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HUGE Company Domain Name Movers List

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Thursdays… it's something about Thursdays that never fail to have a lot of domain name movers by large companies and today is no different! Add in the fact I didn't post a list yesterday due to only discovering a few and today's list of domain name movers is huge! These are often early discoveries of domain name purchased, registered or movin...

Dot Weekly 3308 days ago

Domain Movers: Hollywood.com, Sello.com & More

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Welcome to Domain Movers, a series done by DotWeekly where I dig to find domain name that are moving for one reason or another, with most domains being acquired, registered and more by large corporations. Coming off of a weekend, these lists are often smaller but today's isn't that small and still has some interesting domain name movers in it. It's...

Dot Weekly 3310 days ago

GoDaddy Expired Domains Using RookMedia Parking

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I discovered yesterday that some GoDaddy Auctions expired domain names are using RookMedia.net domain parking pages instead of the standard GoDaddy parking pages displaying that the domain expired and is pending renewal or deletion. It appears that about 6-10 days after expiring, some domains are changing DNS to ns100.rookdns.com and ns99.rookdns.c...

Dot Weekly 3310 days ago

Domain Movers: Godlike.com, Honor.com & More

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You are about to read another detailed report on domain name movers that likely would have gone unreported otherwise as these domain names have mainly all be acquired by large corporations, moving for one reason or another and DotWeekly digs the domains to provide you with the interesting information. These domain discoveries often lead to new bran...

Dot Weekly 3313 days ago

Domain Movers: Ruckus.com, Drips.com & More

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Another round? of DotWeekly Discoveries awaits you! These are domain names that are moving as a result of a domain name sale, company purchase, domain registration etc by large corporations and more. These would likely go unreported otherwise and it's often the first time publicly that the following has been announced. It's A Domain Fact! Microsoft...

Dot Weekly 3314 days ago

Domain Movers: Russ.com, Brightest.com & More

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Welcome to domain movers with an added bonus of something new that I am doing, It's A Domain Fact! The following domain names were detected to acquired by large companies, moving for one reason or another and more! Here we go folks! It's a domain fact! Gmail.com has been continuously registered longer than the domain name Google.com . Gmail.com was...

Dot Weekly 3315 days ago

Domain Movers: Glenwood.com & More Domains

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Welcome to domain movers, a series DotWeekly does on domain names that have been purchased by large companies, moving for one reason or another and often are not reported otherwise. During my digging, I also run into interesting things that do surprise me, so I think I will start sharing some of these in case they would surprise you. I'm going to c...

Dot Weekly 3316 days ago

Domain Movers: Tulip.com, Problem.com & More

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Welcome to domain movers, which is a series DotWeekly does on corporate domain name movers and other high quality domain names that are moving for one reason or another. A shorter list today coming off of a weekend. Often times, these domains take a little bit to discover, simply because domain sales, transfers etc. can take sometime to finalize. P...

Dot Weekly 3317 days ago

Domain Movers: WFM.com, NestAware.com & More

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Here are a couple domain name movers that would have likely gone unreported otherwise! These domain names were all purchased or moved for one reason or another, most by large corporations like Whole Foods Market and Google for an example. WFM.com has been acquired by Whole Foods Market, with the transaction likely taking place around 4/4/2014. The ...

Dot Weekly 3318 days ago

DomainNameSales.com Buyers Report Part Two

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If you missed part one, I suggest you stop on over and read that one first and then head back to this report on domain name sales from DomainNameSales.com and me adding some info to the domains, so it's not just a name and a price. It takes a good deal of effort to do these but I think it's worth it and my readers enjoy it, so here we go with round...

Dot Weekly 3320 days ago

DomainNameSales.com Buyers Report One

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Last year when DomainNameSales.com reported it's Q2 domain names sales report to DnJournal.com, I did some digging on the buyers and did a two report series on the buyers. I thought the articles were awesome! These domain sales are different than many reported, because DNS always seems to maximize domain name sales and often the buyers can be large...

Dot Weekly 3321 days ago

Domain Movers: Store.com, Kids.com & More

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Here are some domain name movers that would have likely gone unreported otherwise, mainly all by large companies: CBS Interactive Inc. has moved hundreds (400+) of domain names they had parked with DomainSponsor and a few with Fabulous to the general MarkMonitor name servers. They also moved over 400+ more to the CBS name servers. Some of these dom...

Dot Weekly 3323 days ago

Domain Movers: NestPro.com, FMQ.com & More

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Here are some domain name movers that I detected that may not have been publicly announced otherwise. Most were purchased by large companies or simply moving for one reason or another. LawBreakers.com has been purchased by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client using Afternic. The domain was reported sold in 2007 for $2,500 but the domain...

