It was reported yesterday that Republican House member, Dunbarton Rep. JR Hoell owns more than 100 domain names – representing politicians from both parties. Hoell has been purchasing the domain names for anywhere from $.99 to $12.99. While he declined to name all the sites he owns, a quick search shows they range from several [...] Continue reading →

It seems as though our world of ‘domaining’ is receiving more and more main stream attention as Forbes this week covered how in 1988 the US Trademark Office put a law into effect to say that applications filed for marks not yet used must at least show that applicants for federal trademark protection had a [...] Continue reading →

After it just published a story about Nuts.com selling for $700k, it was great to see Inc. magazine’s post today entitled Landmark Deals: A Timeline of Whopping URL Prices.  Inc reports an estimated 500+ domain names have sold for at least $1,000,000. Highlighted in the post are: Business.com – $7.5 million in 1999 (Today: In [...] Continue reading →

On March 6, 2014 QNB Corp., parent company of QNB Bank, filed a Current Report on Form 8-K regarding a change to its website domain name to www.QNBbank.com and the planned sale of its prior domain name, QNB.com to a third party for a purchase of $1,000,0000. Today, QNB.com resolves to Qatar National Bank Group, [...] Continue reading →

Did you know – - 1 in 133 people in the US are affected by celiac disease 29% of Americans say they are trying to avoid gluten free for health reasons, according the NPD Group #2 Place is where “gluten-free” was listed in Time magazine’s Top 10 Food Trends $62 BILLION is the size of [...] Continue reading →

It was reported this week that Chick-fil-A, the American fast food restaurant chain, bought 8 new .restaurant domain names Chick-fil-A spent more than $12,500 each to register: truettsluau.restaurant eatmorechicken.restaurant chickfila.restaurant truettspizzacafe.restaurant truettsgrill.restaurant dwarfhouse.restaurant chickfilatruetttsluau.restaurant Chick-fil-A, Inc. also registered the domain name chick-fil-atruettsluau.restaurant on 11/6/14 that cost about $3,200. I personally am not a fan, nor [...] Continue reading →

It was reported this week that Disney purchased Penguin.club for $8,000 via SEDO Admittedly I am surprised since Disney has the main site ClubPenguin.com but then again I was MORE surprised in the Summer of 2011 when Disney let the Club Penguin domain name expire – here’s that story So perhaps this $8,000 purchase is [...] Continue reading →