Tag Archives: games

Fri 4th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Star Wars First Assault Game Back In The Works? Domain Reg Hints At It - *See update at bottom of page, which announces beta release of First Assault by Nexon. FirstAssaultGame.com has been registered by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client using generic whois data currently. Does this mean that the Star Wars game, First Assault may be back in the works? Doing some research, here are some findings: According to StarWars.Wikia.com : “Star Wars: First Assault was a video game in development at LucasArts. It was canceled due to the closure of LucasArts after ... read more ...
Mon 3rd August 2015
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Maker of Grand Theft Auto Buys MafiaGame.com For Mafia III Game Launch This Week - Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (2K Games) TTWO (NASDAQ)  has purchased the domain name MafiaGame.com which was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc. and has put up a website to launch its new Mafia III game, which is set for “worldwide reveal” on August 5, 2015 according to the new site. I had reported several Mafia 3 domain registrations by Take-Two in early July 2015, which included: Mafia3TheGame.com, MafiaiiiTheGame.com, MafiaThree.com and MafiaThreeTheGame.com. MafiaGame.com ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2015
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After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows the many renouned site Gamecoins.com Drop - I noticed the domain name GameCoins.com was in an expired domain name auction over at GoDaddy Auctions after it expired on May 5, 2015. The domain name has a very interesting history. For starters, GameCoins.com sold at Sedo.com for $10,500 on September 3, 2009 and the buyer was Ian Swanson of the company Sometrics. According to an article on AdWeek.com published October 12, 2010: Sometrics launched a site called GameCoins.com in March that allows users to earn virtual currencies in their favorite ... read more ...
Thu 27th March 2014
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King.com opens to Stock Crush Saga – Dropping 16% on First Day of Trading - King.com the maker of Candy Crush Saga could have titled their first day of trading as Stock Crush Saga. The stock had a very poor performance on its first day of trading. Perhaps people were looking at King and thinking it was going to be another Zynga, wildly popular before the IPO but as soon as it went public it could not make any gains in the public market. Zynga had Farmville and King has Candy Crush Saga, King must find more games that can provide a stable stream of income. Of course they ... read more ...
Thu 13th March 2014
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King.com Seeks Up to a $7.6 Billion Valuation - King.com the maker of Candy Crush Saga could be looking at as much as a $7.6 billion valuation in their I.P.O. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the valuation would put King in the big leagues with a valuation rivaling the top video game companies on the market. Of course King.com has had some negative publicity lately with their attempts to trademark Candy and Saga. Smaller game makers and gamers alike have expressed their displeasure with the company. From the Wall Street Journal: King ... read more ...
Tue 24th September 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Google beats Donuts in .Games tip turn domain name dispute - .Games domain names will likely be confused with .game domains, panelist rules. Donuts has lost another string confusion objection for a plural domain name, this time .games. Google, one of five applicants for the .game top level domain, argued that having both .games and .game as top level domain names would confuse internet users. It convinced the panelist of this, which means that Donuts’ uncontested application for .games is now contested. It will have to beat ... read more ...