NameMedia’s announced today that Register.com, has joined the AfternicDLS (Domain Listing Service), as a premium promotion partner. The AfternicDLS Premium Promotion Service is Afternic’s most expansive distribution network. The Domain Listing Service will list exact matches of owned domains and suggestions of other owned domains when someone seeks to register a domain at one of the partner … [Read more...]
Our Picks From The “No Reserve” SnapNames Auction Ending Thursday April 8th
SnapNames.com Spring "No Reserve" auction ends Thursday April 8th at 3:15PM EST, in accordance with SnapNames.com normal closing rules. We have gone through the list and picked out what we believe are the best domains on the auction (except for the couple we may bid on). Just to let you know the "no reserve" title is a little misleading, as the minimum bid for any domain appears to be … [Read more...]
MLB Comes Out Swinging With MLB.TV, Yet The NFL Won’t Spend $3K on NFL.TV
The first baseball game of the season got underway tonight with the traditional Red Sox/ Yankees matchup. Major League Baseball is heavily promoting MLB.tv as a platform for people to watch baseball on MLB.tv or MLB.com. Major League baseball could have just used it's .com to promote the product, so its notable that is using the .TV version. Great thing for the .TV extension But on the … [Read more...]
So What Happened To Frank Schilling’s .TV Domains? He Doesn’t Own Them, Enom Does.
Right after the .TV relaunch on March 18th several domain blogs pointed out that Frank Schilling invested in the new extension, one even listing all of the .TV domains he acquired. And why not? Frank has long been regarded to be the most successful domain investor on the planet. So when blogs, even forums, took note that Frank bought into the .TV market they took it as a positive sign for … [Read more...]
No .XXX!! Shouts The Adult Industry Too
My friend Andrew just wrote a post on DomainNameWire.com on the outcry from religious groups and their members against the .XXX extension. The comment period on the .XXX extension is as Andrew noted getting a lot of comments, many from religious groups and their members against the .XXX extension but the other group also voicing opposition, once again to .XXX, is the adult industry. Mike … [Read more...]
After Last Nights Post, Name.com Takes Down All .TV Pricing For Existing Premium Domains
Our post of last night apparently caused a stir in .TV land. Tonight, Name.com has pulled all of the pricing it was showing for .TV premium domains if they were to drop. We're are not sure if Enom the registrar or VeriSign the owner of the .TV registry ordered or pressured name.com to block this info, but the info is gone. We showed you last night a screen shot of the what the "new" price … [Read more...]
How Can ENOM Charge Me $3K A Year For A “Premium” .TV That Would Sell For A $435 One Time Payment?
Out of the "landrush" of .TV domains a couple of weeks ago one of the biggest remaining issue is the disparity of those "premium" .TV domains registered before Enom lost its exclusive rights with Verisign, the .TV registry, to sell .TV domains, compared to all those domains sold after March 18, 2010. I have one such of these domains, Great.TV I have had that domain for several years paying … [Read more...]