Welcome to Domain Movers! This exclusive, exciting series highlights domain names recently acquired, registered and simply moving by large corporations. These are often early finds and often lead to new advertising campaigns, new brands, products services and more. Here we go with the latest Domain Movers: A currently unknown MarkMonitor client using generic whois data registered several … [Read more...]
George Hong of Guta.com Brokers DD.com Domain Name Sale
In what very likely is another strong 7 figure domain name sale IMO, the domain name DD.com has been sold. Two letter .com domain names are rare with only 676 of them but Double repeating two letter .com's are even more scarce with only 26! I reached out to George Hong, founder of Guta.com and he has confirmed the sale of DD.com but was not able to share any details of the domain name sale … [Read more...]
Is Apple Inc. Getting Ready To Use It’s New .apple gTLD Domain Extension?
Apple Inc. has applied for the new gTLD .apple and the status is currently delegated. Apple Inc. also is going to own the new gTLD .beats since it acquired Beats Electronics, LLC. On September 17, 2015 Apple Inc. has purchased 29 new .com domain names according to whois records and IMO, these domain name registrations appear to relate to what "will be" URL's using the .apple gTLD as a … [Read more...]
Anheuser-Busch Buys BestDamn.com Domain, Registers BestDamn.Beer For Apple Ale
Anheuser-Busch, LLC has purchased the domain name BestDamn.com with the help of domain buy service The Treadstone Group, Inc. / Ross Bulla about July 27, 2015 according to whois records. The domain has been registered since June 23, 2000 and prior whois records showed the domain owned by “Best Damn Dot Com” and a registrant email address of “jsullivan@gpac.net” To go along with the BestDamn.com … [Read more...]
ZenPayroll.com Rebrands To Gusto.com! Secures Domain 8 Days Prior To Launch
Early last week (about September 9, 2015) I started noticing "Gusto" domain names on the move from MarkMonitor to GoDaddy under whois privacy but I was holding off announcing anything because I simply wasn't sure the reason behind the movements. I felt they likely changed ownership but didn't have any confirmation or who the potential buyers were. Well, on September 17, 2015 ZenPayroll.com made … [Read more...]
HBO Buys 9 “Outcast” Domains For Upcoming Cinemax TV Series Outcast
Robert Kirkman's "Outcast" which is a paranormal drama has been ordered as a series by Cinemax. The show Outcast was featured during Comic Con 2015 with OutcastCinemax.com which was registered November 24, 2014 and owned by HBO. The domain name is in use as a redirect to HBO.com featuring information from SDCC in July 2015. They are also using #outcastcinemax on Twitter. Both HBO and … [Read more...]
Oops: Pepsi Launches “Unlock The Tailgate” Trailer Sweepstakes With Wrong Domain
Pepsi Co, an official sponsor of the NFL has launched a new sweepstakes called "Unlock The Tailgate" but registered the domain name UnlockTheTrailer.com to get sweepstakes entries. Inexplicably Pepsi did not register the domain matching the name of the contest UnlockTheTailgate.com No one has. As of publication the domain name matching the domain of the contest, UnlocktheTailgate.com is … [Read more...]