Gogobot rebrands as Trip.com, a domain name they acquired from Expedia.

Trip.com

CEO Travis Kratz stated in a Skift.com article about the rebrand: “The name Trip.com, which is easy to remember, can conjure images of a vacation abroad as well as a jaunt to the restaurant across town, Katz says, and the blending of trips and activities is something that several companies, including Trip.com, Google, TripAdvisor, and Airbnb have realized could be a winning formula.”

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Some HUGE domain names in today’s domain name movers list, so let’s get right into it:

GoDaddy/NameFind sells 3 more, 3 letter .com domain names. Those included HWS.com, LJX.com and NZD.com. All went to a Chinese buyer. GoDaddy has to be running low on inventory for LLL .com’s now. They had over 100 from the Worldwide Media portfolio and sold those. They then secured 45 more when they purchased the Elite Domains portfolio and now those are almost … Read the rest

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Premium domain name brokerage firm Media Options has sold the premium domain name Santa.com!

The domain name has just moved into Escrow.com holdings according to whois records:

Santa.com Whois Records

Based on the email address used for Escrow, this tells me that payments are being made on the domain name or a potential lease or lease to own. In early August 2016, DotWeekly reported that Santa.org had sold via Sedo, for $13,500 and whois records indicate that a Jennifer Schell was the … Read the rest

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This morning I noticed several Cooking domain names on the move at corporate domain name provider CSC and the ultra premium domain name Cooking.com has changed ownership from Gordon Brothers Group to Hoffman Media, LLC.

This was not the only premium cooking domain name on the move, it was also Cooking.net and Cooking.org. Several other cooking related domains like Cook.org, Cook.net, eCooking.com, Kitchenware.com and potentially a few more appear to have went with the package deal to Hoffman Media.

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