TechDirt.com published an article this morning that deals with what has been a growing trend around the world. Countries wanting to dictate terms to Google. A Canadian court has ruled that it can order Google to block websites globally. This all started with one company accusing another of selling counterfeit goods. From the article: Almost exactly a year ago we wrote about a troubling lawsuit … [Read more...]
Almost All Of Free .Berlin Domain Names Have Expired 37K So Far
.Berlin had over 31,000 domain names expire yesterday adding to the previous day where over 36,000 domain names expired. .Berlin about a year ago allowed free domain registrations for 2 days, which totaled somewhere between 70,000-75,000 domain names with two registrants picking up almost 70,000 domain names just between the two. Now that these free domain names have come up for renewal it … [Read more...]
Godaddy’s Ad For .Show Might Lead To A Lot Of Cybersquatting
Godaddy has a webpage dedicated to the upcoming new gTLD .show Here is what Godaddy has to say about the extension: Everything from feature films to television shows to theater performances use the term “show.” If your site relates to any of those, register .show domain names for instant … [Read more...]
Verisign Downgraded By Zacks Partially Based on the New gTLD Program
Zacks, a publication that tracks the stock market and covers many public companies has downgraded shares of Verisign to a sell, partially based on the new gTLD program. ""We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost results over the long run. "The negative impact of search engine adjustments on domain monetization … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: FrozenVillage.com, TotallyLegit.com and More Domains
Welcome to Domain Movers! If you are new to the Domain Movers series, you can click that link and more articles just like this one, that contains early detections of domain names that have been registered, acquired and simply moving by mainly all large companies. A lot of research goes into these articles, so we hope you enjoy them as much as well like finding the domains! Here are the … [Read more...]
Overstock Buys 3 Domains & 3 Social Net Handles For 150 Bitcoins
Exclusive to TheDomains.com: Overstock bought three domain names and three social media handles for 150 bitcoins, in December 2014, which at the time were valued at $50,000 ($380 per BTC) from Anonymous Media LLC. which is a/k/a Dotted.in Overstock bought the domain names O.ly, O.vu and O.cr as well as the social networking handles of twitter.com/O; vimeo.com/O and O.tumblr.com for 150 … [Read more...]
Mobile Advertising Prospects Take A Hit – Adblocking is coming to the iPhone with iOS 9
Mobile Advertising has been a hot topic for the last couple years, back in April there was an article by Business Insider titled, "Mobile is growing faster than all other ad formats." From the article: Mobile is growing faster than all other digital advertising formats in the US, as advertisers begin allocating dollars to catch the eyes of a growing class of "mobile-first" … [Read more...]