Here are some of the latest domain name movers from the corporate side that I like to focus on. WhiteWave Services, Inc. has acquired the domain name OneChange.com for an undisclosed amount, continuing its domain name buying after recently acquiring premium domain name Horizon.com. WhiteWave is being acquired by Danone's for about $10.1 Billion, as...

Here are the latest detection's DotWeekly has made for domain names companies are buying and selling. Several nice (and expensive) domain names were on the move the past couple days and here is a snapshot of some of those: Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. registers the domain name BrewingRight.com adding to its portfolio of over 1,200 domain names. RWE AG...

Welcome to another round of Domain Movers, where DotWeekly puts a pulse on corporate domain name activity. Today, we see several gaming companies registering new domain names likely related to upcoming new game releases. We also see some "advertising" domains and several branding type domains. Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. registers the domain n...

The ultra premium generic domain name Champion.com has been acquired by clothing giant HanesBrands, Inc. for an undisclosed sum from its long time past owners Nationstar Mortgage, LLC. The domain purchase actually took place about February 2016, when the domain name started redirecting to Hanes.com/champion but the domain name is now the flagship ...

You do not always need to be fancy with a brand name. Using a common, already known term and adding ".com" makes a lot of sense and today I present you with a great starting point to a snack food brand offering! Snack Food Available Domain Name: SnackFood.com Purchase Price: $12,000 Overview: There are thousands of different types of snack food and...

Welcome to another round of Domain Movers where we focus on domain names being registered and acquired, mainly all by large companies. These article put a pulse on domain name activity by companies around the world. I search thousands of domains a day and present you a very small sampling of the daily activity. Anheuser-Busch, LLC registered the do...

Salesforce has acquired the premium domain name Einstein.com, ahead of announcing a new AI product called Salesforce Einstein. I had noticed some movement on August 20, 2016 but was not sure who the buyers were at that time, but it's Salesforce. Forbes.com broke the news yesterday about the new artificial intelligence product. Using the name in cur...

Welcome to Domain Movers! We keep a very close eye on domain name activity, with a focus on corporate domain buying, registrations, sales and general movements. Here are a few that we detected the past couple of days: ConAgra Foods, Inc. secured two domain names relating to food brands they offer: AndyCapps.com and JiffyPopPopcorn.com. They hand re...

LimeWire.com was a peer to peer (P2P) file sharing service that was founded in 2000 but was seized in October 2010 due to an injunction by a federal judge according to Wikipedia. The domain name that housed the website is currently up for bids in an expired domain name auction here. At time of publication, the current high bid is $1,035 with the au...

Coming off a weekend, domain activity is always on the light end but I was able to detect several domains on the move for one reason or another, so here those are. Finlead has acquired the premium generic domain name Sound.com from its past owner Roy Timberman for an undisclosed price at the end of July 2016. Bitzer.com has been acquired by Bitzer ...

This is part of series I am doing, highlighting domain names for creating a brand, advertising, product naming and more for your company. I think these domain names are fairly priced and have good potential. Today, I highlight the potential brand name: Brandons Domain Name Available: Brandons.com Character Amount: 8 (I say 8 or below is Great) Purc...

Goldman Sachs & Co. has acquired the premium generic domain name Marcus.com for a new brand of consumer lending. The domain has been registered since 1992. Goldman Sachs shows up in whois records on July 16, 2016 coming from a law firm likely used by the company to help acquire it. Prior to that, the domain name was under privacy protection for...

Large corporations register and acquire a lot of domain names every day. It is interesting to have a pulse on this activity, so DotWeekly keeps a close eye on it and shares the data with you. Here is some of the activity from the past 24 hours. Mylan Inc. registers the domain names MyCustomCare.net and .org but currently do not own the .com, but it...

Here are some new domain name movers that I detected over the past couple days, mainly by larger corporations but also some bigger names in general. LEGO Juris has registered the domain name BatmanLaLegoPelicula.com, Batman-LaLegoPelicula.com, BatmanLaLegoPelicula-es.com and LegoBatmanMovie-Thai.com Dr. Pepper-Seven Up, Inc. has registered the doma...

