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Domain Movers: Zoo.com, Cmet.com + More

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Welcome to another round of Domain Movers where DotWeekly focuses on corporate domain name transactions and reports them to you. This puts a pulse on the corporate domain name activity and hopefully sheds some light on end user activity. The detection's are often fresh and likely would not be reported on otherwise, due to the amount of research wor...

Dot Weekly 2656 days ago

Flextronics Acquires Premium Generic Domain Flex.com

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Flextronics International USA, Inc. has acquired the premium generic domain name Flex.com The past owners posted a notice to current customers of the upcoming change on the Flex.com domain name: Flextronics announced in July 2015 that they were rebranding to simply "Flex" and have purchased the EMD of the new name. (smart move) Flex.com's past ow...

Dot Weekly 2656 days ago

Domain Movers: Fair.com, Radial.com + More

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Today's Domain Movers is stacked with premium domain names and I think shows the upward trend of companies "getting it" and launching with premium domain names! Some are showing improvements by acquiring EMD's and much more in today's series. Enjoy! Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. registered the domain name DewaltToughSystem.com and interestingly,...

Dot Weekly 2657 days ago

Breaking: GoDaddy Likely Buys Traffic Names LTD Domain Portfolio

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Breaking News: GoDaddy appears to have acquired yet another domain name portfolio and this time appears to be Traffic Names LTD! This morning I started to detect Traffic Names LTD domains transferring over to GoDaddy's NameFind portfolio. Traffic Names LTD, which is owned by Ian Andrews of the UK, owns some great generics like Camera.com, which is ...

Dot Weekly 2658 days ago

Domain Movers: TS.com, React.com + More

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Welcome to the latest Domain Movers series where DotWeekly focuses on corporate domain name transactions and reports the movements to you. Let's get right into the past movements we detected over the past 24 hours: Figureate.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client. The domain was owned by HugeDomains and had an offering pric...

Dot Weekly 2659 days ago

Domain Movers: TheMine.com, Tastefully.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers, in this series, DotWeekly focuses on corporate domain name transactions and reports them to you. The following domain names are early finds and will often lead to new brands, services and marketing efforts by many large companies. I have been pretty busy lately working on a new offering for domain investors, so more on tha...

Dot Weekly 2660 days ago

Did Clarity Money Acquire Premium Domain Clarity.com?

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This morning I detected some movement on the premium domain name Clarity.com and that movement may indicate a sale? The domain was owned by publicly traded company Synchronoss Technologies Inc.As  Whois information hasn't updated currently away from Synchronoss, other than domain name servers and the domain is now redirecting. The domains status i...

Dot Weekly 2666 days ago

Domain Movers: Heart.com, Bold.com + More

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Welcome to a Sunday addition of Domain Movers where DotWeekly keeps track of corporate focused domain name transactions that other wise would likely go unreported and provides the information to you. As always, these are very early discoveries and heavily based on whois information, which is not always 100% accurate. I do try my best though to repo...

Dot Weekly 2668 days ago

Domain Movers: Sinex.com, ATTT.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers, where we monitor domain name transactions by corporations and report the movements we see to you! This is always an exciting series that often provides a "first look" at what companies are doing domain wise. This leads to new brands, future marketing campaigns, products, services and more. Let's get to it! Hilton registere...

Dot Weekly 2673 days ago

VE Interactive Acquires Premium Domain VE.com

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Domain name investor Aron Meystedt (owner of the oldest domain name Symbolics.com) has cashed in on his domain name investment and has sold VE.com to VE Interactive Ltd which is based in London according to whois records. Aron acquired VE.com around August 2015 as reported by DomainInvesting.com for an undisclosed amount. This is a BIG domain name...

Dot Weekly 2673 days ago

Gogobot Acquires Trip.com Domain, Rebrands

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Gogobot rebrands as Trip.com, a domain name they interestingly acquired from Expedia. CEO Travis Kratz stated in a Skift.com article about the rebrand: "The name Trip.com, which is easy to remember, can conjure images of a vacation abroad as well as a jaunt to the restaurant across town, Katz says, and the blending of trips and activities is somet...

Dot Weekly 2677 days ago

Public Company Posts Full Domain Login Details In SEC Filing

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We have all been told never to share our account login details, including your account number, login user name, password etc. but one publicly traded company (with-holding the company name for clear reasons) posted its two domain name assets, along with ALL of the account details to access them in a recent SEC filing report. Registrar, Account #, L...

Dot Weekly 2679 days ago

Bonus Domain Movers: Walker.com, Recall.com + More

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Yesterday I mentioned that I was taking a break from Domain Movers to reconsider things. Thank you to those who expressed that it will be missed and to those mentioning it should continue! Well, here is a bonus Domain Movers that is stacked with valuable information and puts a pulse on corporate domain name transactions. Enjoy and thank you again t...

