Category: Domain News

Squarespace ran a 2017 Superbowl ad that rings a bell for domain owners with JohnMalkovich.com as the domain name story line but the funny thing is, JohnMalkovich.com isn’t even registered “with” Squarespace’s “official” domain registrar.

Technically speaking, Squarespace isn’t even a domain name registrar, like GoDaddy.com is for an example. Squarespace states it’s “official” registrar is Tucows:

Registering a domain through Squarespace gives your website a professional look and avoids the need to register a domain with a third-party provider.

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Corporate brand protection service MarkMonitor has made it easier for domain name buyers to find its currently available to purchase domain name inventory.

They have created a dedicated page for domain name inventory of there clients that are for sale, which can be found here.

MarkMonitor Domains For Sale

Prior, one would have to do some digging to find the domain names that were available for sale but now there is a dedicated page, which will help by having a centralized location, displayed … Read the rest

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This morning I made a discovery and noticed the domain name 2.co was listed for sale on GoDaddy’s NameFind website. After doing some more research, I noticed a large amount of premium .co domain names were listed on GoDaddy’s NameFind site on January 4, 2017.

After further research, I am confident that GoDaddy has acquired the premium domains held by the .co registry (likely ALL of the remaining ones they held). GoDaddy was not very “open” with these domains as … Read the rest

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Back in August 2014 I wrote an article about a company named New Ventures Services Corp and who they were. Long story short, New Ventures Services Corp, using NewVCorp.com is a subsidiary of Web.com Group, Inc.

They claim the subsidiary in this SEC filing in Exhibit 21.1 in which it states Web.com Group, Inc’s subsidiaries

New Ventures Services Corp

Now that we are very clear that New Ventures Services Corp is owned by Web.com Group, Inc., the publicly traded company, let’s talk about one … Read the rest

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