Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,087,415 for the week ending March 18th. The publically reportable sales were led by OnTime.com at $25,000 followed by CostumesForHalloween.com at…
The Hottest Gaming App In The World W/ 20M Users & BuyDomains Just Sold DrawSomething.com For $3K
Seems like one of the hottest games in the world is Draw Something. It seems some 20 million people have already downloaded the App. Yes 20 Million in only 5 weeks. BusinessInsider.com…
Gamechanger? Marketpage Allows Anyone To Set Up A Store on Their Facebook Page & Snoop Dog Is The 1st
There was an interesting press release from MarketPage a system that “allows anyone to have a shop on their Facebook Page and invite others to sell there.” Its seems like a natural….
Cnet: Google Plans to Penalize ‘Overly Optimized’ Sites
According to Cnet.com, Google is planning to penalize sites that overuse search-engine-optimization techniques. Google engineer Matt Cutts discussed the plan at South by Southwest (SXSW) and Search Engine Land posted an audio…
Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Applications Will Be Submitted?
We are now less than one month from April 12th, the last day an application for a new gTLD can be submitted. We now know that 294 people have paid $5K to…
Hey Rick Maybe You Should Re-Join The ICA
Rick Schwartz has ferociously been on the attack since getting hit with a UDRP on the domain name Saveme.com. As I’m sure all of you have read by now, Rick registered the…
The Inside Story Of The Fastest Growing TLD .TK Adding 1M Registrations Per Month It’s Free & Soon #1
Over the last couple of Verisign Domain Industry Brief (March 2012 here, December 2011 here) one ccTLD has seemingly come out of nowhere to become the third largest ccTLD in terms of…