This is Domain Movers! The series by Jamie Zoch who discovers recently registered, acquired and simply moving domain names mainly all by large corporations.
These are often very early detections and can result in new companies, brands, services, products, advertising campaigns and much more. Sit back and enjoy!
Time Inc. has registered the domain name SportsIllustratedPlay.com, adding to its domain name portfolio of over 9,000+ domain names.
OfficeMVP.com has been acquired by a currently unknown MarkMonitor client under the generic DNStination Inc. whois data. According to whois records, the domain name sold at Afternic, using DnEscrow on May 19, 2015 with the domain being sold by a Jim Carr. It has been registered since May 26, 2005.
The Valspar Corporation has registered the domain name ValsparMegaPaint.com to add to its 681 other domain names. Frank Schillings company Name Administration Inc. owns the domain MegaPaint.com, which they are offering for sale.
Scandinavian Tobacco Group Lane Ltd. registered the domain names ThisPipeLife.com / .net and ThePipeLife.com / .net.
Johnson & Johnson has acquired the domain name OutpatientSolutions.com, a domain name that has been registered since April 7, 2013. A secret buyer was used and the transaction took place on April 12, 2015 from a Allan Richards with the domain name being parked at Afternic.
The Coca-Cola Company has registered the domain names CocaColaEverydayAction.com and CokeEverydayAction.com. The generic domain EverydayAction.com is currently for sale and not owned by Coca Cola with a buy it now for $1,699 at Afternic.
Meatailer Limited registered the domain name MeatLicker.com adding to its other 5 domains it owns, which includes MeatLiquor.com which it has a website on.
Barclays Bank PLC has acquired the domain name ThinkRise.com from a David Ackert on April 12, 2015 according to whois records. The domain has been registered since October 13, 2008. Barclays Bank owns over 5,100 domain names.
Realfit, Inc. has acquired the domain name RealFit.com from GoDaddy / Marchex portfolio. The domain name has been registered since August 29, 2002.
General Mills Inc has registered the domain names Engulge.com and Induldge.com
Showtime Networks Inc. has registered the domain name ListenToMeMarlon.com
Yahoo! Inc. owners of over 26,000+ domain names has sold the 3 letter domain name MyM.com that was registered February 8, 1999. The domain name was parked with SedoParking but it is not clear if that is where the domain name was acquired. The buyer according to whois records is a “shangliang” of China.
To note: the domain listing still remains at Sedo and states a minimum offer of $100,000 but since Sedo does not show a “listing creation date” it is unclear if the listing is from Yahoo! or the new buyer but the Country of origin is China, so that is fitting to be the buyer.
MyM.com started using SedoParking on or about October 5, 2013 according to whois history records and started displaying the generic MarkMonitor data DNStination Inc.
HLT Domestic IP LLC (Hilton Hotels) has registered the domain names Seekenders.com / .net, .org, .info and Seekender.com / .net, .org, .info.
Briggs & Stratton Corporation has registered the domain name DirectPowerToday.com, adding to its 474 other domain names.
The Howard Hughes Corporation has registered the domain name EverydayExtraordinary.com
Home Box Office, Inc. registered 3 new domain names and those included BrinkButton.com, OnTheBrinkHBO.com and TheBrinkRedButton.com.
CBS Interactive Inc. has transferred the domain name BallUp.com from MarkMonitor to GoDaddy. The website title states: The official site of Ball Up streetball team.
Shutterstock, Inc. registered the domain name Shutter-it.com and does not own the non-hyphen version currently. Shutterstock owns about 700 domain names.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. registered the domain name MyWifiX.com
The E. W. Scripps Company has acquired the domain name NowTrending.com according to whois records. The domain name was owned by JonathanLeger.com of Plano Tx. The domain has been registered since April 30, 2008.
On April 28, 2015 domain name servers changed to Scripps.com but other whois data remained the same until May 27, 2015 when the domain name transferred to MarkMonitor.
Deutsche Post AG has acquired the domain name PostID.com from a Andreas Bertram according to whois records. The domain has been registered since October 20, 2004.
Johnson Controls Technology Company registered the domain name BatteryRebates.com to add to its 726 other domain names. The singular domain BatteryRebate.com is owned by Simply Batteries and has been registered since 2000.
Bacardi & Company Limited registered the domain names SingleCaneRum.com and Single-Cane.com adding to its domain portfolio of 1,600+ domain names. They had already registered the domain SingleCane.com back on January 12, 2015.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International registered the domain name UltraUpgrade.com adding to its 995 other domain names.
TomorrowsProject.com has been acquired from HugeDomains.com by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client.
Intel Corporation has registered the domain name MoxTheApp.com
Facebook Inc. has acquired the domain name MomentsApp.com from a Dennis Lopez. Dennis appears to have acquired the domain during an expired auction at GoDaddy in July 2014 and the domain went into whois privacy at GoDaddy on April 17, 2015. The domain name has since displayed Facebook, Inc. as the owners. “[email protected]” appears in whois and many prior Facebook domain name purchases include that email address, which appears to be a law firm who likely assists FB with at least some domain purchases.
To note: Several tech websites reported in September 2014 that Facebook was working on a photo sharing app “codenamed” Moments.