Dot Weekly 3324 days ago

Dating.com Domain Sell Again?

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There is a fairly strong chance that the domain name Dating.com has been sold! This would be a multi-million dollar domain sale if it did sell again! Dating.com sold during a 2010 DOMAINfest domain name auction for $1.75 Million as I reported to Harlequin Holdings Limited. The domain had a "beta" site on it for several years but nothing really was ...

Dot Weekly 3324 days ago

Domain Movers: SYW.com, Thrilled.com & More

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Hello! These are domain name movers and they are moving for one reason or another. Either a large company purchased the domain name, sold the domain name or the domain is simply moving for another reason. Here are some domain movers that I have able to dig up that likely wouldn't have been announced otherwise. Markland.com has been purchased by Hin...

Dot Weekly 3327 days ago

Domain Movers: Hug.com, Amber.com & More

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Welcome to another round of domain name movers which I scour the web and look for domain names that have likely been sold or moving for another reason and they likely wouldn't get reported otherwise. I always try to provide a price but it's often very hard to find one. I also often only use whois data and experience because contacting either party ...

Dot Weekly 3329 days ago

Fun.com Powering To The Top Using Domain Names

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In under 10 years, the?Fallenstein's family owned business has moved from its garage to venturing online and now operating out of a 200,000 square foot warehouse with over 100 year round employees and thousands of seasonal employees. The "Whoa" moment happened when the company out of Mankato, Minnesota, now called Fun.com brought its Halloween cost...

Dot Weekly 3329 days ago

Domain Movers: Employer.com, RealMedia.com & More

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Here are some recent domain name movers.. I haven't had much time the past couple of days, so the list isn't the best, but its still worth your time or I wouldn't post it. Employer.com which sold at the recent GreatDomains auction on Sedo and sold for $60,000 was being shopped around for $250,000 back on September 25, 2014 during one of DomainInves...

Dot Weekly 3330 days ago

Porno.com, More On The Buyers WGCZ S.R.O.

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Yesterday's big news in the domain name industry was the domain name sale of Porno.com by the domain king Rick Schwartz for a sticky keyboard kind of stuck price of $8,888,888.88 . Yes, nearly 9 million dollars, all cash sale just for the domain name. So who are the buyers? Well, I'm going to write this as I dig for info, so here we go. According t...

Dot Weekly 3331 days ago

DreamingWithJeff.com Reg?d 8 Days Prior

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Square Space paid $4.5 Million for a Super Bowl ad and put a prominent domain name in the ad, DreamingWithJeff.com. That domain name, was hand registered at the Google Inc. domain registrar on 1/24/2015, only 8 days prior to the ad airing during the Super Bowl prior to halftime. 8 days prior, for $12. The website is a bit confusing, as was the TV c...

Dot Weekly 3333 days ago

Domain Movers: SippyCups.com, CarbControl.com & More

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Welcome to another round of domain name movers presented by DotWeekly where I dig around and find domain names that purchased, sold and simply moving for one reason or another by large companies. These are often early discoveries and the first time the announced publicly in some fashion. Here we go: CarbControl.com has been purchased by Abbott Labo...

Dot Weekly 3333 days ago

How To Hide That You Own A Domain Name

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As a person who does a lot of digging on domain names, I often run into several factors that prevent me from knowing who owns a domain name, so I thought I would provide some tips on how to hide domain ownership. So why would you want to hide the fact that you or your company owns a domain? Why you shouldn't hide? Why you shouldn't hide that you ow...

Dot Weekly 3334 days ago

Domain Movers: xTv.com, DoMore.com & More

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Welcome to another domain name movers that includes domain name that have been purchased by large companies, registered, sold and or moving for some reason. Here is today's list: Research In Motion Limited registered a couple Android domain names and those were SecuringAndroid.com and ManageAndroid.com . Google is the owner of the Android trademark...

Dot Weekly 3335 days ago

Domain Movers: Duels.com, NightlyShow.com & More

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Welcome to another round of domain movers in a series where I search tens of thousands of domains that secretly move around and unless somebody is digging, likely wouldn't notice them. Some of these domains have been sold (to a large company or by a large company) some are just moving for a reason or unknown reason. I try to find sales prices if I ...

Dot Weekly 3336 days ago

Champs.com Domain Acquired By Foot Locker

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Foot Locker has acquired the premium domain name Champs.com from P. A. Gordon, who has owned the domain name since at least 2001 (oldest whois history record) but likely longer. The domain name has been registered? since June 26, 1997. Foot Locker Retail Inc. owns Champs Sports, which is a sports retail company and uses the domain name ChampsSports...

