Microsoft has just revealed that they were the buyers of Tagr.com back between September 24, 2010 and October 1, 2010. The domain name was purchased on Sedo.com for $10,000 as reported by Ron Jackson of DnJournal.com. So why did they purchase Tagr.com if the product is called Microsoft Tag? Good question but it is likely

Back in March I talked about hand registering the domain name BlowUpDoll.org and I wanted to do a mini-site development on it for a couple reasons. Well, about 3 months have passed and I wanted to share a few results. Here is what I wrote back in March about why I wanted to do what

Here is another round of my GoDaddy Goodies that includes a hand picked list of domain names that have expired and are currently on auction exclusively at GoDaddy. I haven't been impressed with the quality of domain names lately in my lists, so I changed some things up and are trying some "new" ways of

Here is another round of GoDaddy Goodies that includes a hand picked list of interesting domain name auctions currently taking place exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are expired auction, no reserve and are directly linked to the specific auctions for easy one click bidding or watching! All auctions end times are PDT. Thank you

GoDaddy.com and the World Series Of Poker have announced that GoDaddy.com will be the Premier Sponsor for the series in 2011. WSOP PR announced June 8, 2011. To back this up, GoDaddy went on a little domain name shopping spree to cover some bases (defensive registrations) and registered the domain names: GoDaddySponsorsWsop.com GodaddyWorldSeriesOf...

Since the main flower man (DomainShane.com) in the domain name space covered some domain names that grabbed his eye with several "Fraud" domain names registered, I thought I would share a couple domain names that grabbed my eye and all of them were registered by General Motors. For some reason, somebody at GM felt that

GoDaddy Goodies is a series on DotWeekly.com of hand picked expired domain name auctions that are currently taking place. All domain names are expired, no reserve and directly linked to the specific auctions pages for easy bidding or watching. All auction end times are PDT. Just click to place your bid on a domain name

Zynga or Google.com has "likely" acquired the domain name Wallet.com! This is purely speculation right now, but a couple things have me writing this article. Google announce "Google Wallet" on or about May 26, 2011. Google.com/wallet Google has been buying exact match, generic domain names lately (something they haven't always done,...

Here is another one of my GoDaddy Goodies series that includes a hand picked list of good expired domain names that are currently on public auction exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are directly linked to the specific auction pages for easy one click bidding or watching. All auction end times are PDT. All auctions

Apple Inc. has been on a domain name roll lately starting with the iCloud.com/iCloud.org domain name purchases and now that they have announced several new products and functions, they appear to be buying the matching domain names! Not just one or two new domain names but at least 50 that were hand registered on the

According to a release from Oversee.net, the domain name Data.com has been sold before going to auction for the DOMAINfest Barcelona. Reserve was set at $1.5 Million significantly exceeds the $1.5 million reserve and it "significantly exceeds the $1.5 million reserve". "Moniker and SnapNames, Oversee.net companies that are the exclusive...

Paypal has purchased the domain name Xcommerce.com. Although whois records for Xcommerce.com currently show DNSination, Inc. (a MarkMonitor service), I am 99.9% sure Paypal was behind the purchase of the domain name. Why? Because Paypal also registered several other domain names on 6/6/11 that show Paypal as the registrant that include: TheXCommerc...

I had noticed yesterday that Amazon.com started rolling out a "local" deals site directly on Amazon at http://local.amazon.com/subscribe and in true Amazon fashion, they like to register a fair amount of domain names when they launch a new product or service and this time was no different. Amazon hand registered at least 64 domain names...

Petco® has acquired the domain name Unleashed.com according to whois records between May 26 and May 31 2011. Why would Petco want to own the domain name Unleashed.com? They have launched several new stores and continue to do so with the moniker of Unleashed By Petco. Currently, Petco used a sub-domain to help promote the

I found this to be pretty interesting. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation registered the domain name CaseyAnthonyMurderTrial.com on December 17, 2008 according to whois records. About 2.5 years later, the actual trial has begun and FOX is now forwarding the domain name to a special page created on the MyFoxOrlando.com site who is covering the...

