I received several reports over the weekend that Rightside (NAME) laid off some of its work staff late last week. I reached out to Taryn Naidu CEO of Rightside who had the following statement: ""In an effort to lower the overall cost structure and realign our resources on more strategic parts of our business, we made a difficult decision to layoff around six percent of our employees last … [Read more...]
HA.com to Hold Online/Live Domain Auction In SF: Submissions are Open
According to a press release we just received Heritage Auctions announced today they are holding an auction in San Francisco for domain names. HA.com is looking for: Short, punchy one word .com names, suitable for branding a company or a new venture. "Curb.com, Luxe.com, Hemisphere.com and Gazelle.com are great examples. .com is ideal. Short is preferred. Generic words, with no … [Read more...]
After 11 years Victoria Beckham gets her Typo .Com Domain: VictoriaBeckam.com
A UDRP panel just award the typo domain name VictoriaBeckam.com to the former Spice Girl and the wife of David Beckham whose website is Victoriabeckham.com The domain was first registered in 2004 so its been kicking around for quite a while making someone presumable some PPC money over the years Here is the highlights: "The Complainant is Victoria Beckham, a former Spice Girl and … [Read more...]
.Green Is Raising $3.5 Million Through CrowdFunding
DotGreen Community, Inc., the company behind the new .GREEN top level domain name, announced today in a press release we received, the launch of an Internet capital raising campaign to raise $3.5 million. The first offering, a Regulation D 506(C) Private Placement solely for accredited investors, provides an early-stage opportunity of common shares with voting rights for accredited investors … [Read more...]
All Single Character .Car Domains Are Registered: Here Are the Available .Cars
I did a quite whois check and found that all single letter .Car and single number .Car domain names are now registered. Probably not shocking to anyone but of the 40 single charter .Car domain names that have been registered, 27 were registered at Chinese registrars and 3 more appear to be owned by people in China at US registrars so 30 out of 40 are owned by Chinese domain investors. The … [Read more...]
CENTR Reports There Are 311.5 Million Domains In The World
According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world. 158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD's including .com, .net and .org; 140.1 million are ccTLD's (country codes), 1.6 Million are IDN ccTLD's, and 10.9 Million are New gTLD's. The CENTR writes: "In absolute … [Read more...]
Live Tweeting During NameJet.com Extended Auction from Namescon
Just a quick note that I will be Tweeting some bidding and auction results in real-time on our Twitter feed which is @thedomains We already pointed out all the domain names that have met reserve and will sell today over the last couple of hours, please check us out. … [Read more...]