fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry. fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support … [Read more...]
After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows its most popular site Gamecoins.com TO Drop
I noticed the domain name GameCoins.com was in an expired domain name auction over at GoDaddy Auctions after it expired on May 5, 2015. The domain name has a very interesting history. For starters, GameCoins.com sold at Sedo.com for $10,500 on September 3, 2009 and the buyer was Ian Swanson of the company Sometrics. According to an article on AdWeek.com published October 12, … [Read more...]
Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells at Sedo
Two letter .com domain names are pretty rare with only 676 of them, but two letter words are even more rare when it comes to domain names and We.com is one of them! It has just been SOLD according to whois records. The domain has went into transfer service at Sedo, so it either sold at Sedo or is using Sedo escrow. The domain name was owed by Alf Temme of North Hollywood, CA and has been owned … [Read more...]
Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn assets under management
Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of the last announcement at 8.7%. Mr. Krueger owned some 15.9% of the shares of the company before his announcement and so he has sold, a little less than … [Read more...]
Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD’s Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps
Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before "Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains" With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Strawberry.com, XboxMusic.com and More Domains
Domain Movers monitors large corporations and what domain names they are registering and acquiring. These often lead into new advertising campaigns, products, services, brands and much more! Often times, these are very early detections and may be the first time this "new" thing is heard about. Here we go: Briggs & Stratton Corporation has registered the domain names GasCleanup.com and … [Read more...]
Seller of Dot Money name for $90,000 once walked away from The Apprentice UK TV Show
Elliot Silver broke the news about a $90,000 .money sale. The seller Adam Freeman from Essex, was slated to be a contestant on the British version of The Apprentice before he quit. The Apprentice UK is produced by Mark Burnett the same producer of the U.S. version. Sir Alan Sugar is the Donald Trump of the U.K. version. This was back in 2009 and after he quit The Guardian covered the … [Read more...]