“There’s No Rush To Buy Pets.com Because You Can Buy Pets.cc”
These are the words from an article from ITWorld on April 10th, 2001. I enjoy going back in time and reading articles about domains because everything is so clear in hindsight. In this case it tells more than stories of the past, it may also tell of the future. The introductions of new tlds may [...]
ESPN Registers 65 TeamName Plus NationESPN.com Domains: I AssumeThey Get a Pass On Trademarks
I love ESPN like every sport loving man in this nation. They were one of the first and used to be the best (a little cluttered for me now) sports site on the net. They, like every other national company, have tried to become more localized in their approach. With the addition of ESPN Chicago [...]
Twitter takes over all links (even those already shortened) with T.CO
Twitter announced Monday that all links submitted through Twitter will automatically be wrapped with Twitter’s T.CO link wrapper. Here is the statement from Twitter’s development page. ‘Current state of t.co As of October 10, 2011 the t.co URL wrapper automatically wraps all links submitted to Twitter, regardless of length. This includes so-called URLs without protocols.’ [...]
Left of the Dot Continues to Concentrate on Left of the Dot with Oahu.com
If you are going to start your first geo then you can’t do much better than Oahu.com. Fun and sun and the largest population of the Hawaiian Islands. Left of the Dot continues it’s business model of selling subdomains rather than building a community and informational page on their domains. The’ve built it out but [...]
School Turns $5 into $35,000 In Two Months After Selling Their Domain Name
The Sussex County Community College Skylanders accidentally made one of the best investments in their school’s history this past August. The schools webmaster, Frank Hablawi, suggested they buy the domain skylanders.com to use as a website for testing and development with plans to eventually move the schools content over. But those plans never developed. The [...]
Seen On Reddit: “I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring”
A few hours ago a submission to Reddit dealt with a young man that was facing a legal challenge from a “large corporation” regarding a domain name that was also his last name despite the fact he had already won a WIPO case regarding the same domain. We don’t know the particular domain yet but [...]
There Is a Correlation Between Credit Score and What Email Domain A Person Uses
Credit Karma had some very interesting information about the correlation between which email domain you use and your credit score. A credit score says more about a person than just how well they pay back money. According to Credit Karma, people with low credit scores file 40% more auto claims than people with higher credit [...]
Sedo to Broker Domain Bundle Casino.net, Poker.net, Sports.net
Comments OffTalk about 3 keywords every man can love. Sedo has announced that they will be the exclusive broker for a trio of domain names; Casino.net, Poker.net, Sports.net. What makes this really unique is the three domains will be offered in one lot. Currently Poker.net and Sports.net forward to Casino.net which is an active gambling site [...]
Virginia is for Lovers, Free Websites with Google/Intuit
Yesterday Google announced a new program called Virginia Get Your Business Online designed to provide free websites to Virginia small businesses without a web presence. The name of the program definitely needs some work but the concept is simple; Google is teaming up with Intuit to provide Virginia businesses with free domains, websites, and hosting [...]
I Want To Be a Zillionaire: Zillion.com Sells for $14,800
Comments OffZillion.com sold today on Namejet for a healthy $14,800 to BidderonFire. Quite a sum considering a zillion is a fictitious number. Although ask 10 people and most likely 9 of them will think it’s real. Billionaire.com sold in June of this year for $215,000 but billionaire is a term that has now become commonplace and [...]
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