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Telepathy Inc. Sells Retirement.com Premium Domain Name | Mark As Read |
Telepathy Inc. which is owned by Nat Cohen and owns a vast amount of premium domain names, has sold one of them and this time around it is Retirement.com! The new owner is currently unknown, but it is very likely to be an end user on the corporate level. Whois records updated January 29, 2016 to the generic Matt Serlin / DNStination Inc. which is u...
Tracing Why A Domain Name Expires Can Be Interesting | Mark As Read |
Tens of thousands of domain names expire every single day. That alone is pretty interesting when you consider the $ involved in simply registering a domain name. Lets say, some 85,000 domain names (which is a pretty accurate estimate) are released from the registries each day. $10 per domain on average, for 1 year registration and that is $850,000!...
Amazon Registers Domain With Google Trademark: AmazonAdwords.com | Mark As Read |
Amazon Technologies registered two new domain names according to whois records that caught my attention on January 27, 2016 AdvertisingAmazon.com AmazonAdwords.com The first registration matches the sub-domain name used by Amazon for its AAP advertising program they offer. The second domain name registration is a No No IMO! Amazon is fine, adword...
Boost Your Brand, Cover Your Ass | Mark As Read |
Some things to me simply make sense and "why" a brand does or doesn't do the make sense thing is not always easy to understand. We are all different is one easy answer. Maybe they simply didn't think of it, is another potential. So today I wanted to touch on a new startup and some things that I see that they have missed relating to domain names and...
Facebook Buys Domain Name NewsFeed.com | Mark As Read |
Facebook Inc. has officially acquired the domain name NewsFeed.com from BuyDomains. The transaction actually dates back to July 26-28, 2015 when the domain name transferred registrars to registrar "HOGAN LOVELLS INTERNATIONAL LLP" . "lovellsnames" is pretty common when it relates to Facebook domain names and is a law firm used by the company. I wa...
NamesCon Extended Domain Auction Ends TODAY on NameJet | Mark As Read |
The extended domain name auction from the NamesCon 2016 domain name conference ends today, January 21, 2016 on NameJet.com. You can view the full inventory here. Auctions start ending at 3 PM EST (2 PM Central) and will continue in a staggered fashion until about 5 PM EST (4 PM Central). Bidding is open to the public! The live auction portion sold ...
Domain Names: Location, Location, Location or Brand? | Mark As Read |
I have been in the domain name industry since 2005/2006 time frame and I often hear people compare domain names to physical real estate, with an expression of "Location, Location, Location". So is that really true? This weekend I watched a TV series on Netflix called "High Profits" which was about a company that is in the cannabis industry. They we...
1,500 Of Apple Inc?s New gTLD Domain Registrations | Mark As Read |
Apple Inc. got a lot of chatter after it was reported that they registered Apple.car but IMO, that was simply a brand protection registration. Something that wasn't mentioned in the articles I read, was the fact that the domain name registrations took place on the first day of the Sunrise period for trademark holders. December 9, 2015. Same can be ...
NamesCon Extended Domain Auction Inventory | Mark As Read |
The live portion of the NamesCon 2016 domain name auction is complete, with about $1.5 Million in domain sales. The second part of the domain auction is the extended auction. Of all the NamesCon domain auction inventory, only 130 could be presented in the live auction, but the total auction contained some 430 domain names. What You Need to Know 33...
GoEnjoy.com Acquires Enjoy.com In 7 Figure Domain Buy | Mark As Read |
A newer startup founded in 2014 simply called Enjoy, founded by former Apple Inc. retail head Ron Johnson launched with the so/so domain name GoEnjoy.com, has acquired the premium, exact match domain name Enjoy.com! I was talking with the past owner of Enjoy.com, Steven Katz since around May 2015 and today doing a little follow-up I had noticed th...
NamesCon Live Domain Auction is Today | Mark As Read |
RightOfTheDot.com is running the premium domain auction at NamesCon 2016 in Las Vegas and the live portion of the auction is today: Monday, January 11, 2016 @ 2:00 PM PST! What You Need to Know The live auction is not on NameJet as the pre-bidding was. In order to allow in-house bidding and remote online bidding, while keeping bids in sync, a speci...
Roasted.com Domain Acquired By Answers Corp | Mark As Read |
Answers Corporation, owners of the popular website Answers.com, has acquired the premium generic domain name Roasted.com according to whois records. Roasted.com was part of the domain name portfolio that GoDaddy acquired from Marchex in April 2015 in a $28 Million dollar purchase of over 200,000 domain names. Early on after the Marchex deal, I had ...
