Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, revealed today the purchase price of the domain name Tesla.com. He paid $11 million to buy Tesla.com in February 2016 from its previous owner. The domain name was owned by a Stuart Grossman of California since at...
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December 9, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, sold domains
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced the Group’s unaudited interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2018 (the “period”). Highlights Registrations within the MMX portfolio, excluding those from the acquisiti...
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September 26, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Picture this. John has spent time and money building up his online business. He has worked on the marketing, he has built up traffic, the site is generating revenue. Life is good. So why on earth would he sell it? Actually, there are a number of reason...
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August 30, 2018 Michael
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GMO Registry announced that .tokyo (https://hello.tokyo/en), the Top Level Domain (hereafter “TLD”) representing Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over 4 years since .tokyo opened for business in ...
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August 27, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Mike Texas is in fact noted conspiracy theorist Mike Adams. New gTLD registry Donuts confirmed with DI over the weekend that the buyer of six figures worth of “platinum” .news domain names used a fake name. The company last week said that a...
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July 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, fake news, natural news, webseed
The arrest warrant for the 4 people (including Sahar Sarid) involved in the Mugshots.com case is circulating the internet and here are a few interesting facts and comments. You can read the first post about the arrest here. Here is an extract of the ar...
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May 21, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver bought 3 Rudy Giuliani domain names. Guess what he did with them! Well it is not exactly 3 Rudy Giuliani domains. It is 2 domains that include his name and one that references something he said about Hillary Clinto...
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May 10, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) today announced that it has received a letter from the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) [PDF, 400 KB] that provides guidance on the European Union’s General Data Protect...
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April 12, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
The European Commission has issued a communication concerning Brexit and the .eu TLD. The communication states that, based on the United Kingdom’s intent to withdraw from the European Union, undertakings and organisations that are established in the Un...
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March 29, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, Domain Name News
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) will be moving to AWS, migrating the vast majority of its infrastructure as part of a multi-year transition. GoDaddy will leverage the ...
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March 28, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News