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Miami Herald To Cease Printing on Saturday, Says More Customers Reading Online

December 19, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH, FL – The Miami Herald, one of the largest newspaper media companies in the State of Florida, has announced it will cease printing its Saturday edition newspaper and instead, bulk-up its Friday and Sunday editions. Aminda Marqués González, President, Publisher and Executive Editor of the paper, announced the news via a letter to readers published December 17, 2019. The Miami Herald is changing to meet the needs of our readers and the communities we serve long … [Read more...]

Trump Campaign Cyber-Squats on Biden by Snapping Up Domain Name, Social Pages

October 26, 2019 By John Colascione 5 Comments

PALM BEACH, FL – Presidential hopeful Joe Biden created a new outreach ad-campaign targeting specifically Latino voters called “Todos con Biden” (Everyone with Biden) and it appears his campaign team is just about as smart as he is; they forgot it should include an Internet presence. This opened the opportunity for the Trump Campaign, which they immediately did, to register not just the domain name, but to scoop-up corresponding social media pages with it. Cybersquatting, … [Read more...]

The Abandoned Wasteland DNForum.com is for Sale; Here’s Why It Still Has Value

February 6, 2018 By John Colascione 3 Comments

NEW YORK – If you have not yet heard, and I am sure that you have, once popular domain name forum, DNForum.com, The Place to Talk Domains is for sale. Ownership says they’ll have it sold this week and I would not be at all surprised to see that happen, because even if no-one at all bids on it, I did. That's right, I put in a small [worst case scenario] offer for the website, and if I wanted to steal it for the best absolute price, I wouldn’t be drawing even more attention … [Read more...]

False Narrative: The Never Ending Battle to Steal Your ‘Free and Open Internet’

January 27, 2018 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is suggesting that Facebook pay news organizations for the stories posted on its platform. How typical. Rather than news organizations having to innovate to keep up and remain relevant, competitive and profitable, just steal from others innovation. There has been a lot of buzz lately about fake news stories being found on Facebook and Google and traditional media is passing the blame onto these websites for allowing people to share and … [Read more...]

Twitter Verification Requests Get Processed by High Tech Associates in Philippines

September 19, 2017 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Twitter Verification

NEW YORK, NY – Recently I submitted a request to verify my Twitter account through the online form Twitter makes available for those who want to request verification. Verification isn’t available to all users but those who are either public figures, journalists, celebrities and some media outlets will often be the types of accounts Twitter will verify, depending on the circumstances. Verified users have that cool little blue badge next to their names so Twitter users … [Read more...]

Name Summit Digital Branding Conference; Entrepreneurs, Experts, Domain Enthusiasts

July 31, 2017 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK, NY – “NameSummit – The Digital Branding Conference” is just one week away. There will be over 40 speakers, including entrepreneurs, experts and digital branding superstars ready to engage with attendees. Expert panels will discuss leading trends in branding, influence marketing, social media and showcase the continuing evolution of domain names as an important part of powerful branding and advertising campaigns. Below is the updated line-up of experts; an … [Read more...]

Name Summit Conference in New York City Shaping Up to Be “Very Big Event”

July 13, 2017 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Agenda includes long list of  Industry Veterans; Live Domain Auction for WallStreet.com; Event Ending with Undisclosed "Presentation for Exclusive Asset Sale" yet to be revealed!! NEW YORK, NY – A few days ago I spoke via telephone (yes, that clunky old device still in use) with some of the people at NameSummit to discuss interesting developments for the upcoming event in New York City which is just weeks away. If you have not yet booked your tickets and stay to New York … [Read more...]

21 Years Later: Look at the Top 100 .TV Domain Sales Over Past 5 Years

July 9, 2017 By John Colascione 2 Comments

NEW YORK, NY – According to NameBio, there were a total of 859 reported .TV domain sales over the last 5 year period. These top 100 total $1,461,847.00 in sales. The highest reported sales on this list were the domains “USA.TV” for $125,000.00 with the second place name as “SC.TV” for $40,000.00. USA.tv is parked at Uniregistry, while SC.TV is redirected to www.SmithsonianChannel.com. The domain is popular because it is an abbreviation of the word television, but its … [Read more...]

