Welcome to Domain Movers, where DotWeekly keeps track of corporate domain name transactions and reports the early findings. I had a few glitches this week with some tools I use to detect movements, so this is a sample of a couple days of movers.

Amvac Chemical Corp. has acquired Simpas.com at domain name aftermarket service Sedo for $5,040 US ($4,500 Eur).

Plenty.co has been acquired by Marksmen, a corporate domain name buy service, for a currently unknown client.

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Back in September 2014 I wrote a little article with the title: The Million Dollar Available Domain Name

Well, I was doing some searching for somebody one day and I happened to type the two letter domain name CM.com into DomainTools.com’s whois. The domain name was showing as “Available”. I wasn’t sure what was going on and I wrote about it.

“Mike” posted a comment stating that the domain name was deleted from the registry and any two letter .com … Read the rest

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Back in the mid 80’s and early 1990’s there were “available to register” domain names that have now some 20+ years later have become million dollar domain names all by themselves. These are likely still taking place as the world changes and new terms become more popular, but that will take some time. That is one of the very exciting things about domain names!

There is a specific feeling you get when you find a domain name you think is … Read the rest

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