.NYC celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday by releasing over 16,000 domain names which were previously unavailable due to being placed on the ICANN collision list. We ran the list through a whois program earlier today and according to the results somewhere around 650 of these domain names got registered. If you have ever gone through an ICANN collision list a substantial percentage … [Read more...]
Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD's At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don't see on a website of one the largest corporation's on earth: … [Read more...]
Company Re-Brands From .Com To .XYZ Purchased For $5,700
A company which re-branded to a .Com in March, from a .Org, has purchased an .XYZ domain name from a domainer and re-branded to an .XYZ domain name. According to its site, "Engage, is a division of INHS, is one of the largest MEDITECH hosting partners in the United States. With 20 years of extensive MEDITECH experience, Engage provides a wide range of infrastructure solutions including … [Read more...]
Readers Digest Corp Re-brands To Trusted Media Brands, Inc & Buys TMBI.com For It’s Website
In a historic move, The Readers Digest Association, Inc. has changed its corporate name after 93 years, to Trusted Media Brands, Inc. Back on June 1, 2015 TheDomains discovered that The Readers Digest Association had acquired the domain name TMBI.com from Get On The Web, but we were not sure “why” at that time, but now we do know why. TMBI.com had a $16,950 asking price by Get On The … [Read more...]
Publicly Traded Co. Registers 44 Domains Calling Donald Trump a Bully Among Other Things
Symform, Inc. which was acquired by Quantum Corporation for $500,000 in 2014, registered 44 domain names at corporate domain name registrar MarkMonitor according to whois records yesterday, all relating to US presidential candidate Donald Trump in less than a flattering fashion. Quantum Corporation is a publicly traded company on NYSE: QTM Qauntum has a market cap of $207 Million. Both … [Read more...]
Is Apple Inc. Getting Ready To Use It’s New .apple gTLD Domain Extension?
Apple Inc. has applied for the new gTLD .apple and the status is currently delegated. Apple Inc. also is going to own the new gTLD .beats since it acquired Beats Electronics, LLC. On September 17, 2015 Apple Inc. has purchased 29 new .com domain names according to whois records and IMO, these domain name registrations appear to relate to what "will be" URL's using the .apple gTLD as a … [Read more...]
HBO Buys 9 “Outcast” Domains For Upcoming Cinemax TV Series Outcast
Robert Kirkman's "Outcast" which is a paranormal drama has been ordered as a series by Cinemax. The show Outcast was featured during Comic Con 2015 with OutcastCinemax.com which was registered November 24, 2014 and owned by HBO. The domain name is in use as a redirect to HBO.com featuring information from SDCC in July 2015. They are also using #outcastcinemax on Twitter. Both HBO and … [Read more...]