The number of .CO web addresses registered to date has topped 460,000, edging closer to half a million registrations. According to the registry’s home page (www.cointernet.co), the domain hit 468,435 registrations putting it on pace to surpass half a million web addresses by mid-September 2010. In late July, .CO registrations passed the 300,000 mark. The .CO [...]
Bill Gross and Idealab have been busy making changes to Tweetup.com, a domain name the company acquired in March 2010 for an undisclosed amount. Today, Idealab announced that Tweetup.com was changing the company’s name to Postup.com, a domain name purchased on Sedo for $14,900 in early May following the launch of Tweetup.com. Idealab Doesn’t Pigeonhole their Business The switch is more than [...]
Todd Reum, the new owner of the Pizza.net domain name, is using the web site to cross-promote another website he owns and operates: AmazonThunder.com. Amazon Thunder, created in 2005 by Todd Reum and his wife Jeanette Reum, specializes in acai berry products. According to the website’s About Us page, Amazon Thunder: “sells quality Amazonian fruit products to domestic [...]
On June 28, Mike Berkens also covered the story. Since then, a voice over actor who uses Wiivoice.com, a man who started one site that turned into a network of 2,500 sites, a person who has connected with friends through new media, and other people have been the weekly winners of Verisign’s HowDoYou.com contest that [...]
Currently ranked as the #1 .CO domain sale of all time, the single-letter domain o.co was purchased for $350,000 by Overstock.com. In the company’s press release, Overstock stated the company purchased the domain in order to enhance its’ “brand recognition and retention, align with current marketing initiatives, and make it easier for shoppers to find the company’s [...]
For months Kevin Ham and his crew at Reinvent, have been busy working on the launch of GoodNews.com, a group buying web site that connects people online with businesses offering discounts for their products or services. Suddenly things are picking up, as the incubator startup is hiring for a variety of jobs ranging from Recruiter [...]
The web site Radar Online which covers celebrity news, is reporting that the domain HeidiandSpencer.com is up for sale on eBay, and like many domain names put up for sale on eBay: the price is ridiculous. The seller has lost their marbles if they think a buyer is going to swoop in and buy this [...]
Candy.com has just unveiled an attractive new design for the site’s blog. The new blog design based on a custom WordPress theme, was created by Dizzain Inc., (http://www.dizzain.com) a New York web design company focusing on custom website development, logo design and WordPress design. The company’s portfolio includes blog redesign projects for sites like Fandha.com and SimplyConfess.com. [...]
I discovered “Rent Your .Co” a brand new service for renting premium .co domain names. I stumbled upon the website when I typed in Candy.co into my web browser, and the web address re-directed me to RentyourCO.com. The site’s business model involves re-directing premium .co domains to websites for a fee. Redireting traffic is one [...]
Kevin Ham’s company, Reinvent, updated their company website again this week – this time the “Our Lab” page received a makeover. The page describes Reinvent’s “Incubator Model” approach, that aims to take a domain name from a simple web address into a prototype within six weeks or less. The Reinvent Difference No word on which domain [...]
In April 2010, Apple released the iPad and has since sold millions of units.
Good news for Apple, but bad news for Apple when it comes to domain names.
The company’s only iPad domain: iPad.co. A name the company acquired in July, but doesn’t use.
Instead Apple settles for using the web address apple.com/ipad – the top search result in Google for the keyword “ipad”.
Will Apple buy iPad.com?
In January, TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters wrote an article title “Apple Doesn’t Own A Single iPad Related Domain Name“, but despite all the attention the article attracted, nothing has changed.
Though Apple purchased the domain name iPhone.com for seven figures from businessman Michael Kovatch months after it released the iPhone, there haven’t been any signs of the same happening with iPad.com.
For now, the owner of iPad.com continues to receive thousands of visitors per month, spiking well over 100,000 visitors some months. Traffic that appears to be for the most part, type-in traffic. As of today, ipad.com displays a Coming Soon page.
iPad.net is a developed web site, that hosts a blog dedicated to news, reviews, tricks, accessories, and more centered around the iPad. It too, is not affiliated with Apple Computer in any way, but shows up on the first page of Google Search results for the keyword ipad.
Who knows what will happen with the .com domain?
Maybe Apple has no interest in buying the .com domain, or maybe a plan is in the works to turn another domain owner into an instant millionaire as other writers and bloggers have suggested in the past.
Apple isn’t the only big company that doesn’t get domain names, as Mike Berkens points out in a story posted today, MySpace is another company that has difficulties.
The .CO registry tweets @dotco and regularly engages buyers and interested parties through social networking channels including Facebook.
