If you visit Loser.com right now, you can see it forwards to the Wikipedia page for Kanye West. After noticing this forward, USA Today, The Washington Post and MTV published articles about Loser.com. Both articles cited the Whois privacy on the domain name, but I was able to use DomainTools’ Whois History Tool to get in touch with the owner of the domain name. I also saw that the owner has a Twitter profile that links to Loser.com.

Brian Connelly is the owner of Loser.com, and his name is listed as the domain name registrant as early as 2002 (the earliest DomainTools Historical Whois record). The domain name has a creation date of March 30, 1995, and Connelly told me that he “registered loser.com in the early days,” so this was not an aftermarket purchase.

Loser.com gets quite a bit of type-in traffic, despite not having a website. The last time Connolly checked, the domain name saw “anywhere from 30000 hits per day and up.” Connelly struggled a bit to figure out how to use Loser.com, once posting a question on Quora to ask “What are some ideas for using the domain name Loser.com?” Obviously building and managing a website is time consuming with no guarantee of income, so Connelly has been using Loser.com as a humorous forwarder that has gone viral.

I asked if Connelly is a Beck fan, and

Michael Rosenblum  has had a successful career as a television producer, and he shared a story in the Huffington Post to which many of us over the age of 30 (or so) can relate. In the article, Rosenblum  recalls some of the domain names he could have owned back in 1992.

An intern working with Rosenblum  discussed how he could have a domain name for a project on which Rosenblum  was working. Rosenblum  recalled a conversation in which the intern said, “We can make a URL and website for you any way you want and call it.. Oh, Broadcast.com, or TV.com or Television.com or News.com. And you’ll own the website and the URL in exchange.”

Yes, there were lots of domain name opportunities that many of us

Christopher Hofman Laursen, Managing Partner at European Domain Centre, shared this infographic below which shows a timeline of all available domain name extensions. This month marks the 30th anniversary of .com (March 15th to be exact), and you can see the domain endings that followed .com on this illustrated timeline.

There are now over 800 domain name extensions to register, and according to the European Domain Centre blog, there have been over 284 million domain names registered since the first registration in 1985.

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In November of 2014, it was announced that the one letter Z.com domain name was sold by Nissan North America for JPY800 million, which was worth just under  $6.8 million USD at the time of the sale. The buyer was a Japanese company called GMO Internet Group.

According to an article written by Avi Mizrahi and published this morning on ForexMagnates.com, Z.com will be used as a trading platform. It appears that the platform is using the trade.z.com subdomain, and I am unsure if there are plans to use the domain name solely for the platform.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Jay Chapman from Digimedia replied to my tweet about “dress” domain names being registered in response to the debate about whether the viral photo of a dress is black and blue or white and gold. His company owns the Dress.com domain name, and the company is having a little fun with the dress color debate that seems to be showing up everywhere (including a domain name blog!).

If you visit Dress.com (no link because it is a parked domain name), you can see that the theme colors are either black and blue or gold and white. The company is displaying a different color scheme depending on the IP address of the visitor.

This topic has probably meant good news for Digimedia. Dress.com experienced