So while there has been a lot of buzz around Web3 it appears some are focused on Web5. Jack Dorsey co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc., as well as the founder and principal executive officer of Block, Inc. is the man behind Web5. Dorsey tweeted out: Tracey Follows wrote a post on Web5 for Forbes. The actual definition given in the TBD presentation pack is as follows: “Web5 is a … [Read more...]
GoDaddy takes down $100m listing for Bitcoin.com
So Mike Sallese pointed this one out to me, a story on TheBlockCrypto.com posted an article about Bitcoin.com being listed for sale on GoDaddy for $100 million. Yogita Khatri wrote: Roger Ver, the owner of the domain, said it is in fact not for sale. "100% fake news," he told The Block. Ver showed The Block screenshots in which he appears to be messaging GoDaddy, saying: "Why are you … [Read more...]
Voice.com seller buys $650 million in Bitcoin
In domain industry circles MicroStrategy (Stock price: MSTR (NASDAQ) $317.60 +16.40) is known for being the company that sold Voice.com for $30,000,000. While the company still owns a nice portfolio of domain names, they are a big believer and big holder in Bitcoin. They now hold more Bitcoin than the U.S. government. CoinTelegraph wrote: Business intelligence company MicroStrategy has added … [Read more...]
Selling early and leaving $1.3 billion on the table
Many early domain name investors sold a name way too early or knew of someone else who was not going to pay for a domain registration back in the day. Years ago I was talking to someone who was into domain names real early and he said a friend at one time was basically on a suicide watch. He owned some great domain names when they were free. When registration fees were introduced he balked … [Read more...]
Bitcoin.com publishes a piece on crypto domain names
Jamie Redman wrote a pretty long piece about the buying, selling and discussion of crypto related domain names. Redman went through a lot of social media posts, referenced a discussion about crypto on Namepros and pulled out a bunch of sales. It would have been nice for Jamie to have left out the squatter moniker and just referred to people buying a selling as domainers, investors or … [Read more...]
Making a fortune squatting domains on the Dark Web?
Typosquatting on corporate names is not the only squatting game in town. TheNextWeb has a story about someone claiming to have made $760,000 in BTC by squatting on websites that reside on the Tor network. From the article: A scammer is claiming to have made 200 BTC ($760,000) through ‘typosquatting’ criminal dark web sites on the Tor network, over the past four years. The scammer says 800 … [Read more...]
Poll Says 55.9% of Millionaires Consider Investing In Cryptocurrencies
An article on NewsBTC.com reported a poll by CapGemini that gauged the interest of high net worth individuals and their interest in cryptocurrency. No surprise there was greater interest from millionaire's who were 40 and under as compared to those 60 and over. 13% of those over 60 expressed an interest. From the article: The survey, which was based on responses from more than 2,600 HNWIs … [Read more...]