Dot Weekly 3336 days ago

Gemini.com Domain Acquired By Winklevoss Twins

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The premium generic domain name Gemini.com has been acquired by the Winklevoss twins for a new business venture in the Bitcoin exchange market, that will be US based. The domain name was acquired about October 19, 2014 according to whois history records and was put into use on January 23, 2015. Whois records show the domain name is owned by Gemini ...

Dot Weekly 3337 days ago

Negative Domain Parking Revenue?

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Domain parking sucks, is getting worse and worse, year after year… but could it get SO BAD that you end up with a negative balance? We have all had the 1 click for $0.00 but could it be worse? According to SmartName, it appears so. I mentioned my displeasure with SmartName earlier this week about "Quality Adjustments" and nothing to back up t...

Dot Weekly 3340 days ago

Domain Movers: TheNightlyShow.com & Angus.com

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Weekend additions of domain name movers is almost always small and today is no different. Today's list includes a domain buy and a domain mover. TheNightlyShow.com has been purchased, I assume by Comedy Central but currently only shows generic MarkMonitor whois data. A new spin off show of The Daily Show launched on January 19, 2015 and holds the n...

Dot Weekly 3340 days ago

Domain Movers: Grains.com, Untouched.com & More

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I'm a bit under the weather today but domains don't stop moving so I shouldn't (even though I feel like crap) so I did some digging this morning and noticed several interesting domain movers to share with you. Here we go with today's list: Grains.com has been purchased from Garry Chernoff of NetIncome Ventures Inc. by Barchart.com Inc for a current...

Dot Weekly 3341 days ago

Domain Movers: EchoSecuirty.com, HBONow.com & More

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Welcome to another round of domain name movers that I noticed while digging around and figured I would share some interesting things that I had seen. RightTrack.com was purchased by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, which appears to have taken place about 2/18/2013. The domain was purchased using the Name Advisers arm of MarkMonitor. Then the domai...

Dot Weekly 3342 days ago

Domain Movers: Mix.org, Internships.com & More

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Here are some domain name movers that I noticed last night and this morning that may interest you in some way. Uninterrupted.com has been purchased by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. The domain name had a for sale lander on it, with a price of $2,910 so that may give an indication as toaround what the sales price was. For any "TV/cable/streaming" ...

Dot Weekly 3343 days ago

Tracking Domain Names

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Tracking domain names isn't easy! I often post "domain movers" and "DotWeekly Discoveries" by using several methods but one key factor that I always use is whois records. These consist of current and historical records. The problem with whois and I have said this before, it really should be "who do you want to be" instead of whois. Whois records fo...

Dot Weekly 3343 days ago

Domain Movers: RedLobster.com, CP.com & More

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Welcome to another round of domain name movers, which includes domain names that are moving for one reason or another, often times it is a sale! Some move and sell for unknown reasons, but most of the following would go unnoticed unless otherwise. So, here we go! Exclusively.com has been purchased by SnapDeal.com, from who appears to be Domain.com ...

Dot Weekly 3344 days ago

Quality Adjustment? Modern Robbery? SmartName

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SmartName.com is included in the title of this story, because they do "Quality Adjustment" to domain name parking revenue. Google also does adjustments to "final earnings" for adsense, but on a daily basis from what I have seen. SmartName does it on a monthly basis. I'm sure a lot of companies do it in some fashion. So what the hell is this "Qualit...

Dot Weekly 3346 days ago

Domain Movers: Move.org (fitting) MovingTruck.com

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MOVE over you domain lovers! Here is the movers addition of domain movers! Sounded good, but today isn't the most exciting list I have discovered but that stuff happens when the weekend comes around, but there are still some nice domains in the list that were purchased recently and likely wouldn't have been reported other wise. I'm not a reporter, ...

Dot Weekly 3346 days ago

CM.com Reactivated By Registry

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Back in September 2014 I wrote a little article with the title: The Million Dollar Available Domain Name Well, I was doing some searching for somebody one day and I happened to type the two letter domain name CM.com into DomainTools.com's whois. The domain name was showing as "Available". I wasn't sure what was going on and I wrote about it. "Mike"...

Dot Weekly 3346 days ago

Who Purchased Domaining.com? My Guess

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Yesterday (1/16/2015) was the first time I even heard that Domaining.com was even for sale and it was also the first time I heard it had sold, with Monday being the day the new owners will be officially announced… Well, part of the fun is guessing who the new buyers are prior, so here is my guess! TurnCommerce Inc. aka the Reberry Brothers, a...

Dot Weekly 3348 days ago

Domain Movers: BabyBottles.com, Rode.com & More

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Here are some more domain name movers that have been sold/purchased lately that likely wouldn't be reported otherwise that I noticed while doing some digging. Several nice domains in today's list. BabyBottles.com has been sold by Playtex Products, LLC a very popular brand that makes and sells Baby Bottles? I had noticed this domain name for sale an...

