On the Third Row Tesla Podcast Elon Musk talks about the 10 year effort to buy Tesla.com. He mentioned the trademark for $75,000 buying the domain was a whole different nightmare that took us 10 years to buy that Tesla com domain. That cost was like 10 million dollars yeah that was crazy. Musk talks about the name might have been changed to Farraday which later a competitor took. Faraday … [Read more...]
TheMortgage.com from $500,000 to $15,050
One of yesterday's biggest sales reported by Namebio was TheMortgage.com. The domain name sold for $15,050 but in 2000 the name sold for $500,000. ownership of themortgage.com goes back to 1995 when Jason Smith registered the name for his company, Online Mortgage Explorer Inc. Online Mortgage merged with iGate Technologies Inc. to form Basis100. Back in 2000 TheGlobeandMail.com … [Read more...]
DNForum picks up Epik as a sponsor opens up marketplace
DNForum sent out some news this morning they are opening their marketplace for free users and they picked up Epik as a sponsor. There is $25 worth of credit at Epik.com if active on DNForum.com within 14 days of this announcement. Exclusive members can claim $100 worth of credit at Epik.com if active on DNForum.com within 14 days of this announcement. We have some exciting news to share … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by apuestas.es
Sedo released their weekly sales and apuestas.es led the way at 111,625 Euros, ($123,016). Bets or Betting in Spanish. BusinessClass.net was second at $19,072. CSA.co was third at 12,000 GBP, ($15,622). A .com did not make the list until number 4 with optiman.com selling for $15,000. ৪৪৪.com is an IDN that sold for $9,999 38 .com sales 16 cctld sales 2 other tld … [Read more...]
15 NFL teams have had their Twitter account hacked
Welcome to Super Bowl Week! It looks like 15 NFL teams have had their Twitter accounts hacked. @MySportsUpdate broke the news. Reading the last tweet from @packers it seems to be from Our Mine Hi, we're Back (OuَrMine).We are here to Show people that everything is hackableto improve your accounts securityContact us: contact@ourmine.orgFor security services visit: ourmine. orgFollow @OurM1ne … [Read more...]
Xiaomi founder, on the importance of a domain name
Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company founded by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Lox posted a link to a video of the founder of Xiaomi on the importance of domain names. Kassey Lee added: Well said, but Xiaomi is not easy to pronounce outside China so it's not globally oriented. That explains why they shelled out $3.6m to acquire Mi.com as its corporate … [Read more...]
“Domain trading can be the most rewarding hobby and a fantastic business if you understand it”
Nic.at published a look at domain name trading and referenced some words of wisdom from Rick Schwartz and contrasted them with a new trader starting out, Niels Buntrock. From the article: Several hours a week dedicated to domain trading Schwartz has to be something of an outlier in this industry, though. In an interview with domain.com he shares a number of his hottest tips for people … [Read more...]