How to Invest in Bitcoins Without Owning Bitcoins Part 2

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article called How to Invest in Bitcoins Without Owning Bitcoins, and that article received thousands of views. It covered a lot of information about bitcoin elated investments for primary accredited investors. I also published and article about how to put bitcoins in your IRA.

This current post related to some of the smaller cap companies which are finding some way to incorporate bitcoins into their business. In most cases, this is a very tenuous connections. In addition, most of these companies are extremely low cap, very low priced, and obviously exceedingly speculative.

These companies are located all over the world including Canada, Israel, and Cambodia. As always, I never recommend buying these stocks as they involve a huge amount of risk. Here they are for your info, showing the name of the company, the stock ticker symbol, the year founded, where traded, and the business connection to bitcoin.


Elephant Talk ETAK NYSE partnership with Ven (runs Bitcoin Fund) and Hub Culture Group

Elray Resources ELRA 2011 OTC  Bitcoin and universal credit exchange, developing bitcoin casino

MediaBistro MBIS 1999 NASDAQ  sponsored Bitcoin Conference & Expo

Myriad Interactive Media MYRY 2011 OTC Bitcoin and cryptco-currency platform

NXT-ID NXTD 2011 OTC digital wallet, 3D software

On Track Innovations OTIV 1990 NASDAQ  NFC technology platform cashless payment solutions

WPCS International WPCS 2002 NASDAQ acquisition of BTX Trader, proprietary trading platform for Bitcoin

Now, Overstock (OSTK) has announced that they will start taking bitcoins next year.  If you want a free list of over 20 companies that have some connection to bitcoins, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks that Own the Shortest Domain Names: One Letter Long

You may have recently seen my article, Stocks that Own the Highest Priced Domain Names, and wondered about some of the other interesting domain names. For example, there are very few one-letter domain names that are owned by companies, but generally the companies are stocks that the average investor can own.

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority put a restriction on single character domains back on December 1, 1993, so if a corporation didn't own the name back then, it would have had to purchase it. Here is a list of one letter domain names and the stocks that own them.

a.co is owned by Amazon.com (AMZN)
 
o.co and o.info are both owned by Overstock.com (OSTK).

q.com is owned by CenturyLink (CTL). If you go to q.com, it takes you right to CenturyLink's web site.

x.com is owned by x.commerce, which is owned by eBay (EBAY). When you go to the x.com website, it takes you to the x.commerce website.

x.co is owned by GoDaddy.

y.co is owned by YCO Group Plc, a luxury yacht company. The stock trades on the London Matched Markets Exchange.

z.com is owned by Nissan North America Inc., which is owned by Nissan Motor (NSANY), which trades on NASDAQ. However, the website is currently inactive.

i.net is owned by Future Media Architects, a privately held company. The company also owns c.tv, h.tv, k.tv and n.tv along with several other dot tv domain names.

u.tv is owned by UTV Media (UTV.L), a broadcasting and New Media company based in Belfast in Northern Ireland. The company trades on the London Stock Exchange.

Is anyone aware of any others that I may have missed?

Stocks that Own the Highest Priced Domain Names

A domain name, or domain for short, is what you type in the web address bar at the top of your web browser. It is usually what comes after the "http://". For example, WallStreetNewsNetwork.com is a domain name. The interesting thing about these domains, is that they can be very valuable. If you had registered some of the one word domains many years ago, you could sell them for very high prices.

Many large publicly traded corporations understand this and have been willing to pay extremely large amounts for certain domains. The following is a list of the highest priced domain names and the names of the stocks that purchased them, along with the purchase price:

fb.com Facebook (FB) $8.5 million
loans.com Bank of America (BAC) $3 million
social.com Salesforce.com (CRM) $2.6 million
mortgage.com Citigroup (C) $1.8 million
fly.com Travelzoo (TZOO) $1.5 million
vista.com Vista Print (VPRT) $1.25 million
mercury.com Hewlett Packard (HPQ) $1.1 million
sky.com British Sky Broadcasting (BSYBF) $1 million
o.co Overstock.co (OSTK) $350 thousand