Dot Weekly 2679 days ago

Domain Movers: YK.com, PetInspired.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers! This will be my last domain movers article for awhile as I reconsider things. With that said, here are a few domain movers from over the past 24 hours. UAE's home services business MoveSouq.com has done a rebrand (good choice) and has rebranded as ServiceMarket.com after a $3M funding round. The domain name was part of the...

Dot Weekly 2680 days ago

Domain Movers: Noon.com, Xcn.com + More

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Here are the latest domain movers detected by DotWeekly over the weekend. Activity is always lower coming off a weekend but a potentially top sale of the year has took place! Noon.com has been acquired for a new, $1 billion project for a Middle Eastern e-commerce platform by businessman Mohamed Alabbar according to this article. The domain name was...

Dot Weekly 2681 days ago

Domain Movers: Roka.com, MZL.com + More

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Welcome to a Saturday edition of Domain Movers, where DotWeekly keeps track of domain name transactions focused on the corporate world. The following is a very small sample of domain name transactions over the past 24 hours that we detected. BuzzFeed, Inc. has acquired the domain name Thrice.com, which was owned by a Ben Kaufman prior. The current ...

Dot Weekly 2683 days ago

Domain Movers: Blissfully.com, 9F.com + More

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Here are the latest corporate focused domain name transactions that DotWeekly has detected over the past 24 hours. DSW Inc. has acquired ShoeCompany.com from GoDaddy for an undisclosed amount. Blissfully.io has done a domain name upgrade and has acquired its EMD, Blissfully.com from GoDaddy. They offer IT management. GoDaddy stayed busy, selling se...

Dot Weekly 2684 days ago

Domain Movers: + Something New!

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A lot of people love the Domain Movers series and I am thankful for that. I also keep trying new things and want to continue to provide unique content that is helpful to the domain industry with a focus on corporate domain name transactions. So today, I tried something a little new at the end of today's report. StarterCard.com has been acquired by ...

Dot Weekly 2685 days ago

Domain Movers: Fully.com, BuildSeries.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers! DotWeekly keeps a close eye on corporate domain name transactions and reports them to you. Here is a sampling of some of the recent movements detected: Nissan registered the domain names NissanCargoX.com, NissanNVCargoX.com and NVCargoX.com The Coca-Cola Company has acquired the domain name Appletiser.com from a Yoon Jinso...

Dot Weekly 2686 days ago

Domain Movers: Happy.co, MotoFest.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers, where DotWeekly tracks corporate domain name transactions and reveals these branding moves to you. Here are some of the latest domain name movers from over the weekend: ConAgra Foods, Inc. registered the domain names SlimJimMeatbox.com and SJMeatbox.com likely hinting at something new. Diageo North America, Inc. registered...

Dot Weekly 2688 days ago

On Deck Capital Acquires BusinessLoans.com Domain Name

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On Deck Capital, Inc. has acquired the premium generic domain name BusinessLoans.com for an undisclosed amount. On Deck Capital was founded in 2006 and went public in 2014 with about $520M in total funding from 9 rounds according to CrunchBase. So why would a company like On Deck want to invest in an asset like the premium domain name they acquire...

Dot Weekly 2690 days ago

Branding: WTF Are You Thinking

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I don't know…. branding is vital, so why the f#ck give your company a name of an already existing company? Don't!!! Ex-Barclays CEO, Antony Jenkins is launching a new core digital banking platform and decides it's a good idea to call it 10x Future Technologies. Terrible name, but whatever. People will reference it simply as 10x, as do they. H...

Dot Weekly 2695 days ago

Domain Movers: Habit.com, HolidayBetter.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers, an exclusive series where DotWeekly focuses on corporate domain name transactions that often would go unreported other wise and shares the data with you. These are often very early discoveries: Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts has registered the domain name MamaIsBoss.com for a likely advertising message to be used in a ne...

Dot Weekly 2697 days ago

What A Disaster, FEMA Allows Fema.com Domain To Expire

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency does a very smart thing and owns the domain name FEMA.com which directed to FEMA.gov but has dropped the ball and allowed the domain name to expire! The domain names renewal "due date" was October 25, 2016 but it passed without payment and the domain name has since expired. The good news, FEMA has about 35 m...

Dot Weekly 2698 days ago

Domain Movers: Roomies.com, Labellum.com + More

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Corporate domain movers detected over the past 24 hours below: Guthy-Renker LLC has registered several Leviate domain name names like GetLeviate.com, Leviate.net/org/us as well as a few typos like Leeviate.com and Leveate.com. They also secured Leviate.com from HugeDomains, which appears to have taken place between May and October 2016 (likely clos...

