Looking at whois records for other cctlds on the heels of the .mx purchase, it looks like ABC.cm changed hands on 8/7. The domain looked to have been owned by a Chinese registrant. Of course .cm has been in the news before, Kevin Ham was once profiled in a Business 2.0 article that is published on CNN. Maybe Disney will care about this name if Google is indeed the buyer. The domain was dropped … [Read more...]
.Website Crosses 100,000 Registrations
Radix announced that .Website has crossed 100,000 registrations, this makes it the 11th largest new gtld Fun Facts & Figures about .website 2,61,84,980 DNS queries the .website zone receives in 4 days! 18,900 domains have an SEO percentage score of 80% 333+ domains sold at an Annuity Premium price 6th Most Popular nTLD choice of Corporations They also put out an infographic … [Read more...]
A New Platform Benefiting Homeless Dogs; MyRescue.Dog Launched By PetFinder & Donuts
Petfinder Foundation (in partnership with Donuts Inc.) announced today the launch of MyRescue.dog a website to generate money and awareness for homeless dogs. "MyRescue.dog is a site where adopters can post pictures and short stories about their beloved rescues, and consumers can vote for their favorites through September 26. Each posted picture generates a $10 donation to Petfinder … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Texture.com, FijiFit.com & More Domains
Domain Movers is a series where I detect domain names on the move, with the majority of the following being acquired or sold by large corporations. The remaining are simply valuable domain names on the move as well for one reason or another. Here we go with the latest domain name registrations, purchases and simply movers: Amazon Technologies, Inc. has registered the domain names … [Read more...]
Did Google Buy ABC.mx for $17,700 ?
I came across a blog post on PublicDomains.com and it talked about ABC.mx being sold by the owner of the blog. To our surprise one of our domains sold last week (08/04/1) and matches Google’s new site, that domain is ABC.mx. We purchased the domain back in September of 2009 from the landrush phase at a price of $799.99, and we were using it for our own corporate online business. Our … [Read more...]
Radix Does Record 532 Regs for EAP Day 5 in Just 45 minutes
Radix announced that .Online, in just the first 45 minutes of Day 5 of its Early Access Program (EAP), that allows people to register domain names for an extra fee ahead of General Availability (GA), they had 532 registrations. We posted last week that .online is giving away a free .Online domain name to TheDomains.com, reader that comes closest to the number of total number domain names … [Read more...]
Armor.com and Armour.com Domain Name Sell! Is Under Armour The Buyer?
Armor.com and Armour.com domain names have been sold! Both domain names were owned by Arms & Armor, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN and registered at Network Solutions for a very long time. Both domain names have now transferred to NetNames Ltd. The Arms & Armor website states that “Our new domain name is arms-n-armor.com! Please update your bookmarks now.” confirming the change of … [Read more...]