27.com hit a high bid of $1,510,702 and failed to sell this week on NameJet. 27.CN has managed to sell for seven figures CNY. The news was reported on Admin5.com. The sale took place on A5.net. The domain was registered in 2003. Kassey Lee from Coreile.com translated, 27.cn sold for 7 figures CNY on A5.net platform. 27 may mean 爱妻 (beloved wife), 爱钱 (love money), 爱吃 (love eating), 爱情 … [Read more...]
Swedish Court Gives Pirate Bay domains back to the Government
So last week we wrote about another game of whack - a- mole pertaining to Sci-Hub and their jumping from one extension to another. I used The Pirate Bay as an example of this game. A reader accurately pointed out that the site was back on it's Swedish extension .SE. Well today a Stockholm court of appeals upheld a ruling from last year that will take the domain names ThePirateBay.se and … [Read more...]
Fox Registers Feud.tv for Upcoming Series
The domain name Feud.tv was registered at Mark Monitor by Twentieth Century Fox for their upcoming series Feud. The series will look at famous feuds throughout history. The first season will be legendary actresses Bette Davis vs Joan Crawford. From Moviefone: FX has ordered yet another anthology series from Ryan Murphy, the mastermind behind "American Horror Story" and "American Crime Story," … [Read more...]
Paypal Updates TOS: No Refunds For Gift Cards, Crowdfunding & Gaming Sites Like Fan Duel/Draft Kings
Paypal chose Mother's Day to update it's User Agreement which will go into effect on June 25, 2016. The new terms exclude certain items from its Seller protection including gift cards, and pre-paid cards including items "equivalent to cash". PayPal also added a list of items that are not eligible for Purchase Protection including payments crowdfunding platforms, anything purchased from or an … [Read more...]
Another Game of Domain Name Whack -A – Mole
Over the years we have seen several piracy type websites jump from domain name to domain name. The Pirate Bay famously lost their .se domain and moved on to several like .la,.mn,.gd,.am and .vg. All of which have been since shut down. Ars Technica published an article about Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27-year-old bioengineer turned Web programmer from Kazakhstan who is living in Russia. Elbakyan is … [Read more...]
One Domain Owner Was Ahead of Trump on CrookedHillary.com
Throughout the campaign trail this year Donald Trump has come up with nicknames for political rivals. "Lyin Ted" for Ted Cruz, "Little Marco" for Marco Rubio and his latest nickname "Crooked Hillary" for Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton. John Kasich is waiting for his nickname. The Washington Post is out today looking into Trump's methodology of nicknaming rivals. On March 26, we … [Read more...]
What’s Being Used Left of The Dot ? CSC Report Gives Examples
CSC released their new gtld utilization report for April. Using Alexa as one barometer it seems that the number of new g's in the Alexa top one million has risen by 30% since February. One of the thing the report pointed out was what is being used left of the dot. I think many believe there needs to be uniformity. WWW back in the day let less proficient users know something was a website. So … [Read more...]