago, NamesCon made a surprise tweet for last-minute decision makers still wanting to attend. … [Read more...]
Former DailyMail.com domain owner seeking $1million
Interesting story out today on the domain name dailymail.com. Today that domain resolves for the London Daily Mail. But it seems the former owner is looking for $1million. WVRecord.com reported: The former owner of Charleston Daily Mail claims United Bank wrongfully induced Charleston Newspapers to sell the rights to the dailymail.com domain name. MediaNews Group Inc. and Charleston … [Read more...]
Two Years After Starting Service in Prague, UBER picks up UBER.CZ
It looks like Uber acquired the domain Uber.cz. The domain is now registered at Mark Monitor. Almost two years to date that the service became available in Prague, the first city in central and eastern Europe where the Uber car hire service is available. The domain was owned by Internet CZ since 2008. … [Read more...]
New Top Level Domain Industry First Half 2016 Analysis & Insights
Christa Taylor is the CEO of DotTBA published an infographic and new gtld analysis on CircleID. Here is a look at some of the analysis: Top Level Domain Statistics and Business Implications First Half 2016 Overview Average prices were based on prices at the end of September retrieved from 101domain, eNom, GoDaddy and United Domains. If a TLD was not found on any of these … [Read more...]
All in All Trust in Domaining Looks Good
We have written about how much domain industry participants believe what they read and hear. The numbers were mixed with a fair number of people coming in around 50%. A recent study published by the Pew Research Center shows that trust is down all over the place. For those who get news from social media trust is abysmal with only 4% of adults polled saying they trust it a lot. National news … [Read more...]
Registrant of PresidentTrump.com Has Turned Down Five Figure Offers
Fox13News.com out of Tampa did a story on Julie Magill a Tampa resident who deals in real estate. (Tip of the cap to Namepros member NSmith91). Julie made a $9 bet on a hunch three years ago that could pay off big. Julie went and heard Donald Trump give a speech and walked away thinking that Mr. Trump could one day run for President. From the article: Magill has received offers for the domain … [Read more...]
Consumer Electronics Show migrates to WWW.CES.TECH
Radix has some news out today that the Consumer Electronics Show or CES has made the move from CESWEB.org to CES.Tech. This is a sensible change as CESWEB is a bit clunky. CES.com does not resolve and CES.org is a developed website for Cooperative Educational Services. Here is the release: Radix Registry today announced that the Consumer Electronics Show (popularly known as CES) has … [Read more...]
