Gordon Ramsay is apparently dealing with someone trying to cause confusion with his name. In 2019, Kushnarenko Oleksii set up “gordonrumsay.com”, having changed just one letter of the star’s real website gordonramsay.com. In January, Mr Ramsay’s lawyers filed an official complaint to the World Intellectual Property Organisation insisting the Russian national was “typosquatting” the chef’s real … [Read more...]
Verisign reports First Quarter 2021 Results
Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) reported earnings after the close. The final .com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2020 was 73.5 percent compared to 73.8 percent for the same quarter in 2019. Financial Highlights Verisign ended the first quarter of 2021 with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $1.18 billion, an increase of $14 million from the end of 2020.Cash flows … [Read more...]
investing.com (the business) sold for $500m – domain sold in 2012
Investing.com was sold for $2,450,000 in 2012. Well now according to Globes.co.il the business that was built on that domain name sold for $500 million. An international investment fund based in East Asia has acquired Investing.com for $500 million. From the article: Dror Efrat and three others founded the company in 2007. Efrat, who grew up on Kibbutz Urim in southern Israel, served as CEO … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Angel.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Angel.com led the way at $2 million. 1of1.com was second at $85,000. Credit.de was third at 40,000 Euro, ($48,135). 77 .com sales 25 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · pie.co at 32,000 USD · ela.net at 15,051 USD · reflections.co at 11,250 USD Domain … [Read more...]
How Lottery.com became Lottery.com
Two weeks ago Lottery.com announced the acquisition of Sports.com. In an interview conducted last week the CEO of Lottery.com Tony DiMatteo discusses how they got the domain name Lottery.com back in the day. They were AutoLotto.com. Turns out the owner who DiMatteo says acquired Lottery.com for 8 figures, contributed the domain along with cash when investing in the Series A round Lottery.com … [Read more...]
Angel.com sold for $2m Dave Evanson does it again
It was just on March 30 that Dave Evanson tweeted out that Angel.com was under exclusive brokerage. Registered in 1993 owned by Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. Now it's sold Congrats to seller and Dave … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by six figure sale of Link.co
Sedo released their weekly domain names sales and Link.co led the way at 135,000 Euro, ($161,383). grundsteuerwert.de was second at 40,000 Euro, ( $47,814). Containerhomes.com was third at $32,000. 45 .com sales 16 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · jdi.org at 18,000 USD · countrycannabis.com at 10,000 … [Read more...]