Voke Entertainment Technologies purchases four letter .COM domain from Frank Schilling
Voke.com will serve as the web site for Voke Entertainment Technologies, which currently displays a landing page with its company name and logo.
Which domain name sold?
Although there were a number of great domains to choose from on the list, VOKE.com, a four letter domain, sold for $35,000 – placing the sale price higher than many three letter .COM domain sales, such as XMG.com, SUS.com, UDE.com and dozens of other sales reported in 2010.
VOKE.com was purchased by Voke Entertainment Technologies, a company that incorporated in March 2010.
About Voke Entertainment Technologies
Based in New York city, the company provides Internet and Software, Internet services, packaged and custom software, web site development, and web site hosting services.
At the time of this story, nothing more than a 1-page web site is online.
VokeEntertainmentTechnologies.com was registered in January by a different registrant who currently parks the domain at GoDaddy.
VokeEntertainment.com isn’t registered.
Months after its release, the only iPad domain Apple owns is iPad.co
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.
.CO registrations edge closer to half a million domains
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, YouPorn.co – First in Category Killing Adult .CO domain names launched
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.
