Category: Domain Name Sales

The premium domain name Grab.com has been acquired by Grabtaxi Holdings PTE LTD of Singapore according to domain name whois records this morning.

GrabTaxi announced in January 2016 that they would be rebranding to simply Grab, as they now offer much more than just taxi services. At the time of the rebranding announcement, the company was using the domain name Grab.co

Grab.com

According to the linked TechCrunch article above, Grab is valued at over $1 Billion based on funding.

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Telepathy Inc. which is owned by Nat Cohen and owns a vast amount of premium domain names, has sold one of them and this time around it is Retirement.com!

The new owner is currently unknown, but it is very likely to be an end user on the corporate level. Whois records updated January 29, 2016 to the generic Matt Serlin / DNStination Inc. which is used by corporate brand protection and domain name registrar MarkMonitor.com.

Retirement.com

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Facebook Inc. has officially acquired the domain name NewsFeed.com from BuyDomains.

The transaction actually dates back to July 26-28, 2015 when the domain name transferred registrars to registrar  “HOGAN LOVELLS INTERNATIONAL LLP” . “lovellsnames” is pretty common when it relates to Facebook domain names and is a law firm used by the company.

I wasn’t able to find a reported sales price for the recent domain name purchase.

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A newer startup founded in 2014 simply called Enjoy, founded by former Apple Inc. retail head Ron Johnson launched with the so/so domain name GoEnjoy.com, has acquired the premium, exact match domain name Enjoy.com!

Enjoy.com

I was talking with the past owner of Enjoy.com, Steven Katz since around May 2015 and today doing a little follow-up I had noticed that GoEnjoy.com now redirects to Enjoy.com. Doing a whois history check and it appears the transaction took place around September 11, 2015 … Read the rest

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