Jerrick.media is rebranding to Creatd. The company looks to have purchased the domain name Creatd.com from Brandpa. The name was listed at BrandBucket for $2,395 as seen here on DNBolt.com. Jerrick is the owner of Vocal.media “650,000 creators who have published over 150 million words, which has been attributed to over 400 million minutes of people reading stories on Vocal.” They are … [Read more...]
Verisign 2020 Q2 DNIB shows an increases of 3.3 million domain name registrations
Verisign VRSN (NASDAQ) released their second quarter Domain Name Industry Brief. Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the second quarter of 2020 closed with 370.1 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2020. Domain name registrations have grown by 15.3 … [Read more...]
Blogspot.in a name that Google allowed it’s registration to lapse, sells for $5,999 at Sedo
Back in June Google lost control of the Blogspot.in domain name. It was reported about in many tech blogs and publications. This error on Google's part caused millions of blogs to break 9to5 Google reported Spotted by The Next Web and BleepingComputer, Google apparently let the blogspot.in domain lapse in early June, with Google no longer in control of that domain. Rather, it’s now being … [Read more...]
Hola.me a waste of $8,500
Hola.me was sold at Sedo for $8,500 in 2018. It was the third highest .me sale of 2018. The domain name had just been listed for sale on a proprietary landing page. After it sold it just showed a Domain Agents landing page that the domain name was for sale. Source. The domain name dropped and went for $630 at Park.io. Nous.org was purchased for $4,088 at Afternic, the same day the .net … [Read more...]
“0.35% of name servers are responsible for 90% of all domain names”
Chris Duckett published an interesting article over at ZDNet on just how few name servers are responsible for the majority of domain names. The article illustrates the potential problems for outages as many opt for a convenient cloud based solution vs your own server. Sans Institute dean of research Johannes Ullrich looked into how many of the world's 2.7 million authoritative name servers it … [Read more...]
Boatsforsale.com purchased by OneWater Marine Inc.
Frank Schilling's Name Administration Inc. (BVI) sold BoatsforSale.com for $162,500 back in 2013. Today OneWater Marine Inc. (NASDAQ: ONEW) announced they were purchasing the domain name. One Water Marine's stock price has had quite the fun over the last few months, up almost 10 fold. Full press release OneWater Marine Inc. Expands its Digital Platform with the Purchase of … [Read more...]
Retailers might abandon the term “Black Friday” in their advertising
The .blackfriday extension has always been a head scratcher for some domain investors. An extension for one day that many think they know the history behind, actually it's a myth. The real history comes from where I live, Philadelphia. The true story behind Black Friday, however, is not as sunny as retailers might have you believe. Back in the 1950s, police in the city of Philadelphia used … [Read more...]