Dot Weekly 2698 days ago

Domain Movers: Every.com, Intercom.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers, an exciting series on DotWeekly that keeps a close eye on corporate domain name transactions and reports them to you. Most of these transactions would go unreported otherwise. Let's get to today's list of domain discoveries: Every.com has transferred out of CSC Corporate Domains and over to the new domain registrar of Amaz...

Dot Weekly 2700 days ago

Domain Movers: RHD.com, Laso.com + More

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Welcome to another installment in the Domain Movers series, where DotWeekly focuses on corporate domain name transactions and reports recent activity that we discover. Here are the latest movements: Microsoft Corporation registered several new AI domain names, which included: AiForEarth.com/net/org and MicrosoftAiForEarth.com/net/org Loot Crate Inc...

Dot Weekly 2702 days ago

Prudential Financial Acquires Retirement.com Domain Name

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Prudential Financial Inc. acquires premium generic domain name Retirement.com from Telepathy Inc. DotWeekly broke the news that Retirement.com had sold back in January 2016 but the corporate buyer was unknown until now. Whois information is still generic at corporate domain name provider MarkMonitor but name servers have updated to Prudential. Th...

Dot Weekly 2704 days ago

Do Sub-Domains Lead To .com Domain Visits?

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Many websites use sub-domain names to organize or help direct people to specific spots on a website but do these sub-domains and how individuals promote them, result in visitors visiting the .com domain name instead of the actual sub-domain promoted? YES I always shake my head when I see a company promote a sub-domain in advertising, because I know...

Dot Weekly 2705 days ago

Domain Wise: Greylock Backed Company Domain Names

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I feel like I preach the importance of owning an exact match domain name until I'm blue in the face but the fact is, there are SO many companies that complicate things dearly and do not own EMD's! There are a lot of companies who do understand the importance though and I will continue to point them out with facts and numbers! If you missed an earli...

Dot Weekly 2715 days ago

Domain Movers: Good.com, ShellCompany.com + More

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Welcome! This is Domain Movers, where we keep track of what domain names companies are buying and selling and report them to you. Since we are coming off of a weekend, this report is a little light on volume but still contains many important domains to the companies who purchased them. Federal-Mogul Corporation has acquired the domain name Jurid.co...

Dot Weekly 2716 days ago

Carnival Corporation Was Ocean.com Domain Buyer

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Carnival Corporation has acquired the premium generic domain name Ocean.com. The domain name was first reported sold by Elliott over at DomainInvesting.com on September 9, 2016. I followed up not long ago, mentioning it appears the buyers were getting ready to launch a website and that has now taken place. Richard Lau was the seller of the domain ...

Dot Weekly 2716 days ago

Domain Movers: Browns.com, Remote.com, Winnipeg.com + More

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Some HUGE domain names in today's domain name movers list, so let's get right into it: GoDaddy/NameFind sells 3 more, 3 letter .com domain names. Those included HWS.com, LJX.com and NZD.com. All went to a Chinese buyer. GoDaddy has to be running low on inventory for LLL .com's now. They had over 100 from the Worldwide Media portfolio and sold those...

Dot Weekly 2718 days ago

Domain Movers: Oatober.com, AOB.com + More

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Here are the latest Domain Movers, which focuses on corporate domain name transactions that would often go unpublished otherwise. The following is a small sample of what occurred in the past 24 hours: Biofarma registers the domain name Bisopril.com adding to its domain name portfolio of over 2,600 other domain names they own. Liberty Mutual Insuran...

Dot Weekly 2720 days ago

Ho Ho Ho, Media Options Sells Santa.com Domain Name

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Premium domain name brokerage firm Media Options has sold the premium domain name Santa.com! The domain name has just moved into Escrow.com holdings according to whois records: Based on the email address used for Escrow, this tells me that payments are being made on the domain name or a potential lease or lease to own. In early August 2016, DotWee...

Dot Weekly 2720 days ago

Domain Movers: Gopher.com, Rousers.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers, a series that takes me a lot of time and effort and I continue to question if these efforts are "worth it" for me to continue to do. It's fun and I enjoy it but time is money and I surely can use the time for something more profitable than the current. With the above said, here are some interesting domain name movers relat...

Dot Weekly 2722 days ago

FAO Schwarz Domain Names Change Ownership From Toys R Us?

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FAO.com and FAOSchwartz.com have both transferred ownership from Geoffrey LLC (Toys R Us) to a company called eStream, Inc. while also transferring domain registrars from MarkMonitor to Domain.com according to new whois records. eStream appears to be a web development firm but this transfer of ownership makes little sense to me and may indicate a ...

Dot Weekly 2723 days ago

GoDaddy Sells 2 Letter Domain Name FH.com

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GoDaddy has sold the ultra premium 2 letter domain name FH.com with it going to a Chinese investor based on whois records. The domain name was acquired by GoDaddy when they purchased the Elite Domains domain name portfolio, which contained about 23, 2 letter .com's based on my research. All of GoDaddy/NameFind 2 letter .com domains are listed with...

