Today marks 30 years since the first .org domain name, mitre.org, was registered. .Org now has over 10.5 million domain names registered making .org the world’s third-most reg generic top-level domain. Public Interest Registry, The nonprofit operator of .Org, launched happy30th.org, where users can explore notable .org websites through an interactive timeline and discover how these … [Read more...]
LL.com 2 Letter Domain Name Sell?
The two letter .com domain name LL.com has had a change in whois records from REFLEX PUBLISHING, INC. to a HANGZHOU MIDAIZI NETWORK CO., LTD. with a GoldenName.com email address. Reflex Publishing owns some great domain names like Baseball.com, Motels.com and many more and states not only in whois records its domain names are not for sale, it also states it on its website Reflex.com. Here is … [Read more...]
Did SX.com Go to High or Too Low at $555,050 ?
SX.com closed today on NameJet at $555,050, the winning bidder First outdueled Boothcom to win the auction. There were 11 bidders who each bid $500,000 or more for the domain. There has been some action lately in the LL.com world, We.com sold on Sedo as reported by Jamie Zoch. There was no price mentioned on We.com, but some research done by James Iles on Namepros put the name at $8 - $10 … [Read more...]
.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+
Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 per (retail price varies by registrar, plus any premium registration cost, if any). As of the last zone file update we found 45 domain names that … [Read more...]
Verizon Telematics May Be The Buyers Of Hum.com
On June 29, 2015 I had reported the domain name Hum.com had been acquired by a company going by the name of "1877 Holdings LLC" according to whois records. That same company filed an image mark and word mark. The word mark is for an OBD product / service and bares the name of: Hum I have discovered a little bit more information and this has lead me to believe that Verizon Telematics may be the … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Golf 1,778; .Tours 1,693; .Plus 899; .Gold 768
4 new gTLD domain name extensions went into General Availability (GA) yesterday and including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names in the Early Access Program (EAP), here are the number of registrations for each after the first day of GA: .Golf 1,778 .Tours 1,693 .Plus 899 .Gold 768 I know some … [Read more...]
.Site Now In Early Access: Here Are Some Non-Premium & Low Premium Domain Names
.Site a new gTLD that is being launched by Radix and is in the Early Access Period (EAP) where for any extra fee you can register a .site domain ahead of General Availability (GA) which starts on July 15th at 16:00 UTC. If a domain is still available after the EAP it can be registered on a first come, first served basis. We asked Radix to provide a list of non-premium .Site domain names, … [Read more...]