Many “Dress” Domain Names Registered

Is the dress white and gold or is the dress blue and black? Amusingly, the great dress debate seemed to be what many people were talking about online yesterday, and there were quite a few “dress” .com domain names hand registered.

According to Verisign’s DomainView Keyword Trend Tool, ten  of the newly registered .com domain names related to this trend include:

  • DressColorTest.com
  • IsTheDressWhiteAndGold.com
  • TheDressWhiteAndGold.com
  • DressIllusion.com
  • DressColorDebate.com
  • WhatColorsThisDress.com
  • BlueOrWhiteDress.com
  • ColorChangingDress.com
  • WhatColourIsTheDress.com
  • TheDressColor.com

I think it’s

Listfish “Connecting Domain Owners with Creators”

I received an email from Anton Waldburg who let me know about his interesting domain name project called Listfish. The objective of Listfish is to connect the owners of unused domain names with people and startups that can utilize them. The domain names can be donated or an investment proposal can be made.

Here’s a description of Listfish and how it can help connect domain name owners and people who can use a domain name for their project:

Toilets.com Owner Passed on $4 Million Offer

There’s an interesting article you’ll probably enjoy on Crain’s Detroit about entrepreneur Earl Braxton, whose company is in the portable toilet business. You’ll likely enjoy reading the article about Braxton’s business, but I think you’ll find the short part about domain names to be of particular interest.

Here’s an excerpt from the article that discusses domain names owned by Braxton’s company:

Report: Sofa.com Sold in Deal Worth Between ” £40m and £50m”

There have been reports that Sofa.com, a furniture manufacturer and retailer, has been sold. According to an article in The Telegraph a couple of days ago, “CBPE, formerly Close Brothers Private Equity, which also owns the Côte restaurant chain, is understood to have paid between £40m and £50m for the online sofa business.” Financial Times also published a story with this news.

The story of how the owners acquired Sofa.com for $215,000 is possibly one of the craziest I’ve heard about in the domain business. The short version is that Pat Reeves and Rohan Blacker

Registering Domain Names of Political Opponents

During the past 15+years or so, politicians and aspiring politicians have used domain names to their advantage. Most register their own name domain names, many register catch phrase domain names, and some register the domain names of their opponents.

It seems that there is a domain name story about a politician registering an opponent’s domain name every election cycle. This year is no different, as Philadelphia news outlets have picked up on a Philadelphia City Council election where one candidate registered the full name .com domain name of his opponent.

Philadelphia Business Journal posted a poll asking people

Give a Deal to Blog Readers

I noticed that Enom gave a special offer to buy .Rocks domain names in support of the team my New England Patriots are playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday. I replied to them and jokingly asked about a offer code for Pats fans, too. Enom obliged and you can get a .Rocks domain name for $5.00 using the coupon code: GOPATS.

That Twitter exchange got me thinking a bit. I would be happy to share special offers, discounts, and coupon codes with blog readers of my blog if I think they would be of interest. Those coupon codes can be shared in the comment section here or emailed to me. If the offer is really good, I would be happy to share the offer in a blog post or a tweet on Twitter.

I think the best kind of deals are