Ever wondered who the top 5 clients are at corporate domain name provider MarkMonitor.com are? Well, using some tools provided by our friends over at DomainIQ.com you can see that data in a comprehensive report!

Here are the top 5 clients by volume at MarkMonitor.com based on email search*

  1. Deckers.com, the owners of the UGG brand. I see large amounts of domain names transfer in daily via legal means of spoof sites and much more, so this likely helps with
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Based on whois information, it appears that Visa / Black Card LLC*  is likely getting ready to make a play with “Gold Card”.

I did a little digging and it appears that Visa / Black Card LLC*  likely purchased the domain names GoldCard.com and GoldCards.com for around $125,000. Media Options had the domains under contract and listed in a newsletter on September 10, 2013.

A whois record change on November 6, 2013  shows “Matt Serlin” of MarkMonitor in whois. A … Read the rest

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Here is the latest round of DotWeekly Domain Discoveries with domain names being registered or purchased by some large companies. I have been seeing that some days are much more active than others and it normally seems mid-week gets the most action!

Quick Fact: About 100-150 domain names are registered with EAHC of the two largest corporate domain name service CSC Corporate Domains and Mark Monitor. So about 200-300 domains on average are being registered every day for large companies! … Read the rest

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This morning I had discovered something that I found a little interesting, a domain for sale lander on Phishing.com . The domain name is under control by domain name registrar Mark Monitor with the generic whois data of “Matt Serlin” and DNStination Inc.  which is often the name used when the company buys a domain for a client.

Phishing.com was a simple parked page with Bodis.com, prior to changing to the current Mark Monitor landing page in the screenshot below.… Read the rest

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