The premium generic domain name Gifs.com has launched a new website based on this announcement on Medium.com by Co-Founder of GifYT, Rory O'Reilly, and they have a new domain name that was not owned by the company until recently according to whois records. Every day, GIFs are being created and used to deliver engaging content — from news, to sports, to art, to humor, gifs are used more and more. … [Read more...]
Ashley Madison Hacked Info Site CheckAshleyMadison.com Taken Down After DMCA Notice
On August 19, 2015 hackers released a huge amount of data from the breach at AshleyMadison.com and the race was on. Several websites were set up to allow users to "search" the data, allowing users to see if a specific email address was included in the release. One of those websites, according to TheHill.com is CheckAshleyMadison.com. That domain name was registered, well, yesterday on August … [Read more...]
Breaking: Fully Developed Puppet.com Domain Name Sells to Puppet Labs?
Puppet.com has been acquired by a currently unknown company Update: suspected buyers Puppet Labs have confirmed the purchase in a reply to a tweet from me and stated in that tweet asking if they purchased the domain "Yes, thanks! We wanted it for years & got a good deal. Easier way for people using Puppet at 27K co's to find docs & other help.". This domain name very likely sold for A LOT … [Read more...]
Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD’s & Asks: Who Needs .com?
The movement is on! Google has greatly helped all new gTLD's and there are many mainstream media sites covering gTLD's daily. This is really great news in general for the domain industry as a whole and clearly the gTLD's! Although many of these stories relate to .com when talking about the new gTLD's, like a new one today from the WashingtonPost.com with a title of: "Who Needs .com? Domains … [Read more...]
Donald Trump May Own Over 3K Domains But Doesn’t Own Trump.org & Isn’t Happy About It
Several mainstream websites recently wrote about how many domain names the Trump Organization owns, including BusinessInsider.com that said the Trump Organization owns 3,153 domain names. boingboing, weighted in with a story entitled "Donald Trump owns vast numbers of web addresses". Suntimes.com, published a story entitled "Donald Trump probably already owns your anti-Trump domain … [Read more...]
$250K+ In Domain Sales? Frank Schilling Sells Floid.com To Revlon & Tonix.com To Tonix Pharma
Frank Schilling, the owner of Name Administration Inc, Uniregistry continues to sell domain names to end users and the following three domain names proves it. Revlon Consumer Products Corporation acquired the domain name Floid.com from Frank Schilling. The domain name was listed for sale at Afternic with a $29,000 Buy Now price although the listing on Afternic remains. The domain name has … [Read more...]
.XYZ Sees Nearly 20K New Domain Registrations In 2 Days Since ABC.XYZ Announcement
Since Google Inc. announced Alphabet Inc. on August 10, 2015 around 3 PM ET and stated they will be using the domain name ABC.XYZ, the new gTLD .xyz has had nearly 20,000 new domain names registered! It started with over 6,000 .xyz domains being registered after Google's announcement. New registrations for .xyz cranked that rising total up over double in one day with 13,000+ more domain name … [Read more...]