I was watching television this afternoon when I saw the most interesting domain name I have seen in a long time: AllYouNeedIsEcuador.Travel. Yes, that is a 5 word .Travel domain name being advertised by Ecuador’s Ministry of Tourism (Ministerio de Turismo del Ecuador).
Here’s a screenshot I took of the url being advertised on TV:
When you visit
Mike Mann has had a successful career in the domain space, and I consider him to be one of the more knowledgeable people in the business of domain names. As a result, when he says something interesting or controversial, people will engage, discuss, and sometimes debate him.
According to DomainIQ, Mike’s company (Domain Asset Holdings, LLC) owns hundreds of thousands of domain names, and the vast majority are .com. He has sold a ton of .com domain names (including the BuyDomains business), and he seems to be of the opinion that nothing compares to .com or competes with it.
In the last few days, Mike posted a couple of provocative tweets about new gTLD domain names. The links within the tweets link to his original comments on Facebook, and this has stirred up some debate on his Facebook page in different threads:
According to a number of media outlets, Apple and McLaren are possibly discussing some sort of investment or acquisition deal. An article in the Financial Times says “Apple has approached McLaren Technology Group, the British supercar engineer and Formula One team owner, about a potential acquisition.”
FT Exclusive: Apple is in talks with the luxury carmaker McLaren about a potential acquisition https://t.co/n80u4tNYJA pic.twitter.com/TAUlkkvD9V
— Financial Times (@FT) September 21, 2016
Not surprisingly, it looks like someone has
Domain Capital is known primarily for its domain name lending business. People who either need to finance a domain name purchase or use their valuable domain name as collateral for a loan can quickly turn to Domain Capital to receive funding for their domain names.
I was chatting with Vince Harasymiak and Gregg Freeman at The Domain Name Conference a couple of days ago, and they told me about another type of deal that could pique their interest: buying the payment stream for a domain name deal.
I will illustrate this with a rough example (i.e. don’t quote me on these figures): Let’s say I come to terms with a buyer to sell a very good domain name for $48,000 and the buyer will pay $2,000/month for 2 years. Domain Capital may be willing to pay me something like
If you follow mainstream news, you likely heard that Fox News and Greta Van Susteren parted ways. Apparently, it wasn’t so amicable from what I have read in a couple of articles. Shortly after the departure, I understand that Fox took down Greta’s blog, Gretawire, and the publisher redirected Gretawire.com to FoxNews.com.
In addition to this, Fox also apparently forwarded Greta.com to FoxNews.com. There was one problem with this though – Greta Van Susteren owns Greta.com, and as a result, she controls how Greta.com is used. Here’s what she said about this in a Facebook post:
According to DomainTools Whois History Tool, it looks like Greta was able to
A little over two weeks ago, I wrote about the sale of the ClintonKaine.com domain name for $15,000 via Flippa. At the time of the article, I mentioned that before the domain name’s registration information went private, it had been registered to an entity called Parscale Media. An article in the San Antonio Business Journal appears to connect this registrant with Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign.
According to an astitute observation by a reader of my blog, it looks like ClintonKaine.com is now being used. If you visit ClintonKaine.com today, you are forwarded to a page within Donald Trump’s website, DonaldJTrump.com with a heading that says “Disqualify Hillary Clinton.” In the screenshot of the landing page below, you can see that the domain name is mentioned as a referrer in the long url:
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