The Texas Rangers baseball team has reached a naming-rights deal for the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The Rangers Ballpark in Arlington will now be called Globe Life Park in Arlington. Globe Life is based in McKinney Texas.
Back in 2004, the Texas Rangers sold the naming rights to a company called Ameriquest Mortgage Co. and renamed what was then The Ballpark in Arlington to Ameriquest Field in 2004. [Read more…]
While doing some digging around today, I noticed that Apple, Inc. owns a bunch of nonsensical domain names that use Apple’s own DNS, but are hosted on Amazon’s cloud server. These domains continue to be registered on a regular basis, some as late as last week. And they’ve been buying these nonsensical domain names and setting up web hosting for at least 6 months now. I’m not sure what they’re up to, and it could be just them testing. But whatever it is, it doesn’t make much sense as of now.
On January 29, 2014, Apple registered two different domain names that appear to make no sense (at least to me): [Read more…]
There’s a glitch in the GoDaddy app that causes domain names purchased with the app to suddenly appear in someone else’s account. Not only do domains purchased with the app go to someone else’s account, the purchaser’s credit card details are being added to the unsuspecting account holder’s account, as well. [Read more…]
Very soon there will be a lot more choices when it comes to registering and owning a domain name. We’ve all be used to using .com, .net, and .org as TLDs (Top Level Domains) but there are actually are a lot more, including .travel, .biz, .info, and even the ccTLDs (Country Code TLDs), such as .ca for Canada and .co.uk for the United Kingdom. [Read more…]
Network Solutions has auto-enrolled one of their customers in some sort of new “WebLock” program, and will soon charge his credit card $1850. Furthermore, this is a program where the customer is auto-enrolled in the program. They have to call Network Solutions in order to opt out of the program, thus not be auto-charged $1,850. This is for two domain names that the customer owns.
Brent Simmons received an email from Network Solutions: [Read more…]
.rest and .bar is looking to integrate more meta data into the content on the TLDs.
Daniel Negari, who has .xyz and .college. They are trying to give people from emerging markets to register a domain that meets their needs.
.luxury is a different business model. They want to make an internet for the luxury industry, different than the rest of the internet. They want to aggregate the luxury industry online. There is a place for mass products, but there is a place for people who want to reach those that dream, want to live on the top, or who are living on the top. The sunrise is beginning in a few weeks. [Read more…]