Welcome back my friends to another kicking, best damn domain list you will read today! From the DotWeekly Discoveries series, powered by DomainIQ.com I present you with domain names that have been recently purchased and registered by large companies! These are early discoveries that often lead to new brands, new products, new services and more [...] Continue reading →

Amazon has beaten Google in a bid to acquire the .buy top-level domain. ICANN, the international Internet regulator, has awarded (PDF) Amazon the .buy domain after the company successfully outbid three other competitors in an auction. Amazon paid $4.6 million in an auction that ended on Wednesday. Google came in second place through its registry [...] Continue reading →

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EnCirca is currently offering new, 1-year domain registrations at bargain prices. .host $49 Discount price until Oct 17th. Regularly $100 per year. .press $55 Discount price until Sept 24th. Regularly $75 per year. .website $14 Discount price until Nov 17th. Regularly $25 per year. [...] Continue reading →

Following my comments about the iPhone VoLTE announcement I had an interesting conversation with Andy Huckridge from Gigamon, a company that provides intelligent traffic visibility networking solutions for enterprises, datacentres and service providers around the globe. An interesting concept that we discussed was the 'triple challenge of network transformation'. The three elements of [...] Continue reading →

Registry back-end provider CentralNic has stumped up $1.5 million to back a new gTLD applicant in a forthcoming private auction. CentralNic CEO Ben Crawford declined to identify the beneficiary. The company has also not disclosed what stake in the target company it will obtain if it wins the auction. Here’s the entirety of the [...] Continue reading →

Thought Convergence CEO and founder, Ammar Kubba, was beaming from ear to ear earlier today, after the announcement of a corporate asset sale involving a humongous shipment of arctic ice. “For years I’ve been trying to sell this North Pole iceberg in the aftermarket and it finally materialized, all thanks to the assistance of my [...] Continue reading →