Lease.com was owned by Branded Holding Group (last know as Internet Holding Group) of New York since the early 2000’s but according to whois records, the domain name has since changed ownership to Interactive Lease Corporation, Inc. of Florida.

The domain name has spent the majority of its life as a parked domain name but sometime around 2013 the domain got a website to go along with it and it was vehicle related. It appears the new owners of the … Read the rest

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Welcome to company domain movers in a series I call DotWeekly Discoveries in which I scour the web and find domain names that were recently registered, purchased and simply moving by large companies. These are often early discoveries that lead into new products, brands, services and simply unknown futures because it’s so early in the discovery. I try to provide information with each domain but sometimes I miss some data due to the large amount of research already to simply … Read the rest

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Quirky Inc which launched the Wink App in partnership with GE has acquired the EMD Wink.com 

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Wink.com was previously owned by MyLife.com Inc which had used the domain in the past. MyLife is linked with Reunion.com and Classmates.com

Wink is getting ready to release RELAY around Thanksgiving 2014, so maybe they felt it was time to acquire the exact match domain Wink.com, which in itself helps to give a company instant credibility with owning the premium domain! Wink resides on … Read the rest

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This morning I mentioned that Google may be naming a new watch Tacto… but Fusion, Altos and Pillar may also be in the mix… BUT during some more digging, I discovered that Google now owns the premium, category killer domain name SmartWatch.com and SmartWatch.net which they have just revealed via whois.

Google appears to have acquired the domain SmartWatch.com with-in the purchase of WIMM Labs or used the WIMM Labs name to acquire the domain on or about Late … Read the rest

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