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...]
CSC’s November New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month
Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its "New gTLD Utilization Report" for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD's (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD's with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: YN.com, Battlecast.com, Zpack.com + Twitter, Walmart & Disney Buys
Welcome to Domain Movers where we detect domain names on the move, mainly all by large corporations for one reason or another. These are often early detection's and often result in a new product, service, business or advertising campaign in the near future. Since this is often the very first time anything is being mentioned about "it", it can be challenging to find out very much information … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: Doers.com, Store.com, ColorSnap.com & More Domains
This is Domain Movers! This exclusive series focuses on domain names that are on the move for one reason or another and most of the time this is because of a domain name sale. Domain Movers focuses on corporate transactions, startups and simply valuable domain names. These are often early detection's and can lead to new advertising campaigns, new brands, products, services and much more. Here … [Read more...]
What Do Big Brands Spend On Domains? Wikileaks Publishes Sony/MarkMonitor Invoices
What do big companies that use brand protection company's to register and buy domain names spend to protect, acquire, register and renew domain names? WikiLeaks.org published invoices from MarkMonitor to Sony, documents (PDF) In those invoices published by WikiLeaks , MarkMonitor.com billed Sony $1,000 several times for a “Domain Acquisition Fee" for domain names that are not owned by … [Read more...]
HG.com, Here.com, TheOpening.com And More Domain Movers
Welcome to the always interesting and often "breaking news" series called Domain Movers exclusively here on TheDomains! I scour the web and watch what companies are buying and registering domain name wise and report to you what I see. I heavily rely on whois records, which doesn't always speak the whole story but most of the time it is providing factual information as to what is happening with … [Read more...]
RethinkDinner.com, FBAN.com And More Domain Movers
Domain Movers detects recently acquired, registered and domain names simply on the move for one reason or another. These domain movements are almost all by large companies and often reveal a future brand, product, service, ad campaign, new business or more. If this is your first time to Domain Movers, you can click that link to view more stories in the series. Here we go with the latest … [Read more...]