The number of .CO web addresses registered to date has topped 460,000, edging closer to half a million registrations. According to the registry’s home page (www.cointernet.co), the domain hit 468,435 registrations putting it on pace to surpass half a million web addresses by mid-September 2010.
In late July, .CO registrations passed the 300,000 mark.
The .CO Home Page
The .CO registry regularly credits news outlets and bloggers for coverage of the domain. And it heavily uses Twitter and Facebook to reach out to .CO owners and interested parties.
The .CO Founders Program, an initiative designed by the .CO Registry to engage early adopters (called ”.CO Founders), continues to highlight Founder websites.
One of the latest additions to be showcased on Opportunity.co includes Professional Makeup Artist Pamela Taylor who set up shop on MakeUpArtist.co.
At 468,000+ registrations in a few short months, brings it closer to one of it’s domain rivals .US, which according to DailyChanges.com only has 1,743,690 web addresses registered in total.
Porn.co, a web address that has been enjoying type in traffic for months, has launched a web site branded as YouPorn.co. Taking advantage of .com websites of the same name.
Porn.com and YouPorn.com are popular online adult destinations. YouPorn.com has an Alexa Traffic rank of 67, making it one of the Top 100 sites on the web today.
In 2007, the domain name Porn.com sold for $9.5 million, in a deal brokered by Moniker. The domain Porn.com was purchased by Detroit-based MXN Ltd., in a transaction that was covered by several news outlets because of the big ticket price.
The website Porn.com receives monthly traffic in the millions.
The owner of Porn.co, also owns names like Xvideos.co. Xvideos.com is another Top 100 website on the net, even ahead of YouPorn.com.
What will be the fate of Tweetup.com as a domain, is anyone's guess. But with the number of incubator companies and projects that Bill Gross is involved in, it wouldn't be surprising to see Tweetup.com be built into something else.
Bill Gross and Idealab have been busy making changes to Tweetup.com, a domain name the company acquired in March 2010 for an undisclosed amount.
Today, Idealab announced that Tweetup.com was changing the company’s name to Postup.com, a domain name purchased on Sedo for $14,900 in early May following the launch of Tweetup.com.
Idealab Doesn’t Pigeonhole their Business
The switch is more than just a name change. Postup will include not only the best of Twitter, but it will also include the best of Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks.
Since the acquisition of the domain name Postup.com, the URL forwarded to Idealab’s home page.
But over the past few days, the name stopped resolving altogether, before today when the company announced Tweetup is now Postup.
We regularly monitor certain domain names, both for stories and relevance, and Postup.com has been on the list for months. Because we own Tweetups.com, tracking the progress of Tweetup.com has been of interest. We were also the first website to report on the acquisition of Tweetup.com by Idealab. In March, we received several substantial offers suddenly on our internet property Tweetups.com which we had acquired on the aftermarket in 2009. The influx of offers made us curious to see what other Tweetup-related domain owners were up to, and when we typed in Tweetup.com, the URL redirected us to Perfect Market, a company of Idealab that helps publishers create value from their online content.
The domain name Postup.com sold on SnapNames in 2006 for $3,600 – so it was a decent return for the seller, who had an inkling the name would be worth something more someday. And it’s certain to be worth a whole lot more with a business model behind it.
Oddly enough, our story in May has a mocked up picture of Postup.com, that looks a lot like the site you see online today. While we mistakingly guessed PostUp would be used for a “Best of Blog” search platform, Idealab has taken it much further, with the inclusion of several popular social networking sites.
What about @Tweetup?
Following the purchase of Tweetup.com, Idealab had also acquired the @Tweetup URL, despite Twitter’s TOS that forbids selling Twitter usernames.
Idealab posted a message on the @Tweetup page earlier today, with the news of the name change to Postup. However, instead of @Postup, the company has gone with @PostUpInc.
We’ve changed our name to PostUp as we start making some big changes! Please start following us on @PostUpInc for announcements and news.
Interestingly, Idealab chose @PostUpInc for the new company’s twitter username, but hasn’t registered PostUpInc.com – a name that is still available for hand registration at the time of this story. While it’s not really necessary to own the name, spending a few bucks to purchase the domain that matches its Twitter username might be a good idea, since some visitors to the company’s Twitter page may type PostUpInc.com into their web browser.
Domains ending in UP
There have been a number of significant domain sales ending with the keyword “up” in 2010. GearedUp.com and MailUp.com, both sold on Sedo in 2010 for about $14,000 each, neither name went to Idealab.
Instead of creating a separate brand for targeting each social network, Idealab has gone the route of creating a single umbrella brand under Postup.
As far as other relevant domains that could fit into Idealab’s brand, LinkUp.com is a popular job search engine that has appeared in publications such as PC Magazine.
While FaceUp.com is owned by Mike Berkens of MostWantedDomains.com.
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