A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist sides with man who registered the domain in 1997. Donald Trump and his Mar-A-Lago club have failed to secure the domain name mar-a-lago .com through a cybersquatting complaint. Trump's ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Trump, social media platforms, and the domain name lesson
· Policy & LawDomain names and websites remain the most direct connection to an audience. Last week was an eventful week. Donald Trump loyalists physically took over the capitol building and social media platforms finally decided they'd seen enough. Twitter and ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Impeachment-related domain registrations spike
· UncategorizedBig news story leads to domain registrations. The big national news this week is the Democrats calling for impeachment of Donald Trump. As the situation plays out, people are registering domain names related to the big story. According to ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Is a big TV network about to troll Donald Trump with a new cartoon?
· UncategorizedGet ready for The Bigly Adventures of Donald Trump. A client of corporate domain name registrar MarkMonitor registered a lot of domain name yesterday that suggest a new Donald Trump cartoon is in the works. The full list is below. MarkMonitor has a ... Continue Reading5 Comments
What if Donald Trump tweeted about domain names?
· UncategorizedIt would probably look a lot like this. Twitter has given Donald Trump an easy and direct way to reach his fans at any time of day, even (especially) at 3 am. Wonder what it would look like if Trump tweeted about domain names? Probably something ... Continue Reading4 Comments
NBC registers funny Donald Trump domain names for Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon
· UncategorizedIs Trump live tweeting Fox and Friends? Is he looking at a map and trying to figure out which one is North Korea? The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon has registered some domain names for what is likely an upcoming* joke about Donald Trump. The ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
From the fake news department with a domain name angle
· UncategorizedStory claimed Trump sent a cease & desist letter about a domain name, but the domain wasn't even registered. Earlier this week, Observer.com published an article about the poor fate of a teenager who registered the domain name TrumpScratch.com. The ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Trump back on top in .com
· UncategorizedTrump and Wall were popular terms in new .com registrations last month. We can debate how many people showed up to Donald Trump's inauguration but there's one thing we can't debate: his inauguration propelled him to the top trending term in ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Trump trumps .com again in November
· UncategorizedA lot of political domain names became worthless after last month's election, but Trump's win ensured that names with "Trump" in them remained popular. Over 9,000 .com domain names with Trump in them were registered last month, including nearly 3,000 ... Continue Reading1 Comment
That time ICANN almost came up in a presidential debate
· UncategorizedRussia, China, inventing the internet, losing control...but Trump leaves it there. Last night's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton certainly was spirited. And there was a brief moment where it looked like the ICANN/IANA ... Continue Reading10 Comments
