The company in China known as 51DNS has purchased the domain name DNS.com

The domain name 51DNS.com is now forwarding to DNS.com

The domain appears to have been sold possibly in March or April and it maybe the fourth time this domain name has changed hands in less than a year.

In April 2014, the domain was owned by the Comodo Group, Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey and registered at brand protection company CSC. which seemed to acquire the domain name in 2012.

In June 2014 the domain went under privacy at Moniker.com using the servers DNS.com

In November 2014 the domain was transferred to the New York firm of Smash Clicks and the domain was resolving to InternetTraffic.com a move that DomainGang.com noticed as well.

In December 2014 the domain name went under privacy under a Panama Address still using Internet Traffic servers.

In January 2015 the domain name transferred again this time to Enom and the owner was listed as a DEFENG LIU of Shanghai and the servers were updated to iidns.com

In February 2015 the domain ownership changed again to DNSESCROW  and the servers changed to dnsv3.com

In March 2015 the registrant changed again to 51DNS who has bought the domain.

With all the privacy going on and off and registrar and name servers changes its hard to tell for sure how many times the domain sold in the last year but it looks like a minimum of three to me and as many as 4.

I heard a whisper number for the domain which is in the seven figures but have not been able to confirm it.