Today, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, at 10:00am Central Time, the non-eap registration started for the gTLDs .photos, .recipes, .shoes, and .careers domain names. That means that you can freely go register any available domain names that end in .photos, .shoes, .recipes, or .careers and you don’t have to pay the “premium” price that was previously offered. [Read more…]
Disney Registers Star Wars Master the Force Domain Name
In the past 24 hours, Disney Enterprises, Inc. registered a few new domain names. I normally monitor the domain names that are registered by major companies on a regular basis. Disney doesn’t register a whole lot of domain names. But, they currently own 15,000 domain names total. In the past 24 hours, though, they registered three new domain names: [Read more…]
Facebook Picks Up Content Fellowship Domains
In the past day or so, Facebook has registered “Content Fellowship” related domain names, possibly indicating that they have a plan to offer a content fellowship. There are several domain names that they’ve registered that seemingly would protect a new possible project that they’re working on. [Read more…]
JD.Com Domain Name Sold for $5 Million in 2012
According to George Kirikos, the domain name JD.com sold for an estimated $5 million in 2012. Mr. Kirikos was browsing through EDGAR, and was able to discover that their SEC filing referenced domain names. Looking at the recorded public data, he was able to concur that the amount paid for domain names rose from 2.6 million RMB to 36 million RMB as of December 2012.
Here’s what Mr. Kirikos told me: [Read more…]
Facebook Recognizes New gTLDs in Facebook Posts
After seeing that Twitter doesn’t actually recognize the new gTLDs as real links in Tweets, I was curious to see whether or not Facebook recognizes the new gTLDs as links in posts. If you were to include the URL of a new website that you just put up on a new gTLD, then would Facebook include that URL in the post and change it so it’s a clickable link? [Read more…]
Google Plus Recognizes new gTLDs as Links in Posts
I was curious to see whether or not Google Plus actually recognizes the new gTLDs as links in posts. If you were to include the URL of a new website that you just put up on a new gTLD, then would Google Plus include that URL in the post and change it so it’s a clickable link? [Read more…]