The Washington football team of the NFL will be making an announcement today that they will being moving on from the name "Redskins" The new name will not be announced today but there has been a lot of speculation. Some have thought Washington Warriors, the interesting thing here, Daniel Snyder the majority owner of the Washington football organization, had purchased the rights to a Washington … [Read more...]
Googles vs Google
It seems before the search juggernaut came along there was a children's company called Googles Children’s Workshop. In 1997 they registered the trademark GOOGLES. They of course also registered the domain name Googles.com. The website did not launch until 1998 when that little company in Mountain View came on the scene. While they have many tm's Google's first tm looks to have been given in … [Read more...]
GoDaddy’s loss is DropCatch’s gain on EveryDayCounts.com
Well this is a weird one, back in May I wrote about everydaycounts.com closing at auction on GoDaddy for $2,601. The domain name was at Tucows not GoDaddy. I would imagine the winner did not pay and the domain was left to expire. So now DropCatch gets the windfall. It's a little higher this time around as the auction closed at $3,150. History on the name Every.Day.Counts was a fashion … [Read more...]
Tron moving to T.network
Tron (TRX) is a Blockchain-based decentralized operating system based on a cryptocurrency native to the system, known as TRX. They operate on Tron.network. But yesterday they put out a release they are moving to T.network. Currently it's redirecting to Tron.Network. On Medium they wrote an article announcing the move and seem to be hoping the name can bring a lot to the table. From the … [Read more...]
What they do right – what they do wrong – Escrow.com
Over the last few years we have published a series The good, the bad and the ugly. Readers have been able to leave their feedback and some companies have reached out over the years and let me know they took the posts to heart. This year I want to try to change it up a bit and, What they do right and what they do wrong. Focusing in a little deeper to give better feedback to industry … [Read more...]
NameJet/Snapnames June sales report led by Bartenders.com
The June sales report for NameJet/Snapnames is out and Bartenders.com led the way at $50,000. Perfect10.com which we detailed here, was second at $47,510. Joggers.com was third at $23,020. .Com dominated the 90 reported sales that were $2,000 or more. .Org did take 10 spots including two 5 figure … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Circa.co
Sedo reported their weekly sales and Circa.co led the way at $28,000. Olema.com a small California geo was second at $15,000. More on the Olema.com sale. Sundt.de was third at 10,099 EURO, ($11,382) 41 .com sales 27 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · bcp.co at 5,999 USD · coleaders.com at 5,650 USD · fastb.com at … [Read more...]