Coming off of a weekend, domain movers are always "light" so this addition will reflect that but here are a few that I detected over the weekend that grabbed my eye: Johnson & Johnson has acquired the domain name Clinicade.com from its past owner, Roger Grant for an undisclosed amount. The domain has been registered since 2010. J&J filed fo...

DropAlert.com is a unique, real time auction tool that I came up with and worked with Jason Cupp to bring it to a reality. What makes the service unique is it works as an "all in one" radar type system for expired domain name auctions on GoDaddy. I always thought due to the volume of auctions ending at GoDaddy, it was really hard to keep up with th...

My neck is sore from shaking my head so much. Why? Branding a new company, product or service using the same name as an iconic brand name that has been around since 1946 baffles my mind. Procter & Gamble created the Tide laundry detergent brand and its traction in the world and on the web is HUGE. Basically the entire first page on Google is r...

Here are some of the latest domain name movers by large corporations that I detected in the past 24 hours: ZocDoc, Inc. has registered the domain name UnsickDay.com / .net which recently expired. A little while back, they also registered several relating domains to Unsick Day, a term they have been using in advertising. Using catchy domain names in...

Maybe you heard it, maybe you didn't… but Walgreens is shutting down two generic domain name websites they own and operate: Drugstore.com Beauty.com They acquired the two, plus VisionDirect.com and SkinStore.com from some $420+ million in 2011 time frame. When I read the news yesterday about the decision by Walgreens, Toys.com popped in my ...

Here is a situation IMO where one company understands the importance of domain names and the other doesn't! Amplify Snack Brands acquires Boundless Nutrition on May 3, 2016 for an undisclosed amount. Boundless Nutrition has the branded product Oatmega, which is the flagship product for the company and the main focus on its website. A second product...

Rebranding can be an important step in helping your business grow and this process should be highly throughout, t's crossed and i's dotted! So you come up with a new name? Great! Now get that exact match .com domain name, because it's important. Really important! Do not add a hyphen because the domain is cheaper, or go with a .net or .whatever beca...

The domain name Dot.net (kind of a tongue twister IMO as it "sounds like" Dot, Dot, Net) was for sale in the April 20, 2016 Heritage Auctions domain name auction and sold for $8,625. Just revealed today, the buyers were Microsoft according to whois records. Microsoft offers the .Net framework, a programming model and this was the likely reason beh...

Based on whois records, Demand Media has sold the domain name and website Trails.com to LoveToKnow Corp. It appears the transaction took place about April 9, 2016 when the copyright changed on the Trails.com website from Demand Media to LoveToKnow. Demand Media also sold Cracked.com to E.W. Scripps for $39 Million in April 2016. Since Trails.com a...

I have complied data from DnJournal.com's Top 100 years reported (most high value domain name sales go unreported) domain name sales for the past 5 years and have broken them down to give you an idea of what you will need to budget to purchase a premium .com domain name. The following data is from the years 2010-2015 and are confirmed reported doma...

For those not aware of it, popular domain industry research service DomainTools is raising rates come June 25, 2016 and slashing the amount of uses per services it offers with the price hike. Rate hikes are common (not 725% in my case), rate hike + slashing the amount of "look-ups" to go with it are not. Higher price, less use doesn't make that muc...

After discovering the latest domain name portfolio purchase by GoDaddy of Elite Domains, I have yet to have a good idea of the size and quality of the domain portfolio purchase. The light is starting to shine a little brighter now though! The elephant is the 23 confirmed 2 letter .com domain names acquired in the portfolio with the potential for th...

Yesterday I mentioned that the Elite Domains domain name portfolio that GoDaddy recently acquired on April 1, 2016 had 17+ 2 letter .com domain names, well I was a bit low on that number and now have discovered at least 23 of them total! The following 23, two letter .com domain names are now listed on NameFind.com, have a similar connection via who...

After I broke the news yesterday that GoDaddy.com had purchased another domain name portfolio, I didn't have a lot of information at that time. I still do not, but there is one thing I can confirm. The Elite Domains Group portfolio purchase by GoDaddy included at least 17, two letter .com domain names that I can confirm are now owned by GoDaddy. fj...

