Welcome to Domain Movers, where DotWeekly detects high value and corporate domain name transactions and reports the early findings to you. I injured my wrist late last week and lost feeling in my hand, so that has been challenging me to type, so this report is delayed. I’ll be fine but I’m less motivated to type right now due to the pain.

Here are the latest movements:

GoDaddy has sold Placeholder.com $18,000 offering price, Mod.org $40,000 offering price and 8X.netRead the rest

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Welcome to Domain Movers where DotWeekly keeps track of corporate domain name transactions and reports them to you! These articles are stacked with fresh data that is interesting and unique! Often times, you hear it here first.

Some big names in today’s list:

Fire Financial Services has acquired the premium generic domain name Fire.com! They are using the domain name PayWithFire.com currently, so clearly this is a big time domain name / brand upgrade for them.

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Coming off of a weekend, domain movers are always “light” so this addition will reflect that but here are a few that I detected over the weekend that grabbed my eye:

Johnson & Johnson has acquired the domain name Clinicade.com from its past owner, Roger Grant for an undisclosed amount. The domain has been registered since 2010. J&J filed for a trademark for Clinicade on October 27, 2015 with statements relating to:

  • Diagnostic preparations and reagents for medical purposes
  • Medical
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Here is some recent activity relating to domain names that large corporations have recently purchased, registered or on the move for one reason or another:

DiehardFan.com was acquired by Nissan, who used design agency Critical Mass for a “diehard fan app”. Critical Mass actually acquired the domain name on behalf of Nissan.

Shire has acquired the domain name ShortBowelSyndrome.com for an undisclosed amount. The domain name was owned by Blue Nova Inc. according to whois history. Blue Nova may … Read the rest

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