Boston Business Journal published an article about the NewYork.Sucks billboard that is currently displayed on the side of the Mass Pike, behind Fenway Park. For those who aren’t aware, the Boston Red Sox / New York Yankees rivalry is one of the better sports rivalries, although it is in a bit of a lull lately.

According to the Boston Business Journal article, “The company that owns the rights to the .sucks generic top-level domain, Cayman Islands-based Vox Populi, is behind the campaign.” You can see a photo of the billboard in the article. Someone else sent me a photo of the billboard, and I am awaiting his approval to publish it here.

I think it’s an interesting campaign, but I would have made a couple of changes:

From my perspective,

I was watching CNBC this afternoon when I heard the commentators discussing a report about an acquisition bid for Twitter. It was later reported that the article discussing this bid was found on what seems to be a fake Bloomberg website. My first thought was about whether the fake website was operating on a new gTLD domain name to confuse people into believing it was associated with the financial news company. It reminded me of the TMZ.today story.

According to an article appearing on Newsweek this afternoon, “Someone went through great lengths to publish a fake report about Twitter, registering and creating the website “Bloomberg.market,” a near replica of Bloomberg.com.”

CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla tweeted out a link

The new gTLD domain names have been on the market for over a year now. There have been some publicly reported aftermarket sales, but I think it is a very small percentage of the weekly sales (by volume and value). I am still mostly on the sidelines when it comes to investing in new gTLD domain names.

I didn’t invest .com domain names in the 1990s. I didn’t even buy great .com domains until the mid to late 2000s. Despite this late entry, my business has still grown and flourished. There are plenty of other examples of people who have done well after entering the business “late.” In addition, there are many people who started out investing in domain names in the 1990s and grew their tremendously after the .com bubble burst.

I don’t see the need to invest

Abdu Tarabichi uploaded a photograph of his new vanity license plate this afternoon, and it is advertising a new gTLD domain name. The license plate is from the state of North Carolina, and it says “Get.Club.”

Got my car a vanity plate for @getDotClub! 1st #NewgTLD plate in the world? Visit http://t.co/bbqKE0SzkW today!! pic.twitter.com/XZ9EGJ8Cu4

— Abdu Tarabichi (@AbduTarabichi) July 2, 2015

It’s interesting that

I received an email from Adam Freeman from Essex, UK who reported that he sold a .Money domain name for $90,000. Due to a confidentiality agreement, he could not reveal the domain name or the buyer. Adam sent me a screenshot of his Escrow.com closing statement, and Escrow.com’s Sandra Gordon confirmed the transaction to me.

Adam told me he bought the domain name at day 3 of EAP in March 2015, and he paid $3,000 for it. He set up a landing page similar to how he has Travel.money set up, and the buyer inquired about the domain name via email. It took three weeks for the buyer and seller to come to an agreement on the domain name, and the deal closed at Escrow.com today. I asked Adam to share some details about why he bought the domain name and how the negotiation went, and he was happy to share them with me: