The Australian publication Channelnews.com.au, just declared Donald Trump as the "World’s Biggest Owner Of Domain Names". Yes according to the story, The Donald only has over 3,600 domain names. My God how did no one in the domain industry recognize Mr. Trump as owning the most domain names in the world with 3,600? In the domain industry we know there are companies that own 1 Million + … [Read more...]
WSJ: 2 Universities Develop PREDATOR To Find Malicious Domains As Early As Registration
According to the Wall Street Journal "Researchers at Princeton and the University of California have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can detect malicious domain names." "The code scans for 22 features that are consistent with suspicious behavior, including names that are registered in bulk by the hundreds, names that are variations of the same name, random-looking names, and names … [Read more...]
60 Minutes Covered Vine Millionaires on Sunday; Today It’s All Over
On Sunday the television show 60 minutes covered "The Influencers" "Social media stars are earning big money for pitching products in short, often silly, postings seen by millions of followers." Parts of the 60 Minutes segment chatted with people who said they were making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Vine. Today Twitter announced they were killing off Vine after they paid $30 … [Read more...]
$3 Million For TrumpTv.com? TrumpTower.Live & TrumpTowerLive.com Registered Yesterday
Yesterday we published a post about the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com putting the domain on the market with an asking price of $3 Million. The owner went on to say that the traffic to the domain name went from "about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the last couple of weeks” However Alexa.com which lists sites by traffic only has TrumpTv.com at 2.7 million which doesn't mesh … [Read more...]
Trump Wants to Do Post Election Trump TV Channel; Should He Buy Trump.tv or TrumpTv.com?
According to a story in The Hill today, Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly contacted a top dealmaker in the media industry within the past couple of months about creating a Trump television network. According to the story Trump is mulling the idea of creating a cable channel as his personal media company. The publication said Trump had talked about a "mini-media … [Read more...]
Breitbart/Gravis Poll: 71% Of US Registered Voters Oppose Obama’s surrender of Control Over ICANN
In a poll just out tonight by Breitbart/Gravis 71% of US registered voters are opposed to the transition in which the US gave up oversight over ICANN. For those in the ICANN community the poll question was less than entirely accurate. “The United States will relinquish its administrative control over the Internet to a private organization where other countries, which could include China, … [Read more...]
Actress Anna Faris Acquires The Domain Name Unqualified.com
Actress Anna Faris has acquired the domain name Unqualified.com. The domain name matches the name of her Podcast, which is called "Anna Faris is Unqualified" which started in November 2015. According to the website; " the podcast gives "not-so-great relationship advice from completely unqualified Hollywood types". Ms. Faris uses the Twitter handle @unqualified The domain name was … [Read more...]