It was reported by several sites like Mashable.com and Flippa.com that the website and domain name Retweet.com sold for $250,000 on Flippa in early 2010.
A short 4 years later(not in tech life, but you get my point) and the domain name Retweet.com has expired and is currently (6/17/2014) on expired domain name auction at GoDaddy Auctions!
At time of posting this article, the current bidding is up to $8,600 and this will greatly increase tomorrow (June 18, 2014) … Read the rest
A lot of buzz about the new gTLD’s and I haven’t said a word about it yet, well until now!
Money!
Money is the first thing that comes to my mind. It is a pure money thing. Money for ICANN and money for the registries of the the gTLD’s and registrars playing the game. Registrars hate having to display that XYZ domain is TAKEN. If it was available, the consumer would likely buy! If we put .Whatever and people search… … Read the rest
No, this doesn’t have anything to do with SOPA!
Today, I was doing some investigating and ran into something that I haven’t seen yet. “Repossessed by Go Daddy” in the whois data for a domain name? After doing a bit more digging, I ran into some domain names that contained Go Daddy Software but used the email address “[email protected]”.
Personally, I never like when a business has a conflict of interest with its customers and I hoped this wasn’t the … Read the rest
Domain Name Drop Times
.com & .net = 1:00-2:15 PM Central Standard Time
.org = 8:30-9:30 AM Central Standard Time
.info = 3:30-4:00 AM Central Standard Time
.biz = 1:30-2:00 AM Central Standard Time
.us = 12:00-12:30 AM Central Standard Time
ALL .com & .net domain names that you Really want should be back ordered via a 3rd party drop cathing service like SnapNames.com or NameJet.com. If you are interested in trying to “grab” or register the domain name as … Read the rest
