ICANN just published details regarding how to apply to become the next CEO of ICANN. The CEO of ICANN is currently making close to $900K in Salary and Bonus plus gets to travel at least 3 times a year to ICANN meetings which are usually held in some nice locations. The deadline to submit an application is September 20, 2015 Here is the info: Following the announcement by ICANN CEO Fadi … [Read more...]
UDRP’s and Fan Sites: Outcome is a Roll of the Dice
Like with most gambling, Bally Gaming, Inc. just won a few and lost a couple in a UDRP it filed over 8 gambling related domain names winning the rights to: caribbean-stud-poker-online.com crazy4pokeronline.com let-it-ride-online.com mississippi-stud.com texas-holdem-bonus.com ultimate-texas-holdem-online.com And losing the UDRP on: 3‑cardpokeronline.com 4-cardpokeronline.com The … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Sun Covers .Vegas In A Largely Negative Story On “Lagging Numbers”
The LasVegasSun.com just covered the new gTLD .Vegas in what is largely a negative story on the new gTLD which is "lagging" behind other City new gTLD's The Sun quotes Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto who blasted .Vegas: ""Platinum Web Marketing founder Anthony Carlitto, believes the .Vegas domain is a bad bet and doesn’t advise his clients to buy a .Vegas domain. Not only are … [Read more...]
Catch.com, RF.com and More Domain Movers
If this is your first visit to Domain Movers, it's a series where we detect domain names that have been acquired, registered or are simply moving by mainly all very large companies. These detections often are an early indicator of something new. Maybe a new advertising campaign, a new product or service etc. We heavily rely on the whois database which doesn't always present the whole story, … [Read more...]
.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding in 2015
Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats: • Over 1.8 Million .CO domains under currently under management • 120 companies using the .Co domain name extension raised $460 million in funding in 2015 (1st half of year) • Over 55% of .CO registrants are from the … [Read more...]
.XYZ’s Daniel Negari Is So Done With .Com He Put His Own Last Name Up For Sale: Negari.com
It's no secret that the Founder of .XYZ Daniel Negari has gone all in on being a new gTLD registry operator as he continues to shed his .Com holdings. Just to show how done Negari is with .Com he has put up his the. Com domain of his last name up for sale on Namejet.com at no reserve, Negari.com which is being forwarded to XYZ.com I reached out to Daniel when I saw the domain name in … [Read more...]
Rick Schwartz Sells The Domain 9595.com for $180K: Highest Reported 4 Number Domain Sale
Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King has done it again, setting yet another record selling the domain name 9595.com for $180,000. This is the highest reported four number (NNNN.com) domain sale of all time and only the 5th reported NNNN.com domain to sell in the six figures. Rick hand-registered the domain name in 1998 for $70. The only four number domain names that sold in the six … [Read more...]