Posted by: bhartzer on: June 1, 2011
When large groups of domain names are purchased such as the one I came across today, most of the time it indicates that the company purchasing them has major plans in the works. That happened today, when I was alerted to the fact that Conde Nast Digital, the folks behind the popular Reddit website, purchased [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: May 25, 2011
In April 2011 I first reported that Microsoft had acquired 47 domain names related to something (a brand or a company) named Synsup Labs. Those domain names had previously been pointed to the Bing.com search results. Now, the total number of domain names related to Synsup Labs that Microsoft owns is an even 50 domain [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: April 20, 2011
In an interesting acquisition today by Microsoft, the company acquired 47 domain names and has pointed them to the Bing.com search engine. I usually watch the list of Microsoft domain names and have not seen such a large acquisition of new domain names in a long time. Perhaps this is the indication of a new [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: January 3, 2011
Let me ask you: when was the last time that you sent a fax? When was the last time you sent a fax in order to register a domain name? Never? If you don’t know, before you could register a domain name online, you had to register a domain name via fax, which was back [...]
