Two very nice 4 letter generic domain names are now off the market! Drip.com has been sold by Bryan Graves / NameZoom. Bryan has owned Drip.com since about October 3, 2007 according to whois records. Currently, it is unknown who the buyers of Drip.com are, but the domain has been transferred into SafeNames, which is a pretty popular brand protection registrar used by several large companies.

I did check trademarks for the term “drip” and there have been two filed … Read the rest

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Sometime last week I was researching a domain name and according to DomainTools whois, the domain was listed for sale via “source 6” which in turn is GoDaddy. I stopped in at Bob’s old home to see what the domain was listed for and see the action.  The following is what was displayed:

gd-avil-auction

Clearly I typed AirWriter.com in the search box, so why the domain is listed on the bottom of the page and not a “Best Match” on … Read the rest

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Here is another list of detected domain movers by large companies, in a series I call DotWeekly Discoveries which is powered by DomainIQ.com . Nice mix today of sold / registered domains and as always with some digging data that I discovered as well.

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A currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client had CSC purchase the domain name ForwardFarming.com from DomainMarket.com . I did find a listing for $1,000 so that may have been around
the selling price.

BreakZone.com also … Read the rest

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Welcome to the latest round of DotWeekly Discoveries powered by DomainIQ.com of corporate domain name purchases, company domain registrations and simply domain movers by some of the largest companies on the internet. I spend countless hours digging up the following information that you are going to read in a few minutes, so enjoy!

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Has registered the domain name YesToPharmacies.com .

Similar domain registered at MarkMonitor: SaveOurLocalPharmacies.com (but this one is using generic whois data. Is it connected … Read the rest

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