Amazon announced yesterday that its "Prime Day" sale using the hashtag #PrimeDay on July 15th in celebration of Amazon's 20th birthday will "Bury Black Friday" by comparison. We noticed that the domain name PrimeDay.com was not owned by Amazon. It seems we weren't the only one that noticed the domain name PrimeDay.com, was registered way back in 2005 and would most likely receive a lot of … [Read more...]
European Domain Centre Looks at Companies Ditching .com for a new gtld
Christopher Hofman Laursen published a pretty extensive post today on EuropeanDomainCentre.com. The post titled, "Why these 50+ businesses dumped their .com for a new top level domain" takes a look at several businesses that have ditched their .com or country code in favor of a new gtld. AnimalHealthAssociates.org switched to AHA.vet, I get that one a short easy to remember name where the … [Read more...]
Kansas City’s Lead Bank To Switch From .Com To .Bank
According to the Kansas City Business Journal, Lead Bank is switching their domain name from LeadBankOnline.com to Lead.Bank. Lead Bank will become one of the first banks to switch their domain from a .com to a .bank. According to the story: "Lead Bank will be one of the first banks with a presence in the Kansas City area to make the switch away from ".com" … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Nen.com, Helium.com, Plaza.com And More Domains
In today's installment of Domain Movers where I detect domain names that have been newly registered, acquired or simply moving for one reason or another, mainly all by large companies. As always, these are often very early detections and can lead into future brands, products, services, advertising campaigns and much more. We heavily rely on the whois system to provide accurate data but we can … [Read more...]
Architelos Latest State of Abuse Report Shows .Science leads New G’s when it comes to spam
Architelos puts out a State of Abuse report that looks at which domain extensions are being used the most for things like spam and phishing. Their latest report shows data from May, Ten New gTLDs comprised 77% of the 143 new phishing reports in May 2015. This equates to 24 phishing reports per million new gTLD domains under management. The .xyz TLD had the highest number of phishing reports with … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Reports Over $700K In Sales In June Led By Ringtones.com At $105K
Namejet.com just reported $723,500 in domain name sales for the month of June 2015 Namejet.com only reports sales of $2,000 or more and for only those that were paid for by the end of the month All sales were led by Ringtones.com which sold for $105,000 5 of the top 10 sales were three letter .com's Here are the … [Read more...]
Happy Fourth Of July – Quick look at the domain names around the holiday
Happy Fourth of July to all our readers celebrating in the U.S. and to all our other readers may you have less competition on the various domain auction houses. A look at domain names around the July Fourth holiday. July4.com - Registered in 1996 - Reflex Publishing owns the domain and forwards it to CyberFinder.com. The net/org/biz/info and .us are regged. FourthofJuly.com- Registered in … [Read more...]