Perfect 10 was a men's magazine that looked to rival Playboy. The founder supposedly started the magazine when a friend got rejected from Playboy. I remember watching model boxing by Perfect 10 on Showtime back in the day. The company founder became quite litigious over the years and Wikipedia details some of them. One famous case was against Giganews. Perfect 10, Inc. v. Giganews, … [Read more...]
The rise of branding businesses around Corona/Covid
Trademarks, domain registrations and naming your company with Covid continue to move forward. Trademarks filed for things like CovidLivesMatter, (the .com was actually registered in March 2020). ICLG.com published an article that gives a deep dive to all 3 components in one place. The author noted a lot of legal from around the world are condemning these trademark registrations. From … [Read more...]
Post the best name you have for sale for $500 or less
READ EVERYTHING FIRST so you are not surprised if your comment is not published or removed. ANY EXTENSION THIS WEEK - 10 Names max post more and you get blocked Of course with a lot of links some posts get held, they will be approved as soon as they are seen, some people repost their list with the note comment is being held for moderation. Don’t do that!!! Only going to get you blocked. … [Read more...]
NameJet/Snapnames May sales led by Webmonkey.com
Web.com released their May sales report from NameJet/Snapnames. WebMonkey.com was the top sale at $65,500. Background on the name here. .Com took 80 out of 87 reported sales in … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by FM.net
Sedo released their weekly sales and FM.net led the way at $70,000. C.live was second at $28,500 and .com had a tie for third with MedicalCoverage.com and AssetGuard.com selling for $18,000. 33 .com sales 13 cctld sales 11 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · upteam.com at 12,000 USD · yjzg.net at 9,999 USD · amity.co at 5,000 … [Read more...]
How are you doing?
So 2020 has not been a good year by any stretch of the imagination. So first things first how are you doing? How has this turbulent start to the new decade affected your domain business? To take it a step further, how has this time in isolation filled with anxiety changed your outlook on domaining for the better or the worse? … [Read more...]
What they do right – what do they do wrong – DAN
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...]