On Sunday the television show 60 minutes covered "The Influencers" "Social media stars are earning big money for pitching products in short, often silly, postings seen by millions of followers." Parts of the 60 Minutes segment chatted with people who said they were making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Vine. Today Twitter announced they were killing off Vine after they paid $30 … [Read more...]
$3 Million For TrumpTv.com? TrumpTower.Live & TrumpTowerLive.com Registered Yesterday
Yesterday we published a post about the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com putting the domain on the market with an asking price of $3 Million. The owner went on to say that the traffic to the domain name went from "about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the last couple of weeks” However Alexa.com which lists sites by traffic only has TrumpTv.com at 2.7 million which doesn't mesh … [Read more...]
Guy Who Owns The Domain TrumpTv.com Wants $3 Million For It
TheWrap.com has an exclusive interview with the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com; Hollywood entrepreneur Fernando Escovar. Mr. Escovar told TheWrap that he bought the domain name back in 2004, and "totally forgot I owned it; Then, all of a sudden, traffic began to go crazy and I realized what was going on." "We’ve seen our traffic go from about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the … [Read more...]
Top 20 New gTLD Registrants Own Over 10% of All New gTLD’s
The top 20 registrants of new gTLD domain names own over 10% of all registered new gTLD's. According to ntldstats.com, there are 24,890,063 new gTLD registered. The top 10 registrants of new gTLD domains own 1,860,529 or about 7.5% of all new gTLD domains. The top 20 registrants of new gTLD domain names own another 679,874 new gTLD domains, meaning that the top 20 new gTLD registrants … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales chart led by RHD.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and the top sale was RHD.com at $35,000. eSports.co.uk sold for 19,995 GBP, eSports are gaining in popularity around the world and this looks like a good buy in my opinion. sCapital.com sold for $8,500, I just wrote a post taking a look at the keyword, capital. Insight.cloud sold for 2,000 Euros. The domain redirects to WinnersGroup.com. Domain … [Read more...]
GoDaddy/NameFind sells a handful of “The”related domain names
GoDaddy and their Namefind.com sold a bunch of "The" related domain names over the past few days. Furniture Row purchased the domain TheShowroom.com, which was once owned by Michael, when Michael owned the domain he turned down a $10,000 offer. The domain was registered in 2003. Furniture Row is a developed website that sells furniture of course. They do own a number of other … [Read more...]
The Domain Name Texas.com Hits The Market
The 22 years old domain name Texas.com is for sale. The domain is being brokered by eNaming. Tracy Fogarty, eNaming founder and CEO is quoted in a press release out today as saying.com: “With only one generic name dot-com available per state, this domain name is as exclusive as they come. Texas is the second-largest state, and there are many businesses there that could benefit … [Read more...]