WorldChampions.com Domain Name is Up For Sale

The domain name WorldChampions.com has been release for sale by its current owner DomainWise.com. According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 1997.

You can read the press release after the jump:

” Domainwise.com, a UK Company who specialise in the sale and development of high quality generic domain names, have today released the premium Dot Com sports domain WorldChampions.com for immediate sale.

The release of this prestigious domain name is timed to coincide with the culmination of the 2014 FIFA Football World Cup and the start of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

A spokesman for the current owners of WorldChampions.com commented, “The sporting calendar for 2014 offers unbelievable potential for advertisers to develop, market and monetise this prestigious, naturally searched for, memorable domain name.

“This should be of particular interest to sports sponsors, sports advertising agencies, sports media, sports goods manufacturers, branding agencies and indeed the current or past World Champions of all major sports.

“MediaOptions.com reported that consumers, when presented with a list of unknown companies in their search results, are significantly more likely to click on the exact match domain option.

“DNJournal.com, the Domain Industry News magazine produces a list of premium Dot Com domain names changing hands each year and with the release of such a prestigious domain name as WorldChampions.com it could well challenge for the top spot amongst premium domain name sales this year.”

More Information:

Interested parties should view the landing page at http://WorldChampions.com for contact details.

Welsh Farmers Show Off Their New .WALES And .CYMRU Domains

It was Royal Welsh Show day yesterday (21 July) and it was notable in the domain name world because at the show a number of prominent Welsh organisations announced they were switching to .wales and .cymru domains.

The Welsh language TV channel S4C, the National Assembly for Wales, Wales Federation of Young Farmers Club, Sport Wales, the Welsh Books Council and the Arts Council for Wales all announced they will be using their new domains to underline their Welsh identity online. The Welsh government announced its switch to .cymru and .wales just last month and some will be switching over as soon as the new domains go live in late autumn.

Nominet, the company behind .cymru and .wales is encouraging trademark holders to act now to help to secure the corresponding domain name by submitting it to the Trademark Clearing House before the end of July.

General availability will commence on St David’s Day (1 March) in 2015. St David is the patron saint of Wales.

.TK Cements Position As Largest ccTLD Passing 25 Million Registrations

The number of “active” .tk domains has passed the 25 million mark to cement its position as the largest ccTLD, and second largest TLD.

According to the nic.tk website, the number of domains under management is currently more than 25,089,000. The growth has been phenomenal for the island ccTLD that passed the seven millionth DUM in late 2011 and the largest ccTLD in late 2012.

The island nation located north east of New Zealand and Australia in the South Pacific is a New Zealand territory with a population of 1,337 according to the CIA Factbook.

The exponential growth of Dot TK continues because of its free domain name registration process, which has been somewhat controversial due to the amount of phishing activity linked to .tk domains. But the registry has worked hard to improve the problem.

Dot TK, the registry, introduced an anti-abuse API to allow trusted partners to shut down sites that use .tk. Netcraft noted in September 2013 that “this dramatically reduced the average uptime of phishing sites which used .tk domains, making it a less attractive platform for fraudsters. Indeed, .tk does not even appear within the top 50 phishiest TLDs today; however, considering .tk and .ml share the same owner, this makes it somewhat surprising to see .ml being so heavily abused already.”

The largest TLD is .com with 113.7 million DUM followed by .tk, then .de (Germany) with 15.8m. Following is .net (15.1m), .uk (United Kingdom) with “over 10.5 million”, .cn (China – 10.6m), .org (10.4m), .info (5.7m), .nl (Netherlands (5.5m) and .ru (Russia – 4.9m). The largest of the new gTLDs, .xyz, has over 348,000 DUM.

The above statistics were sourced from ccTLD registry websites, RegistrarStats.com, nTLDstats.com and domain-recht.de.

Heritage Auction’s Third Live Auction Starts in Two Days

Heritage Auction will be holding its third domain name event these days. Online bidding starts Wednesday, July 23,2014, while the live auction starts Thursday, July 24,2014.

The auction will be held in Dalls, Texas.However, you will be able to bid online from all over the world.

The auction features some valuable domain names,including :

SEM.com
Bitcoin.club
Bitcoins.com
Digital.com
DEC.com
Cute.com
Cain.com
Downline.com
Digital.com
Rides.com
Plank.com
DWI.org
MintCondition.com
Lithograph.com
Bristol.com
OklahomeCity.com
FRR.com
SFD.com

The auction also offer some extremely valuable .CLUB domain names, in addition to Bitcoin.club, such as:

Luxury.club
Baby.club
CoinCollecting.club
ComicBooks.club

MakeSomeNoise.com Domain Name Sells for $40,000

Mike Mann just announced that his company sold the domain name MakeSomeNoise.com for $40,000.His profit is huge, consiering he paid uner $1,000 for the domain name a couple of years ago.