One of the wonderful powers of domain names is to simply use a descriptive domain name as a redirect method. Simple and effective but it must be executed correctly to take full effect of a domain name redirect. What is a domain name redirect? There are a couple forms of a domain name redirect and

Here is another round and my final round of DotWeekly Discoveries. This was a fun series I started to try something new and see how it went. This is my 22nd article and a couple things I think are making it lose it's luster. A.) It is not easy to bring you different companies as

Here is another one of my GoDaddy Goodies that is a hand picked list of currently expired domain name auctions taking place exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are No Reserve and will retain domain name age (creation date). All auction end times are PDT and are directly linked to the specific auction pages for

GoDaddy.com has an in-house auction service and I think most people would think "All" domain names go to GoDaddy Auction if they are not renewed by the current owner but do they? I had noticed some domain names and several "good ones" that I think would have received bids if they were to at auction

Here is another round of my DotWeekly Discovery series which gives an inside look into domain names that are being purchased by large companies. Many of these will lead into new products, services and advertising campaign domains likely used in the near future. Not a huge list today but still several interesting domain names. GAP

Here is another round of my GoDaddy Goodies that includes a hand picked list of expired domain names currently on auction exclusively at GoDaddy. All are no reserve auctions and are directly linked to the auction page for the domain name for easy one click bidding or watching. Several great domain names in the list,

I list the majority of my domain names for sale on Afternic.com and Sedo.com. Afternic does A LOT of things right and that is the reason I keep listing domain names with them even though the backend is really bad and several things do not make sense. Secondly, I park the majority of my domain

Here is another one of my hand picked expired domain name auction list of hand picked goodie auctions currently taking place exclusively at GoDaddy. All domain names are expired and are No Reserve. All domain names are directly linked to the specific auction page for easy bidding or watching. All auction end times are PDT.

Who cares about A, Z & K! Amazon hand registered the domain name FogPad.com on May 16, 2011 according to whois records. Another new tablet to enter the market? We shall find out. DotWeekly broke the news about T-Mobile and a "SnapPad", which may be a future tablet or something else as covered later by

Here is another one of my GoDaddy Goodies of hand picked, expired domain name auctions currently going on exclusively at Godaddy. All domain names are expired, no reserve and directly linked to the specific auction pages for easy bidding or watching! My last list was the largest I had done at 60 domains and this

Here is another round of my DotWeekly Discoveries that gives insight into newly acquired domain names and newly hand registered domain names by companies. Today's list isn't huge by any standards but it still holds some interesting domain names, so lets get started. Pandora Media, Inc. Hand registered the domain name ComedyGenome.com and TheComedyG...

Here is another GoDaddy Goodies series that contains a hand picked list by me of some of the best expired domain name auctions that are currently taking place at GoDaddy. All domain names are expired and No Reserve. This is my largest list to date and contains 60 domains! All domain names are directly linked

Here is some more insight into new domain name registrations and aftermarket domain name purchases by large companies. Some companies are pretty active and appear to be rolling out a fair amount of new products and or services according to some new domain name registrations. Some new companies have made the list, which is always

DotWeekly Discoveries is becoming a pretty popular series and is digging up new and exciting insight into several companies! It is nice to see other sites "linking back" after I break something with a new domain registration and that happens often with the DotWeekly Discoveries. This week was no different as several tech sites like

The DotWeekly Discoveries series covers newly registered and acquired domain names by companies that often lead into new products or services provided. BestBuy Hand registered the domain name BestBuyUnboxed.com . They also registered LatestAndGreatestBlog.com, BestBuyWithHerInMind.com and WithHerInMind.com I also ran into two other sites that are B...

I like to write when I see something interesting and I think this fits the bill. I had seen TheWall.com currently on auction at Sedo.com with a $25,000 USD bid, so I checked Whois and was a bit surprised to see who owned the domain. Symantec, the makers of the popular Anti-Virus software Norton. Why

Another GoDaddy Goodies of hand picked expired domain name auctions of exclusive domain names currently on No Reserve auction at GoDaddy. All domain names are directly linked to the specific auction page for easy bidding or watching of the auctions. All domain names are listed in order of them ending, with the earliest at the

I made a little trip to Walmart this morning, the physical store and after checking out the clerk stapled a bright yellow piece of paper on to my receipt to take a survey. When I got home and read the attached piece of paper, it put a smile on my face. On it was Walmart's

Here is another one of my GoDaddy Goodies series that includes a hand picked list of expired auction domain names that are currently live at GoDaddy only! All domain names are expired, No Reserve and will retain domain name creation age at the end of auction. All domain names are directly linked to the specific

Here are some insights to what it's like to be a domain investor blogger. 1.) You get a lot of emails like this: Real email! "From: Hassan Khan Subject: Premium domains for sale Email Address: Removed By Me I am willing to give upto 25% commission to broker or agent for selling domains. i have