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...]
Richmond Mayoral Candidate Registers the Competition
Mark Robinson at RichmondMagazine.com wrote a piece on some dirty domain politics. Nate Peterson who is just 25 years old and has never held office wants to run for Mayor of Richmond. After registering NatePetersonformayor.com he decided to register the names of several other prospective candidates. From the article: Aside from the paperwork, Peterson has also taken strides to establish his … [Read more...]
HA.com Live Auction Today
Heritage Auctions is set to host another auction tonight at 4p.m. Eastern today. Proxy bidding ends one hour prior to the live auction. There are 42 lots up for auction. Some of the top lots include: Ve.com Current bid $850,000 720.com Balloon.com Blaze.com One lot includes 50 LLLL.coms where the winner can choose 20, the auction is no reserve. Current high bid $19,000 4 … [Read more...]