While doing a little research today, I found some information on Home Depot’s website that I found pretty interesting. The following was on CEO Craig Menear’s page:

In 2013, under Craig’s leadership, HomeDepot.com sales grew 50 percent and accounted for $900 million of the company’s total sales growth of $5 billion.

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So, what would Home Depot do without it’s main website, HomeDepot.com?

Well, in 2012, they would’ve potentially had about $450 million less growth in sales.

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ITG Brands, owners of the popular Blu eCig have acquired the 3 letter brand matching domain name BLU.com

This domain name transaction is a little bit more interesting to me, as I have followed this domain name for a pretty long time and reported when Blu.com was suspended due to ownership verification back in July 2015.blu-ecigs

The reason for the suspension back in July, based on information from a past IT employee from Denver Investments, is because Dennis Obduskey tried … Read the rest

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Here is the third installment of Domain Movers for today that I had a back log of data I wanted to share. All corporate domain movers.

TPV.com, which was owned by Sunset Publishing Corporation (Time Inc.) had the domain name switch to generic whois data at MarkMonitor, going under the name Matt Serlin / DnStination Inc. The domain name then transferred to GoDaddy.com on October 13, 2015 under privacy protection.

Time Inc. then acquired the domain name FortuneTV.com from … Read the rest

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Here is another Domain Movers series that I had in my data pile and figured I would post it to the world instead of just letting the data sit around on my computer.

The following data is related to corporate domain name movements, which almost always goes unpublished unless somebody digs the data.

AstraZeneca AB has acquired the domain name LVNG.com which was parked at Sedo and used Sedo’s transfer service. The domain has been registered since January 27, 2004 … Read the rest

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