Welcome to Domain Movers! Get ready to read some interesting and detailed digging on some recent domain activity which involves newly registered domains by companies, domain name acquisitions by companies and simply domain movers for one reason or another.

Enjoy these often early discoveries and the reasons that I found why the domains are moving.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. with the help of brand protection service MarkMonitor has acquired the domain name SoYouCan.com, which was actually acquired on March 1, 2013 according to whois records, has finally revealed who the buyer is. Chase is using the term “So You Can” promoting personal banking on a category page on Chase.com but the domain currently doesn’t resolve or redirect.

Homepass.com has been acquired by Homepass Pty Ltd  of Australia. The domain name was owned by Priceweaver, Inc. until August 15, 2014 when the domain name went into whois privacy and the website launched.

Barclays Bank PLC has acquired the domain name ThinkRise.com according to whois records. The domain has transferred from GoDaddy under a David Ackert to Barclays at Ascio Technologies.

Humor Rainbow, Inc. has registered the domain name DateKits.com . The domain was registered before but expired at Domain.com on 8/4/2014.

Aereo.com has been acquired by Tivo Inc. while Aereo was in bankruptcy. Tivo announced they had acquired certain Aereo assets in a March 13, 2015 press release. The press release mentioned trademarks and customer lists but did not mention any domain names.

Aereo was a technology company based in New York City that allowed subscribers to view live and time-shifted streams of over-the-air television on Internet-connected devices according to Wikipedia.

Aereo purchased Aereo.com on October 15, 2011 from a Barry Brooks who had the domain parked with SmartName at the time. The domain was listed in a Domainfest auction in June 2011 and had a bid for $28,240 but I wasn’t able to confirm that is what it sold for.

Emerald Expositions, LLC acquired two leading tradeshow and conference businesses and Napo.com, PizzaToday.com and PizzaExpo.com were three of the domains within the transaction from Macfadden Communications Group, LLC. Macfadden owned a pizza related conference called The National Association of Pizzeria Operators. The second purchase was from Vendome Group, LLC which was healthcare related.

Bacardi and Company Limited has registered the domain name RaceToDesire.com

Yext, Inc. has acquired the 4 letter domain name Xone.com. The domain was using DomainNameSales.com at the time of purchase and has been registered since May 2001.

Chong.com has been sold by Tucows. The domain was part of its MailBank / GoldenNames system. Chong is the 19th-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans.

Amount.com has been acquired by Avant Credit Corporation. The domain name acquisition took place on February 5, 2014 from Blue Gravity Communications, Inc. / Tom Krwawecz III. The domain was listed with DomainNameSales.com at the time of the transaction. The website went live on May 20, 2014 and is a personal loan site. The domain name just transferred from eNom to MarkMonitor.

Viacom has registered several Spongebob On Broadway domain names like SpongebobOnBroadway.com, SpongebobSquarePantsOnBroadway.com, TheSpongebobMusical.com, TheSpongebobSquarePantsMusical.com and SpongebobSquarePantsBroadway.com. It was first reported in February 2015 that there was the potential that Spongebob may head to Broadway in this Ew.com article.

Eveready Battery Company, Inc. registered a bit confusing looking domain name… VWhoYouAre.com. At first when I had seen the domain, my eyes picked up vwHoYouAre.com… you know, the VW Ho You Are! Car lovers! vwhoyouare in lower case is what vw stick out to me.

Thomas Nelson, Inc. has registered the domain name YouCanBeOpen.com. They also registered the domain name WordCrowd.net (currently do not own the .com) and WordCrowds.net |.org. WordCrowds.com is owned by The Zondervan Corporation L.L.C, who is a MarkMonitor client. Thomas Nelson, Inc. owns MarkMonitor.

Penske Truck Leasing Co. registered the domain names PenskeAssist.com, PenskeClearInsight.com, PenskeClearSight.com and PenskeFleetInsight.com

ShareTheForce.com has been registered by Target Brands, Inc.

LaundryLine.com has been acquired by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client. The domain has been registered since April 4, 2002 and was owned by DotComAgency.com. On 4/8/2015 whois records show the domain name switching to Afternic Escrow.

Revetment.com has been acquired by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client. Revetment was owned by BuyDomains and has been registered since 2004. Revetment is defined as “a retaining wall” “a barricade of earth”.

Voice.com which is owned by MicroStrategy Inc., has had the domain name parked with Above.com since March 20, 2013 and has moved the domain to standard CSC name servers. The domain name now redirects to MicroStrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, Inc. is a provider of business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services and is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under the ticker MSTR. Exceptional domain name!

SlimFast.com has changed ownership from Unilever to Hyper Network Solutions. Unilever announced in October 2014 that it had sold the Slim-Fast brand to Kainos Capital for an undisclosed amount. Unilever purchased Slim-Fast in 2000 for $2.3 Billion.

Twitter Inc. has registered the domain name TwitterGSC.com and put up a website using Splash (SplashThat.com) for a Global Sales Conference, which is a private event.

3 letter domain names are part of the active Chinese market and here are a couple that have sold lately that I noticed. Mys.com, Mhu.com, Fkh.com and Yit.com.