Category: Domain News

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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The following is a true story, based on whois data.

FaceGreatness.com

The domain name was registered by Brenda Amendola on 9/20/2007 and she owned the domain until 9/21/2008 when it had reached it’s expire date. FaceGreatness.com was registered with the domain name registrar Register.com . Register.com is a know warehousing domain name registrar.

The domain FaceGreatness.com then switch to Register.com as the “owners” in whois and stayed that way until 5/20/2011 when whois switched to Register Internet LP [email protected] but … Read the rest

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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 .

ebates

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.

From what I can tell, over … Read the rest

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