eBates has acquired the domain name BuyNow.com from Rakuten. Rakuten purchased Buy.com in May 2010 for an estimated $250 Million and in January 2013 Buy.com was rebranded to Rakuten.com .

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eBates appears to be getting ready to launch something on the newly acquired domain name BuyNow.com but currently only a Coming Soon message appears on the site.

Ebates Performance Marketing, Inc. became the owners of BuyNow.com on March 27, 2014 according to whois records.

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Here is another round of my company domain name movers of domains recently registered, purchased or simply moving by some of the largest companies in the world. Not a huge list today as activity seem rather slow for some reason but I was able to at least dig ups some.

Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A.

Registered the domain name BeerInControl.com

CBS Radio Inc.

Has acquired the domain name FantasyFootballRadio.com for an undisclosed amount.

The Coca-Cola Company

Has acquired the domain name Finley.comRead the rest

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Amazon.com has announced a new product / service today and it’s a Square / Paypal Local competitor. Local Register is the name given to the product which first appeared on Amazon’s website yesterday (8/12/2014).

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Amazon appears to have secured the exact matching domain name LocalRegister.com in the nick of time, as it appears they acquired the domain name Today (8/13/2014) which now shows Amazon as the owners and is the most recent update. The domain has been registered since 2002 … Read the rest

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