Throughout the campaign trail this year Donald Trump has come up with nicknames for political rivals. "Lyin Ted" for Ted Cruz, "Little Marco" for Marco Rubio and his latest nickname "Crooked Hillary" for Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton. John Kasich is waiting for his nickname. The Washington Post is out today looking into Trump's methodology of nicknaming rivals. On March 26, we … [Read more...]
What’s Being Used Left of The Dot ? CSC Report Gives Examples
CSC released their new gtld utilization report for April. Using Alexa as one barometer it seems that the number of new g's in the Alexa top one million has risen by 30% since February. One of the thing the report pointed out was what is being used left of the dot. I think many believe there needs to be uniformity. WWW back in the day let less proficient users know something was a website. So … [Read more...]
Richmond Mayoral Candidate Registers the Competition
Mark Robinson at RichmondMagazine.com wrote a piece on some dirty domain politics. Nate Peterson who is just 25 years old and has never held office wants to run for Mayor of Richmond. After registering NatePetersonformayor.com he decided to register the names of several other prospective candidates. From the article: Aside from the paperwork, Peterson has also taken strides to establish his … [Read more...]
HA.com Live Auction Today
Heritage Auctions is set to host another auction tonight at 4p.m. Eastern today. Proxy bidding ends one hour prior to the live auction. There are 42 lots up for auction. Some of the top lots include: Ve.com Current bid $850,000 720.com Balloon.com Blaze.com One lot includes 50 LLLL.coms where the winner can choose 20, the auction is no reserve. Current high bid $19,000 4 … [Read more...]
Go Daddy invites you to join the “Customer Council”
Go Daddy sent out an email about customers joining a new "Customer Council" that they say will you have some input into new products and services. You need to fill out a survey when you click the link in the email. No compensation but there is the mention of special drawings. Full text of email: We are putting together a select group of GoDaddy users to help shape our future! We are calling … [Read more...]
Update on Little.com
A couple days ago we wrote about Little.com being stolen, Namepros member The Legendary JP appears to have solved the case. The domain was stolen but it was stolen from the original owner. Ok did a little digging.... I actually tired to buy this name YEARS ago from the long time owner John Little. John continued to own the name until March 5th at least, then whois changed within Netsol to … [Read more...]
Your Tax Dollars At Work: Clinton Department Of State Email’s Shows Interest In A Domain
One of the unclassified emails from the Hillary Clinton fiasco shows she or someone at the Department of State had an interest in a domain name around the term "World We Want" but seemed to pass on buying the bang on domain which was priced at the time a whopping $1,195 at HugeDomains.com. The Memo goes on to chat about alternative domain names 3 of which are registered as we discuss … [Read more...]