Dot Weekly 3350 days ago

PUR.com Domain Acquired By Helen Of Troy Limited

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Helen Of Troy Limited has acquired the domain name Pur.com for its water filtering brand PUR according to whois records! Helen Of Troy Limited (HotUs.com) is the owner of many popular brands like OXO, Revlon, Braun, Honeywell and many more. The main domain name used for the PUR brand has been PurWater.com, so this is a domain name upgrade to be an ...

Dot Weekly 3351 days ago

Domain Movers: Hex.com, ChasePay.com & More

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Back with another round of a couple domain name movers that I had noticed this morning that would likely go unreported otherwise (at least in most cases and if they do… you very likely read it here first) and wanted to share them with you! ChasePay.com was purchased by JPMorgan Chase & Co. for the likely listed buy it now amount of $1,395...

Dot Weekly 3352 days ago

Domain Movers: Arca.com, ClearCare.com & More

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Here are a couple domain name movers that I noticed this morning while digging around a little bit and figured I would share them with you. ARCA.com appears to have potentially changed ownership. The domain was owned by SAVVIS (CentryLink) and transferred out of MarkMonitor to Tucows under privacy protection. DNS did not change from Savvis.net afte...

Dot Weekly 3353 days ago

Colitis.com Domain Likely Sold

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According to whois records, it would appear that the domain name Colitis.com? has very likely been sold! The likely domain sale hits close to home for me, not because I owned the domain or was the buyer, it's because I have the disease! It's a horrible disease that is life altering and I deal with it constantly! Chron's and Colitis are very similar...

Dot Weekly 3355 days ago

AmericanFamily.com Domain Secured By American Family Insurance

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AmericanFamily.com has finally been secured by American Family Insurance, a Wisconsin based insurance provider! The domain name has long been owned by?Synapse Group, Inc. which is a subsidiary of Time Inc. Synapse had a magazine subscription on the AmericanFamily.com site, as well as other stuff over the years. I have been an American Family Insura...

Dot Weekly 3355 days ago

Circuit.com Domain Purchased By Unify GmbH

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Based on whois data, the former?Siemens Enterprise Communications which was rebranded to Unify in late 2013 has purchased the domain name Circuit.com . A little recent history: Circuit.com was long owned by NetTuner Corp until what appears to be a sale of the domain that took place about December 20, 2012 and maybe financed through Domain Capital o...

Dot Weekly 3355 days ago

Domain Movers: Gesture.com, SYP.com and More

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Here are a couple domain names that I had noticed yesterday while digging around that likely wouldn't be reported sold other wise. Gesture.com was purchased (likely by a company) from Adam Smadja and purchased on behalf of a SafeNames LTD client. Adam was a bit surprised that I even knew the domain name sold when I contacted him to see if he could ...

Dot Weekly 3358 days ago

Lease.com Domain Changes Ownership

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Lease.com was owned by Branded Holding Group (last know as Internet Holding Group) of New York since the early 2000's but according to whois records, the domain name has since changed ownership to Interactive Lease Corporation, Inc. of Florida. The domain name has spent the majority of its life as a parked domain name but sometime around 2013 the d...

Dot Weekly 3359 days ago

Company Domain Movers: Poster.com, Sprout.com & More

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Welcome to company domain movers in a series I call DotWeekly Discoveries in which I scour the web and find domain names that were recently registered, purchased and simply moving by large companies. These are often early discoveries that lead into new products, brands, services and simply unknown futures because it's so early in the discovery. I t...

Dot Weekly 3440 days ago

Quirky Acquires Wink.com From MyLife

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Quirky Inc which launched the Wink App in partnership with GE has acquired the EMD Wink.com? Wink.com was previously owned by MyLife.com Inc which had used the domain in the past. MyLife is linked with Reunion.com and Classmates.com Wink is getting ready to release RELAY around Thanksgiving 2014, so maybe they felt it was time to acquire the exact...

Dot Weekly 3441 days ago

Google Acquires SmartWatch.com & SmartWatch.net

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This morning I mentioned that Google may be naming a new watch Tacto… but Fusion, Altos and Pillar may also be in the mix… BUT during some more digging, I discovered that Google now owns the premium, category killer domain name SmartWatch.com and SmartWatch.net?which they have just revealed via whois. Google appears to have acquired the...

Dot Weekly 3441 days ago

Google To Launch Tacto Watch?

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Google appears to be getting ready to launch a new watch with the name "Tacto" which means "Touch" in Spanish. Google had acquired WIMM Labs back in 2012 and they had owned the domain name TactoWatch.com at that time but Google gained control over the domain when it purchased WIMM Labs. As of yesterday, October 15, 2014, the same day that Google an...

Dot Weekly 3441 days ago
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