Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced today on the company blog, that it has added .CO domain names as a custom domain name option for fully hosted WordPress.com sites. .CO becomes only the 5th TLD joining .com, .org, .net and .me as one of only five custom domain options available through WordPress.com. There are currently over 33 million websites and blogs in over 120 … [Read more...]
People Are Trying To Cash In By Registering Domains Of The Royal Baby: PrinceOfCambridge.Com; PrinceJimmy.com
The story of the day yesterday and again today is the birth of the Royal Baby who although doesn't have a name yet, does have a title, the Prince of Cambridge. The domain name PrinceofCambridge.com was registered under privacy at UK registrar Easy Space just last week on the July 16th and goes to a registrar placeholder. Bookies in the UK have been busy taking bets on the name of the Royal … [Read more...]
Fox Sports 1 Network Launches Next Month; Files UDRP Seeking 22 Domains Including Foxsports1.Com/.Tv
Fox Sports is launching a new sports network called Fox Sports 1 next month and today Fox filed a UDRP seeking control over 22 domain names, including FoxSports1.com and FoxSports1.Tv as well as FoxSportsone.com and FoxSportsone.tv. The UDRP was filed with the National Arbitration Forum and was assigned case number 1509782. Fox has huge plans for Fox Sports 1 so the move is not unexpected … [Read more...]
UPDATED: SnapNames.com Is Back Up
UPDATED; Earlier today we reported (as other reported to us) that SnapNames.com was down. Now the site is back up Around 6pm we got this message from a representative of the company: ""There was a small deployment earlier today that effected a few users and could have caused the issue in a very short time frame. There should not be any further issues and the site is not down."" … [Read more...]
Over $53,000 In Bids As Moniker Premium Summer Auction Closes Thursday
The Moniker Premium Summer domain name Auction closes at 3:15pm EST on Thursday on SnapNames, and as time of publication there are over $53,000 in bids. In all 165 domain names are at auction (none are owned by our company MostWantedDomains.com) and as of publication 31 have bids. The domain with the highest bid which has met reserve is MZW.com which has a bid of $5,000 The domain with … [Read more...]
Juan Calle On Plans For Future Growth Of The .Co Registry: “We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market”
Juan Diego Calle the CEO of the company that operates the .CO registry, just published a post on the .Co blog in part laying out plans for future growth of the .CO registry and of its parent company Straat as it moves into the new gTLD program. Here is a portion of the post: We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market. First, we’re putting more emphasis than ever on our target market of … [Read more...]
DomainSponsor Vs.InternetTraffic.com Our Two Month Test Yields Shocking Results: DS Wins
Back in April we were approached by DomainSponsor.com to do a test on their parking system. DomainSponsor.com said they had spent a lot of time and money on revamping their parking system, had all new people working for them and wanted to know how their new and improved system would stack up against Frank Schilling's InternetTraffic.com I agreed to do a test with about 19,000 domain names I … [Read more...]