Since I do a lot of research on domain names, it is often I start discovering patterns. These patterns layout after time of and become more clear simply seeing certain things. Well, I am about to share some of these patterns and who is using them.

Domain Buying Services

Mainly corporate domain buying services, I’m sure have been doing this for sometime but as far as I can tell, the activity has increased lately.

The hidden domain name purchase

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Welcome to the first company domain movers series, powered by DomainIQ.com on the new DotWeekly theme! Today’s list isn’t huge (which happens after a weekend) but several interesting domain name purchases, registrations and movers from large companies that I was able to dig up.

TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.

Registered the domain name MissHitsHappen.com and several variations of the term with a hyphen and typo.

Women.com / Women.net

There is a pretty interesting story on these two domain names that … Read the rest

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If you haven’t been to DotWeekly today, then you are likely seeing the new DotWeekly WordPress theme for the first time! Pretty white, but I think we will all get use to it. It was a very stressful day for myself, because doing these things cost money (which I don’t have much of) and I really do not consider myself a developer of any kind, so small tweaks in code can take hours!

[icon name=”icon-plus”] So why the new theme?… Read the rest

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This morning I noticed that the domain name Browse.com, which is/was owned by Amazon Technologies Inc. may have sold!

The domain name showed publicly in whois data that Amazon was the owners of the domain name as of 6/02/2014 (minor dns change) and a whois record on 8/16/2014 displays:

Domain Name: browse.com
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Updated Date: 2014-06-03T09:40:33-0700
Creation Date: 1994-09-19T21:00:00-0700
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-04-15T20:59:59-0700
Registrar: MarkMonitor, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: … Read the rest

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