I was informed that Monster Worldwide Inc. has sold 14,300 domain names in a bulk deal for "six figures" that mainly relate to school/education domains and the buyers were Endurance/BuyDomains.com based on whois records. Also based on whois records, Monster.com owns around 24,000 domain names, so that is about 58% of its domain name portfolio it ha...

REDC acquired the ultra premium domain name Auction.com in 2009 for $1.7 Million and it really helped the real estate company from its past brand and web address USHomeAuction.com! Fast forward now several years and according to several articles, the business name Auction.com has became limiting to them and it was time for a change via a rebranding...

The Las Vegas Sands Corporation has registered at least 38 new domain names relating to a potential football stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada for a potential NFL team and or UNLV. The vast majority of these domain name are lobbying / defensive. Here is a list of domain registrations that occurred on March 24, 2016 by Las Vegas Sands Corporation: adelso...

Pinnacle Sports Worldwide, an online betting website, has purchased the premium generic domain name Pinnacle.com from Avnet, Inc. according to whois records. Avnet, a fortune 500 company acquired Pinnacle Data Systems Inc. in November 2011 for about $22 Million, which owned the Pinnacle.com domain name. The domain name transferred out of corporate...

GoDaddy.com and its NameFind domain name portfolio has just unloaded a batch of 24 three letter .com domain names. This is the 2nd time GoDaddy has sold a batch of 3 letter .com's that I am aware of. The first occurred shortly after Mike Berkens sold his domain name portfolio to GoDaddy when 55 three letter .com's were acquired in a bulk deal, whic...

The premium domain name Grab.com has been acquired by Grabtaxi Holdings PTE LTD of Singapore according to domain name whois records this morning. GrabTaxi announced in January 2016 that they would be rebranding to simply Grab, as they now offer much more than just taxi services. At the time of the rebranding announcement, the company was using the ...

Avenue 81, Inc (DBA LeadBrite) which operates several lead page services, announced in December 2015 a new service called "Center" and was looking for early users. At the time, they were using the domain name Center.io but have now done a domain name upgrade and acquired the premium generic domain name Center.com from past owner Horoscope.com Inc. ...

It was announced today that Jet.com has acquired Hayneedle for an undisclosed amount. This transaction was of interest to me, has Hayneedle started out as Hammocks.com and is also a large owner of generic domain names. Based on whois records, Hayneedle, Inc. owns over 9,000+ domain names and it is unclear at this point in the deal if and what domai...

Australian fashion designer Kym Ellery has secured the premium generic domain name, Ellery.com, potentially through a UDRP filing. DomainInvesting.com mentioned the filing of a UDRP on Ellery.com on January 14, 2016. I checked several sources this morning and the UDRP status (case active) has not updated at time of this posting, yet late Sunday the...

Several are chasing GoDaddy's earnings report from yesterday trying to discover the domain portfolio purchase price of Worldwide Media Inc. and several sources are putting that number at $35.5 Million and the "only" acquisition for GoDaddy in Q4 2015. Well, the later is not true based on information I discovered this morning. DomainSource domain p...

BK, aka "Burger" King has announced they will be offering Grilled Dogs, a first in its 62 year history! It's not often a huge "burger" chain is reaching at people's hearts and offers a beloved item that so many love, GrilledDogs.com! Burger King announced on February 10, 2015 about the new menu item. That same day, the Burger King Corporation also ...

I'm not even sure where to go with this, because I'm confused but here we go. I had seen the Persil ad during the Super Bowl as I'm sure most did that watched the game. I do not recall seeing the brand before, nor was I aware of it in general. So, today I wanted to look into it. I mean, they did spend about $4.5 Million for the ad. Since Persil was...

In 2009 toy retailer giant Toys R Us successfully acquired the generic domain name Toys.com in an auction, and set up a website on the generic domain name shortly after to expand its reach and help control the important top spots in search engines for the highly searched term. They did well with the domain/website and gained more organic SERP's bec...

Domain names are powerful, unique and a really great marketing tool! Domain names are a piece of the marketing puzzle but can be a very important one. There are many reasons domain names are important in marketing but here are some key points I would like to point out. Options! Domain names allow for a lot of options. Sending and getting people to ...