JetPack.com Domain Name Acquired By Automattic Inc | Mark As Read |
Automattic Inc., most known for WordPress, has acquired the generic domain name Jetpack.com for an undisclosed amount for its Jetpack plugin. Automattic has been using the domain name Jetpack.me and Jetpack.com now redirects to the .me domain, at least for now. Jetpack.com was owned by Jetpack Design for several years and on August 4, 2015 whois r...
Worldwide Media Domains On The Move To GoDaddy | Mark As Read |
GoDaddy recently acquired Worldwide Media's majority domain name portfolio announced on Monday and as of late last night, I started to detect that many, if not all of the portfolio are starting to move to GoDaddy! It was mentioned in the press release that the domains would be available "immediately" but that isn't always the case due to the nature...
What if Home Depot Didn?t Have It?s Website? | Mark As Read |
While doing a little research today, I found some information on Home Depot's website that I found pretty interesting. The following was on CEO Craig Menear's page: In 2013, under Craig’s leadership, HomeDepot.com sales grew 50 percent and accounted for $900 million of the company’s total sales growth of $5 billion. So, what would Home Depot do w...
ITG Brands Acquires BLU.com Domain Name For eCig Brand Blu | Mark As Read |
ITG Brands, owners of the popular Blu eCig have acquired the 3 letter brand matching domain name BLU.com This domain name transaction is a little bit more interesting to me, as I have followed this domain name for a pretty long time and reported when Blu.com was suspended due to ownership verification back in July 2015. The reason for the suspensio...
Domain Movers: TPV.com, Movie.com, SLCY.com & More | Mark As Read |
Here is the third installment of Domain Movers for today that I had a back log of data I wanted to share. All corporate domain movers. TPV.com, which was owned by Sunset Publishing Corporation (Time Inc.) had the domain name switch to generic whois data at MarkMonitor, going under the name Matt Serlin / DnStination Inc. The domain name then transfe...
Domain Movers: Blim.com, Kumo.com, Fipo.com & More | Mark As Read |
Here is another Domain Movers series that I had in my data pile and figured I would post it to the world instead of just letting the data sit around on my computer. The following data is related to corporate domain name movements, which almost always goes unpublished unless somebody digs the data. AstraZeneca AB has acquired the domain name LVNG.co...
Domain Movers: Hayu.com, JoyForAll.com & More Corporate Buys | Mark As Read |
I have 3 or 4 domain movers series sitting in my data pile, so I figured I would post the data for you to see other than it sitting and going to waste. This isn't hot off the press data as I have had it for a month or so but the data is still relevant as the corporations involved still did the following: Bayer AG, owners of about 15,000 domain name...
Connect, Communicate, Conquer! All With A Domain Name | Mark As Read |
Domain names are extremely powerful! They are what phone numbers use to be, but highly flexible. Domain names are valuable for many reasons, even "available" ones can be just as powerful when you use them! Domain names allow you to connect! Share any domain name with somebody and they know what to do with it! That is something that is very hard to ...
Listing Your Domain Name For Sale On GoDaddy.com: Options & Answers | Mark As Read |
GoDaddy.com is the largest domain name registrar in the world and they offer several options for user to sell domain names. The problem IMO, is when a company gets so big like GoDaddy, things get confusing. This has happened to GoDaddy with the many options they have for customers to offer a domain name for sale. So I wanted to do a ?fact finding? ...
The Speed Of Life | Mark As Read |
As a shooting star streaks across a night sky, it catches your eye. You may have not seen it right away, or only for a split second, but you did see it as it traveled past at 291,000 miles per hour! Our lives feel the same way, but often referred to moving at "a million miles an hour". Each day I try my best to relax for at least 5 minutes and just...
18,098.36% ROI In 8 Months And You Say NO? | Mark As Read |
Lets say you hand register a domain name for $10.99 and you list this asset for sale. With-in 8 months from your initial investment, you receive an offer to purchase with a 18,098.36% return on investment. No! you say… You want 43,576.07% ROI? No Thank You says the buyer! You end up with 0% in the end on this deal. I guess it's a different wa...
Who Is Listed As The Owner Of ?Your? Domain Name? | Mark As Read |
Is an IT person listed as the "owner" of your domain name? Your "web guy"? An employee of your business? If so, you may have a ticking time bomb on your hands and you need to address the issue NOW! Registrant is an odd term but an important one to know if you own domain names personally or your company does. The registrant is the ?owner? of a domai...
Group III International Buys BackPacks.com Domain Name | Mark As Read |
Group III International, who also runs the website SwissGear.com, has acquired the premium generic domain name BackPacks.com from Vertical Axis. According to a job listing: ?Group III International, has been a leader for over 30 years in luggage, backpacks & travel accessories. We are the official licensee of Wenger, Swiss Gear & BMW, as we...
