Home Box Office (HBO) registered several interesting new domain names yesterday through brand protection company and domain namr registrar Mark Monitor. The domain registrations indicate HBO maybe planning a "news network" either on HBO or a stand alone station. Of course HBO has a couple of "newsy" type shows already Late Week with John Oliver and Real Time With Bill Mahaer both of which … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Total .Tube Winds Up With Just 647 Registrations
.Tube launched into General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including the domain names registered in Sunrise, .tube wound up with just 647 registrations. As we highlighted yesterday, many of the "better" .tube domain names were reserved or have very high premium prices up to $112,500. .tube was originally applied for by … [Read more...]
I Owned 17 Single Letter/Number .Tube Domains Today Until The Registry Took Them Back
I was on the west coast this morning and decided to get up early and take a shot at registering some .tube domains at Uniregistry. I threw a bunch of domains into the system, include the single letter domain a.tube and out of the bunch of 100 or so, only a.tube and one other domain name, Filthy.tube came back available to be registered at normal registration prices. Once I got confirmation … [Read more...]
Do Keyword Rankings Still Matter ?
Winston Burton wrote an interesting article on Search Engine Land that dealt with the importance of keywords and ranking in Google. One of the key points made was that the answer varies based on your domain name. From the article: Do you even need keywords on the page to rank anymore? The answer will vary depending upon your domain. If you’re a high-authority site that has high-quality … [Read more...]
The Daily Roundup for 7-6-16 – VR.CN Sells for 7 figures
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 6, 2016. Kredit.com buyer revealed Mike noticed that Kredit.com which sold 3 weeks ago for 46K Euros transferred to the buyer, domainers.de; up for sale for $221,166. VR.CN sells for $1.5 million ? Kassey Lee reported, VR.cn sold again, this time for close to $1.5m (10m yuan) on July 4. Buyer is entrepreneur Hang Zhong REN (任杭中) and landing page … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Tube Goes Live Thursday: Less Than 50 Sunrise Domain Registrations By TM Holders
The new gTLD .Tube goes live where domain names can be registered on a first come, first serve basis at a handful of domain name registrars starting at 14:00 UTC. However some of the largest registrars are not listed on the .Tube website including Godaddy.com; Chinese registrars West.cn, HiChina (www.net.cn) and ename.net. Actually out of the top 10 domain name registrars for new gTLD's … [Read more...]
Phil Corwin Of The ICA To Speak At Heritage Foundation Event On ICANN With Ted Cruz
Phil Corwin from the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), of which we are a Gold Member of, is speaking at a Heritage Foundation event on ICANN taking place from 3-4:30 pm tomorrow along with Senator Ted Cruz. The event is entitled: What Are the Concerns about Ending the U.S. Contractual Relationship with ICANN? The event will be webcast … [Read more...]