Here is another list of detected domain movers by large companies, in a series I call DotWeekly Discoveries which is powered by DomainIQ.com . Nice mix today of sold / registered domains and as always with some digging data that I discovered as well.
Unknown
A currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client had CSC purchase the domain name ForwardFarming.com from DomainMarket.com . I did find a listing for $1,000 so that may have been around
the selling price.
BreakZone.com also appears to have been acquired for a CSC client. The domain has been registered since 2002.
Backcountry.com
Has registered the domain name ThisIsBackcountry.com . Backcountry.com owns about 1,900 domain names and is an outdoor clothing and gear seller.
1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC.
Has purchased the domain name PersonalU.com from BuyDomains.
Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Registered 3 interesting domain names… AmazonTwitch.com .net and .org . Well…. I just looked into it a bit more and Amazon / Twitch announced on Monday 8/25/2014 they purchased Twitch for $970
Million
I had seen several new “twitch” domain registrations lately but didn’t think much of it, because Twitch was in a rebranding phase after turning its attention from Justin.tv to Twitch. The Amazon / Twitch deal may have had something to do with the recent Twitch deal.
Twitch-tv.com, TwitchBlog.com, TwitchTelevision.com, TwitchVideos.com, TwitchChannels.com, TwitchTurbo.com, TwitchVideoGames.com, TwitchLiveStream.com, are some of the other domains registered by Amazon on 8/25/2014.
TeleTech Holdings, Inc.
Likely had CSC Corporate Domains acquire the domain name Humanify.com . TeleTech registered the .net on 8/20/2014 . According to whois records, Humanify.com was likely acquired about 8/17/2014 and transferred into CSC on 8/22/2014.
WhiteWave Services, Inc. (Dean Foods)
Purchased the domain name Silk.com with the help of Marksmen on 9/20/2012. The company uses the domain for its Silk Milk products. They recently changed hosting providers and the domain name moved from MelbourneIT to CSC Corporate Domains. CSC had purchased the DBT portions of Melbourne.
Carter Communications LLC
Registered the two domain names GoodForYourApp.com and GoodForYouToKnow.com .
Nix.com
Has been acquired likely on behalf of a MarkMonitor client. The domain was parked at Sedo. The domain likely sold on or about 7/30/2014.
Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc.
Purchased the domain name LeadSolutions.com with the help of MarkMonitor.
Gartner, Inc
Purchased the domain name MoveToCloud.com from HugeDomains.com for about $2,895 . They also appear to have acquired CloudAdvisor.com and Cloud-Advisor.com . CloudAdvisor.com was listed for
$5K at Sedo.
Nintendo of America Inc.
I am going to go with my gut and say Nintendo has likely purchased AnimalCrossing.com even though whois doesn’t say so right now…. The likely transaction took place between October and December 2013. Nintendo owns Animalcrossing.net, AnimalCrossing.info and AnimalCrossing.biz as far as I can tell.
Fastly.com CDN
Has registered several domain names that relate to: FastlyDebug.com and FastlyAnalytics.com in .net and with hyphen versions of .com and .net .
Fastly.com was transferred into MarkMonitor on June 2, 2014.. which makes me wonder… did somebody secretly buy them?
Pepsi
Purchased the domain name KolaHouse.com from HugeDomains.com for about $1,695 . Several “Kola House + Geo” domains were registered on 8/19/2014, like KolaHouseChicago.com .
Unknown
CSC Corporate Domains likely helped a client purchase the domain name ChristmasLand.com from Tom Cox of GolfBalls.com . Likely for about $3,000.
Cargill Australia Ltd
Registered the domain name GrainPlan.com and MyGrainPlan.com
Biogen Idec
Registered the domain name MySidekickApp.com
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Registered the domain name MustyBears.com
MLB Advanced Media, L.P.
Registered the domain names HeroWorldChallenge.com .net .org
MovieBuff.com
Was very likely sold by DomainMarket.com for around $25,000 to Senthil Kumar of Real Image.
Amazon
Is likely getting ready to launch a website on AmazonEducation.com . It doesn’t resolve yet, but they have set domain name servers on the domain.
Sold Domains
FRR.com likely sold by BuyDomains to a Paul Kocher.
SFD.com likely sold by BuyDomains to a Paul Kocher.
Paul owns Chromosome.com and founded Cryptography.com
NoDegree.com likely about $1,888
ShortWalk.com likely about $3,888
iRoot.com
NextSeed.com $1,695 HugeDomains.com to a Robert Dunton. Robert also registered the .net on 8/20. The .org / .us on 8/23