New gTLD Domain Operator Find.cars Search Service Granted Federal Trademark

July 8, 2017 By John Colascione 3 Comments

PRESS RELEASE: WHY SEARCH WHEN YOU CAN FIND?® trademark encapsulates attitude, effectiveness of the internet’s premiere used car searching service. (COMMACK, NY) Cars Digital Inc., through parent company, Long Island Media, Inc. has announced the successful registration of a federal trademark WHY SEARCH WHEN YOU CAN FIND?® with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its Find.Cars service, establishing the phrase as a catch-all motto that encompasses the spirit … [Read more...]

List of Newer “Keyword Rich” gTLD Domains Changing Hands So Far This Year (NameBio)

June 28, 2017 By John Colascione 3 Comments

NEW YORK, NY - This is not going to be an all inclusive list as some domain sales go unreported and some I've heard of which are not listed, such as "Homes.Forsale" and "Houses.Forsale", but this will give you a good idea of the types of names changing hands and the types of dots which are building momentum. The following list of gTLDs were listed at NameBio as closing sometime during this year (2017). They are listed in alphabetical order by TLD. The list does not include … [Read more...]

Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 04/17/2017 – 04/23/2017

April 25, 2017 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Just released is Sedo’s weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as NativeMedia.com at $18,000.00 US, the top ccTLD as Aercap.ru at 5,000 EUR and the top “other” TLD as Sparkpea.net at 4,500 GBP. Here is the entire list from Sedo sales from 04/17/2017 – 04/23/2017. Domain … [Read more...]

iCloud Ransom: Will Hackers Wipe 627 Million Apple Devices on April 7th 2017?

March 31, 2017 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK, NY - Apple products have changed our lives incredibly over the last several years. IPhones, iPads, Macs, and all the rest provide many benefits making our lives a little bit easier and more enjoyable in general, but a couple of weeks ago, a hacking group calling themselves the “Turkish Crime Family” began contacting media outlets claiming that they had breached the Apple iCloud, and had access to millions of user accounts and would remotely wipe the accounts (and … [Read more...]

Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Sales List 01/30/2017 – 02/05/2017

February 9, 2017 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

I reached out to Sedo's media relations team this week to ask about receiving the entire data-set for public domain name sales in 2016 but I was not able to receive it as it is proprietary. They do release market study infographics yet those are only available up until 2013; there is no 2014, 2015 or 2016 reports. If you have information on where I can receive an entire years data of domain sale reports for 2016 please share it by either emailing me or placing it in the … [Read more...]

Well Holy Smokes: U.S. Internet Ad Revenues Hit Landmark $59.6 Billion in 2015; Record-Breaking Numbers

May 3, 2016 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Q4 2015 Reached $17.4 Billion, Rising 23% Over Same Period in 2014; Mobile Advertising Climbs to $20.7 Billion in 2015, a 66% Upswing Year-Over-Year; Digital Video Increases 30% to $4.2 Billion NEW YORK, NY - U.S. digital advertising revenues reached an all-time high of $59.6 billion in 2015, according to the full-year IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, released April 21, 2016 by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and prepared by PwC US. This marks a 20 percent … [Read more...]

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SEDO Weekly Sales List Includes Three Letter .Com Domain Sold at $117,500

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – The domain name “PLP.com” sold at $117,500 this week according to the latest SEDO.com weekly domain sales report. The purchase appears to be an upgrade for Cleveland, Ohio … [Read More...]

Google Moves for More Control of World’s News with Major Google Play Update

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Something remarkably interesting has been happening behind the scenes which very few have noticed, however, one firm who has not missed the quickly changing landscape, is … [Read More...]

Amazingly Convincing Facebook Phishing Scam Takes Place on Facebook.com Itself

PALM BEACH, FL – I have been reviewing and writing about email phishing scams for years and I have seen a ton of them, from outright laughable in their easy discoverability to incredibly convincing, … [Read More...]

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