Dot Weekly 2724 days ago

Branding: Exact Match Domain Names Are Vital

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An exact match .com domain name is vital in your companies branding efforts and with the growing popularity of the web, it is even more important now than it has ever been! So what is an Exact Match Domain? EMD's 100% match your known business name/brand, with adding .com to it. Amazon Technologies, Inc. is simply known as Amazon. Amazon is the bra...

Dot Weekly 2724 days ago

Corporate Domain Movers: Watson.com, Hangables.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers, where DotWeekly keeps track of corporate domain name purchases, registrations and more. Here are the results of this monitoring for the past couple of days: WeRocket.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client, for an undisclosed amount. Time Inc. has taken ownership of the domain name LifeVR.com. The d...

Dot Weekly 2726 days ago

GoDaddy Sells Premium Generic Domain Name Decals.com

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GoDaddy has sold the premium generic domain name Decals.com, which was part of the NameFind domain name portfolio. This was a past Marchex domain name which GoDaddy acquired its domain name portfolio for about $28 Million in April 2015. The domain name has been purchased by Lakes Area Graphix and Signworx of Minnesota. The company also owns and use...

Dot Weekly 2726 days ago

In 2 Days, GoDaddy Sells Millions Of Dollars Out Of NameFind Portfolio

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GoDaddy has been on fire the past two days, selling domain names out of it's NameFind domain name portfolio. The following are simply domains I had noticed change ownership based on name server records, so there easily could be more. Yesterday, some of those sold included FOC.com which was acquired by Information Services Inc. LML.com was acquired...

Dot Weekly 2727 days ago

Domain Movers: Japan.com, ATTT.com + More

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Here is a snapshot of recent corporate domain movers from several large companies. This includes domain names they registered, sold, purchased and more. Diageo Plc has acquired the domain name Steeps.com out of the GoDaddy/NameFind portfolio for an undisclosed amount. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company registered the domain names GoWandry.com and Hel...

Dot Weekly 2729 days ago

Available Brand Name: Cat Club via CatClub.com $3,599

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DotWeekly highlights domain names which are available for purchase that are a great start to the branding process of a business and what I think are great values based on the purchase price of the domain. Subscription based businesses have been booming (Dollar Shave Club was recently acquired by Unilever for $1 Billion) and the pet industry is huge...

Dot Weekly 2733 days ago

Domain Movers: DontSettle.com, MamaBears.com + More

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Welcome to the latest round of Domain Movers, where DotWeekly keeps track of domain names that corporations are buying and selling. Normally, most of these domain movements go unreported. EasyGroup Ltd has acquired the domain name EasyEnergy.com out of the GoDaddy/NameFind portfolio for an undisclosed amount. JWN.com and LMX.com appear to have been...

Dot Weekly 2736 days ago

Kenmore Flops Alfie Smart Shopper Online Branding

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Kenmore has been expanding the brand from appliances to consumer electronics recently and the latest product launch is "Alfie" a "smart shopping" app that works with a small device similar to Amazon's Echo / Alexa. How did they do for online branding of the new product? Here is my digital branding look at how they did securing the new brand and usi...

Dot Weekly 2740 days ago

Corporate Domain Movers: 959.com, Fella.com + More

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Welcome to Domain Movers where DotWeekly keeps a close eye on domain names being purchased, registered, sold or moving for one reason or another, mainly all by large corporations. Here is a sample of my latest detections: GN HEARING A/S has acquired the domain name TestYourHearing.com for its ReSound Online Hearing Test from HugeDomains.com for abo...

Dot Weekly 2740 days ago

Hoffman Media Acquires Cooking.com Domain Name

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This morning I noticed several Cooking domain names on the move at corporate domain name provider CSC and the ultra premium domain name Cooking.com has changed ownership from Gordon Brothers Group to Hoffman Media, LLC. This was not only the ultra premium domain name on the move, it was also Cooking.net and Cooking.org. Several other cooking relate...

Dot Weekly 2740 days ago

Domain Movers: Gamut.com, Chord.com, Ocean.com + More

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Several big names were on the move yesterday and a couple clarifications on some earlier announced domain movers that I wasn't sure who the buyers were at the time. Spil Games opted to register the domain name Nitro-Heads.com instead of acquiring the non-hyphen version NitroHeads.com which is for sale and owned by Mike Mann's DomainMarket. BoxHorse...

Dot Weekly 2742 days ago

Available Brand: Repaired.com The Fix It Service

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I highlight great domain names that are available for purchase at a price that I think is a good deal and can make a great brand for the available price. Here is today's highlighted domain: Domain Name Available: Repaired.com Purchase Price: US$20,000 Overview: The service industry is HUGE and people/businesses need things repaired on a daily bases...

Dot Weekly 2743 days ago
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