If this is your first time seeing Domain Movers, you are in for a treat! Domain movers is an exclusive series where domain detective Jamie Zoch scours the web and finds recently registered domain names, recently acquired and domains moving for one reason or another. These domain names often lead into new products, brands, advertising campaigns, services, tv shows and much more. These are often … [Read more...]
Apple Inc. Acquires 170 iCloud Domains From Xcerion
In April 2011 Apple Inc. reportedly paid $4.5 Million dollars for the one domain name iCloud.com from a company named Xcerion. Fast forward some 4 years later and now 170 iCloud related domains have transferred ownership from Xcerion to Apple Inc according to whois records. Some Facts 167 of the domain names "start with" the term iCloud 2 start with My 1 starts with OS … [Read more...]
Domain Movers: FrozenVillage.com, TotallyLegit.com and More Domains
Welcome to Domain Movers! If you are new to the Domain Movers series, you can click that link and more articles just like this one, that contains early detections of domain names that have been registered, acquired and simply moving by mainly all large companies. A lot of research goes into these articles, so we hope you enjoy them as much as well like finding the domains! Here are the … [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...]
.porn and .adult gTLD Domain Names Available Today
New gTLD domain names .porn and .adult become available for registration to the public today (6/4/2015) and there has been a lot of buzz around the two, simply because there often is around the adult industry. Last night, Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg talking about .xxx, .porn and .adult that ICM Registry operate and you can watch that video here. About 6,900 .porn domains have been … [Read more...]
Apple Inc. Wins AppleId.com and AppleAccount.com In UDRP
Apple Inc. has secured two domain names recently with two different UDRP filings on the domain names AppleID.com and AppleAccount.com . AppleID.com The AppleID.com domain name was registered on May 26, 2004 and was secured by Apple Inc. in a UDRP case #D2015-0582 with a status of "Terminated". The terminated status often relates to the respondent not putting up a fight and transferring the … [Read more...]
IamWire Creates Infographic of Future Of Domain Names
IamWire.com has created a very informative and detailed infographic on the future of domain names, highlighting the article from the first domain created in 1985 with Symbolics.com to several new gTLD's. This was the first time I read an article from IamWire but writer Sujata Sangwan really did a well balanced article that is very informative for people in and out of the domain name … [Read more...]