TwitchStarter : Amazon lawsuit ends bot-selling business on Twitch domains

Amazon, owners of the Twitch broadcasting network for gamers, filed a lawsuit against seven bot makers, last June. The defendants have been selling software that artificially boosts user viewer numbers on Twitch; the lawsuit alleged that the Twitch bots degraded user experience, tarnishing its brand by making it “harder for Twitch users to discover legitimate […]

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Rightside : Meet the domain master of dot .Games

By 2020, the global revenue of the gaming industry is set to surpass $115 billion dollars, beating earlier, more conservative estimates. Online and mobile games are transforming what used to be a small, niche market of entertainment software, into a digital arena of fun, games – and money. Today, games software and game apps attract […]

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Exclusive interview with Peter Kay, owner of Twitch.com

When we broke the news of the huge purchase of Twitch by Amazon to the domainer community, some appeared shocked by our statement that Twitch .com has become a seven figure domain name. The $970 million dollar all-cash purchase of Twitch and Twitch.tv is indisputably a punch in the face of Google, that was also […]

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Twitch .com owner hits jackpot as Amazon buys Twitch for $970 million dollars

The owner of the domain name Twitch.com hit the proverbial jackpot yesterday, as Amazon announced the acquisition of Twitch Interactive for $970 million dollars in an all-cash deal. There is one minute detail: Twitch operates from Twitch.tv. Evolving from Justin.tv, a personal broadcast medium from 2007 to Twitch.tv in February of 2014 was the result […]

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