The most valuable domain names in America

Cars.com, an undeniably great website URL, sold for $872 million. Insurance.com? Yep, $35.6 million. Voice.com went for a cool $30 million.

You can head to GoDaddy and grab a domain for $1 a year, but anything truly good will cost you. KnownHost analyzed America’s most valuable domains, and you’re really going to see a theme here.

And the top 10 is …

  1. New England Patriots – patriots.com ($670,799)
  2. Minnesota Vikings – vikings.com ($665,515)
  3. Seattle Seahawks – seahawks.com ($665,492)
  4. Las Vegas Raiders – raiders.com ($655,109)
  5. Chicago Bears – chicagobears.com ($652,719)
  6. Pittsburgh Steelers – steelers.com ($651,058)
  7. Adidas – adidas.com ($638,100)
  8. Los Angeles Rams – therams.com ($608,736)
  9. Dior – dior.com ($503,996)
  10. Under Armour – underarmour.com ($469,956)

Would you look at that? Football teams must get more web traffic than I realized — plus, a one-word URL is pretty dang cool. That’s why I went with Komando.com.

Adidas makes sense, though I bet Nike isn’t happy about it. Luxury brand Dior and sportswear company Under Armour round out the top 10.

Now, does this mean if you offered the Vikings $665,515 for vikings.com, they’d take it? Probably not, but I bet we’ll never have to find out.

Phone hacked? Apple says it will alert you if your iPhone is infected with spyware

Cybercriminals have countless tools to target victims. They develop these methods themselves or, unsurprisingly, lift them from others.

Recently, authorities discovered cybercriminals were using military-grade hacking software designed by Israeli tech firm NSO Group. Research group Citizen Lab then revealed that NSO’s clients were using the software to spy on journalists. Tap or click here for our report with tips on protecting yourself from this dangerous vulnerability.

Continue reading

Red Cross hit by massive cyberattack - What it means for you

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), better known as simply the Red Cross, is a humanitarian organization providing aid to millions worldwide. Tap or click here for nine essential apps you don’t want to be without in an emergency.

Continue reading

GoDaddy data breach: 1.2M user profiles, including passwords, exposed

At any given point, there are almost 2 billion websites on the internet. Each is hosted on a server. GoDaddy is one of the original web hosting businesses, and it’s also the largest, facilitating around 62 million domains.

Continue reading