Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries from .AAA to .ZUERICH as well as legacy gTLDs (.COM, .ORG, .NET, etc.) and all 300+ Country Code registries (.uk, .de, .fr, … [Read more...]
RightofTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Is Opened for Submissions
RightoftheDot.com is holding a live and online auction with Namejet.com from the Namescon conference. RightoftheDot.com has now formally opened up submission for the auction. We are looking for great domain names, especially one word .com and new gTLD'sm along with short domains in all extensions, along with brand domains, category killers, Geographic domains. Domains should have a low … [Read more...]
Report: Vegas.com Bought LasVegas.com in 2005 For Up To $90 Million Dollars
George Kirikos spotted an SEC document showing that Vegas.com purchased LasVegas.com in 2005, for what could be up to a $90 Million Dollars. "In June 2005 , VEGAS.com, LLC entered into an agreement for the purchase of LasVegas.com on the following terms: The agreement specified that a $12,000,000, one-time payment be made upon execution of the agreement along with monthly payments of … [Read more...]
PingIt.com, FareOff.com, OJG.com And More Domain Movers
In today's latest Domain Movers we detect a lot of newly purchased domain names by some of the largest companies in the world. These "new" domain names can be used in future marketing campaigns, future brands and bunch more. Not only do we detect newly purchased domains that were owned by somebody prior, we present newly registered domain names by large companies and also domains that are just … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Poker.net, Benders.com And More Domains
Domain Movers is a series where I detect recent domain name movements, mainly all by large companies. These include domain name registrations, domain name acquisitions and domain names simply moving for one reason or another. My main source is the whois database on these changes and whois doesn't always reveal the exact or whole story so I try to back things up with other means but whois … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Huggle.com, Brand.com and More Domains
Domain Movers is a very interesting series that is exclusively on TheDomains.com that features recently acquired, registered and simply domains on the move by some of the largest companies in the world. These are often very early detections and many lead into new brands, services, advertising campaigns and much more. Here we go with the latest domain movers: Microsoft has registered the … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: InkTV.com, Jude.org, VirtualAds.com and More Domains
Domain Movers consistently delivers unique domain name data two times a week here on TheDomains, which contains recently registered, acquired and simply moving domain name from some of the largest companies around the world. Enjoy the recent domain movements that I have detected based on whois records and other sources: Daniel J. Edelman, Inc. (PR firm) has registered the domain name … [Read more...]