Sedo has brokered the sale of the aged, premium domain Desktop.com. A former property of Idealab, a startup studio based in Pasadena, California, the domain was registered in 1999, although it existed before then and dropped. The transaction appears to have taken place “under wraps” in November, and the buyer is Rolf Larsen, chairman and […]
Today: The Appraisal of Fiber.org / Share & Discus your best .BEST domains / Man Arrested For Threatening To Shoot Registrar Employees / and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: FREE Expired Domains For SEO List – If you are looking to grab some expiring domain […]
For fellow video game fans there’s a good chance you remember the Silent Hill franchise. If you don’t know Silent Hill you probably still know Japanese game studio Konami, don’t think you do…common – you’ve definitely heard of and probably played Contra, right? Konami originally came out with Silent Hill back in 1999 for the […]
President Donald Trump’s motto for the 2020 campaign is “Keep America Great.” The slogan is official through the use in merchandise. But they didn’t get the domain, KeepAmericaGreat.com. Billionaire philanthropist and Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer, announced on Monday he acquired the domain, which now redirects visitors to a page calling Donald Trump a “fraud” […]
Volkswagen launched a “Drive Bigger” campaign and applied for the trademark DRIVE BIGGER early in 2019. Three days after the announcement, someone registered the domain DriveBigger.com, and parked it on Undeveloped. Eventually, the platform became Dan.com. The domain was priced at $10,000 dollars, and the Dan.com contact form forwarded emails from Volkswagen’s lawyers that were […]
Domain Graduate, a domain investment course written by Sean Stafford, has been sold to Rob Monster’s Epik. The web site featuring the ebook is at DomainGraduate.com. The domain investment course goes back to the mid 2000s, and with the 2020’s approaching fast, it’s in need of a refresh. Epik’s acquisition will provide the financial support […]
Welcome to the final “Seven with Sedo” of the year! 😀 Our great sponsor, Sedo, is rolling out its GreatDomains auction, the last one before 2020 AD kicks in. GreatDomains takes place bi-monthly, and this time around we have more than 100 top notch domains, curated by Sedo domain managers. We chose 7 domains from […]
A San Francisco nutjob is in jail after threatening to shoot GoDaddy employees in Sunnyvale, California. According to a police report, Michael Depaulo was arrested in the City of Richmond after he made threats to kill people at GoDaddy in Sunnyvale with a firearm. On December 2, 2019, Depaulo called GoDaddy and stated he was […]
The domain Localvore.com was registered in 2006, and its Registrant used it consistently with food-related guide services since then. In 2012, another company began to use the term, and managed to register LOCALVORE TODAY, and in 2017 LOCALVORE with the USPTO. They filed a UDRP to get the domain, but the sole panelist noted that […]
