Category: Domain Discoveries

Pinnacle Sports Worldwide, an online betting website, has purchased the premium generic domain name Pinnacle.com from Avnet, Inc. according to whois records.

Pinnacle Sports Worldwide

Avnet, a fortune 500 company acquired Pinnacle Data Systems Inc. in November 2011 for about $22 Million, which owned the Pinnacle.com domain name.

The domain name transferred out of corporate brand protection service MarkMonitor to SafeNames under privacy protection, but displays an email address for Pinnacle Sports.

Pinnacle.com whois record

The purchase price is currently unknown, but the domain IMO easily … Read the rest

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Avenue 81, Inc (DBA LeadBrite) which operates several lead page services, announced in December 2015 a new service called “Center” and was looking for early users. At the time, they were using the domain name Center.io but have now done a domain name upgrade and acquired the premium generic domain name Center.com from past owner Horoscope.com Inc. according to whois records.

According to a MarketingLand.com article about Center, they offer a lead management tool.

On February 10, 2016 the domain … Read the rest

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Tens of thousands of domain names expire every single day. That alone is pretty interesting when you consider the $ involved in simply registering a domain name. Lets say, some 85,000 domain names (which is a pretty accurate estimate) are released from the registries each day. $10 per domain on average, for 1 year registration and that is $850,000! Now consider that many of these expired domain names have been registered for years, some even for 20+ years! Also consider … Read the rest

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Apple Inc. got a lot of chatter after it was reported that they registered Apple.car but IMO, that was simply a brand protection registration. Something that wasn’t mentioned in the articles I read, was the fact that the domain name registrations took place on the first day of the Sunrise period for trademark holders. December 9, 2015. Same can be said for Apple.auto and Apple.cars, both registered December 9, 2015 on the first day of Sunrise period. I guess that … Read the rest

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