Prudential Financial Inc. acquires premium generic domain name Retirement.com from Telepathy Inc.

DotWeekly broke the news that Retirement.com had sold back in January 2016 but the corporate buyer was unknown until now.

Prudential Financial

Whois information is still generic at corporate domain name provider MarkMonitor but name servers have updated to Prudential.

Retirement.com Whois Records

The website does not resolve currently but I would expect that to change shortly with the name servers changing.

So why would Prudential want to own this generic domain name? … Read the rest

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Many websites use sub-domain names to organize or help direct people to specific spots on a website but do these sub-domains and how individuals promote them, result in visitors visiting the .com domain name instead of the actual sub-domain promoted?

YES

I always shake my head when I see a company promote a sub-domain in advertising, because I know it causes confusion. Most of the time, it results in the user forgetting the . and creating an entirely different domain … Read the rest

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Some pretty big domains in today’s Domain Movers series, which keeps track of corporate domain name transactions. These discoveries are often very fresh and reveal new branding, future marketing campaigns, new products, services and more by companies around the world.

Symantec Corporation has registered several domain names hinting at a new product called “Core” with the Norton brand name and potentially is a router. The domain names registered are: CoreNorton.com, CoreByNorton.com, GetNortonCore.com, MyNortonCore.com, NortonRouters.com and NortonWifi.com

BeautyIQ.com has been acquired … Read the rest

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Welcome to Domain Movers where DotWeekly tracks and reports corporate domain name transactions that would mainly go unreported otherwise. This information is important and valuable and the reason I spend up to 4 hours a day finding it!

DoctorWork.com  has been acquired by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client. The domain name was for sale using DomainNameSales.

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has acquired the domain name WealthSteps.com from HugeDomains.com. The domain had a $2,695 purchase price. … Read the rest

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