CaitlynJenner.com Website Goes Live | Mark As Read |
On June 1, 2015 at 8:23 am Central Time I registered the domain names CaitlynJenner.com and CaitJenner.com in a defensive registration as I explained why I registered the domain names here. At about 12:00 noon Central Time, the Twitter account @Caitlyn_Jenner went live and news spread of the former Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner. Around 5 am ...
Big Brand Doesn?t Always Equal .com EMD | Mark As Read |
From time to time I run into domain names that I am surprised are not owned by the "big brand" but it does happen. Here are a few that I ran into recently or simply were aware of that inspired this article and I'm sure there are plenty more, so feel free to share them in the comment section below. The fact is, just because we may be aware of a big ...
Microsoft Files HoloNotes and HoloShot Trademarks | Mark As Read |
Microsoft Corporation has filed yet again, more "Holo" trademarks and in this latest round includes the terms HoloNotes and HoloShot. The HoloLens trademark and purchase of the domain name HoloLens.com for $6,750 kicked off the holo storm of trademark filings but has really not kicked off the matching domain name buying. With trademarks filed now f...
Microsoft Files 6 New Game Trademarks | Mark As Read |
Microsoft Corporation has filed 6 new game related trademarks. Those trademarks include the following: Blast Corps Trademark Own matching domain name: No. Owned by a Griffin IT Media Inc. Jet Force Gemini Trademark Own matching domain name: Yes. Was once owned by Nintendo dating back to around 2001. Jetpac Trademark Own matching domain name: No. Co...
GoMarch: $10K or Less Buy Now .com Domains | Mark As Read |
Welcome to GoMarch where I highlight domain names that GoDaddy recently acquired from the Marchex domain name portfolio and they have been starting to Buy Now price the domain names with a minimum offer option. Since over 204,000 domain names were in the portfolio, I do the work and look for the good ones and display 5 a day for you to consider or ...
Kore Inc. Acquires GetStuffDone.com For $40K | Mark As Read |
Kore Inc. has acquired the domain name GetStuffDone.com for $40,000 from domain master Michael Berkens, who is owner of MostWantedDomains.com / TheDomains.com as reported on the MWD Facebook page. Kore.com has a message on its home page that states: Meet the messaging platform that lets you communicate, collaborate, and get stuff done with complet...
GoMarch: Buy Now Domains You Need | Mark As Read |
GoMarch is an exclusive series being run on DotWeekly where I highlight generic domain names from the domain name portfolio GoDaddy recently acquired from Marchex. GoDaddy has started to buy now price the domain names and I'm picking them out and presenting you with interesting ones! Here we go with the latest 5 highlighted generic domain names: Do...
Interesting Whois Domain Name Stats | Mark As Read |
If you hadn't heard yet, I did a defensive domain registration of CaitlynJenner.com on June 1, 2015 which I explained why I did it here. I am still in the process of getting a hold of somebody from the team to transfer the domains, but it's in the works with several emails sent and tweets from me to them. For some reason it is pretty hard to find r...
GoMarch: Generic Buy Now Domain Names | Mark As Read |
In a series that I am winding down now a bit (not daily anymore) that I call GoMarch, I highlight 5 domain names a day from the past Marchex domain name portfolio that GoDaddy.com acquired for $28 million. The domains were pretty hard to acquire when Marchex owned them but now GoDaddy is Buy Now pricing them. To view all past articles like this, si...
GoMarch: Brandable Generic Domains W Buy Now Pricing | Mark As Read |
Welcome to GoMarch in a series I am highlighting domain names that GoDaddy.com has recently acquired from the Marchex domain name portfolio and are now listing the domain name with Buy Now pricing. I highlight 5 generic domain names a day in this series. Today I'm putting a sole focus on "brandable" domains. I am also going to start wrapping up thi...
GoMarch: Generic BIN Domains Including: Gnaw.com | Mark As Read |
Welcome to GoMarch in a series where I am highlighting 5 domains a day from the recently acquired domain name portfolio of Marchex, who GoDaddy.com acquired and are now buy now pricing the domain names. Domain Name | Buy Now Price | Minimum Offer Amount. Gnaw.com | $16,400 | $10,660 | The dictionary states: bite at or nibbl...
Why I Registered CaitlynJenner.com | Mark As Read |
I registered the domain name CaitlynJenner.com this morning at 8:23 am Central Time and this is how and why I did. I had discovered some information this morning (I'm a domain detective) that lead me to believe that Caitlyn Jenner was going to mean something in the very near future that wasn't currently. During my research, I had some pretty strong...
