Here are the latest Domain Movers that I have detected that are all corporate related. These domain names will often relate to a future project of some sorts, like a future advertising campaign, new product or service etc.
Check.com GmbH has acquired the domain names Ceck.com and Check.co ($10,099) both at Sedo. Check.com was acquired in September 2014 for $1 Million in a private transaction.
SuperFix.com has come out of privacy at GoDaddy and using GoDaddy name server to transfer to MarkMonitor with the registrant now displaying Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems CO.,Ltd. Tencent Inc. is China’s largest and most used Internet service portal according to its site.
Xarth.com has come out of whois privacy and displaying Twitch Interactive, Inc. The domain name was registered on January 30, 2011. Prior to whois privacy in 2012, the domain name was owned by Nathaniel Kan with a Justin.tv email address.
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) acquired RDC Trading Ltd for about $84 Million and has taken ownership of the domain name DonateMyGadgets.com . There were about 45 domain names in total associated to RDC according to whois records and the ones that I checked all now show Arrow as the owners.
WhyIsIt.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client using the generic whois data DnStination Inc. The domain name has been registered since November 3, 1998 according to whois records. The domain name has been under whois privacy for many years but was owned by Hobbs Creek Consulting LLC.
SkyWifi.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor Inc. client using DnStination Inc. in whois records. The domain name has been registered since June 7, 2004. The domain was owned by a Mark DalPoggetto of Santa Barbara, CA.
To note, Facebook Inc. recently released video of a plane they designed to beam internet from the sky.
Follett Corporation has acquired the domain name CampusCollections.com. The domain name was owned by a Arvind Reddy according to whois records and went into Sedo Transfer Service on July 16, 2015. The domain was reported sold for $900. The singular domain is also for sale for $3,388 and owned by BuyDomains.
Briggs & Stratton Corporation has taken ownership of the domain name Victa.com according to whois records from Victa Lawncare Pty Ltd. Briggs & Stratton acquired Victa in 2008 according to this press release.
Johnson & Johnson has acquired the domain name JointDecision.com from BuyDomains which had a listing price of $2,088. I had reported back in June 2015 that J&J registered JointDecision.net |.org . J&J launched a website on JointDecisions.com and partnered with Megan Park. The website is about Rheumatoid Arthritis and was announced June 3, 2015.
Johnson & Johnson also registered about 16 new domain names and some of those are: Cycle4Colitis.com, Cycle4UC.com, Cycle4UlcerativeColitis.com, CycleForColitis.com, CycleForUC.com, CycleForUlcerativeColitis.com, ShareHIVWisdom.com |.net, YourHIVStory.com |.net, YourStoryYourHIVWisdom.com |.net, YourStoryYourWisdom.com |.net and YourStoryYourWisdomcom.com |.net
Microsoft jumped back into the game, which they have been MIA for at least a little while and registered 10 new domain names, which included: ScaleboundGame.com |.net, ScaleboundTheGame.com |.net, XboxEliteSeries.com |.net, XboxEliteSeries2016.com |.net and Xes16.com |.net
Scalebound is developed by Platinum Games exclusively for Xbox One.
Microsoft / Platinum Games announced Scalebound at E3 2014, which was June 9, 2014. Scalebound.com was registered on June 9, 2014 under whois privacy at eNom and remained that way until August 1, 2015 when a Mark Graham of Australia appears in whois and the domain redirects to the announcement of the game on PlatinumGames.com blog.
Expedia, Inc. / Hotels.com, LP has registered the domain name Unrooming.com | .org. The domain name did show the company in whois when the domain was registered on July 24, 2015 but has since changed to generic whois data simply showing CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Ford Motor Company has acquired the domain name TrackKey.com from HugeDomains.com. The transaction actually took place back in November 2010 but whois records only recently updated on June 23, 2015 to show Ford as the owners. The domain still resolves to a parking page using SmartName. Ford registered TrackKey.net on September 17, 2010, which has a Ford Performance website on it.
Facebook Inc. has taken ownership of the domain name PerfectListener.com. The domain name was under whois privacy, but prior to whois privacy on the domain, it was owned by Mobile Technologies and Facebook acquired that company in 2013, which was a speech translation developer.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. registered the domain name Recoolie.com
CVS Pharmacy, Inc. has purchased the domain name CVVS.com from GoDaddy.com, which was a domain name they acquired with the Marchex domain name portfolio purchase. CVS owns a little under 1,000 domain names and uses brand protection domain name registrar MarkMonitor Inc.
FreeState.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client. The domain name was owned by a Michael J Bochniewicz of Ellicott City, MD switched to a privacy service In April 2015 until July 30, 2015 and on August 3, 2015 displays Matt Serlin / DnStination Inc. in whois.
BlackBerry Limited which owned the domain name BlackBerryCradle.com, had the domain name expire and removed from the registry and the company reregistered it according to whois records. Blackberry had owned the domain name since at least 2008 prior and appears to have expired in May 2015 according to whois records. BlackBerry uses domain name brand management service MarkMonitor.
BlackBerryCradle.com wasn’t the only domain name to do this. BlackBerryConferenceResources.com, BBDeveloperConference.com, BlackBerry-Tour.com, AppsForBlackBerryOS.com and BlackBerryAlliance.net |.org|.info follow the same situation.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. registered the domain name SaveMySight.com. The domain name was registered prior but expired August 2, 2014 at GoDaddy.
Unilever Plc has taken control over the domain name Hellmans.com and is now redirecting the domain name to Hellmanns.com. The domain was under privacy protection for many years and was parked with Sedo several different times, ParkLogic and more. The domain name was registered with domain name registrar GRANSY S.R.O D/B/A SUBREG.CZ with an expire date of September 29, 2015 but on or about May 29, 2014 all whois data changed to “Expired” and remained that way until an Adam Wilder of Conopco, Inc. d/b/a Unilever appears in whois records January 7, 2015.
Conopco, Inc. did file a UDRP on the domain name on August 8, 2014 via case number D2014-0830 and the respondent did not reply to the complainant’s contentions. The domain was ordered transferred.
PayPal Inc. has acquired the domain name LifeMoment.com . The domain name was under privacy at Tucows and moved to Dynadot privacy on April 25, 2014 according to whois records. The domain remained that way until August 4, 2015 when it transferred to domain registrar MarkMonitor and displayed Paypal Inc.
Desus Nirist says
The game of domain purchasing is upon us! I for one delight in domaining.
It’s always interesting to find out what happens to these domains after the companies purchase them.