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The Perfect Usage for .Tattoo

I saw a Facebook update from TechCrunch with a video discussing an app called InkHunter. TechCrunch also published an article about the app. In short, InkHunter allows people  to use their  smartphone to see what a tattoo would look like on their  body before getting permanently inked with a  tattoo.

When I first saw  the article, my initial  thought was that this would be the perfect usage of the .Tattoo domain name extension operated by Uniregistry. I clicked on the embedded link within the article, and I saw that it directed people to the iTunes app store to download the app and learn more about the app. Once on the iTunes store, I hovered over the “Kateryna Khotkevych Web SiteInkHunter” link, and I see that the app is using

Mike Berkens Still Closing Deals

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Mike Berkens privately sold much of his portfolio to GoDaddy earlier this year. I understand he kept most of the adult domain names and his portfolio of new gTLD domain names.

According to this tweet from Frank Schilling, Mike is still making deals happen. Apparently he bought Stock.Photo for $16,000 at the NamesCon auction after already owning Stock.Photos. He then reportedly sold the pair of domain names to Richard Lau for $60,000.

.Online Off to a Fast Start

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.Online domain names became available to hand register for the standard registration fee this morning. Radix, the company that operates the .Online registry, is reporting that they are off to a fast start.

Shortly after general availability began today, the company posted a tweet announcing that over 15,000 domain names were registered within the first couple of minutes:

The company

510PacificAve.com An Interesting UDRP

I noticed that an interesting UDRP was recently filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization for the 510pacificave.com domain name. It appears that the domain name is referencing a street address, 510 Pacific Ave. The UDRP is WIPO Case D2015-1105, and the complainant is listed as Lindeva Living Trust / Kim W. Lu Trustee.

The domain name was registered in September of 2014. According to the Whois database, the domain registrant is listed as

Niko Younts Featured in Coin Report

Niko Younts is a domain investor who has a considerable investment in Bitcoin domain names via his Currency Evolution business. I was sent an article this morning that was published in Coin Report, entitled, “The Domain Name King of Bitcoin?

Younts, who may be best known by domain investors for his $250,000 sale of BitcoinWallet.com, still owns a large portfolio of Bitcoin domain names. If you follow him on Twitter, you know his company owns BitcoinWallets.com, BitcoinNetwork.com, and BitcoinExchanges.com, in addition to many geographic and other Bitcoin-related domain names.

The article, written by

What .WS Website Is This?

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WS BillboardTony sent me a photo of this billboard he passed in Puerto Rico. As you can see, it seems to be advertising a website on a .WS domain name, but I can’t tell which website it is.

I looked at Wink.ws, Smile.ws, Laugh.ws, Love.ws, and a few others, and it doesn’t look to me like it is advertising any of those. I suppose I could be wrong though.

What .WS website do you think this billboard is advertising?

Update: Looks like this is a Coca-Cola advertising campaign. Apparently, there are a variety of Emoji characters involved, and they forward to Coca-Cola’s Puerto Rico website. AdWeek has more details about the Coke ad campaign.