AlpNames.com just send out an email announcing they are starting to sell the premium domain names of three Famous Four Domain extension .Science, .Party and .Cricket and launched Premium.AlpNames.com. These are domain name reserved by the registry and were not available for registration. There are several price points for the premium … [Read more...]
AlpNames.com Becomes 2nd Largest New gTLD Registrar In The World
AlpNames.com has become the 2nd Largest New gTLD Registrar In The World according to ntldstats.com. The domain name registrar which was little known and used before the new gTLD program has skyrocket into having the 2nd most new gTLD registrations with over 430K registration passing Network Solutions that has over 427,000 registrations. Alpnames.com now accounts for over 7.5% of all new … [Read more...]
What Do You Get From 10K Free Domains? Some Great; Some Horrible; Lots of TM Infringing
As we wrote yesterday a domain registrar AlpNames.com was offering free .Party domains for registration, so we went in to get a sample of the 10,000+ domains that were registered under the new gTLD yesterday. Not surprisingly I found some horrible registrations, a lot of trademark infringing registrations and some domain I wish I would have registered. On the horrible side I found the soon … [Read more...]
Alpnames.com Offering Free .Party New gTLD Domain Name Registrations
Alpnames.com the registrar who offered free and then $.49 domain names for .Science which just broke the 250,000 domain registration mark, announced today that is was now offering free .Party domains. Famous Four Media is the registry for both .Science and .Party. As we discussed before Alpnames.com which is located in Gibraltar as is Famous Four, only seems to have sold registrations on … [Read more...]
New gTLD .Science Tops 220K Registrations; Passes .Club; & Who Is AlpNames.com?
The new gTLD .Science has now blown by the 220K domain name registration mark hitting 223,159 according to ntldstats.com becoming the 2nd most registered new gTLD passing .club It was just 11 days ago we wrote about .Science hitting the 120K domain registration mark and questioning the type of registrations the … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD
Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI … [Read more...]
Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domains For $175K, including Tube.Webcam & Asian.Webcam
In a press release Famous Four Media, Inc, sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer netting them $175,000 after commission in a sale brokered by Hunting Moon All of the 15 domain names were " for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM registry" including Tube.Webcam; Asian.Webcam MILF.Webcam With this sale Famous Four has basically made back the money it spent acquiring the … [Read more...]