GoMarch: Generic Buy Now .com Domains | Mark As Read |
Welcome to GoMarch, a series where I highlight 5 generic domains a day that GoDaddy.com has recently acquired in a $28 Million dollar domain portfolio from Marchex. I highlight 5 generic domain names a day from the 204,000 domain names that were acquired to help you find a domain name you may like, without doing the heavy work of looking though 204...
GoMarch: Generic Domains W/ Paysite, Homegirl + More | Mark As Read |
Welcome to GoMarch where I highlight recently acquired generic domains by GoDaddy.com from Marchex and GoDaddy has started to Buy Now price the domain names. These domains were nearly impossible to acquire in the past and GoDaddy is putting forth an effort to change that. I am highlighting 5 domain names a day from the domain portfolio acquisition ...
GoMarch: Mouthwatering Generic Domains | Mark As Read |
The bad thing about doing "series" articles is they get pretty repetitive so its hard writing the same thing over and over, but here is the gist of it. GoDaddy.com spent $28 Million and acquired 204K domain names from Marchex / Archeo. GoDaddy is now Buy Now Pricing these domain names, which they were not before and they were pretty hard to acquire...
GoMarch: Great Buy Now Generic .com Domain Names | Mark As Read |
GoMarch is a series DotWeekly is doing that I pick 5 domain names a day to highlight domains recently acquired by GoDaddy.com from the Marchex domain name portfolio. These domains were very hard to acquire in the past but GoDaddy is changing that with buy now prices and and making them easy to purchase at a trusted source. Here we go with today's f...
Microsoft Files TM For HoloPet, Expired Domain Auction Live | Mark As Read |
Microsoft has been making a big push with its HoloLens and with HoloStudio and HoloTour and now…. HoloPet! Microsoft has filed a trademark for the matching term HoloPet on May 23, 2015. Interesting to note, I remembered the "name" when I had seen the trademark today because yesterday I had noticed the domain name HoloPet.com is currently an e...
GoDaddy Domain Discount Club IS Still Worth It! | Mark As Read |
Last year around this time I wrote about GoDaddy Domain Discount Club and how I thought it was a good deal. Well, I still think it's a good deal and even more now than it was last year! In last years Domain Discount Club article I mentioned if you use a 35% off discount code, you got DDC for about $55 bucks. Well, the service has nearly doubled in ...
GoMarch: Buy Now Good Generic Domains | Mark As Read |
GoMarch is a series where I research the recently acquired Marchex domain name portfolio that GoDaddy.com very recently acquired for $28 Million and it has a lot of generic domains that they have very slowly started Buy Now pricing and I highlight some good ones in the group here. Each domain is directly linked to the buy now page for the domains l...
GoMarch: Generic Domains, Buy Now: Including Coyotes.com | Mark As Read |
GoMarch is a series I am doing in which I am highlighting generic domains that GoDaddy.com has recently acquired from the Marchex domain name portfolio and they are now Buy Now pricing the domains to make it easier to purchase. GoDaddy acquired around 204K domain names for $28 Million, so I dig through the masses to find the good domains. Are the p...
Numeric Domain Market On Fire | Mark As Read |
The numeric domain name market is running wild thanks to the very active Chinese market! Five and six number .com domain names are seeing prices climbing at a rapid rate. Four number .com domain names are easily starting to reach five figures (yes some are still selling at four figures depending on number quality) but four number domain prices are ...
GoMarch: Generic Domains, Buy Now Prices Including BlackPanther.com | Mark As Read |
Welcome to GoMarch, an exclusive series on DotWeekly where I research generic domains recently acquired by GoDaddy.com which acquired over 200,000 domain names from Marchex for $28 Million dollars. These domains were pretty hard to acquire in the past but that has changed now that GoDaddy owns them and they have started to Buy Now price the domains...
GoMarch: Buy Now Generic Domain Names | Mark As Read |
Welcome to GoMarch where I am running an exclusive series where I highlight 5 domain names a day from the recently GoDaddy.com acquired domain name portfolio from Marchex / Archeo. These domains were very hard to acquire prior and GoDaddy is changing that! The following domain names are Buy Now priced and directly linked to the domains offering pag...
GoMarch: Generic Domain Names With Buy Nows | Mark As Read |
Welcome to the GoMarch series where I am highlighting the recently acquired domain name portfolio that was owned by Marchex and acquired by GoDaddy.com. These domains were really hard to acquire in the past but GoDaddy is changing that by pricing them with Buy Now's and in most cases, much lower pricing than in the past. I do the legwork for you an...
eNom Pulls Afternic Member Listing Page | Mark As Read |
On May 18, 2015 I published an article on some investigation research that I did on eNom domain names that IMO contained warehoused domains based on whois records with many being listed on a Afternic.com marketplace member page "eNom" page. I guess saying "some" is an understatement because there were 204,036 domains listed on the page and climbing...
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