I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain investor Nat Cohen's Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com's. All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored … [Read more...]
CSC’s November New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month
Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its "New gTLD Utilization Report" for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD's (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD's with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the … [Read more...]
IAC To Spin Off Match.com, Tinder, OkCupid.com + 42 More To IPO Of The Match Group (MTCH)
IAC/Interactive (IACI) is spinning off 45 sites including Match.com, Okcupid.com and Tinder into a new public company called the The Match Group which filed for an IPO Friday, applying to be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker "MTCH." The company has filed to raised up to $100 million in the IPO. According to the S-1, The Match Group had 4.7 million paying subscribers worldwide at the end … [Read more...]
GeekWire Looks at the brands using .News
Sometimes when you read an article on a technology website you need to make sure the author is not related to the company in a sponsored content or guest blogger type deal. Many times when I read new gtld stories I see these types of articles, nothing wrong with them but they don't carry any weight since the author has a vested interest in promoting the topic. I read an article on GeekWire that … [Read more...]
Vegas.com Sold For Up To $38 Million With $15.5 Million In Cash, But…..
Publicly traded Remark Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARK) announced today they entered into an agreement to buy Vegas.com in a deal that could be valued up to $38 Million dollars. Vegas.com which is privately owned is a online booking company for all things Vegas. Under The terms of the proposed deal, which is subject to approval by shareholders of Remark Media (Remark),The Greenspun Corporation, … [Read more...]
We Dug Up All The Tom Brady Emails Related to TB12.com
On Wednesday Deadspin.com posted an article about Tom Brady the quarterback of the New England Patriots and his legal battle with the National Football League. The subject of the story was an email leak that the NFLPA (Players Union) released in response in their lawsuit with the NFL. Deadspin which focuses on sports, touched upon one nugget of interest to domain owners, a potential domain … [Read more...]
Justice Department indicts Senator Ted Stevens
The Justice Department announced today that it has indicted Sen. Ted Stevens (cosponsor of the Snowe Bill) on seven counts of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home. Stevens, is running for re-election this year … [Read more...]