Domain movers is an exclusive series from DotWeekly when Jamie digs into domain names that have been recently acquired, are moving for one reason or another and almost all are attached to large corporations! These domain names are often early indicators to new brands, products, services and more! You can always seem similar articles to this one by visiting the Domain Discoveries category.
Here we go with the latest and greatest!
Shopzilla, Inc. has registered the domain name Drumor.com
American National Red Cross registered the domain name RedClass.org
CancerCares.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client. Marchex was the past owner of the domain and on 12/23/2014 the domain went into whois privacy at eNom and was the likely time of the purchase. The domain has since transferred to MarkMonitor using the generic whois data DNStination Inc. CancerCares.org was registered on 12/30/2014 via Key-Systems under whois privacy and this was likely done by the buyer of the .com
LoveTV.com has been acquired by Amazon Technologies, Inc. The domain has been registered since 2001 and it appears that doamin buyer Comlaude once again assisted in the domain purchase. This may have been an “old” domain purchase as iReit owned it in 2009 and that is when Comlaude shows up in whois. The domain had several stints in whois privacy but in May 2013 showed “Lovefilm International Limited” with a lovefilm.com email address as the owners. On 12/23/2013 the registrant email changed to Amazon. This is/was likely a company purchase and Amazon did purchase LoveFilm in 2011. LoveFilm.com, which is also owned by Amazon from the purchase remains with the LoveFilm whois data and appears to be attached to about 80 domains with almost all of them containing the word “love” in them. Amazon must be interested in using the LoveTV.com domain in some fashion and the likely reason for the whois change now to just Amazon Technologies from LoveFilm!
Mouser Electronics, Inc. has secured the domain Mouser.net from Howard Hoffman on January 21, 2015. Howard has owned the domain since 2003 when it was registered. According to SimilarSales.com (which is a pretty cool site btw) Mouser.net sold on Sedo for $6,000 and was reported on 1/25/2015.
Dunkin Brands registered two domain names and those were DunkinMusic.com and DunkinSports.com
Brunswick Corporation registered the domain name FultyMe.com
ShurTech Brands, LLC registered the domain name EarnYourStripesContest.com
JX.com appears to have been sold by Future Media Architects, Inc. as whois has changed from them to HANGZHOU DUOMAI E-COMMERCE CO.,LTD. with a registrant email of GoldenName.com and WILLIAM JACOB WHITE is included in the admin whois data. The domain was registered with Uniregistry but has since transferred out to eName.
McDonald’s Corporation registered the domain name MinionsAtMCD.com
Facebook Inc. registered a large variation of “Free Facebook” domains in different TLD’s but all were typos besides FreeFacebook.net. They do not currently own FreeFacebook.com as it is parked.
Unilever Plc registered the domain name AxeBlack.com. The domain name has had a long history of being registered and dropped having 27 changes on 16 unique IP addresses over 8 years and being with 6 registrars with 5 drops. Unilever has an “Axe Black Chill” deodorant stick under the AXE brand.
WSP Global Inc. has acquired the CCRD.com domain name in some fashion from CCRD Partners. The domain has been registered since 1996. CCRD was an engineers Consulting Engineers service and was a full website. CCRD announced “our new partners” WSP in a November 7, 2014 via Facebook.
Space.com has changed registrant company names from TopTenReviews to Purch but David Ropelato remains as the registrant name. The site has changed hosting as well and has moved from Akam to Amazon. You can read more about Purch via Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purch The domain Space.com didn’t “sell” it just moved around a little bit without ever “moving”.
Tucows appears to have sold the domain name Leite.com, which it used with its “MailBank” system/service or whatever it is! The domain has transferred to Dynadot.
FSGO.com has been acquired by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The domain was using DomainNameSales.com parking and sold for a currently unknown amount. Fox is redirecting the domain name to FoxSports.com/FoxSportsGo which is live streaming. The domain was under whois privacy at the time of the sale.
Tokenize.com has been sold by FUTURE MEDIA ARCHITECTS, INC. to a currently unknown buyer. The domain has been transferred to GoDaddy and loaded up on Amazon hosting but currently doesn’t resolve yet. The term relates to data security.