Also, don't forget to check out:

Stocks that Own the Shortest Domain Names: One Letter Long

Sales data came from Domaining.com

One Letter Domain Names and the Companies that Own Them

There are not many one-letter domain names that are owned by companies, and most of the companies are publicly traded stocks.
These companies were lucky enough to register them before December 1, 1993 (or buy them from someone who registered them by that date), as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority put a restriction on single character domains at that time.
o.co and o.info are both owned by Overstock.com (OSTK).
q.com is owned by CenturyLink (CTL). If you go to q.com, it takes you right to CenturyLink's web site.
x.com is owned by x.commerce, which is owned by eBay (EBAY). When you go to the x.com website, it takes you to the x.commerce website.
z.com is owned by Nissan North America Inc., which is owned by Nissan Motor (NSANY), which trades on NASDAQ. However, the website is currently inactive.
i.net is owned by Future Media Architects, a privately held company. The company also owns c.tv, h.tv, k.tv and n.tv along with several other dot tv domain names.
u.tv is owned by UTV Media (UTV.L), a broadcasting and New Media company based in Belfast in Northern Ireland. The company trades on the London Stock Exchange.

One Letter Companies Part 2

Yesterday, I wrote about the One Letter Companies, the companies that either have a one letter stock ticker symbol or own a one letter domain name.

Here is an update to the one letter domain companies, which I came up with due to further research.

a.co is owned by Amazon (AMZN)

g.co is owned by Google (GOOG)

s.co is owned by Startup America Partnership

t.co is owned by Twitter

x.co is owned by Go Daddy and is used as a URL shortener

0.co (that's a zero dot co) is owned by Overstock.com (OSTK)

0.info (that's a zero dot info) is also owned by Overstock.com (OSTK)

c.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

d.tv is owned by Worldwide Media, Inc. and publishes TheDomains.com

h.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

i.tv is owned by i.TV, LLC

k.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

l.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

o.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

q.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

s.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

t.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

v.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

w.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

y.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

z.tv is owned by Future Media Architects

By Stockerblog.com

One Letter Companies: Domain Names and Stock Ticker Symbols

Do you realize that there are only six one letter domains that are owned by companies, and five of the five companies are publicly traded?

These companies were lucky enough to register them before December 1, 1993 (or buy them from someone who registered them by that date), as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority put a restriction on single character domains at that time.

o.co and o.info are both owned by Overstock.com (OSTK).

q.com is owned by CenturyLink (CTL). If you go to q.com, it takes you right to CenturyLink's web site.

x.com is owned by x.commerce, which is owned by eBay (EBAY). When you go to the x.com website, it takes you to the x.commerce website.

z.com is owned by Nissan North America Inc., which is owned by Nissan Motor (NSANY), which trades on NASDAQ. However, the website is currently inactive.

i.net is owned by Future Media Architects, a privately held company.

u.tv is owned by UTV Media (UTV.L), a broadcasting and New Media company based in Belfast in Northern Ireland. The company trades on the London Stock Exchange.

Want to know all the companies that have one letter stock ticker symbols? Here they are:

Agilent Technologies Inc. (A)

Barnes Group Inc. (B)

Citigroup, Inc. (C) formerly the symbol for Chrysler

Dominion Resources, Inc. (D)

Eni SpA (E)

Ford Motor Co. (F)

Genpact Ltd. (G) formerly the symbol for Gillette

Hyatt Hotels (H)

Kellogg Company (K)

Loews Corporation (L)

Macy's, Inc. (M)

NetSuite, Inc. (N)

Realty Income Corp. (O)

Pandora Media (P)

Ryder System, Inc. (R)

Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) formerly the symbol for Sears Roebuck

AT&T, Inc. (T)

Visa, Inc. (V)

United States Steel Corp. (X)

Alleghany Corp. (Y)

Zillow (Z) formerly the symbol for Woolworth, now known as Foot Locker (FL)

Before US Airways Group was delisted, it used to have the stock symbol U.

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