Category: Auctions

World’s first SMS sold as a NFT

Vodafone has sold World’s first SMS to be sent. They were sold at a Paris Auction House called Aguttes Auction House, as reported by Deutsche Welle. The Auction fetched €107, 000 which is equal to a whooping $121, 000. World’s first SMS was sent on 3rd December, 1992. It’s been almost 3 decades since! What’s even…
ThePirateBay.com is up for sale, again!

As of 13/08/2021 World’s most popular torrent website‘s domain name is up for sale. Again. Yeah, you heard that right! And the domain name is not just another extension, it is a premium .com domain name. Last year, T`he Pirate Bay let its two domain names, namely: PirateBay.org and ThePirateBay.com expire. It wasn’t a major…
Unstoppable Domains team up with Cake Wallet can make crypto-exchanges as simple as sending an Email

As of 13/08/2021 Unstoppable domains has announced that users of Cake Wallet can now use its .crypto domains for transaction of cryptocurrency. With this new feature, sending cryptocurrency has become as simple as sending an email! Usually the transaction of cryptocurrency includes entering a long alphanumeric address such as ‘156i6HJfMWb1h2BEsKpfvZ2tQugqo4vs2w’. However, since the arrival of…
John Oliver jokes through this domain name

As of 10/08/2021 John Oliver has a knack of presenting important issues with strong and stinging arguments in the form of jokes. In his popular show Last Week Tonight John Oliver talks about a wide range of issues. And for a few weeks, the center of his shows has been the Opioid crisis. America has…
European Wax Center melts Florida Man’s fraudulent domain names

As of 07/08/2021 European Wax Center is a popular name in the United States. The hair removal and body care firm currently has more than 800 locations across the US. However, the Wax company had to go to a legal battle with a Florida man over two domain names. Twice! As reported by Reuters, two…
.forever: domain names you can own forever

As of 04/08/2021 Impervious has brought a new domain name extension for us all: .forever. However, this isn’t like any other extension. The company calls it the first ‘truly decentralised domain names‘. The domain names that you own has a problem. The problem is that, well, you don’t actually own those domains. The domain names…
Standard Life Aberdeen rebrands to abrdn

As of 05/07/2021 Standard Life Aberdeen, the largest active asset manager in the UK has decided to rebrand itself. The company in a bold decision decided to rebrand itself as ‘abrdn‘. The company went through a merger in 2017. Two companies namely Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management merged into Standard Life Aberdeen. However, the…
Fight over Khadi reaches WIPO

As of 01/07/2021 Khadi is inseparable from Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle that brought India her independence. Khadi was the symbol of a national movement that brought the mighty British on their knees. This symbol of non-violent protest has however ended in a legal tussle that reached WIPO. The domain name in question was UrbanKhadiClub.com. The domain…
100th dispute resolution case of .cn and .中国 for WIPO

As of 09/09/2021 WIPO, in a post announced that it has received the 100th case for dispute resolution of TLDs .cn and .中国. Although there are numerous domain extensions under WIPO, these extensions have their own significance. .cn and .中国 are Chinese ccTLDs, and are in fact quite popular worldwide. Considering the rise of Chinese…
ælf switches to this spectacular new domain name

As of 09/09/2021 aelf, stylised as ælf, is a blockchain company that has multi-chain parallel computing features. The company aims to solve the long pertaining scalability issue in the blockchain ecosystem. The company however recently made a whooping acquisition. The company in an outstanding branding push purchased a million dollar name. No, the use of…