Welcome to another round of domain name movers, which includes domain names that are moving for one reason or another, often times it is a sale! Some move and sell for unknown reasons, but most of the following would go unnoticed unless otherwise. So, here we go!
Exclusively.com has been purchased by SnapDeal.com, from who appears to be Domain.com Inc. . The domain name was parked with InternetTraffic.com . I was not able to find a sales price.
CP.com appears to have been acquired in some fashion according to whois records. Atlas Copco AB is currently listed as the registrant for CP.com and Georges Renault SAS was the past registrant. The domain resolved to Chicago Pneumatic in the past and currently still does. Chicago Pneumatic is a power tool supplier to Harbor Freight and I’m sure more. Digging a little further, Atlas Copco acquired Chicago Pneumatic in 1987 and in 1988 Georges Renault was acquired by Atlas Copco. (as long as I followed that correctly according to its history page) So really, Atlas Copco has really owned the domain name for a long time, because they own Georges Renault.
Amazon Technologies and it’s Amazon Web Services has announced yesterday that they will have wind farms to power its datacenters, so of coarse they registered related domain names, because Amazon loves domain names! AmazonWebServicesWindFarm.com and AmazonWindFarm.com were two registered yesterday, prior to the press release. AWSWindFarm.com was also registered as well as FireForKids.com, likely relating to the kids version of the FireTablet. Fire For Kids is simply STUPID and I really think they should have named the kids version or at least gave it a “letter name”. Fire HDK or Fire HDC etc.
GlassBottles.com was purchased by Nemat International, INC. Interestingly enough, the domain name has sat in “Sedo Transfer” in whois since April 8, 2014 when it was purchased and has finally revealed the new owners. The domain did transfer from Dynadot to WildWestDomains.com on 4/30/2014 but retained the Domain Transfer whois data… The domain sold for $9,200 on Sedo in April 2014. Nothing more than a blank white page resolves on the domain! Nemat offers fragrant oils and perfumes.
AntView.com has been sold by Domain Asset Holdings (Mike Mann, DomainMarket.com) and purchased by Alibaba Group Holding Limited to add to its 3,800 + other domain names. Whois doesn’t currently show this, as it states a “Wang Cenda” in whois, but Alibaba Group just registered Ant-View.com and Ant-View.net, so this confirms to me that they were the buyers. I expect the domain to transfer to MarkMonitor at some point in the near future.
Infusion.org has been purchased by InfusionSoft from Original Web Ventures, very likely through GoDaddy Premium Domains according to whois records. The domain name was parked using DomainNameSales.com and I was not able to find a sales price.
FastClaim.com was purchased by a currently unknown CSC Corporation Services client. The domain was listed for sale on Jimmy.com (which is owned by BusinessVenture.com) and had a BIN price of $5,000.
SeeTheRealMe.com was purchased by Johnson & Johnson, using the Brand Shelter arm of Key-Systems. Based on what I can see, the domain name was “Repossessed by Go Daddy” which doesn’t mean the domain was used in a bad way, it means the credit card company likely did a charge back on the renewal. When GoDaddy can not “delete” a registration and ends up getting burned… they offer the domain for sale to recoup the $ on GoDaddy Auctions. These are all public auction type of listings, starting around $21 but I have seen the starting prices a fair amount higher than that. The easiest way to “see and or buy” the Repossessed by Go Daddy domain names, visit auctions.godaddy.com , click Advanced Searchand then select Value Priced Domains under the “Type” section and Run Search.
AppleAccount.net in a rare domain registration by the one and only “Apple”. It is very rare that Apple Inc. buys or even registers domain names considering the size of the company and products and services they have. I think the last DNS activity was in early December if I remember correctly. They do not currently own AppleAccount.com, as that domain was registered in 2006, but they may try to purchase it or may have already and whois simply doesn’t show it yet.
AppleAccount.info happened to be “Repossessed by Go Daddy” and is showing so currently in whois… but the domain is not on auction and has a coming soon type page if you visit the domain.
RedLobster.com, owned by Darden Restaurants has for some reason been moved from domain name registrar MarkMonitor TO GoDaddy and put under privacy protect. This is a little puzzling to me, because the remaining Darden domains are still registered with MarkMonitor as of at least today. Domains are not moved from registrar to registrar for no reason and I’d like to find out why. I reached out to Red Lobster for comment, so I will see and update you if or when they reply.
Looks like red lobster was bought out last summer by http://www.goldengatecap.com/our-verticals/retail-restaurants-and-consumer-products/
maybe they’re just not mark monitor clients
Red Lobster was sold by Darden last year so maybe that has something to do with it.
Thanks Todd and Richard for the added info that Red Lobster sold. I should have searched “red lobster sold” because that would have revealed that info. I did go to RedLobster.com and checked “media” and it does say: “As a private company, owned by investment firm Golden Gate Capital, we now have an exciting opportunity to chart our own course and sharpen our focus on what made us great”. I did miss that.
I got one for you, find out how credit.club went unregistered for a year?
I noticed DNS.com changed hands in January.. It’s now a website